Games
NES Bong is One Third Party Nintendo Accessory You Won't Find at Gamestop
Posted by Adam Frucci at 2:00 PM on October 2, 2008
Ah, video games and casual drug use. They go together like World of Warcraft and loneliness, don't they? That's why we saw a water pipe made out of an N64 controller last year, and that's why Giz reader James dedicated this past weekend into converting an old NES controller into a bong. It doesn't work, unfortunately, but I'm sure you'd be bad enough at playing after using this thing without having to try to smoke while also controlling Mega Man. Nice work, James. We like to see young people using their time constructively. Hit the jump for another picture of this masterpiece of ingenuity.
Thanks, James!

Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Monkeymagik
Posted October 2, 2008 2:37 PM
It's ok, but really it's not much more ingenious than turning a coke bottle and peice of hose into a bong.
It'd be really impressive though if the controller was actually working.
RedBeard
Posted 2:25 PM 2/10/08
beautiful
i can't see it being too effective of a bong but man what an awesome piece. i'm looking around my room now for something outdated and good enough size to make a bong out of....hmmm...i see my old....pics to come...LOL
RedBeard
Mr_Maze
Posted 2:14 PM 2/10/08
@jibbly: This is why you smoke after you make a ninbong. Or is it a nong?
Mr_Maze
Overheal
Posted 2:14 PM 2/10/08
1-up mushrooms and bong controllers. hmmm.
Overheal
takashimiike 7
Posted 2:09 PM 2/10/08
@Heart-Skull-Kid: Speaking from experience eh?
takashimiike 7
jibbly
Posted 2:08 PM 2/10/08
Not much liquid in them there bong. Is it even water tight? The last thing you need is orange juice dribbling all over your hemp pants.
jibbly
scarbrtj
Posted 2:07 PM 2/10/08
Nintendo Madness! Women cry for it—men die for it.
scarbrtj
takashimiike 7
Posted 2:06 PM 2/10/08
[gizmodo.com]
takashimiike 7
Heart-Skull-Kid
Posted 2:06 PM 2/10/08
It doesn't work? I don't see why not. There is enough room in the controller for air to be sucked through.
Heart-Skull-Kid
Nightsd01
Posted 3:45 PM 2/10/08
Next: N64 Crackpipe controller.
Nightsd01
bitgod
Posted 3:43 PM 2/10/08
A B UP DOWN TOKE TOKE TOKE
bitgod
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
Posted 3:38 PM 2/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead: Don't forget St. Marks Place. That's where you'll find more masterpieces of ingenuity...
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
dead_red_eyes
Posted 3:32 PM 2/10/08
Man, even if it did work ... I bet it tastes like shit.
dead_red_eyes
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 3:32 PM 2/10/08
@badhatharry: So what do you think YOUR furniture would look like if you were constantly struck with the urge to dance on your table?
Kaiser-Machead
craig_16
Posted 3:17 PM 2/10/08
@badhatharry: Speaking as someone who has lived with the kind of people who make these things - stoners - it's because they don't give a shit what their house and the furniture in it looks like.
craig_16
collider
Posted 3:16 PM 2/10/08
@badhatharry: That's one bad hat, harry.
collider
AppleSalsa
Posted 3:16 PM 2/10/08
Someone needs to make a zong out of one of those tricked out cooling systems on custom PCs. That would impress me. This is pretty sweet though.
AppleSalsa
collider
Posted 3:15 PM 2/10/08
@Heart-Skull-Kid: Can't imagine why they'd go through the trouble replacing the cord with a hollow tube if it weren't meant to be used.. Maybe it just doesn't work well.
collider
mangochutney
Posted 3:12 PM 2/10/08
Wow! I didn't know they made the old controller with an analogue-stick.
mangochutney
badhatharry
Posted 3:10 PM 2/10/08
Why is it that the people who make bizarre hybrid bongs always have fucked-up coffee tables? I mean, look at the first photo. It's all scratched up.
badhatharry
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 3:08 PM 2/10/08
@General Halfshaftery: take a walk down 14th street sometime. They sell these things on sidewalk tables like crazy.
Kaiser-Machead
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 3:08 PM 2/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Or maybe a miniature hookah :P
Kaiser-Machead
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 3:07 PM 2/10/08
@DssTrainer: Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is just a bowl.
Kaiser-Machead
General Halfshaftery
Posted 2:56 PM 2/10/08
omg lol illicit drug paraphernalia
General Halfshaftery
alowishus
Posted 2:56 PM 2/10/08
What's next, a Dreamcast controller nitrous cracker?
alowishus
CMU_Bueller
Posted 2:54 PM 2/10/08
No, I'm pretty sure my local Gamestop has at least one of these hanging out in the back room.
CMU_Bueller
UniComp
Posted 2:45 PM 2/10/08
love it.
UniComp
Adam420
Posted 2:45 PM 2/10/08
Defiantly wouldn't be a bong.
Adam420
wilkart
Posted 2:32 PM 2/10/08
hmm..i should turn my old xbox into a blender..but of coarse it won't work..
wilkart
DssTrainer
Posted 2:30 PM 2/10/08
looks more bowlish than bongish. But still cool.
DssTrainer
Sticky230
Posted 2:28 PM 2/10/08
...plus you get cancer from melting plastic.
Sticky230
atomo
Posted 4:29 PM 2/10/08
The mouthpiece is dirty. Very dirty.
atomo
KStrike155
Posted 8:52 PM 2/10/08
@Heart-Skull-Kid: It works, but the controller does not. As in, you can't play video games with it, but you CAN smoke from it.
Or at least that's what I think they're saying. I don't smoke so I wouldn't know.
KStrike155
Kinglish
Posted 9:07 PM 2/10/08
HAHA I wish I had this in "HIGH" School!!!
Kinglish
Curves
Posted 10:13 PM 2/10/08
The best place to see modded bongs and weapons is at the local police station where they have them in display case. I stopped to check it out, and when I asked the nice officer if they had a gift shop at the end of the tour, he wasnt amuzed. Cops have no sense of humor.
Curves
pevans34
Posted 10:36 PM 2/10/08
back in my day i made one of these. although it was a bowl, not a bong, and i put the bowl on the side with the carb on top, so the buttons could still be pressed. i had to gut it first of course and it didnt work too well, for smoking or gaming.
pevans34
WildWon
Posted 10:27 PM 2/10/08
@Curves: Yea they do! Haven't you seen them laughing and carrying on after smoking the weed they'd confiscated whilst riding the skateboards they've taken from kids?
Oh, and something something donuts.
WildWon
WildWon
Posted 10:25 PM 2/10/08
@wilkart: But will it ble... oh, nevermind.
WildWon
WildWon
Posted 10:24 PM 2/10/08
@scarbrtj: My toker senses are tingling
Did i just read a reference to Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical? Well, i do declare!
WildWon
WildWon
Posted 10:21 PM 2/10/08
@KStrike155: Thats exactly what their saying. For smoking your smokables, it works. For controlling games, not so much.
I have an idea for something like this. Might see about doing it and sending pics in.*
*for tobacco use only.
WildWon
DarkHavoc99
Posted 11:37 PM 2/10/08
@Nightsd01:
Done.
[www.geekologie.com]
DarkHavoc99
RacecarBoobTat
Posted 11:37 PM 2/10/08
It doesn't work -- as a controller.
RacecarBoobTat
EricAlder
Posted 12:21 AM 3/10/08
If you build it, they will smoke.
EricAlder
gloveofpower
Posted 12:11 AM 3/10/08
That's a masterpiece of ingenuity. Hats off to you nintendo bong guy!
gloveofpower
Barry99705
Posted 12:07 AM 3/10/08
So this is here why?
Barry99705
badhatharry
Posted 12:58 AM 3/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Reinforced.
badhatharry
mjmahon
Posted 1:21 AM 3/10/08
Isn't this just a pipe and not a bong? Don't bongs have to have water? Frucci you should know this you're the resident weed paraphernalia expert.
mjmahon
Sticky230
Posted 1:43 AM 3/10/08
@CMU_Bueller: probably
Sticky230
IMWylde
Posted 2:14 AM 3/10/08
You really need to watch what your drawing smoke thru, burning, inhaling. Some of that asian plastic gives off some pretty nasty chemical by product and has to be worse when heated..
In other words.
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME.
IMWylde
IMWylde
Posted 2:13 AM 3/10/08
@craig_16: Blanket statements like that make me want to get stoned.. Thats not a table its a pipe makin / lego creation station
IMWylde
NagChampa
Posted 2:51 AM 3/10/08
I'd hit it
NagChampa
JEmlay
Posted 2:58 AM 3/10/08
Wow...I guess there really IS something worse then be a sad pathetic loser and that's a NERDY sad pathetic loser.
JEmlay
Kakkoister
Posted 4:29 AM 3/10/08
@JEmlay: Soo.. Smoking Marijuana magically turns you into a sad pathetic looser?
Well, I guess you've called a few 1000 cancer patients sad pathetic loosers.
Marijuana is the least harmful legal/illegal drug. There are 0 deaths to date from it. And to overdose you'd have to smoke your own weight of it.
How is smoking marijuana any different from playing some video games? Or going golfing, or anything else someone does that they enjoy, but is not productive?
It's not any different, it's an activity that alters brain chemicals creating happiness. As with anything else you do that's fun.
Kakkoister
jeembomb
Posted 4:48 AM 3/10/08
@JEmlay:
I'd guess a person such as yourself, who holds the opinion that smoking weed makes you a sad pathetic loser , has an extremely limited social life, understanding of other human beings, and is generally an unlikable stereotypical elite(but not intelligent) video game loser.
jeembomb
MadCow234
Posted 7:40 AM 3/10/08
@dead_red_eyes:
lol, I hope that's a schwag bowl...keep the dro in glass.
MadCow234
MadCow234
Posted 7:37 AM 3/10/08
@craig_16:
I think you need to hang out with better stoners. I'm an Electrical Engineering major with a 4.0...we're not all like them.
@IMWylde:
Exactly what I thought...who's to say if that's a coffee table or a workbench, it's just horizontal wood.
MadCow234
kamra
Posted 7:34 AM 3/10/08
That's not a bong you geek
kamra
HawaiianActor
Posted 8:23 AM 3/10/08
@MadCow234: i know it makes me painfully immature... but i chuckled when i read "horizontal wood"
HawaiianActor
ZombieRace
Posted 8:46 AM 3/10/08
@kamra: You beat me to the punch.
ZombieRace
badhatharry
Posted 9:41 AM 3/10/08
@MadCow234: If this guy set up a shop to turn a controller into a pipe, then he's the most industrious stoner I've heard of. If I were to get high (not saying I do, NSA), I'd most likely just want to sit around and explain to people how light bulbs work. I wouldn't want to to any activities. Not that I do get high (hello again, NSA).
badhatharry
MacAttack7388
Posted 1:23 AM 4/10/08
A work of art.
MacAttack7388
mrpedenman
Posted 1:19 AM 4/10/08
ahhh i get it now
mrpedenman
VideoVampire
Posted 2:15 AM 4/10/08
An old Atari 2400 controller might work very well due to its shape.
VideoVampire
JEmlay
Posted 3:24 AM 4/10/08
@JEmlay:
Sure, you can smoke pot and not be a sad pathetic loser. But that accounts for what? Less then .001 of people who smoke pot?
While in Colorado (Denver) I attended pot day twice to interview as many people as I could. The results were well...pathetic.
So yeah, on average, smoking pot = sad pathetic loser.
Also, to add to the ignorant comment of how harmless pot is. Physically, sure. It's the least bit harmful. However igniting anything on fire and inhaling it's smoke is extremely harmful to your lungs. In addition the mental harm done to ones self is just plain sad. Especially for those in their teen age years. The rise of depression for teenage pot users is just plain disgusting.
But, what does it matter right? Every pothead spouts the same righteous views of how harmless pot is. Enjoy your pot lemmings!
JEmlay