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That’s right folks… To be considered an artist paying homage to the video games of days gone by all you have to do is glue a NES pad to absolutely anything you damn well please! I mean, some bastard will blog about it!
Really, this has just about gone too far… Sure the NES pad is an iconic symbol of what the golden age of gaming used to be like, but give it a god damn rest! I’ve seen NES pads turned into optical mice, mp3 players, cappucino frothers and tazers.
Here’s your next project: How about you use the controller to play some games!
2176 days ago
[...] I’ve previously been linked up for showing off Andreas Weislander’s excellent Parappa the Rapper video, mentioning the world’s smallest Pong clone, featuring a video of two guys racing against one another in SMB and now this latest piece, in which I bollock on about the NES pad and its lazy application to practically anything you can think of in the name of art. [...]
2177 days ago
[...] Filed under: Culture, Retro Jonic over at Re:Retro provides some heated commentary on the latest example (pictured right) of the iconic NES pad being commandeered for use as art. [...]
2177 days ago
[...] Stick an NES Controller to Anything What would you do if you saw an NES Controller glued to a stop walk? It looks like people are now doing anything and everything with NES pads and it seems to be getting progressively lazier. [...]
If you look at some of the other photos in that Flikr account you’ll see that honest to god, this is just an NES pad GLUED TO A LIGHT POST. It hasn’t been modified so that its buttons work as the stoplight button, it’s just GLUED TO A FLAT SURFACE. There’s images of what look like the same NES control pad glued to other walls as well.
Decent amateur photography? Sure.
Art of any sort? Hell no.
I’m ok, gdgd.
@Gnome: Damn right someone had to tell them!
@Patrick: Are you ok? I don’t want you to injure yourself :o)
Muhahahahha, fell over fr chair
How perceptive dear Jonic. At last. Somebody had to tell them to stop.
You and I both know a lite wouldn’t last 30 seconds!!!
Although it would look a damn sight nicer, I’m not sure that ‘regular people’ are as familiar with the sight of DS as they are the original NES pad…
If the avant-garde artist places a Nintendo DS Lite, it’ll b nicer.