Some of you old codgers might remember a tiny startup called ATARI. They have launched a shiny new site with a handful of absolutely free arcade classics and atari 2600 titles. What really blows my mind is that I had to link-hop three times to find an actual link to the Atari website. I’m pretty sure that this kind of stinginess is bad for your health, and if there was a way for doctors to check for it, then life insurance rates would shoot through the roof for these guys… I’m not going to name name, but shame on you for not linking to Atari while waxing poetic about how excited you are to be playing their games for free on their site.

Can I get a What-What for Kotaku, who actually linked back to the Atari website.

Here’s a little bit of awesome: stop motion re-enactments of classic arcade games using LEGO blocks. The shape of LEGOS lend themselves perfectly to the pixelated images of old school arcade games. These recreations are so good that I think I just 1up’D in my pants a little.

On a side note, I’d like to know what kind of diet supplement pac-man is taking, because he can gobble pellets all day long and he never gains a pixel. Also, with all of the different versions of pac-man out there, I’d like to know why there was never a game that featured both ms pac man and pac man in the same game? Someone needs to whip up a co-operative game with these two as a team.

As a child of the eighties, seeing this marriage of retro gaming and Rubik’s (cube) makes me want to ‘snap into a slim jim’ and ‘do the bartman’. It also leaves me puzzled (pun intended)- I wonder if Mario is off to find the princess, and if that’s the case, is he bearing gifts? Perhaps he’s toting some Akoya pearls or just another one of his crazy mushrooms… they make him grow bigger, ya know (wink, wink). Let’s just hope that our princess isn’t in another castle This. One. Time.

Oh yeah! An eighties lovin’, koopa crushing thanks goes to Vubx for the tip- there is more Rubik’s cube art to be found there.