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Ten-in-1 Atari Joystick Available
Dave21212 writes "My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married) to this interesting little retro-toy. It's a self-contained Atari game unit. The joystick *is* the console, battery operated with 10 preprogrammed titles and RCA out to your television. Includes Adventure, Real Sports Volleyball, Gravitar, Video Olympics, Circus Atari, Yar's Revenge, Asteroids, Centipede, Breakout, and Missile Command. She found it here on Avon and after a bit of Googling for this, I turned up no other sellers. The silly season is just around the corner, what a cool stocking stuffer! (Batteries not included)." Looks pretty authentic to the original... We mentioned this earlier but hadn't seen it for sale anywhere.
My Wife will ask "What were you doing on Avon.com?" when she sees the credit card charge. ;)
You know... I gotta say though that the site seems pretty well designed!
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What, buy a video game and hand cream at the same site? That's just TOO WEIRD.
sulli
RTFJ.
before we get a modchip for this thing?
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That sounds great, but how heavy is it? The product page says it takes four batteries.
I mean, if you're going to have a five-pound joystick, you might as well just get an Xbox.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
yes Geeks can get married
Dude, she's looking at 'joy sticks' online.
BTW, the 'stocking stuffer' joke was uncalled for...
Truckdrivers love them.
Is that from the advertising-quotes-that-didn't-quite-make-it dept.?
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Totally. Not only do we have the ultimate in comfort and reliability, but 10 of the most action-packed, jaw dropping titles ever released for home entertainment computer machine devices!
I just wish it came with ET and Custer's Revenge...
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Our security team is really going to be confused by the hits Avon is getting from our general IS department... funny thing is that it's not porn, but the result is the same:
A bunch of guys sitting in front of computers with a dazed but happy look on their faces.
Someone link the Activision one. I must have Pitfall!
Grimwell - old, cranky, mean, obsessive
This was either posted by a troll or a teenager...
Dude, you're posting on a forum in which a countless number of us have built our own arcade machines (myself included) just so we could play pac-man and galaga again. If there's one thing that sells remarkably well, it's computer nostalgia.
--trb
I mean, who would have thought! Linux! On that joystick thing! What a delicious reversal! Needless to say, I soiled my trousers. I WONDER IF I COULD RUN LINUX IN MY LARGE INTESTINE!?
I can't say I remember the last time Avon got Slashdotted.
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Unfortunately, this means that when the controller is inevitably tossed in anger, I break the entire console, not just a cheap controller. There was a Penny Arcade about this awhile ago..."breaking controllers since 1985" or something like that.
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I'm not buying one untill it supports the OGG format.
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" It's a self-contained Atari game unit. The joystick *is* the console, battery operated with 10 preprogrammed titles and RCA out to your television"
I found another pic of the unit here. Enjoy.
"My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married)..."
We just call the ceremony, "My Big Fat Geek Wedding".
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Yes, of course. But is she hot? Cause my fiancé is and I still don't understand the logic behind it. I'm not rich and no, it's not 11 inches.
It sometimes makes my doubt if I'm a true nerd. It's awfull when you're behind your computer writing brilliant code and some hotty is calling you from the shower. I feel like I'm torn between 2 completly different worlds!
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