Game Controller Ornament

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One of our video game ornaments, the Game Controller Ornament reproduces a classic two-handed controller — buttons, joysticks, and grip — faithfully rendered in blown glass. Every button gets hand-painted individually before a slim metal cap goes on, sized to hang flat and steady on any branch. The controller has been through generation after generation since the early seventies, and every redesign has added more buttons, and every added button has proven, eventually, necessary. Whoever learned each version at each stage learned it the way anyone learns something that actually matters — by doing it until it stopped being thinking and simply became playing, and the playing took them somewhere real, even if the somewhere itself was not. Get this for the person who knows exactly what happened in there and has never needed to explain it to you. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame knows a formative obsession when it sees one. Show more