Thanks to Eric Ruth and his PixelForce NES “de-make” of Left 4 Dead, we now have an idea of what the zombie apocalypse simulator would have been like had it released in the ’80s. Valve is apparently aware of the project and finds the concept “hilarious.” Ruth reveals that he plans to release the full game as a free download in early January 2010 for PC. It features all the campaigns from the original game, including 8-bit incarnations of the special infected, for two players to play through — it is a NES game after all, fancy four-player didn’t exist.

via 8-bit Left 4 Dead leaves modernity behind.

The Nintendo 64 was Nintendo’s third home console and featured one of the most baffling controllers of all time.

via Nintendo 64 | Cracked.com.

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Video game systems may be toys of a sort, but they’re also complicated machines. They require precision engineering, specialized hardware design, and careful industrial design to successfully achieve what seems like a simple goal: to play games on a television set. Throughout the history of home game consoles, each generation of machines has brought new opportunities to innovate. Along the way, companies have often slipped up and made mistakes that came back to haunt them later–some of which were so serious that they helped to destroy platforms and even entire corporations.

via Fifteen Classic Game Console Design Mistakes | Technologizer.

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This is the ONLY full 30 second version on the internet! This is a commercial for the Nintendo Cereal System from Ralston-Purina in 1989.

via YouTube – 1989 Nintendo Cereal System commercial.

Truly Terrible Game Consoles: Since the appearance of the first video game console–the Magnavox Odyssey–in 1972, dozens of companies have tried their hands at crafting successful and lucrative game platforms.

via The 10 Worst Video Game Systems of All Time – Network World.

The NES Controller Type Card Case, to be exact, a ¥2,900 ($31) anodized aluminum folder with a pair of compartments within — one for your cards, and one for those you receive.

There are two designs, neither of which do more than the other. Each looks like an NES controller, but one has a fake mic and volume switch in addition to the fake D-Pad.

via Wired.com.