Tag: NES
I Want This: NES Controller Car Engine Inside A 1989 Honda Civic
If you're a fan of the retro video games from the '80s, you will always remember the NES controller. I still have mine, and every time I look at it, that nostalgic feeling rushes over me. We've written dozens of articles about Nintendo mods and builds, but this is the first time I've seen one like t ...
Retro Geek Paradise: Your Own NES Living Room Design
You know we are retro geeks here at Bit Rebels, and we love writing about anything that takes us back to the days of the NES. That was a special era, and if you are an NES fan too, you know what I mean. But how big of a fan are you? How far would you go to show the world that you haven't forgotten a ...
Functional Wooden NES Controller Coffee Table Available For $3,700
There have been quite a few magnificently geeky coffee tables created over the years. We have featured a load of them here on Bit Rebels. They are usually made to connect with the Nintendo NES console. It's like everyone wants to add their own little gadget to this legendary retro game console. It's ...
5 Bars Of Soap Designed To Keep Gaming Geeks Smelling Goooood
If you're a gamer who likes to stay locked up inside your house in your own world on the weekends with a bag of Doritos, a six-pack of Coke, and a controller in your hand, you might not be smelling your best by the end of it all. If you have a hard time breaking away from the games on the computer, ...
LEGO Controller For Nintendo NES That Actually Works
The creativity of LEGO builders has always immensely impressed me. Their ability to create things out of blocks that actually work sometimes borders on the insane. I mean, how on earth are you able to take all the intricate technology in a gadget and convert it into an analog system? It's beyond me ...
Creative Post-It Notes Now As Nintendo NES Cartridges
There are few things in the world that have greatly impacted our lives and yet been such an easy concept. Post-It notes are one of those things. It's a simple and straight forward solution to a problem that many people have. Solutions like these are always widely appreciated and successful. And boy ...
Nintendo NES Controller Mug For The Epically True Geek
Geeks have their own ways of geekifying their offices and cubicles. Some geeks just get a customized coffee mug, while others go all out and seemingly redecorate the whole room with geeky stuff. It's always important to keep a personal touch in your office since we spend more than 40 hours a week in ...
Nintendo Console Steampunk Build Turns Gaming Into Epic
There is no more satisfying gaming experience than being able to play games on a maxed out custom built computer. When you have more processor speed than you could ever need, you know you are about to kick some butt. But building your own computer by collecting the most powerful parts available does ...
Mechanical Gaming Now Available For Donkey Kong Fans
Do you remember the first time you played Donkey Kong on one of those handheld monochrome things you could get as a child in the early '80s? They had pre-etched characters positioned on the LCD screen, which made it look like your character was actually moving, jumping and climbing ladders. It was a ...
The Toaster NES Mod: Suddenly Mornings Are Way Better
If you have an NES sitting around your house, it's probably collecting dust underneath the bed or on the top shelf of your bedroom closet, right? It's definitely one of those things you can't get rid of, even though it was replaced long ago with a fancier, flashier console. For those of us who grew ...
Etch-A-Sketch Belt Buckle Provides A Different Kind Of Fun
My theory is - Why carry something around in your hands if you can attach it to your body in another way? It makes sense to me. This Etch-A-Sketch belt buckle was created with that in mind, and I could totally get into this. My only question is, if your friend wants to play with it, doesn't that mea ...
Design Inspiration: Brilliant Metroid & Ninja Turtle Nintendo Mods
I can't get enough of creative NES mods. I've written about so many of them, and they just never get old. Each one is as fun as the next, and even though I love my classic NES, it's starting to look a little boring after seeing some of the designs and mods that people have created and shared with th ...
NES Controlled Etch A Sketch Pad Is Doubled Up Retro
As a kid, I had one of those Etch A Sketch toys that I frantically tried to master. It didn't go too well, and now that I look on YouTube and see what can only be described as out-of-this-world Etch A Sketch skills, I am wondering if I even had fingers at all when I was a kid. I mean, the art some o ...
This Geeky Kickass NES Mod Makes Me Hot & Heavy
Is it weird that I get so excited over a well-done, glossy, geeky NES mod? I hope not. We see a lot of these mods, but rarely are they as nicely done as this. The last time I saw an NES mod that was this cool was the one that was turned into a fabulous to-die-for lunchbox. If you want to see that on ...
The NES Lunchbox Mod For Hungry Retro Geeks
I have so much to say about this. I don't even know where to start. I absolutely love this NES mod, and I truly think it's brilliant. This is better than a lunchbox available in any store in the whole world; I'm definitely convinced of that. However, when I think about taking my own NES and making s ...