LEGO Atari 2600 console dropping in August for 50th-anniversary commemoration

Lego is releasing an official 2600 console and controller to commemorate Atari’s 50th anniversary. It’s due later this year and should provide a healthy dose of nostalgia for old-school gamers and collectors of ’70s and 80’s memorabilia.

Atari’s 2600 was initially released in 1977 and was rebranded as the VCS in 1982 so it’s celebrating its 40th and 45th anniversary. The console was instrumental in bringing gaming into peoples’ homes and shipped over 30 million copies in its lifetime. However, it fell from grace in its later years and led to the video game crash of 1983. Some of its most popular games included Pac-Man, Frogger, Pitfall, and Space Invaders, which are still available on some platforms today.