famicom
Design
By Royal Decree, The Food Of My Kingdom Is Now Hot Pockets!
6:45AM Adam Frucci | This is a 2m tall throne made entirely of Famicom (NES) cartridges. Whoever sits in it becomes king for the day of the fantastical realm of Sadtopia. More »
Games
The GAME-800: A Fatty Pocket Emulator
6:19AM Mark Wilson | The GAME-800 is just another one of those direct from manufacturer PMP all-in-one pocket devices. And maybe it’s just because I was a corpulent kid, but I find the design quite charming. More »
Games
Famicase Exhibition Fuses Yesterday’s Famicom Cartridges With Today’s Curious Artistic Minds
11:00AM Jack Loftus | Rounding out our Nintendo news trifecta today is the annual Famicase art exhibition. It’s like many other art exhibitions from around the world, made infinitely cooler by the fact that the artwork is comprised of imaginary games pasted to old 8-bit Famicom carts. More than 50 designers, illustrators and authors contributed to event this year, which is organised by Super Meteor game shop owner Satoshi Sagagami. Some are crazier than others, but all have a home in this Nintendo lover’s heart. Personal favourite? Overly promiscuous R.O.B.–now we know what he’s been up to all these years! More »
Games
Nintendo Famicom Business Card Holders Combine Your Idealistic Childhood With Your Sellout Adulthood
8:30AM Jason Chen | What better way to bring your childhood into the present with these Nintendo Famicom business card holders. Your US$8.80 will get you one random cartridge or controller, which may or may not be that really horrible knockoff one made by that one lousy company in the mid ’80s. We’re looking at you, Ice Climber. If you’re lucky, you’ll get Zelda, Ballon Fight, or Mario instead. [GameAsylum via Nerd Approved] More »
Games
Coin-Op NES Requires Serious Magic Fingers
11:20PM Mark Wilson | While a slew of hotels feature sad, generic video game controllers ready to play whatever crappy IP-streaming games the chain may offer, many Japanese hotels were once stocked with these coin-op Famicom (NES) systems. A 100 yen coin would buy you 10-15 minutes of play, which is a pretty great deal compared to the mini bar or, uhh, “video on demand” services. To check out the Super Famicom (SNES), hit the jump. More »
Gadgets
Play Famicom Cartridges on Your DS With CYBER Familator Lite
4:07PM Adrian Covert | The CYBER Familator Lite is an Akihabara-esque gizmo that snaps onto your DS Lite and lets you play old Famicom cartridges on your DS screen (If you can hunt down an adapter, you can play NES games as well). I think we should forget the Familator Lite is bigger than the DS, and that an emulator can do the same thing, because you get real 8-bit goodness on your DS. It’s like drinking Coke in a glass bottle – it just tastes better. The CYBER Familator Lite is expected to surface in Japan next month. [CYBER Gadget via DS Fanboy via Technabob] More »
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Nintendo’s finally ending their support (read: …
4:20AM Jason Chen | Nintendo’s finally ending their support (read: repair) of the Nintendo Famicom (NES), as well as the Super Famicom, the N64, the Gameboy and the Gameboy Pocket in Japan. You’ll have to play those games on an emulator like the rest of us who moved past the ’90s. [itmedia via Arcade Renaissance via Kotaku] More »
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Mini Golfing Mario & Luigi Set Sets Kotaku Up for More Humiliation
6:40AM Haroon Malik | It appears the fat and thin plumbers are taking time out from saving the princess named after a furry fruit, and what better way to relax than with a round of golf? The Mini Golfing Mario & Luigi set includes both Mario & Luigi plastic figures connected to a Famicom controller. The A and B buttons articulate the swinging motion, and the others have no use but to make the controllers look pretty. More »
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Super Famicom/PlayStation Prototype?
4:37AM Seamus Byrne | For those of you with short memories, Sony and Nintendo were working together in the mid ’90s on a CD-based Nintendo console when negotiations fell apart and both Japanese companies went their separate ways. Sony with the PlayStation and Nintendo with the N64—and we all know what happened since. This console posted on game-rave is supposedly a prototype of the PlayStation/Super Famicom unit. They claim it’s real, but whether or not Sony and Nintendo actually got to the point where they made prototypes is unclear. Still, this seems like an interesting box and gives us a chance to stroll down memory lane. Ahh, look, there’s the house of noogies to your right. – Jason Chen Game Rave More »
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