These days, with everybody out to prove how "old school" they are via t-shirts, game controller buckles, game cart collections and even Mario score comparisons (sorry guys, but CliffyB beats you all,
sez Nintendo Power), it can be hard to stick out of the crowd -- until now. From the very kids responsible for the brash commercialism behind the
NES Buckle, comes the NES Advantage Belt Buckle, which brings a bit of arcade nostalgia to the front of your pants. Honestly, we never found the controller to be much of an Advantage at all, unless you count those isolated incidents where it was wielded as a weapon against a particularly sucky
Contra companion -- not that that ever happened, of course -- but there's no arguing with the look here, and you really never know when you and a couple turbo buttons will be needed to wield control over the Statue of Liberty. The buckle is available now for $50.
posted Dec 1st 2006 11:52AM
Yeah, It's too expensive for my taste as well, found few on http://www.hotbuckles.com and their price is around $17
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such a small "joystick"
plus, it's the wrong color.
That's just asking for someone to come try to mess with the joystick while you're wearing it.
Hey, baby . . . wanna wrestle?
...I got nothing.
Dude, Advantage kicked so much when you're playing RC Pro AM.
And that was about it.
Though occassionally, I still wish I had mine to hook up to the PC. For what's its worth, the Advantage was a good heavy duty stick.
It was heavy duty. That think never broke. And the turbo kicked ass. I wonder if mom threw mine out...
"Wanna play with my joystick?
Whoa, not turbo! Neither of us are ready for that."
The retro, it is too much the retro!
Way to go Engadget with the super obscure Ghostbusters 2 reference, I commend thee.
The Super NES advantage was a pretty nice controller, I had both. Everyone knows that the only truly better controller than the regular d-pad was the NES Max though. NES Max was THE controller for the hardcore Metroid fan. Also very hard to find at the time.
Oh yea, the NES MAX was the pad to have... Too bad that the new Wii Joypad didn't use the Max as the basis...
i second the kudo for the GB2 ref -- outstanding.
Rotate it so the joystick is on top of the two buttons for a little bit of childish humor.
Engadget, when guys toss us little pieces of genius like the GB2 reference, it really makes the various silly things you do melt away. Much can be fogiven when you give us amazing posts such as this one. :)
I don't get the Statue of Libery/Ghostbusters 2 reference. I remember that the Ghostbusters slimed Lady Liberty with the (implausible) pink goo, and she (magically) came alive and stomped around NY . . .Why that didn't win the Best Screenplay Oscar, I'll never know . . . but what does that have to do with this joystick? Or turbo buttons? "Contra?"
And oh yes, the use of the terms "joystick," "Statue of Liberty," and "your pants" all in the same article . . . fallic references galore.
they used this controller to control the statue of liberty.
somehow...
Did I misspell phallic? Sorry. Engadget needs a spell check feature in Comments!
R, just use Firefox 2.0 Spell check built in.
R dude, you still haven't jumped on the Firefox bandwagon? ts ts ts
Alas, no. Firefox has been banned by our tech guys here at work. The best I can do is IE7. At least I have tabs!
The only time I used the NES Advantage was doing 2-player NES Baseball solo. Stack a second gamepad on top and play both sides simultiously.
My Advantage would still be working today if it wasn't for the hamster and it's affintiy for corn-based plastics.
The other game that the Advantage worked perfectly for was Bigfoot, the monster truck game. There was no way to beat the drag races without it.
OMG that is sooo emo :P
They actually give you money for your old one, but who in their sane mind would??????
Found an alternatice and bought a licensed one for a real cheap price on an awesome online buckle shop