Gaming Urns

This collection of gaming urns is for those who found community through a headset, shared a couch with family, or watched the medium change over decades. These cast aluminum pieces are available in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes, with engraved designs such as a wireless controller and finishes in painted colors or hand-applied enamel with silver bands.

Each urn is available with an optional two-tone engraving of a name and dates. These pieces serve to honor the connections made through the games they played.

The medium has transformed through many decades, shifting from the simple mechanics of a cartridge and a shared screen to the vast landscapes of headsets and digital connections across a continent of strangers. For those who grew up alongside these changes, the early consoles often remain a part of their history.

This collection honors the person who stayed with the technology as it evolved. Whether they were navigating new worlds in their youth or mastering modern systems later in life, their passion for gaming was a constant thread in their story.

Connection often happens in the quiet spaces of a room or across vast distances. Sometimes, the strongest bonds are formed with people who were only ever known by their voice, living three time zones away. In other instances, the connection is physical, found in the hours spent on a couch with a parent, a sibling, or a child.

A household may discover a whole second circle of people who are grieving once they realize how deeply those online friendships were rooted in reality. These memories of uncounted hours spent together, whether side-by-side or through a screen, are what these pieces seek to respect.

Each piece is crafted from cast aluminum and features an engraved design, including a gaming design, a gaming controller, or a wireless controller. The finishes vary from a range of painted colors to a hand-applied enamel that is detailed with silver bands. Each urn is finished with a felt base and a threaded screw-top lid.

Choosing a design like this is an act of honesty. It reflects where the person truly spent their time and the people they held close, acknowledging their life as it was actually lived.

To allow for different needs, the collection includes full-size, sharing, and keepsake urns. We also offer the option to have a name and dates engraved directly into the surface using a two-tone technique.

The game that started the industry was a training exercise. Nolan Bushnell set Allan Alcorn the task of building a simple tennis game at Atari, and Pong was released on November 29, 1972. It was never meant to be the product, yet it earned four times what other coin-operated machines took. Atari had filled 2,500 orders by 1973, and the home version sold around 150,000 units through Sears in the 1975 holiday season.

For a family, the design on the urn is where the person actually was, and the people who were there with them.

Source: Wikipedia, Pong

If the person was someone who navigated new worlds in their youth or shared uncounted hours on a couch with a sibling, then these designs will recall those specific ways they lived. The choice of which piece to honor them is a personal one, guided by your own memories of the life they lived.

A family might picture the person in that quiet room, sitting on the couch with a controller in hand and a loved one by their side.

Our guide to selecting the right size urn