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Gaming like it’s 1979

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It's great to see how ThinkGeek uses April Fool's day as a way to gauge customer interest. They did this before with their Tauntaun sleeping bags which they produced/sold after a lot of positive feedback to their April 1st joke.

I think that has been a great deal in the past, but these days it seems frustratingly obvious that the April Fools Day posts are sometimes little more than market research. It seems to take some of the humor out of it.

Also- While the orig. idea was by ThinkGeek, the production isn't by them for this product, it's a third-party.

I worked under the same corporate umbrella as the thinkgeek guys before :) If I'm not mistaken, all of their production is outsourced. In this case, though I think the design is partially outsourced, too, since it's a little more complex than a guitar shirt with the bluetooth and all.

I don't really think the April fools stuff is being explicitly used as test marketing, btw, though I think it's a neat side effect. Those guys just really like April fools stuff.

Interesting how much money there is to be made mining the disposable incomes of adults nostalgic for the pleasures of childhood.

Tell me about it. My wife recently discovered that her mom kept the family's Fairchild Channel F system 2 and she is now scouring the net for games. She even had me teach her how to solder so she could fix the old controllers.

Wow. Where can I find a woman who not only enjoys gaming but can solder.

bd had to make his own, i.e. teach.

Get ready to get out your wallets all you retrophiliacs: http://www.dawnmetropolis.com/

The "buy the album" link doesn't work on windows 7 / firefox 3.6.13

I went to buy the album, or at least see what the price was, and the link sent me to http://normativedesign.com/#/anamanaguchi

I found it on amazon MP3: http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Metropolis/dp/B001VM6XTI/ref=sr_1...

I notice the same issue on linux so it's an issue with the link itself.

I love how it's considered this great awesome thing that you "can" spend lots of money on BUTTONS for the damn thing.

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