PROTO NES designs....Slight 56K warning

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PROTO NES designs....Slight 56K warning

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So there I was, surfing the interwebs when I came across these random images. It would seem that a lot of crazy ideas were tossed in there before the NES was released.

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I actually like the way this design looks...very sleek compaired to the box that went into production--Case mod anyone?
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Kinda of weird--a keyboard nintendo. Looks kinda like an old Apple II.
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Tape drive...ancestor of the modern console Hard drive...
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Hmmm...a drab famicom. For some odd reason, it makes me think of Star Wars. I like the colors better than the famicom tho :)
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So, the NES was originally going to be a toploader like it's japanese counterpart? Hm. Those controllers are reallly square, even the buttons! They actually kinda look like the Sega Master System controllers, don't they?
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Check out the original zapper gun--pretty sweet if you ask me!
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All in all, there were some very high-end ideas that went into the NES before the final product was put out. Many of the ideas put into it were way ahead of their time for a video game console, like built-in wireless controllers or a built-in memory for saving games and things (tape drive).

After looking at those old designs, I'd like to create a case for the NES that'd make it look like one of the precurser designs. I think that'd be pretty cool. I'd also like to make a light gun like how the original looked too, lol.
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Post by ChrisKoopa »

for the light gun you can kinda mod the power rangers blade blaster
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or maybe not idk
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