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Atari Wall Art: Love It or Leave It?
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.
Atari Joystick Lamp: Love It or Leave It?
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!
Atari Founder Opens a uWink in Silicon Valley!
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.
Grand Theft Auto 4, Atari-Style!
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.
Topshop to Provide an Atari Fashion Fix!
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?
Brush Up On Your Atari Trivia!
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.
Atari Keychain: Totally Geeky or Geek Chic?
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.
Gaming Is 40 Years Old - Do You Feel Old Yet?
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.
Totally Geeky or Geek Chic? Crocheted Atari
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.
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Atari Founder Opens Geek Heaven-Themed Restaurant
Nolan Bushnell, who is the founder of the original Atari game company and the children's franchise Chuck E. Cheese, has opened a new uWink in a shopping mall in Woodland Hills, (a Los Angeles suburb), to attract an adult geeky dating crowd.
The uWink experience offers games, table-to-table tournaments, internet access and gaming, edutainment and movie trailers.