35 years ago this week, Nolan Bushnell invented Pong…  and the world was changed forever.

And so, with the first pings of Pong’s sound card, Atari – the world’s first video game – was born.

The company’s risen and fallen and risen again.  Renewed interest in recent years has allowed the company to release revised and updated versions of their original 1970’s arcade games, both for computers & game systems and as cabinet-style arcade machines, which have begun making their way into bars.

 In honor of Nolan and his contribution to society, we suggest you take a moment to play an old school video game this week… and have a drink, to toast the pioneers, while you’re at it.

But Barcade (Union & Powers off the Lorimer L) is tired — it’s getting so crowded you can hardly play the games. In response, serious game playaz (get it?) have got their Tapper and their taps at home. Check out the genius idea here.

 

If you got the time and money for this thing… invite us over.

In the meantime, we’ll be cracking a bottle and playing Tapper at home for free.

Maybe this is the kind of thing you’d expect to come from Asia, or Staten Island, but it’s straight out of Germany.

The rules are simple. There is one round of chess - and then one round of boxing. Punching power alternating with brainpower.

More at here at BBC.co.uk…

This was passed to us via email. We’re not sure where it came from, so if someone out there has this info, please email us with that at info@frank151.com

What ever happened to fun toys?

SNL

20LTD specializes in super exclusive limited edition luxury products. This £14,500 Good versus Evil Football Table doesn’t disappoint (or so we imagine if we had £14,500 lying around and we purchased it).

According to the site:

This special edition ‘Good versus Evil� table convenes the ultimate adversarial battle on the turf (or toughened frosted UV etched glass) of the beautiful game and it’s ‘Souls’ not goals that are at stake. There were clearly large squads to choose from on both sides, but the final line-ups face up like this:

GOOD XI: CLAUS (as in Santa), MORE (as in Sir Thomas), MOORE (as in Bobby), GORDON (as in Flash), ROBIN (as in Christopher), GOD, ASSISI, JEKYLL, POPPINS, TERESA, M.K.GANDHI.

EVIL XI: POT, LUCIFER, CALIGULA, RIPPER (as in Jack), IMPALER (as in Vlad the), HITLER, MACBETH (as in Lady), HYDE, KLEBB (as in Rosa), AMIN, CATCHER (as in The Child)

Peep the full line of exclusive products at 20ltd.com

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