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NES Cartridges Transformed Into External Hard Drives Finally Finds Use For Crappy Games
By Jeffrey L. Wilson On 1 Sep, 2009 At 02:15 AM | Categorized As Gaming Gear | With 0 Comments

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Etsy has proven itself a breeding ground for creative craftspeople to show their love for retrogaming goodness by taking the old and transforming it into something wonderfully new. If you thought the Atari 2600 wallet was pretty hot stuff, take a gander at 8bitMemory‘s NES external hard drives, which combines the dual worlds of gaming and tech nerditry into a product that miraculously transcends the inherent geekiness of both.

For $120, you can nab the pictured Super Mario Bros. cartridge that includes a very nice 250GB capacity for storing photos, music, documents, and video. If you aren’t too keen on the 8-bit hop-n-bop classic, a cart of your choice can be outfiitted with 320GB, 400GB, 500GB, or 750GB of memory – - lots of room of stashing teh pronz (but not teh romz, because that’s illegal).

Despite the awesomeness of this project, I have to question the motive behind gutting good games. I’m sure there’s a few thousand Athena and Friday the 13th cartridges just waiting to be made useful, no?

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