atari

Hollywood has officially gone nuts with video game movie adaptations. According to the LA Times, Atari is on the verge of selling the movie rights to the circa 1980 game Missile Command to 20th Century Fox.

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If you’re going to binge on whiskey, why not put the source of your drinking on the shot glass itself? All those hours spent playing ancient Atari games without a shred of progress kicking Asteroid ass could drive anyone to drink. If you prefer to drown your gaming sorrows in some other type of liquid, you can always use these.

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atari-can-coozy

This Atari coozy will keep your chosen carbonated beverage chilled for those long MMORPG missions. Lucky for you, the gaming industry has moved well beyond the days of Atari 8-bit gaming even though this coozy hasn’t.

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atari-pint-glasses

Pour yourself a pint in one of four classic Atari game glasses: Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede and Battle Zone. As you slip further into a depressed drunkenness, you can recall the carefree days of your youth spent playing Atari games in your parent’s living room.

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usb-neon-lights

What better way to light up your work area than a few neon lights. If they are USB powered and depict a joystick and a video game alien, then these are must-haves for the computer junkie. Particularly if that person happens to be old enough to have cut his teeth on gaming with the old Atari 2600 and Space Invaders.

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