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By Royal Decree, The Food Of My Kingdom Is Now Hot Pockets!

Adam Frucci — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:45:19 +0000

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.

[Erick Kwiecien via Make]

The GAME-800: A Fatty Pocket Emulator

Mark Wilson — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:19:00 +0000

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.

Emulating NES/Famicom, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Super Famicom and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis titles, the GAME-800 is a crudely controlled but effective looking pocket emulator with a 3.5-inch screen and 4GB of expandable storage. It also doubles as an MPEG4 player, eBook reader (with Chinese/English text to speech) and a low fidelity camera.

The GAME-800 is available now for an $US80 import. [China Grabber via technabob]

Famicase Exhibition Fuses Yesterday’s Famicom Cartridges With Today’s Curious Artistic Minds

Jack Loftus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0000

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!

[Famicase via Technabob]

Nintendo Famicom Business Card Holders Combine Your Idealistic Childhood With Your Sellout Adulthood

Jason Chen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:00 +0000

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]

Coin-Op NES Requires Serious Magic Fingers

Mark Wilson — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:20:00 +0000

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.

With the more advanced Super Famicom, players only scored 5 minutes for 100 yen—or not quite long enough to meet Yoshi in Super Mario World. So the next time we stay at the Four Seasons, the concierge can anticipate our request (a coin-op SNES with an unlimited stack of quarters…along with our standard hooker suspended in a giant mold of green Jello). [Business Use Home Consoles via Kotaku]

Play Famicom Cartridges on Your DS With CYBER Familator Lite

Adrian Covert — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:07:57 +0000

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]

Nintendo’s finally ending their support (read: …

Jason Chen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:20:46 +0000

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]

Mini Golfing Mario & Luigi Set Sets Kotaku Up for More Humiliation

Haroon Malik — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:40:00 +0000

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.Each 3″ tall character requires two AAA batteries to function and the set costs $24.99. I see another Gizmodo vs. Kotaku championship on the horizon—once they get over the shock of a thorough big daddy spanking, of course. [Product Page via Ubergizmo]

Super Famicom/PlayStation Prototype?

Seamus Byrne — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:37:31 +0000

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

Nintendo Famicom Voice Recorder

Seamus Byrne — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:00:05 +0000

Most of you won’t be familiar with this Famicom-styled voice recorder since the US got a differently styled NES controller, but for people who grew up in Asia in the ’80s this will feel right at home. The voice recorder features a volume slider, a place to shove two AAA batteries, and a couple of buttons that aren’t labeled well.

If you’re into getting all retro when you conduct your interview with the Prime Minister of Japan, this is the way to go. â€“ Jason Chen

Product Page [Play Asia via Gadget ~~Madness~~ Sparta]