How a St. Louis video game studio gave Atari its first new cartridge release since 1990

The Atari 2600 was a titan of the video game world. Released in 1977, the console was a pioneer in bringing video games out of arcades and into living rooms. Its games were sold in cartridges — blocky slabs of plastic that became gaming’s standard format for decades, but which were eventually replaced in modern consoles as CDs, DVDs and digital downloads became the norm.