While you wait for your NES external hard drive to finish transferring porn, you might as well start making a piece to smoke with from an NES controller. Just gouge out the D-pad and fit a bowl in there, man. Connect a little rubber tubing and a mouthpiece and you’re ready to get stoned.
Wait.
Where’d I put my lighter again?
It seems like the cool thing to do nowadays is mod a Nintendo Entertainment System into another object. Whether it’s a coffee table or a lunchbox, the NES has gone down as one of the most modded systems in history. This time around, some motherfucker put it in a toaster. Yeah, a toaster. Pop in your Pillsbury Toaster Strudel and a copy of Contra and you’re essentially set for life. There’s even red LEDs that light up to give the illusion that it’s still a real toaster. Get your posse drunk enough and they might fall for it.
Finally a controller only the great Andre the Giant could comfortably handle. Inspired directly by Kyle Downes’ NES coffee table, Matt LaBoone worked all summer on this impressively gigantic SNES controller. I can’t imagine having a group of friends sitting around this thing each contributing their part to one button as they mash away while playing Street Fighter 2.
This week we’ll be taking a look at some strange games that we can’t seem to get out of our head. They may be bad, they may be good but they all share the same fate of being lost in time. The games that comprise this list are not the Loco Rocos or Katamari Damacys out there that shoot for wackiness, but rather the subtle, obscure games that tried to be normal but just couldn’t pull it off.
Got 3,800 dollars laying around? Smash open that piggy bank of yours because this is the deal of a lifetime. Owning every NES game made on gray cartridge (with a ton of instruction manuals) along with a mint-condition NES console is sure to earn you a gaming medal.
Now as for selling all of them, no medal is awarded for that. In fact, quite the opposite. Sadly, the seller (eBay user oceanic234) is going through some family issues and is in desperate need of money. I’d say it’s a reasonable price considering the work he’s done collecting them all and maintaining them in proper condition (unlike that lunchbox we saw). Unfortunately, I already have an ass load of NES cartridges and my biggest pet peeve is duplicates. So, thanks but no thanks.
What happens when a bored DIYer throws a $20 DVD player inside an old Nintendo Entertainment System? You get a shoddy-looking, fully-working DVD player inside an NES. Get the cred, solder the lead, watch Club Dread.
Remember that Nintendo Famicom which was built into an NES cartidge? That was cool and all, but a post on Ben Heckendorn’s console hacking forum by user Darkeru revealed a new approach which may have just one upped it. Not only did he manage to fit the NES inside the cartridge, he also has managed to embed a controller and a screen!
The catch? It doesn’t play cartridges. That’s alright though, since this hack relies on games already integrated into the chip. This prevents the bulkiness of having a cartridge sticking out of a cartridge and makes the system comfortable and more portable. It runs on three N-cell batteries, so don’t expect to be playing NES games endlessly.
Want to show off your fanboy pride? After all, ever since you bought that Nintendo Wii and downloaded a ton of games on the Virtual Console, you haven’t been the same. Go for the gold and get this $6 NES keychain. It comes with miniature versions of the console, the controller and a game cartridge. No word yet if you have to blow on the cart to make your keys work.
We’ve selected an assortment of Konami titles we feel are classics and define Konami along with subsidiary companies such as Ultra Games. Some titles didn’t make the cut and that’s a damn shame but Konami doesn’t fuck around and neither do I. Hit the jump to dive into the ten.
The NES controller is just a classic example of iconic gaming culture being hacked and modded into oblivion. So many awesome projects have integrated the Nintendo controller design that it’s almost becoming a cliché. I said almost.
The NES Coffee Table is among some of the most awesome mods we’ve ever seen and we’ve seen some doozies. Not only is the controller design actually able to be used as a controller during game play, but provides excellent space for storing away all of your gaming crap. Hit the jump for more pics and an awesome video. (more…)
