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1 Gaming Is 40 Years Old - Do You Feel Old Yet?
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2 Totally Geeky or Geek Chic? Crocheted Atari
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3 Atari Keychain: Totally Geeky or Geek Chic?
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4 Brush Up On Your Atari Trivia!
Fashion
5 Topshop to Provide an Atari Fashion Fix!
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6 Grand Theft Auto 4, Atari-Style!
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7 Atari Founder Opens a uWink in Silicon Valley!
Love It or Leave It
8 Atari Joystick Lamp: Love It or Leave It?
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9 Atari Wall Art: Love It or Leave It?
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10 Get Your Retro Game On With Pac-Man and Atari Controllers
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11 Download of the Day: Atari's Greatest Hits
Addictive iPhone games are already blamed for missing bus stops, appointments, and growing piles of dirty dishes that never get done, but when you combine the portability of an iPhone and the retro goodness of the Atari, well, that pretty much guarantees that you'll fall behind on all sorts of chores. Atari's Greatest Hits (Free - $15) is my latest gaming obsession since it brings all my old Read more
Although I can keep up with the best of them when it comes to modern warfare games like Gears of War and Halo, being the vintage geek that I am, I can't help but hold my favorite old-school arcade games close to my heart. So even though I can't find Galaga at an arcade within a five-mile walking radius of my apartment (I'd go pretty far to drop a few quarters in that baby), I could play right at Read more
Do you remember the Asteroids video game? It's one of the most basic video games ever. The player has to shoot asteroids with his or her tiny spaceship and avoid being smashed. Video games have come a long way since the Asteroids days, and yet some folks in Hollywood are very anxious to bring Asteroids back — in movie form. In fact, Universal just won the rights in a bidding war against three Read more
What's the point of just going to Ikea and picking any old wall hanging for your wall, or putting up a generic art print? If you're going to hang art in your home, make it reflect you in some way, and if you're geeky, you can still do it and have a chic home. Pieces like this Atari hanging, called "Mothership" by Bughouse Art and Design can say geeky without being dorky. It's decidedly for the Read more
Turn the lights on and send yourself back to a simpler time, a time when you only needed a couple of video games to keep you occupied all day and a bunch of black and green squares were considered amazing graphics. It's all possible with the one-of-a-kind Atari Joystick Lamp, crafted from pine and aspen and costing $100. The joystick button is also the lamp's on-off switch — brilliant! This Read more
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 Read more
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. Read more
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 Read more
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. The Atari video game will have an interactive cookbook featuring 100 of the celebrity chef's original recipes, alongside photographs Read more
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. . . And I couldn't think of a better excuse to Read more
