Eleven stories, zero doom. This time: a 47-year-old grudge finally ends, the first arcade game ever built goes under the hammer, and a company hands its customers their money back simply because it was the right thing to do.

Atari and Activision are on the same shelf again. Activision was founded in 1979 by four Atari programmers who walked out over working conditions and accidentally invented third-party publishing in the process. Now, 47 years later, 39 Atari 2600 classics — Pitfall!, River Raid, Kaboom! — are returning on real cartridges that run on original 2600 and 7800 hardware as well as the 2600+ and 7800+. Standard carts land in November, with four themed Deluxe box sets rolling out through 2027. Stick around for Guess the Price, because there are three numbers in play and one is genuinely startling.

A working 1973 Computer S ...