Jan 22 2009Build Your Own Atari 2600 Controller Lamp
Want to build your own giant Atari 2600 controller lamp? No problem -- all it takes is some power tools, a shit-ton of skill, more patience than my girlfriend, and a month of unemployment. It'll totally be worth it though, right? No, it won't be. And yours will probably look like shit.
Hit the jump for several more of the finished product, along with a link to the very in-depth, and very difficult, instructions.
Giant Atari Joystick Lamp [instructables]
Thanks to MoD, who beat me in the temple with a Wiimote lamp and stole my PS3.
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Reader Comments
1. Dr.Known - January 22, 2009 3:04 PM
Now that's something for the living room corner table, mm hmm
2. Andrew - January 22, 2009 3:05 PM
first
3. Brandt Cooley - January 22, 2009 3:05 PM
That's brilliant.
4. Andrewbbbbbbb - January 22, 2009 3:05 PM
first
5. Dr.Known - January 22, 2009 3:06 PM
...might want to keep the lampshade on though, looks a little phallic without it
6. NastyBedazzler - January 22, 2009 3:08 PM
"Want to build your own giant Atari 2600 controller lamp?"
Not really.
7. bar room hero - January 22, 2009 3:19 PM
This is legit. I want one!!!
8. Pew³ - January 22, 2009 3:23 PM
It reminds me of the original XBOX controller. Oversized!
9. shasta orange - January 22, 2009 3:23 PM
Space Invaders!!!
10. shasta orange - January 22, 2009 3:24 PM
and
PARATROOPERS!!!
11. shasta orange - January 22, 2009 3:27 PM
@8
Is it? Or it's your hands that is undersized?
12. Gizmoduck - January 22, 2009 6:07 PM
wait, why was geekologie shut down for a good while?
answer me that!
over load? too much badassery going on?
13. Dr.Known - January 22, 2009 6:10 PM
GW apparently hasn't mastered the portal gun yet, he was trying to beam his naked self into the system & knocked it offline.
14. Barack Ubuntu - January 22, 2009 6:16 PM
That is totally the coolest lamp I have ever seen! I would have no shame putting that on my night stand.
15. Pew³ - January 22, 2009 6:16 PM
@12. Thats what happens when too many people constantly hit refresh over and over. The system couldnt take the firstys overload.
BTW did you see my way late reply on the air guitar strings. I feel lame for not getting your original joke.
16. Daisy - January 22, 2009 6:35 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max made a junky lamp in wood shop, this ruined his straight A average so he brought a gun to school, and it went off in his locker. So he got Saturday detention and made friends with some cool kids.
17. Gizmoduck - January 22, 2009 6:38 PM
@ 15
i did and its ok.
it was way in left field anyway.
princess bride style
PEW PEW PEW
18. Moose Knuckle - January 22, 2009 6:45 PM
@15 Did you "get" the joke, or was it EXPLAINED to you by a coworker one seat over who shall remain unamed.
19. Gizmoduck - January 22, 2009 6:56 PM
@18
please tell you you guys work together
20. Daisy - January 22, 2009 6:58 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was playing on his brand new Nintendo game system and he hit his puppy in the face with the controller while tring to bowl a perfect game. Then his neighbor Honey Bunz came over and brought the dog back to life using mouth to nose Wiisuscitation.
21. Moose Knuckle - January 22, 2009 8:16 PM
@19 Only if you consider our lending our extensive expertise in the shadow arts "working together".
22. teh drunk - January 23, 2009 1:32 AM
BrRRRaaAAWWWRRrrrr BLLEeeeecHHHh
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23. softlicious - January 23, 2009 7:30 AM
Shade!
This is a total lamp shade, you can see that because it shadows the light from the lamp. But there arn't any shadows in real life, only in photoshop!
This is exactly like in that movie Never Let Down where Baja was trying to build an Atari lamp shade, but he was let down by the nerd he hired, so the lamp shade never got finished. Instead Baja bought one of theese:
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/mario_mushroom_lamps_lack_powe.php
24. Thumperchica - January 23, 2009 9:49 AM
Fab a better lampshade and I love it. This on one end table, the duckhunt lamp on the other, kegerator coffee table, ok, now i'm mentally building the tv/game room, i must stop...
25. Drunken Heathen - January 24, 2009 10:18 AM
"Wiisuscitation", that's just too good