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Lostdwarf
06-19-2008, 09:05 AM
so when i was younger like 13ish i had this bed that wasn't level or somethign and i remember using nes cartridges to hold it up, in fact i still have the game i used it was Monopoly and it has a crack in it. Anyone else use nes cartridges for stange things?
mike
Yeah, when i was building my house a few years ago i was one breezeblock short, i didn't
want to buy a whole 300 brick bundle so looked around and caught the original xbox outa the corner of my eye....
incubus421
06-19-2008, 09:45 AM
Yeah, when i was building my house a few years ago i was one breezeblock short, i didn't
want to buy a whole 300 brick bundle so looked around and caught the original xbox outa the corner of my eye....
well, it's great that you actually found a use for that....thing.
skaar
06-19-2008, 10:07 AM
I snapped the leg off an Ikea dresser dragging it across carpet. For years the fourth leg on it was a NES. I even had the thing hooked up to the TV while it was under for awhile :)
mailman187666
06-19-2008, 10:13 AM
me and my buddies used to buy as many copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga as possible to use the disks for skeet shooting....yeah right. Actually believe it or not, I've always taken care of my games when I was younger the exact same way I do now. I think it would be awesome to make something out of common atari or nintendo cartridges though, maybe even a little mini case to hold some of my more valuable games inside.
SamuraiSmurfette
06-19-2008, 10:15 AM
I gutted a completely functional N64 to make into a kleenex dispenser. It gets alot more use now.
DarthKur
06-19-2008, 10:58 AM
I can't say that I have. I've always valued all of my games and equipment.
MrSparkle
06-19-2008, 12:02 PM
I definitely used to drag my nes zapper around to use as a toy gun. thing still works even after all kinds of outdoor shooting adventures.
Xian042
06-19-2008, 12:23 PM
I had some games stored at a friends house in his entertainment center. On top of the entertainment center was a big salt water fish tank. The tank leaked and a good stack of my uncommon PS1 games become encrusted in salt.
pooey
Push Upstairs
06-19-2008, 03:02 PM
I gutted a completely functional N64 to make into a kleenex dispenser. It gets alot more use now.
ROFL
http://usera.imagecave.com/Push_Upstairs/Misc_Pics/azuthumbs.gif
didn't own any games till i was 12 so was pretty good at keepin em ;p
Bandicat
06-19-2008, 09:57 PM
I've been using a Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge with a torn label as a coaster.
deltoidsteep
06-19-2008, 11:21 PM
a few months ago i gutted an nes and turned it into a clock for my girlfriend. its been one of her favourite systems since it came out
mr.soul
06-20-2008, 12:52 AM
I"ve never done anything like this but when I got my Dig Dug cartridge for 2600 there were numbers written all over the label, it looked like someone didn't have any scratch paper so they just wrote on it hahaha
TheDomesticInstitution
06-20-2008, 01:16 AM
Once I used a Bubble Bobble II manual as toilet paper.
SpaceHarrier
06-20-2008, 02:38 AM
I inadvertently used a Gameboy Pocket to prop my recliner up on the left side. The left arm was loose..Loose enough for a handheld to slide through the gap and land underneath the chair. In addition, the chair eventually broke off of its pivoting base. Ugh.. Not only was the screen cracked, but the plastic had been ground off of a copy of F-Zero X(which had also slid through), leaving the game almost unrecognizable. How did I not notice? Room was a disaster...
I always thought it would be a neat hobby to buy an old beater like a Nissan 280ZX or something and mount an NES on the hood like a supercharger... then paint mario or a triforce on the doors..similar to that car with the zelda map sprawled out on it. Anywho...
GnawRadar
06-20-2008, 03:52 AM
I had gutted a Genesis Model 1 and made it into a piggy bank...I still have the shell around here somewhere.
Push Upstairs
06-20-2008, 04:33 AM
I gutted an original XBOX and used it for a canoe.
True story.
CelticJobber
06-20-2008, 06:40 AM
When I was about 5 years old, I busted a Pac-Man (Atari 2600 version) cartridge to pieces by repeatedly throwing it on the pavement for no good reason.
I once gutted an original xbox and let three homeless children live in it over christmas week.
TheDomesticInstitution
06-20-2008, 08:37 AM
I once killed a homeless child.
Jimmy Yakapucci
06-20-2008, 09:53 AM
I tie Colecovision power supplies to my patio furniture to hold them down during hurricane season. Then I throw them in the back of my pickup for extra traction in the snow. Of course this causes my gas mileage to drop by 2 MPG.
JY
I once ate a childs home so they would be homeless. Then i killed them and wore their skin as a midget suit.