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Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) is a widely used open-source framework that wraps hundreds of Atari 2600 games via an emulator and presents them as RL environments for AI agents. It decouples the game/emulation aspects from the agent interface, providing a clean API (C++, Python, Gymnasium) so researchers can focus on agent design rather than game plumbing. This environment suite has been central to many RL breakthroughs, including value-based agents, deep Q-nets, and general-agent benchmarking, because the Atari games span many genres and present diverse learning challenges (pixels, actions, delayed rewards). ...