What modern games would look like if they were released on the nes.

mousevomit :: Nintendo Entertainment System Mouse.

Like me you probably ask your self all the time “What the hell does my NES Zapper look like when x-rayed?” Well now you can find out that and what a lot more controllers look like on Reintji’s flicker page.

X-Ray Funnies – a set on Flickr.

Steve Wiebe, famed King of Kong underdog, just got 500 more pounds of incentive.

UGO is reporting that Stride Gum is offering the one-time Donkey Kong champ $10,001 in quarter if he’s able to beat Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high score. The current score sits at 1,050,200.

via Kotaku

Lifehacker reader Orioto stunned us a few months ago with his gorgeous paintings of classic video games for your desktop—and he’s at it again with another must-see collection for your eye-candy needs.

via Lifehacker

We see tons of casemods, but the NES holds a special place in our hearts and memories, so anything in the black-redish orange-gray combo catches our eye pretty easily. The nesPod — the fine work of flickr user recycledgamer — is made of a gutted NES controller and an iPod mini circa 2004-2005.

via engadget.

via The 10 Worst Video Game Systems of All Time – Network World.

via YouTube – 1989 Nintendo Cereal System commercial.

Video game systems may be toys of a sort, but they’re also complicated machines. They require precision engineering, specialized hardware design, and careful industrial design to successfully achieve what seems like a simple goal: to play games on a television set. Throughout the history of home game consoles, each generation of machines has brought new opportunities to innovate. Along the way, companies have often slipped up and made mistakes that came back to haunt them later–some of which were so serious that they helped to destroy platforms and even entire corporations.

via Fifteen Classic Game Console Design Mistakes | Technologizer.