This is a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, you’ve basically got the coolest external drive ever created. A 160GB hard drive is stuck inside this cartridge with no other modifications but the port; it fits right in its original sleeve. It’s even bus-powered!
But! On the other hand, this is a Super Mario Bros 3 cartridge. It’d be like desecrating the temple of my youth. I could have dragged out my old NES and played SMB3 all day. Of course, I’ve already got two copies of the game, but still — what if they break? Or are stolen and turned into hard drives?
It’s available from French Etsy seller LilyPixelArtshop for $120, and… wait, is that a gold Zelda cartridge? Sacrilege!
[via Geeksugar]
the fact that you CAN do that is amazing. ha Thats so cool.
Very cool! :)
They could have just as easily NOT used SMB3…
Neat idea but in creating it, they removed a copy of one of the best games ever from the earth. To shame.
Well I agree they did, its not like they are creating any more of them, though, as far as novelty goes, its a neat idea.
Oh my goodness what a blast from the past. I loved Mario! I must get my retro games back out :-)
I love Mario too! It let me remember my young age which is the age I played Mario on BW machine all days.
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SMB3?? What?! Are they on crack? It’s a freaking cool idea but they could have used Top Gun or some other pain in the butt game that wouldn’t be missed…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofM11nPzFo0
Yeah but then the external HDD wouldn’t be worth it.
SMB3 is a classic.
darn ! you just made me look for my old nes, i gotta play some mario !! :)
They should of made this on a bad game for the NES…which is almost all of them.
This appears tailor made for data smuggling. If I had something bad I wanted to hide in a hard drive I could think of nothing better than hiding it in a box of unassuming NES games. Though it would probably be better if it were Clu-Clu-Land or anything other than the most popular and desirable NES game of all.
Of course, nothing beats my strategy of not having any illegal data to hide.