Comments on: The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids

Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: RedWolf

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:34:48 +0000

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Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: KitsuneDarkStalker

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:53:50 +0000

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Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: Tomas

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:28:02 +0000

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Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: Keith

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:40:08 +0000

i had one of those when I was a kid! I remember pretending my thumbs were joysticks and walking around demanding quarters.

Lame costume, but the party I went to was fun ’cause of the quarters. I got ice cream on the way home.

Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: ArsGeek :: The most disturbing Halloween costume ever?

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:41:41 +0000

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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:29:39 +0000

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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:20:43 +0000

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Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: KitsuneDarkStalker

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:08:14 +0000

I had a Sonic The Hedgehog one, the weird thing is the plastic shirt had a screen of Emerald Hill Zone and the Sonic logo instead of Sonic’s chest…

Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: RedWolf

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:12:36 +0000

You have one? That’s cool. I always thought all those those mask and sheet costumes were pretty dumb. I had a few as a kid myself — I remember my Bugs Bunny one the most. Then there was He-Man.

And yeah, the plastic tends to degrade and get brittle or sometimes gunky — especially if the costumes have spent years in a hot attic. I had some rubber masks that turned into nothing more than a ball of sticky goo over time. It was pretty sad.

Comment on The Most Disturbing Halloween Costume Ever: Atari’s Asteroids by: Jason Scott

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:00:32 +0000

This costume’s on the shelf behind me. Only $10 on Ebay.

Obviously the thing can’t be worn; this family of costumes were made primarily with plastic and the plastic’s really started to go to seed, but the point is there.

This whole “plastic sheet and mask” set of costumes flourished for a while, and sometimes got absolutely insane. I guarantee whoever put it together put a bunch of similarly idiotic themes together.

This Asteroids Costume pairs up nicely with the Asteroids album:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/09/atari_music.html