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A Nintendo nerd has built a giant coffee table that doubles up as a working controller for the retro NES console.

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The working NES controller coffee table: pointless?

Australian Nintendo/woodwork enthusiast Kyle Downes has described the whole process of making his giant NES coffee table in his blog.

From a top-down view, the table looks and functions just like the real life controller – although with the obvious disadvantage of having to use a whole palm to press down each button, rather than just your thumb.

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Downes hasn’t said much about how he hooked up the table to actually control his NES, but a video posted onto YouTube appears to show the giant controller able to replicate everything that the palm-sized model does.

The coffee table’s huge controller pad surface also lifts up to reveal a storage area for, well presumably, NES game cartridges. Whatever next, a Wii Remote sofa?

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Is bigger better?

Combine that with a jDome (http://jdome.com/) and you've either got gamer paradise or a recipe for disaster!

Surely it's harder to play on such a big controller?

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Let's be honest.

The 'worlds largest NES controller' (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simqlREvRH4) doesn't have a girl in the vid.

Which probably explains why you posted story instead, no?

Paris because {joypad/stick : wood : press : buttons : biggest : play } etc...

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What next?

A coffee table/Wiimote that gives the user a hernia when he/she tries to wave it around?

A steering wheel big enough for someone to run around in?

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