Snowspeeder SNES and TIE Fighter N64 by CorellianCustoms. If you’re in the market for a Nintendo game system that is also a tiny sci-fi vehicle, both of these impressive items are for sale on CorellianCustoms’ Etsy shop.
Maybe the next project will be an original Xbox inside a Death Star model. If it would fit. That’s right, I went there. The Xbox is big. Edgy circa-2001 humor!
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more
See also: More 3DS news and media, more Etsy stuff
tags / etsy / gaming / jc / n64 / retro / snes / star warsSuper Famicom “Game Doctor” devices. These devices are meant for nefarious, swashbuckling purposes, allowing you to copy SNES games to, and then play from, 3.5” floppies. They’re still piratey now, of course, but I think the vintage of the system and the devices makes them more “cool old things” than “items you should feel like a jerk for owning.” I really like these crummy logos and the super utilitarian, gray-box product design.
Speaking of owning them, I found these four on eBay during a random search: the Game Doctor 7, Game Doctor UFO, Game Doctor III, and Game Doctor VI.
Buy: SNES system, games
See also: More eBay stuff, Z64 backup unit
tags / ebay / game doctor / jc / piracy / snes / gaming
Custom painted Mega Man Super Nintendo at New York Comic Con (click for a larger image). That’s a pretty neat system, but $75? I think I’d rather have a Mini SNES…
Speaking of the blue guy and SNES, did you guys see this video for Mega Man X’s “unused map editor”?
Buy: Mega Man stuff
See also: Customized SNES, NES, & Mega Drive
[Via Joey]
tags / comic con / snes / paint / mega man / capcom / ec / customMock-ups of Classic Controllers skinned after classic consoles. That NES concept is a bit rough, but the SNES/SFC designs are aces — I might want one of those over Club Nintendo’s official SFC Classic Controller.
Buy: Wii Classic Controllers/Pro
See also: “Wii Vintage Mod Concept II”
[Via Rob Accomondo]
tags / classic controller / famicom / super famicom / snes / nes / fanart / rob accomondoSNES Boy by NeX. This mod, as its name suggests, stuffs a car’s in-dash screen and parts from a Japanese Super Famicom Jr. into a Game Boy, all powered by a 4.8v rechargeable battery. The hacked portable still uses the Game Boy’s original controls, amplifier, regulator board, volume control, power switch, and speaker.
Though the handheld only has two buttons, you can still play a few SNES/SFC games like Bomberman and R-Type without any problems, and NeX added an adapter so you can plug up to two SNES controllers into the back. Insane! And he hasn’t even finished working on it yet!
See also: Game Boy modified to play GBA/GBC/GB carts, Dreamcast Boombox by XCKDIY
[Via TCTD]
tags / game boy / snes / super famicom jr / super famicom / mods / nex / ec
X-Terminator adapter. This device allows a PAL SNES to play games from other regions — the different TV standards make this a lot harder than playing Japanese games on a US SNES and vice versa, which is completely a matter of cartridge shape.
I kind of get the “X” in the name — like “cross” for cross-region compatibility — but why is it an “X-Terminator”? What about this item has anything to do with killing? It’s… a pretty friendly device.
See also: More adapters! Make things go in other things!
[Via GameSniped]
tags / snes / adapter / jc / x-terminator / ebay
Tan Nuyen’s “Super” design turned into a shirt! Well, a shirt design submission that still needs votes before Threadless will actually print and sell the tee.
If you’ve been following this site for a while now — and much thanks to those who have — you’ll remember this Venn diagram of SNES buttons from when we posted it more than a year ago! And here it is now as something you can maybe one day wear.
While we’re following up on old artwork, remember that “Mario Brothers - BP Oil Edition” image we posted a few days ago? Reader Ro4ch created a sad video based on that screenshot, which you should check out.
See also: Patrick Prine’s “Friendliest Power-Up” shirt design submission to Threadless
tags / snes / super nintendo / tan nuyen / fanart / shirts / threadless / ecAdapters to play games from one thing on another thing! GameSniped’s Link spotted one eBay store, CheapGameStuff, that is simultaneously selling the following adapters:
I really want to get a TriStar and plug Game Genies/Game Sharks and games into every port. Just because.
The seller has multiple units of all of these, Some of the prices are tempting (like two bucks for that PlayStation Game Boy thing), while some are $150 (specifically, the TriStar).
[Via GameSniped; TriStar 64 image via About the TriStar 64]
tags / tristar / ebay / converter / adapter / jc / master gear / game gear / snes / nes / game boy / playstation / super 8 / tristar 64
Man, I don’t even know. Someone sent this in, and it’s too bizarre not to share: two Japanese dudes playing Super Smash TV (SNES) while running one of those embarrassing “virtual girls dancing/stripping on your desktop” apps.
Two videos after the break:
tags / super smash tv / snes / beam software / virtuagirlhd / nsfw / ecAmerican Battle Dome for Super Famicom, by Tsukuda Original. It looks pretty great as a video game — just a sort of four-player pinball thing, like a pinball version of Warlords or something.
It’s based on a real Crossfire-esque board game — which I’d never heard of, but looks completely badass. I assumed the board game never came out in Japan, hence the “American” in the Super Famicom title, but nope: the board game was released with the same title, with a cute little face on the top!
Later, in America, the Battle Dome was re-released as a Pokemon product. Confusingly, there were subsequent “Pokemon Battle Dome” toys that had nothing to do with it.
[Via @ma_sa_o]
tags / american battle dome / battle dome / jc / snes / imports / tsukuda original
Screenshot from Shadowrun’s handheld port. Well, this would be an image from a DS edition of Shadowrun if it weren’t April Fools’ Day. Or if FASA and Microsoft Game Studios didn’t produce that awful first-person shooter several years ago, which likely ruined any chances of future video game development for the series.
Pixel artist Ian MacLean, by the way, created the above mock-up. Here’s what a typical bar scene looked like in the original Shadowrun SNES game:
Oh, and I meant to link this months ago, but HG101’s Kurt Kalata tracked down Alien Earth, which is another Shadowrun-type release for PC from the Australian developer of the SNES game, Beam Software (which eventually turned into Krome Studios Melbourne). Unfortunately, it looks and plays like ass, but I’d never heard of Alien Earth until this article!
See also: Reasons To Return To Classic Shadowruns
[Via Ian McLean]
tags / shadowrun / snes / beam software / fanart / fasa / alien earth / ec
Early image of Cooly Skunk for SNES. If you ever wondered why the PlayStation platformer Punky Skunk looked so much like an SNES game (that is, if you’ve ever thought about Punky Skunk at all) — it was!
Unseen64 says that “The project was probably canned for the 16 bit system because of the new Playstation and Saturn consoles, that “killed” the SNES / Mega Drive (Genesis) market.” The game is a lot more interesting now that I’ve seen this unreleased version.
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