Man makes table-sized NES controller, complains about mug-marks
Don't spill your tea here
A Nintendo nerd has built a giant coffee table that doubles up as a working controller for the retro NES console.
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?
COMMENTS
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?
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...
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?
Big table computers, big nintendo controller...what next?
How about a house in the shape of a big console?
He could've got the wife/girly to tidy up the living room first before making the film though.
Paris, because she likes a man who knows how to work his wood.
