Atari is fucked. Again.

"Social audio"

get fucked imo.

wait, the speakers are in the bill of the hat? so it's blasting tinny audio right into your eyes, which famously allow you to see, not hear? this is like a fucking silicon valley subplot

Thirteen-year-olds are going to be all over this thing for a week before it gets tossed on the pile with the fidget spinners and slap bracelets and dead tamagachis.

I'm reminded of this thing that I was so psyched to receive for Christmas and about which I remained psyched through at least the first couple weeks of January.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGrhrSHkEM

what the actual fuck is that

it's right on the edge of being a tim and eric sketch

Tim & Eric can only ever hope to approximate humankind's limitless capacity for absurdity.

Trying like crazy to remember the name of another thing I got probably the same year, like a giant hockey puck that you kicked around with your feet. I think I made my mom make a special trip to Toys R' Us so I could buy one. I kicked it around in the street for maybe ten minutes before I booted it directly into a storm drain.

stitch that, pennywise

ERIN
LUNCH
PIZZA
BE THERE

that atari coffee table book is the shiznit; loads of fun to page thru

old lunch, are you talking about a skipit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3MbbQhZfq4

funny how you can feel nostalgic for something that even as a kid you recognised as totally ridiculous

Nah, there was no stick involved. It was literally just a big, puck-shaped chunk of garbage plastic. Even more ridiculous than a Skip-It, somehow.

Just picked up The Art of Atari by Tim Lapetino mentioned above from my local library - an amazing smorgasbord of art from the era, highly recommended!

Nah, there was no stick involved. It was literally just a big, puck-shaped chunk of (-garbage-) plastic. Even more ridiculous than a Skip-It, somehow.

I dunno, man, its apparent disappearance from the world is crazy. Looks like there was a thing called Hot Pucks that came out several years later and is similar but not quite the thing I had (for fifteen minutes).

hot... pucks?

lmao wtf

https://i.imgur.com/1BXCVN3.png

i hate to say it, but atari is fucked. again.

Man that brand name has been attached to do many terrible ideas

congratulations atari, you're the one brandname that's possibly managed to sink _lower_ after being owned by jack tramiel