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Design
8-Bit Wedding Invitation Foretells Marital Bickering
3:00AM Chris Jacob | I love this 8-bit wedding invitation. Not only for the design, but because it not-so-subtly portrays marriage as a prolonged Street Fighter match. More »
Toys
Mind Control Games Make A Comeback
9:00AM Jack Loftus | As mind control toys, games and electronics position themselves to become the big ticket items of the holiday season, we children of the 80s can just sit back and smile, content with the knowledge that we’ve seen it all before. More »
Games
Atari’s Lunar Lander, Made Real
4:00AM Adam Frucci | A crazy British engineer named Iain Sharp decided to honour the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by building a real-life version of the classic Atari game Lunar Lander. And you know what? It’s pretty great. More »
Design
Atari Wallet Is Awesome Until You Put It In Your Back Pocket
6:40AM Adam Frucci | These Atari wallets are half awesome, half impractical. I mean, they’re retro cool and all, but who wants to sit on a plastic cartridge? [NilesZ]
Games
Ben Heck’s Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
7:00AM Jack Loftus | With the help of a GameCube power supply and the malleable magic hands of master modder Ben Heck, one lucky client can now play Buck Rogers and other classics on a positively portable Atari 800 laptop. More »
Games
5:20AM Mark Wilson | After the first Pong cabinet was placed in Andy Capp’s Cavern in 1972, video games exploded, reaching their full stride by the late ’70s. Here are some of the notable games/systems you played (or would have played) back then: More »
Electronic Games 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive As Hell
5:20AM Mark Wilson | After the first Pong cabinet was placed in Andy Capp’s Cavern in 1972, video games exploded, reaching their full stride by the late ’70s. Here are some of the notable games/systems you played (or would have played) back then: More »
Music
10:17PM Mark Wilson | In the days of touchscreens and wireless data, our heroes of yesteryear find solace in the companionship of one another. More »
The Atari 2600 IPod Dock
10:17PM Mark Wilson | In the days of touchscreens and wireless data, our heroes of yesteryear find solace in the companionship of one another. More »
Music
Old School Computer Band Rocks Bohemian Rhapsody (Poorly)
12:00AM Jack Loftus | I can’t think of a more old school, geeky tribute to Queen than a band comprised of an Atari 800XL, 8-inch floppy disk, 3.5-in hard drive and HP Scanjet 3C. If only it sounded better. More »
Design
In Case of Rapid Atari 2600 Disassembly, Consult This T-Shirt
9:20AM John Mahoney | Geek tees: can we ever have enough? I already own this, but I’m digging this exploded 2600 schematic shirt. Actually we probably can have enough, but one more never hurt. It’s $US23 shipped. [Exploded 2600] More »
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