Atari's Next Steps

A few weeks back, we highlighted the release of a documentary called Atari: Game Over that digs into one of the biggest game-related urban legends ever: Did Atari really dump hundreds of thousands of copies of E.T.: The Game into a landfill? It turns out that, yes, they actually did do that, though that's not the only question answered by the film. Others, such as "why?!", come up as well, and they got us thinking: What about Atari itself? How has it changed since the days of E.T.? Quite a bit, it turns out, and here's a look at where the brand once known for some of the most groundbreaking games is right now.
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Atari: Game Over - The Documentary About That Time A Major Corporation Buried Hundreds of Thousands of Copies of E.T.: The Video Game Cause It Sucked Reese's Pieces...

One of the greatest video game Urban Legends ever had to be the one about E.T.: The Game... you know, the terrible movie adaption of a video game for the Atari system that was so bad the company buried hundreds of thousands of unsold copies rather than ruin the rep of the brand. Did it really happen? One never can tell... however, last year the supposed burial ground was to be exhumed, and low and behold it was REAL!!! Yup, Atari did bring all those games out to the middle of the desert... as well as many other secrets they wanted to hide. Terrible console ideas, bad port versions of classic games, and the tons of the 'dreaded alien that stole the box office but sunk the video game company' cartridges were found. In the documentary Atari: Game Over famed Hollywood writer Zak Penn (of X2 and X3: The Last Stand) tagged along, and the results look pretty fantastic. The doc is available free on the X-Box Live website. Check out the trailer after the jump...

'I'd Buy That...As a Tee!' Vol 35

Always on the look out for inspiring art... emblazoned across the chest of humanity. Here's some of the t-shirts I have my eye on to do just the trick but, there's only one problem....they aren't for sale yet! Please click each of the links below to the Threadless.com voting pages and give these beauties '5' ratings so I can throw 'em on my charge card one day.

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'I'd Buy That...As a Tee!' Vol 26

Always on the look out for inspiring art... emblazoned across the chest of humanity. Here's some of the t-shirts I have my eye on to do just the trick but, there's only one problem....they aren't for sale yet! Please click the links below to the Threadless.com voting pages for each and give these beauties '5' ratings so I can throw 'em on my charge card one day.

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Penney Design Takes Modern Properties And Blasts Them Back To The Past

Penney Design is a very talented graphic design firm from jolly 'ole England and they have organized a project that caught my attention when surfing the 'Net. They took modern film & TV show properties and re-imagined them as Atari 2600 era video games (the CVS, or Cartridge Video Game system... very clever), both boxes & cartridges. Check 'em all out after the jump.

Two More Star Wars Name Brands From Barn Bocock

We posted a bunch of these last week, but here are two that were not in the original batch. I give you a Vader/Atari mashup and Yoda's credit card logo. These are done by Barn Bocock and can be bought on a vary of mediums by clicking here.

'Consume Conspicuously' by JediRob

All the good geek swag you can’t live without.

All products are out this week or very soon, and are from trusted vendors I have used before.

These are all items I do own, will own or would own.


Toys


"Allo." The squishy cuteness (or incredible creepiness) of the worm from Labyrinth available for $29.99. "YEAH, as'right." Have a nice cuppa tea with him (nerd not included).




I was never really able to make much more than a square on my Lite Brite, but now I can make FOUR SQUARES!! (wait, because I said that, does that mean people know where I am right now? That's how it works right?) Perfect party entertainment for coffee table or a bar for $17.99.




I have great affinity for the high priest to the Great Old Ones. My eyes bleed at even a hint of his visage, but I just can't get enough of his cuteness! This trio of Lovecraftian hugability is available for $10.72, $23.58 and $14.99 respectively.

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