The trend for steadily increasing variants of the iconic NES controller is approaching critical mass, as Dutch students have just set a new record for the largest functioning game controller with an NES pad measuring nearly four metres wide.
The pad measures 3.6 metres by 1.6 metres, which is around 11.8 feet by 5.2 feet, which hardly makes it ideal for living room play. In fact, the controller is so enormous it's only possible to play with your feet, stamping up and down on the buttons enough to turn any game into an 8-bit Wii Fit-style workout.
At least this enormous Mii would hold the controller quite comfortably, but what use is it without a functioning NES built to scale? Get to work, boffins.
[source tweakers.net]
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dude. awesome.
upload more pictures please!
This is awesome. I always wanted to build a giant NES arcade controller, but this monster, while awesome, is beyond impractical. If only I had an old school desk, I would retrofit it into an NES controller using arcade joystick and buttons. Then add a flat panel monitor and put the NES inside it. That would be ideal for me.
"NEStalgia"... I get it!
Looks great, though...
It would be great for an event. For example two people could play the first stage of Super Mario Bros. (3 maybe too) by jumping on the directional pad and A.
Or forget about SMB. Five people for Tetris would look sweet and sure be fun.
Edit: Somehow all my thoughts revive around a ginormous guitar controller now.
boffins, lol
and as always the question is, will it blend?
No, I think you forgot the XBox 1 controller.
i want one of those
Awesome! I'd love to make that the wall in my bedroom. <3
Who says you won't be able to play Track & Field with just an NES pad
I just hope my rapid foot is as fast as my rapid thumb :s
That's pretty huge, although it'd still take up less room than Kinect.
"What a handsome chap."
And so modest. Hey, did your hair grow out a little?
@7 lol
Saw this on the news the other day. Really cool!
I believe "NEStalgia" is an actual online MMORPG.
Its like the Xbox controller all over again
now you're playing with POWER!!!
LOL, that's nice!
Groovy! & Large!
a little big
Cool! Dutch people for the win (I am one myself)!
wow
That is kinda of cool. Even though the controller is useless. That original NES controller has become iconic. Almost the symbol of Nintendo.
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