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NES Mouse Concept

What might've happened if Apple and Nintendo had teamed up in the '80s.

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My amateur internet sleuthing skills haven't been able to come up with much actual information about this awesome thing. It's been popping up on various game and tech blogs since yesterday, but the trail seems to go cold at Zeniouz, a French site that claims it found the image "sur google !" 

General consensus seems to be that it's just a foam mock-up, which is sad, but not sad enough to stop me from imagining trying to play Super Mario Bros. 3 with that thing, or even better, what Super Mario Bros. 3 would've looked like if it had been designed with that thing in mind. Hopefully it also doesn't stop some resourceful DIYer from making this a reality.

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My amateur internet sleuthing skills haven't been able to come up with much actual information about this awesome thing. It's been popping up on various game and tech blogs since yesterday, but the trail seems to go cold at Zeniouz, a French site that claims it found the image "sur google !" 

General consensus seems to be that it's just a foam mock-up, which is sad, but not sad enough to stop me from imagining trying to play Super Mario Bros. 3 with that thing, or even better, what Super Mario Bros. 3 would've looked like if it had been designed with that thing in mind. Hopefully it also doesn't stop some resourceful DIYer from making this a reality.
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sur google!

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Hahaha, filed under Mouser. Naturally.

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Craziness.

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That means on google 

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Sur Google is a nice guy, he plays in a local SF noise rock band. Pitchfork digs them.

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If someone else doesn't make this, I will.

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this will plumit us into immortality!

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Man I would so go back  and relive those games if a new controller like this came out.

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Wait for Ben Heck or some crazies over at Hackaday to make it.

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I wantsss one, thats F to the K awesome. SQUUUUUUARK!

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Did anybody tell them that the SNES already did it :P? And that Ogre Battle was pretty much made for it, but somehow didn't use it?

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snide said:
"Sur Google is a nice guy, he plays in a local SF noise rock band. Pitchfork digs them."
yah, but ever since last year sur google just really changed his style, its like he trying to sell out or something.
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There can only be one!

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And General Consensus is a late 90s emo "alternative" band.

As for the mouse, it is functionally flawed. Use the d-pad as a scroll wheel (that means put it at the top of the device) and use the start/select buttons on the side.

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sorry guys but Scott Johnson over at ExtraLife dot com beat you guys to the punch.

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Gotta love these Friday Giant Bomb Stories.

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apple would never have a second mouse button

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Start and Select are on the other side I presume.

Man, playing Jurassic Park on the SNES with the Mario Pan mouse sucked though, it was totally laggy from what I remember.

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Sorry fellas, but it is indeed a foam mock-up.

Found it sur Google. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

edit: Looking for a real NES mouse though, see here.

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 I have never seen that before, and I am pretty sure nobody at Nintendo has. If such a concept controller existed Nintendo would have shown it alongside all the other concept contollers at the Hankyu Department Store exhibition they had two years back.   The SNES Mouse was the first foray into the world of mice by Nintendo to my knowledge.


It does look very cool though.
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Yes, but can it let you land the Jet in Top Gear? That's the true question.

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I wish most mice had d-pads in the thumb location. I just a have a forward and back button I over-use as it is. Perhaps a clickable track ball under the thumb would give the most control options.

EDIT: This was obviously never meant for actual use. Notice the incredibly awkward positioning of the d-pad in relation to the buttons.

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that's MONSIEUR GOOGLE to you!

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Not sure what was meant by 'foam mock-up' but that looks an awful lot like a vray render to me. :P

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I seen this on Kotaku.  Looks cool.

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Looks, well, the left hand will be properly bored with that one, eh?

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she dialated my sushi blart and erected my pickle queef 

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ehh... sucks, im wrong-handed, so i probablt cant use it...

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I'd buy that mouse to play Left 4 Dead!

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MrKlorox said:
"This was obviously never meant for actual use. Notice the incredibly awkward positioning of the d-pad in relation to the buttons."
It seems to be slightly misplaced, It looks like it needs to be a little closer to the front of the mouse, but it's only a mock up. If it was to ever actually be produced they would position the d-pad in the most ergonomic position.
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That thing is WICKED! haha

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My my, sur Google. Nice.

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Good God! That thing looks like it would do an even worse number to your hand than the NES controller did.

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sweeeeet, must have, bye bye g9 :P

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I don't understand why everyone seems to think that anything vaguely NES-controller-related is the most kickass thing ever. Think of how many man hours have been wasted changing things into other things that look like they were made for the NES; the internet is riddled with the stuff. It's such a boring and over-done concept.

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looks ridiculous