I’ve opened two contests to win a wallet for the Facebook fans of the Atari cartridge wallets running through the remainder of 2009, so the winners start the new year with a new wallet!

CONTEST - EASY: write a haiku based upon an Atari game or, better yet, an Atari wallet! Post your haiku to the fanpage to enter.

CONTEST - HARD:  mis-speak, mis-spell, or mistake the title of an Atari game and take a picture of the error represented in real life. Add a letter, subtract a letter, use homonyms… be creative & NO PHOTOSHOP ENTRIES. Post your picture to the fanpage to enter.

Each contest will produce one winner, resulting in two wallets given away.

Only entries posted to the Atari cartridge wallet fanpage on Facebook will be allowed.

The win-a-wallet photo contest ran for two weeks and is now closed. While it started strong with several emails / day for the first couple days, only two people actually followed the directions. I even took the time to suggest simple interpretations - easy to do - to those who sent it photochopped or collage entries, and noone followed through. Too bad for you folks!

So to the two people who submitted proper entries - Joe and Chas - you both should head over to my etsy store and pick your Atari wallet!

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I’m giving away two wallets in todays twitter challenge!

To enter the contest, simply tweet your desires to win an Atari wallet to your friends! Include #atariwallet and a link to this post ( such as http://bit.ly/HohWs - feel free to use your preferred linking method as long as it ends up here) and you’re entered to win! Check my @nilesz twitter account for the announcement as my “entry” tweet.

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Watch my twitter feed on Thursday morning for a one-day twitter-only wallet give-away.

The catch? The winner must give the wallet away as a gift!

The rules? Not until Thursday…

In the spirit of looking at things differently, I’m looking for people to “see” Atari game titles in the real world. Of course you’re not going to see an example of real-world Missile Command in your daily life (not everyone gets to visit MIT Lincoln Labs - great place, very cool. I hope you like the Missile Command wallet Marc!) so I’m encouraging wordplay on the titles. What do I mean?

- Perhaps photograph a self-obsessed security personnel.
(Vain guard)

- Take a big letter D and photograph it against the front of your car.
(D - fender)

- Work at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority? Take a picture of yourself at the main controls.
(MassHole Command)
Seriously. MassHole is a common term for drivers in Massachusetts. People drive like psychotic meth-fueled thugs up here.

- Draw, build, or smoke signal your idea.

-Photoshop entries will not be counted.

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Did you recognize the music in the video clip?

If not, see Matt’s comment below with the artists name and the album the clip originated from. Matt just won a wallet of his choice!

I’ll be announcing another contest tonight. When one contest ends, another begins!

Again, congratulations Matt!