Want to relive the glory days of the early 1980s, with Space Invaders and Asteroids and Breakout and Adventure and Matthew Broderick preventing Global Thermonuclear War by having a tactical super computer play Tic Tac Toe with itself? With the fortunate exception of the latter, check out these offerings from Atari, any of which can make a great Christmas gift for that weird middle-aged geek who lives in the basement and won’t shut up about how stupid games have gotten compared to the good old days of Pong and Frogger and Myst 1.

Atari Flashback 2.0. Designed to look like the old Atari 2600 (right down to the woodgrain!) and comes with two classic-syle Atari joysticks, and 30 classic games preloaded. Includes that age old favorite, Pong. (Only now you don’t blow all your hard-earned paper route money on Pong quarters.)

Atari Classics 10 In 1 TV Games. If you want to go smaller, get just a joystick — one that plugs straight into your TV and plays 10 of the most recognizable classics from the golden age of Atari gaming, including Asteroids, Missile Command, Breakout, Adventure, and Gravitar. Runs on 4 AA batteries and comes with A/V cables to plug into your TV’s video-in ports. Easy as Betamax.

Atari: The 80 Classic Games in One CD. If you’re one of those jerks who goes around saying “Oh, is this something I’d need a TV to understand,” this one is for you! The Atari Classic Games CD comes with 80 games (or did I just say that) for 1 or 2 players and runs on any Windows PC (sorry, Mac users — of which I am one — but the old maxim about Macs and games comes through again). You don’t get the classic woodgrain and joysticks you would get with the above systems, but it’s cheap and needs just a computer to run.