Atari 2600 Lego Set Includes Joystick and Little Lego Game Cartridges

If there’s two issues assured to take you again to childhood, it is Lego and Atari (properly, for those who’re a sure age). Now these two iconic toys mix right into a a Lego model of the basic Atari 2600 console — full with Lego-ized joystick and cartridges of Atari video games Asteroids, Journey and Centipede.

The Atari VCS/2600 was launched in 1977, though the brand new 2532-piece Lego set is predicated on the four-switch revision which got here alongside in 1980.

The brick-built console will be opened as much as reveal a Lego minifig enjoying in a Nineteen Eighties lounge, whereas the sport cartridges flip into scenes from the precise video games. The Nineteen Eighties-obsessed guys from Stranger Issues can be impressed. 

The brick-built console is launched to have a good time Atari’s fiftieth anniversary (enjoyable reality in regards to the firm’s 1972 creation: do you know one of many founders, Nolan Bushnell, was additionally the man who began Chuck E. Cheese?).

The Lego Atari 2600 set goes on sale Aug. 1 for $239.99 within the US or £209.99 within the UK.