NES Controllers?

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VOLatile

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Anyone have spare original NES controllers they'd be willing to sell me? I'm working on an art project and am in need of a bunch of them... Figured I'd ask here before buying up a bunch of them on Ebay.

They don't need to work and I'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount of money + shipping.






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Man, seriously, take 15 bucks to your local pawn shop and buy 10 of them... Vintage Nintendo paraphernalia isn't as hard to find as many think.
 
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I forgot about pawn shops!!! There's a metric ton of them around here.

This may be easier than I thought. There's a local video game store here that sells vintage games and whatnot, but they were all out of the controllers yesterday.
 
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Yeah, I was craving some Tecmo Super Bowl one day and dropped about 30$ at a pawn shop for a NES and games.
 
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So I went to a local pawn shop and they didn't have any controllers but they had a ton of games.

(I'm looking for 56+ controllers... this may take a while.)
 
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SmokeyVol said:
I'm afraid so but see if you can locate a person and buy them out. Try to combine shipping if they will.
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Haha... I've found on guy that has a bunch but won't combine shipping on multiple purchases.

I think this project will take me awhile, that's alright, though, I have many projects on my bill... one includes drilling 3080 holes.

I found an NES Zapper (Duck Hunt gun) at Goodwill today for $1.38 that I'm going to turn into a desk lamp. :rock:
 
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I will, no doubt. I'm trying to make retro video game based furniture. The lamp should come out great.
 
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SmokeyVol said:
Get about 4 power pads for an area rug! :)
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Wow... that's a really good idea.

Got any other neat ideas? They don't have to be Nintendo either... I wish I could afford an old arcade system and turn it into a cabinet.
 
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Go to your local flea market. If your near the Knox area the one on Alcoa Hwy has a guy that specializes in old toys/games. Look for the the comic book section, the fat nerdy guy sitting in a chair is the one to talk to.
 
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thehardknoxlife said:
Go to your local flea market. If your near the Knox area the one on Alcoa Hwy has a guy that specializes in old toys/games. Look for the the comic book section, the fat nerdy guy sitting in a chair is the one to talk to.
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That would be ever so awesome... if only we had flea markets here in Iowa/Illinois. I've been to several on trips to Tennessee, though. They are pretty fun to just go and check stuff out at.


EDIT: I was looking around the web today and found out that my Nintendo Zapper lamp is not an original idea, nor is using a scale model of a cartridge as the base one either.

http://abhirsch.com/2008/09/29/nintendo-lamp-finished/
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=243620.0
 
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Good luck with your project, sounds pretty neat.

I have an original NES at my sister's house in TN with 2 controllers, gun, etc. that still work. She broke it out awhile ago and her and the husband played it and sent pics. Man, I lost so much sleep when I got that thing for Christmas as a youngin.
 
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Il give you 2 NES controllers free of charge if you feel like driving to Old Fort, Tennessee.
 
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