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Takeshi's Challenge translated →

Incredible! Takeshi’s Challenge, the impossible NES game designed, as the story goes, as a cruel prank on gamers by Takeshi Kitano, has been translated by KingMike. The ROM patch changes the text, and swaps out the graphics (like the title screen, above).

I have the Famicom game, but have never been able to make much sense of it. This translation patch should help, but I wouldn’t go so far as to expect the game to be easy. I still have to sing karaoke, for example.

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Commercial for the “Reggie’s Entertainment System,” a Famiclone sold in South African “Reggie’s” toy stores. HG101’s John Szczepaniak rescued this ad and its following Disneyana from an old VHS tape.

The ad features footage of Castlevania II (being played poorly), which suggests that it was released on Famicom-style cartridge for the Reggie’s system. Szczepaniak notes that Castlevania II was never officially released on Famicom, only Disk System, making the unlicensed, small-cartridge Reggie’s version a rarity.

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tags / famicom / nes / famiclone / reggies entertainment system / jc / gaming

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“Final Fantazoo” and “Dragen Quest” cartridges in Gintama, an anime I’ve only just now heard of, and I guess I’m going to have to start watching. I mean, I have no idea what it’s about or anything, but …

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[Via Nemicon]

tags / anime / famicom / gaming / gintama / jc / anime

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Famicom-inspired Nintendo 3DS mock-up. Though there was a Famicom edition of the Game Boy Micro and GBA SP, we never got an official red and white design for the DS line (there was at least one fanmade DS Lite mod and Famicom cartridge-style DSi shells at least).

Perhaps Nintendo will make this happen in 2013, the 30-year anniversary of the Famicom’s Japanese release? Or maybe this is something you can assemble yourself with parts from Flame Red and Ice White 3DSes?

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[Via Jin115]

tags / famicom / gaming / mockup / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / ec

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Game systems and erotica left strewn about inside abandoned homes in Japanese ghost town Nichitsu — shot by Hector Garcia, Carlos Donderis, and Ikusuki.

“The town sprung up because of a nearby mine that produced gold around the year 1600 and later iron and zinc. In 1937 the mines were bought by ‘Nichitsu Corporation’ and thus the name of the town. Around 1978 the workers and their families started to abandon the place because the mines were depleting and were not profitable anymore.”

Other items found in these Nichitsu homes: old televisions, vintage records, forgotten rice cookers, rusty surgical instruments, family photos, children’s dolls still waiting on their owners’ beds, and sickles stuck in door frames — it’s very Fatal Frame-esque!

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[Via Kirai]

tags / ec / erotica / famicom / gaming / nichitsu / sega saturn / ghost town / erotica

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Title screen for Shinjuku Central Park Murder Mystery, the first Jake Hunter/Tantei Jingūji Saburō game released on Famicom Disk. God damn, Jake Hunter is such a boss.

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tags / jake hunter / shinjuku central park murder mystery / gaming / famicom / title screen / data east / ec

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Robocop III Famicom cartridge, in which a veteran Tokyo police officer is brutally murdered by a gang of criminals, and brought back to life as a Special Rescue Command Solbrain robot. Well, not really. This is probably just a bootleg for Natsume’s modified version of Shatterhand.

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tags / famicom / bootleg / cartridge / gaming / nintendo / nes / imports / Special Rescue Command Solbrain / ec / shatterhand

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Japan’s new Prime Minister announces 3DS Ambassador Famicom games [UPDATE]

Tokyo — As his first act in office, Japan’s newly installed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda selected the Famicom games that will be offered through his country’s 3DS Ambassador program, including his namesake, 8-bit puzzler Yoshi’s Egg (previously unrevealed titles in bold):

Super Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong Jr.
Balloon Fight
Ice Climber
The Legend of Zelda
Wrecking Crew
Mario Open Golf (or NES Open Tournament Golf in the U.S.)
Yoshi’s Egg (or Yoshi in the U.S.)
Metroid
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

[Update: After hours of negotiation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a press briefing this afternoon to confirm that 3DS Ambassadors in North America will receive the same Famicom/NES titles].

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Speaking of the Famicom, here’s a DuckTales cartridge for the 8-bit system! Scrooge McDuck isn’t looking like himself here… Maybe it’s the missing top hat and cane.

Obviously, this is a bootleg — there’s even a version someone found with a yellow cart and a blue-tinted label (perhaps a printing error, increasing its collector value?)

Not pony tales or cotton tales. No, DuckTales.

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Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 synthesizer hooked up to a Famicom by Kuske of Kplecraft. I’m not going to pretend that I know how this works…

The OP-1 looks like a really cool/useful device, with built-in 4-track recording, an OLED display, and a 16-hour battery. And it can evidently interface with Famicom hardware, for chiptuners. Again, I don’t really know what’s going on or how, so maybe if you’re like me you can just enjoy the song in this video.

[Update: As some of our commentors point out, the two devices aren’t hoked up at all, and Kuske is just playing on the OP-1 along with music from the Famicom.]

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tags / chiptunes / jc / kplecraft / op-1 / famicom / gaming

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Our Famicase 2011 favorites

We’ve already featured our own contribution, with art by Ashley Davis, to this year’s My Famicase Exhibition, Meteor’s annual art show highlighting game cartridge designs invented by artists worldwide.

Having gotten that out of the way (okay, one more time: check out our design, Meteor Night!), Eric and I picked some of our favorite cartridges from the exhibit. See them, and why we liked them, after the break — then look at the full exhibit and tell us your favorites!

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tags / gaming / my famicase exhibition / famicase / famicom / imports / ec / jc

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My Famicase Tease: wall of custom Famicom carts on display at Japanese video game culture shop Meteor.

My Famicase Exhibition, the annual show featuring cartridge designs for game concepts created by artists around the world, opened in Tokyo today. The pieces aren’t available to admire online yet, but folks who have visited the gallery are posting photos from the exhibit.

If you look closely at the shot above, you can sort of see a tiny design for a cartridge sent in by a very special blog. Here’s the list of this year’s contributors, by the way.

[Image via @kmpt]

tags / gaming / famicom / my famicase exhibition / meteor / famicase / ashley davis / ec

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