With the holiday season approaching, the nights closing in and getting a little chillier all around what better way than to kick back into winter and relax by pouring yourself a warming drink (soft drinks are available) from your new retro Atari decanter into your Atari glass and reminiscing about the good old days of purchasing ET on the 2600 and realizing it wasn’t quite as good as the movie.
Well now you can, as well as add a whole host of other retro collectibles from the once king of gaming to your games room, but if nothing else, they may well make the perfect gift for the retro-gaming lover in your life. Or maybe you have just always wanted a decanter that looks like a joystick. You do you.
There are several pieces of 3D wall art available as well as the glassware and I am kind of looking at them thinking I could 3D print them on my Bambu Lab A1 (we covered 3D printing cool things for your games room in a feature a few months back).
We would probably find it a little more difficult to replicate the official Atari decanter and glass however without night classes in glassblowing, which, we imagine aren’t as popular as they once were these days.
The decanter is shaped like the original controller from the 80s which, even we admit it, is pretty cool. It probably controls your games just as well as the original did as well (I was an Intellivision child, in your face Atari).
The set comes on a tray emblazoned with the slogan “Futuristic Since Forever”, Atari’s 50-year anniversary marketing at work there, and will set you back around £80/$85, but shop around as it is available in countless places online, including Jeff Bezos’ tiny online operation.
The wall art is priced around the $35 mark and features the likes of classic Atari games such as Pong, Asteroids, and the coolest of them all with nine replica cartridges stuck in the frame.
We have seen other great collectibles this year such as the backpack from Fallout, and we are hoping next year will bring us this Lego Outrun set too.
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