Legend of Zelda NES Case Mod w/bonus Video

Made by Ryan Fitzpatrick (aka “Platinumfungi,”)

Legend of Zelda Cufflinks - Wait.. Listen!

There was a time where i would do anything to have these. I would sell a child, deal drugs, or have sex with old ladies. Really old ladies. Okay maybe i would not sell a child...

Buy them here. Be quick, time is of the essence!

World's Record NES Controller

The massive controller measures approximately 12ft (w) x 5 ft (d) 3 in x 1ft 8 in (h), and weighs in at a whopping 265 pounds. It was built by Ben Allen, along with Stephen van ‘t Hof and Michel Verhulst.
The controller cost over $6,000 (USD) to construct, and yes – it does play games. The thing is so big that it takes at least two people to play a game with it, as the armspan required to use the D-Pad at the same time as the A/B buttons is too wide for even the likes of Yao Ming. Hence, my comment about Co-Op mode in the title above.

Super Mario, 8 minute speed run, only 600 points

Not in the habit of posting speed runs all the time, but this one was different. Only 600 points?

The Legend of Zelda/The Birth of a Gamer

I was six when I started playing The Legend of Zelda. It was the most amazing game I’ve ever played and remains so to this day. I remember looking through all my uncle’s old games. There was the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt combo that I figured I had mastered because I could beat the Dinosaur at the end; also I cheated at Duck Hunt by holding the gun really close to the TV. There was Tetris, which looked like a terrible game that had to do with math or puzzles or something that my teacher would want me to play. There was Donkey Kong which lost its appeal precisely four levels in after I realized that it was the same three levels over and over again…only more difficult each time. I was an aged master of all these games by seven. I even started playing Tetris. (This was purely for the outrageous cartoon sequence at the end with the crazy shaped rockets)

Then one day a friend of mine brought over a Nintendo game that was gold…GOLD!! I was pretty sure it contained actual magic (a fact that has yet to be disproven). There was a problem though. My friend said that it was broken. His logic was that something had to be wrong because when he pushed the “A” button he couldn’t jump on the monsters and whenever he tried he would end up losing hearts and dying. Also there were these things called rupees (obviously misspelled and green instead of red) which were a terrible rip-off of Mario’s coins, except that there were only a few of them in the whole game. Whoever this ‘Zelda’ person was, he obviously couldn’t hold a candle to Mario. (No pun intended.)

Being the logical problem solver I was in my youth, I took a scientific approach to the game. My friend and I wandered endlessly trying every button combination we could think of; dedicated to ridding the in-game world of these pesky jumping spiders, blue goombas, red goombas, and even the dreaded sumo-pigknights with spears. We enjoyed ourselves, but failed utterly at our goal for about 2 months which, by a six-year-olds count, is about 12 years. We were about to give up when we had an epiphany that went something like this:

“Hey, what’s that black spot at the beginning of the game in the huge green thing?”

“Not sure, probably a glitch like when you dropped your Double Dragon 2 in the puddle outside the house and it made everything really blurry…”

“No I don’t think it is”

“Well what is it then?”

“I don’t know. I’m gonna walk over by it.”

Suddenly we went walked down some previously hidden stairs into black chamber. We had seen this before, and were prepared for yet another dungeon to run through until we inevitably died. This time it was different though. There was a man. A sword was in front of him.

Now, yesterday I held off a double six pool zergling rush with my army of two well-placed pylons, three zealots and two spare probes to the thrill of my 2v2 teammate who gleefully giggled as his mutalisk rush simultaneously decimated the home bases of the unprepared Silver League, Rank 2, Zerg players. The day before, I shot 43 cowboys dead in an expert targeting mode, Miners vs. Lawmen, free for all shootout, much to the chagrin of the French players who got second and third and wasted no time in cursing me out in their best English. Last week, my 10^th level subtlety rogue and I set foot in Westfall for the first time ever and immediately Shadowstepping behind an enemy using Ambush to kill it in one shot, only to loot it and find a ring that gives plus three to both stamina AND agility!

None of those amazing gaming experiences can even hold a match to the elation of finally, after two months of devout playing and searching, discovering the sword in Zelda. With those four notes of ultimate discovery, the gaming world made sense. We eventually beat Zelda over the course of the next three or four years. It was really, really difficult, and because of that just as rewarding. No gaming experience will ever match the power held within the Gold Cartridge. It’s truly a piece of the Tri-force itself.

Major Asselin VS The Angry Video Game Nerd

Long before the Angry Video Game nerd did his Powerglove article, i had been making fun of it, writing articles about NES games, making short films and so on. Yeah, I'm a little bitter about it.

Here is the original post.
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Here is the angry video game (nes nerd at the time) nerd's movie about it.

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At the time, my video game man cave could have rivaled his own, since then he has made his so glorious i could never think of catching up. That, and i sold the whole collection last year when i downsized. Pictures are on snakepeople.net of the old collection if your interested.

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Scroll down to 2002, around September, and you will see Chrys ranting about the glove again. Orginally we made a movie of Matt Clifton trying to beat random NES and getting frustrated because the thing could not work. The video has since been lost, but I'd say around then we made the movie and just never did anything clever with it. If i posted it, i can't find it.

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We started with Castlevania, in which simon does nothing but duck. I integrated some of the videos we made of that into the Castlevania page i made for snakepeople.net, sometime in 2002. Located here. Didnt mean to bore ya guys, just thought it was interesting. Love live the Nerd.

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Gradius for the NES has offcially been PwNEd!@&

I feel that this movie meant the whole summer i spent with Eric Ross in his living room trying to beat this godforsaken game means nothing now.

If i cry, its because when i blew in the game some 80's dust got in my eye.

NES Things that make me crap my pants.

And... make a pants-baby.

Horse The Band - Lord Gold's Throneroom

Nerd-core.

Newcomer: RYU HYABUSA

YES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES.

Now your sleeping with power!

Buy me this because I won't shut the fuck up until you do.

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Dragon Warrior - The Cartoon Series (Wtf?)

Dragon Warrior is a crazy popular NES games, called Dragon Quest in Japan. Of course there was a cartoon series aired briefly in america based on a popular manga by the same name! For shame.

Toned waaaay back for american audiences and labled G, the show bombed in america and no one really watched it. For NES players like myself, this show ranked right up there with Super Mario Bros. Super show, and The Legend of Zelda Cartoon. Oh, and when i mean toned back, check out the Japanese Intro: (Did i see brains and ass?)

Epic: Tron Themed NES Console

I'm hot on TR2N right now if you didnt get that yet. Looking forward to the movie? Yeah me too, but until then we have oddities like the TronNes featured above. More info in the video below.