We suspect that many reading these pages have a good-old NES in their house, perhaps gathering dust as a treasured heirloom for future generations. Of course, some might still play their 8-bit system on a regular basis, or perhaps find another use for the iconic hardware.
YouTuber Scotland Symons, who has shared a handful of videos that include a guitar that has a functioning flamethrower, decided to take her old NES and turn it into an electric guitar. What starts off as a random task turns into a cool result after two hours, and Symons is clearly delighted with the result.
It's neat to see it come together, and it seems we'll see more of the NES guitar in future - for reference there's one swear word at the start of this video, so don't say we didn't let you know...
It's always fun seeing projects like these come together, and it's certainly a unique use for an old NES. If someone makes a giant piano out of old Game Boys we could have the world's quirkiest band on the horizon; obviously the DK Bongos have percussion covered.
[source youtube.com, via reddit.com]
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It looks so comfortable to hold.
..ha ha, nice..now I know what to use my old Guitar Hero parts for..
@SH007ME
Yeah the Christian music artist David Crowder has used a custom, functioning Guitar Hero guitar in concert before. Pretty cool!
**edit** Well, more like a MIDI controller but still functional as an instrument.
maybe a famicon guitar would look cool, but that looks like nothing.
@rdrunner1178
..really?..that is cool...sh007, every time I think of something good, it's already been done..oo look Rock Band parts, hmmm..
I'm gushing over the idea of hooking this up with an 8-bit plugin.
Not big on this whole "use retro videogaming items of which there are a limited quantity of for my art project" thing.
@EXP Same here, what a waste.
I would pay to see a band perform with Nintendo systems/peripherals. I would pay real, hard cash to make that come true.
That poor NES.
BLASPHEMY!
This is just wrong, ruining such a vintage classic console and turning it into non-nessesary supposedly music instrument that lets be realistic about no body will play,
What a waste
Sad part is, the article doesn't even question it. I mean come on, why are you destroying a 30 year old collectable that is in demand right now, and isn't being produced anymore. This isn't cool, or art. This is just a lazy attempt at grabbing attention. If you want to make something cool as art... Then make it yourself. People make beautiful giant NES coffee tables or bed spreads. You are not paying tribute, you are destroying our culture. Why would you promote and give free publicity to this NL?
Terrible waste of a classic console! Awful.
Wow... Just finished watching the video. She literally just hacked up an nes and bolted guitar parts onto it. What about this is worth posting to NL? Anyone with no skill what so ever can do this. She didn't do any cool Ben Heck style mods, or Incorporated the original circuitry or anything.
I'm going to bolt a handle to my nes, and slide a sandwich in the game slot, and call it the nes lunchbox. Will you publish a story and post my video NL?
Sorry NL, I love you guys, but this post sucks..
I rather doubt this guitar would sound very good - I mean it's a plastic box. A sound comparison of the guitar itself and the NES guitar would have been good. It is a pretty cool project though; especially if she incorporates the amp so you guys should keep an eye out for a follow-up.
What a waste of an NES.
It's her NES, she can do what she likes with it! We also can't assume it was still functional either.
Anyway, I'm not against re-using unused stuff for projects, but I guess I'm in a minority on that. It's all just opinion after all.
@Moon last time I said something like this I got someone telling me I was being pathetic but I agree these shouldn't be used for this sort if thing, and is it just st me or did you wanna see it actually working
@Moon last time I said something like this I got someone telling me I was being pathetic but I agree these shouldn't be used for this sort if thing, and is it just st me or did you wanna see it actually working
@wolvesboy I didn't watch the full video, but as a musician myself I know this wouldn't sound any good. It's purely to be 'cool and retro' or whatever, but it isn't. If she doesn't show it working it's probably because it doesn't work and/or it's completely naff and she knows it!
I would not use mine to do that, I shall preserve mine intact
Disrespecting an Icon classic machine should be a collectors item.
Hey at least she's keeping it out of a landfill!
i would never destroy a NES to do that.
Booooring.
I thought she would use the NES's internal circuitry to make an e-guitar out of it. Now that would've been cool.
But just using the housing, well that's something anyone can do.
@ThomasBW84 Exactly.
Just because it's a collectors item doesn't seem it somehow rightfully belongs to all collectors. It belongs to its owner, who is pretty much at liberty to do whatever they like with it.
I'm perfectly free to use my GameBoy as a chopping board if I want to. I bought it. I held onto it. I still own it. But as it turns out, I don't want to. Most people don't want to. Which is why GameBoys are probably not at any great risk from being wiped out by the overzealous arts and crafts movement.
It might be slightly uncomfortable watching something that only exists in a limited (if quite large) quantity get hacked to pieces, but I don't think it's something to get too stroppy or moralistic about.
My biggest complaint is that we didn't actually get to hear it played.
@TossedLlama Not to mention, the string tension is sure to destroy that case pretty quick, especially since she put the bridge right on the vents. Didn't watch the video to see if she put any kind of bracing on the inside.
Not sure if this is the same one I saw at MAGFest this year, which some dude bought for $300, but that one sounded rather decent considering the NES base. It was pretty awesome.
You people are too negative.
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