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Animated Pong T-Shirt for the Retro Gamer

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The gadget mavens over at Think Geek have revealed this new t-shirt that features an animation based on Atari’s gaming classic, Pong (although the t-shirt simply refers to it as “Table Tennis”, for obvious legal reasons.)
The animation is pretty rudimentary, with the paddles hitting the ball back and forth…

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March 12th, 2007 by: Technabob

Play the Classic Atari 2600 Adventure in Your Web Browser

Atari 2600 Classic Adventure Game

If you’ve got a hankering for some retro gaming fun, and you need to satisfy that itch right this second, check out this web version of the classic Adventure… for the Atari 2600.

The game was built by programmer Scott Pehnke entirely in Flash, and features a full emulation of

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March 2nd, 2007 by: Technabob

Alone in the Dark 5 in Game Footage

Alone in the Dark 5 Screenshot

The preview footage below pretty much speaks for itself. Atari’s upcoming horror game Alone in the Dark 5 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC is looking really, really good.

While the YouTube clip below doesn’t really do justice to the visuals, you can get a pretty good idea…

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February 22nd, 2007 by: Technabob

Huge Vintage Video Game Console Auction

Classic Video Game Auctions

If you’ve always wanted to build up a huge collection of vintage console games, now is you chance to do it in one fell swoop. Some guy over in Hamburg, Germany has decided to sell off his collection of over ninety classic (and not so classic) video game consoles on…

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December 30th, 2006 by: Technabob

Atari 2600 Portable Updated

Ben Heck Atari 2600 Portable Revision 7

Our favorite modder of all things video game has to be Ben Heckendorn (aka “Ben Heck”.) He’s brought us portable Xbox 360s, Atari 800s and the original portable version of the Atari 2600 VCS.

Ben’s latest endeavor was to take his original Atari VCSp (his first portable 2600,) and update…

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December 21st, 2006 by: Technabob

Atari Joystick Necklace

Atari Joystick Necklace

After you’ve adorned yourself with some Pac-man and Ghost rings, why not round out the look with this classic Atari joystick necklace?
The tiny joystick pendant measures just .5 ” x .75″ x .5″ and comes on a 12″ silver tone chain. The necklace is available from fredflare.com for the…

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October 29th, 2006 by: Technabob

Wearewater? More Like Wearetheeighties.

UK alt band, WeAreWater might sound a bit like Radiohead, but their video looks like something more appropros of a band with a name like Atari Teenage Riot….

Their new music video for “Glass”, by Seven/Seven Productions is inspired by a number of classic eighties video games including

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October 28th, 2006 by: Technabob

Miniature Atari 2600 Games on Your Keychain

Atari 2600 Keychains

These miniature Atari 2600 joystick and paddle controllers function as both a keychain and a functional video game console. Certainly they’re a bit cumbersome as keychains, but you cannot deny the cool factor here.
I’ve seen differing information on which versions feature which games, but from what I can decipher,…

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September 5th, 2006 by: Technabob

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