I've talked about uWink before, the restaurant chain started by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, that combines food, drinks, and media, by
offering games, table-to-table tournaments, Internet access, gaming, entertainment and movie trailers to guests.
Listen-up geeks, uWink has just opened its doors at a
new location in Mountain View, CA. Here you'll find customers ordering American comfort food via touchscreen terminals that double as multiplayer game consoles, 20 projectors that show everything from eye candy to football games, while wood walls attempt to provide a natural counterpoint to all that tech.
Feast your eyes on this rendition of
The Minus World's version of the Grand Theft Auto IV art — done up in classic Atari style! Check out the link for many other versions of modern games made to look like Atari times. They're fun recent vintage, and remind you that as fancy as graphics and storylines get, we'll always love the originals.
What's in the fashion designer water? Something geeky I presume, because first I saw that
Space Invaders dress in French Connection (not even
ThinkGeek!), then Chanel and Style.com
created iPhone apps, and now this:
Alice McCall is creating a line for Topshop that will incorporate prints inspired by Atari video games.
It'll premiere September 25th in Topshop stores, and let me tell you I cannot wait to rock my Pong ball gown, mmm kay?
This October, British celebrity chef
Jamie Oliver will be releasing a handheld cooking game on
Nintendo DS. What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver will simulate real-life cooking situations, from selecting ingredients at the supermarket to plating meals at the table.
We all know that
Atari is the grandfather of modern day video game consoles, but here's some interesting geeky news — Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star
as the creator of Atari in a new flick entitled Atari! How sweet is that?! Thanks to Paramount Pictures, the famous console (which holds a special place in our hearts) will be hitting the big screen.
Do you remember Atari? The way-cool-at-the-time arcade and home video gaming systems of the 1970s and early-1980s? I sure do.
Atari may be one of the most prominent nostalgia inducing
Vintage Geek consoles out there. Its iconic VCS joystick and paddle have inspired
crochet masterpieces, an army of
tee shirts and plenty of second (and even third) generation fans. I can't decide if I think the
Atari Keychain, $14.95, is geek chic, but I love the fact that you can pop one end of the supplied cable (which is on a separate battery-powered reel) into the joystick/paddle and stick the jack end in your TV.
Most of today's Xboxers, wii-meisters, Playstation players and portable video game junkies flip on their consoles and handhelds with little knowledge of the gaming legacy that came before them. This month marks the 40th anniversary of the day Ralph Baer, a German-born inventor who fled to America from fascist Germany, built and played the first home-video game. While I didn't know much about Baer's "Brown Box" before reading Magazine's retrospective,
Console Portraits: A 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming, I can't help but get a little nostalgic for the days of Atari, Nintendo and even Gameboy.
JackRabbit from Etsy had one of my favorite tables at the
Maker Faire's Bazaar Bizarre - an area which, for the record was filled with crafts, artwork, clothing, jewelry and beautiful goodies made by top-notch crafters.
Not only am I a sucker for bright, crochet things, but the fact that she crocheted a vintage Atari takes
geeky crafting and combines it with
vintage geek - my favorite combination of all.
JackRabbit isn't currently selling the Atari on her
Etsy page, but something tells me she'd be inspired by requests.
