Just read The Masters of Doom

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I can understand atari 2600 , am not sure how it was back in the day, but I think even back then it was simple to program a game for the atari since the games were very basic, it looks like it has been drawn quickly using MS paint. There is not much going on too

I suggest you read Racing the Beam since you appear to be interested in game history. Turns out those simple Atari games weren't exactly easy to create.

[RCBH928]

I downloaded a sample from Amazon. If I like it I will read it.
I hate technical stuff because its sounds like a lecture more than a book.

Any thing out there still is coded in Assembly ? And why would they do such a thing?

[noiseredux]

Any thing out there still is coded in Assembly ? And why would they do such a thing?

yeah Halo 2600 was coded in Assembly in 2010.

[MrPopo]

Any thing out there still is coded in Assembly ? And why would they do such a thing?

Compiler optimizations and OS optimizations are done in assembly since a hand tuned piece of assembly can be significantly faster than anything a machine comes up with, especially if the code in question is executed a lot. And it can be useful to step through a program's assembly when debugging rather than the high level source, as it gives you the granularity to explain something strange you're seeing.