NES Controller Varsity Jacket would be more awesome with awesome models
By Darren Murph 
posted January 28th 2009 4:37AM
posted January 28th 2009 4:37AM
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posted January 28th 2009 4:37AM
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Isn't this the same dude twice??
RTFA?
No, they're twins. The one on the right is Controller Two.
What RTFA... Looks like they corrected dudes into dude. I managed to have Engadget change an article, wow...
Ok does anybody here remember that awful 80's cartoon Captain N: The game master? I'm pretty sure its that very same Varsity-Nintendo-jacket kid... 20 years later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGr3aBln38
The original intro to the cartoon
What? Quentin Tarantino isn't awesome enough for you?
Quentin is trying something new I suppose, aka video game jacket modeling. ROFLZ Seriously though that dude is totally his brosef....In the future.
That's not Quentin--that's his less successful nerd model brother, Scott.
That's what every guy in the Minnesota looks like, except add vikings jacket.
ahahaha the first thing i thought when i saw this was "man, that guy really looks like quentin tarentino"
k fed's twin brother.
are you kidding, engadget? a whole post about how ugly the guy in the picture is? seriously? then at least stop whining about stupid comments. you suck, darren :)
Engagdet are part of the Elite, Beautiful People. They only drink bottled water, drive hybrid cars, and play with iPods. They are above everybody else. They are gods upon a mountain high, only looking down on the rest of us mortals when they need a laugh. I'm certain they are all glistening, chiseled, Greek gods, without a hair out of place or a single blemish to their prefect and divine form. BOW MERE MORTAL! BOW BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF APPLE!
I'm not with Stupid. ↑
@ MaxSMoke:
Why the fuck are you here? Seriously - it is the internet, you can't find another site? The anti- apple, anti engadget comments are sickening already. You people are piss & moaning dicks.
And just when you think that the sarcasm and humor is so thick that nobody could possibly miss it...along comes Skeezle.
Maybe they are just too afraid to admit that's what they would look like in the jacket.
@MAXSMOKE
I believe you were looking for GIZMODO!...... GIZMODO
@MaxSMoke: Is that your dad?
"I wanna meet that dad!"
@robot
"Feather them bangs!"
I think they've captured the sort of guy who would actually wear this perfectly!
Agreed, it might not be the most pleasant, but it is realistic.
@Roundgob -- You're right, I work in TV and I can see through the poor photograph. If dude would just buzz that hair down or shave it off he'd have a decent look going.
Advertising is supposed to make you -want- the item, or in this case, be cooler because of it.
So, drink 12 beers and then review the photos.
Ha - you're so right. When I first saw the photo I thought it was photoshopped.
This is just awesome.
I don't doubt for a second that he knows how to obtain infinite lives in Contra.
Does it come with a free subscription to back issues of Nintendo Power?
Now, that's not very nice Engadget, is it?
he ain't got no alibi
Hey, hurry up and post Che: Part Two
I'm not even remotely a professional photographer but even I can tell that the slightly awkward head bias, deformed hairdo, unshaven cheeks and lacking color correction in the first shot probably made the wearer of the jacket look a lot uglier than one would consider him when meeting him in person.
... but the second picture made it perfectly clear that, yes, he is that ugly.
Well, we can't all be the bronzed Adonis' that you are apparently claiming the Engadget staff are. While I am very happy for your claimed astonishing good looks - for nobody whould be hypocritical enough to hurl abuse at this perfectly normal-looking dude unless they were stunningly handsome themselves - some of us are real people who don't come pre-photoshopped.
Why don't you (and anyone else hurling insults at this poor guy) post current pictures of yourselves, just so we can see what real men are supposed to look like?
Well, they still could've used a mannqin for the photo... or they could've displayed that thing without anything else at all...
You're not considering that this is supposedly a professional product shot. That means you hire a photographer, a model, and you set up the shot so that the product looks like something you want to buy. Darren isn't saying HE should be the model, he's saying that the people responsible for these photos should have hired a professional model.
Haha, I love that! That is the PERFECT MODEL for that item. Truth in advertising! Because pretty people don't wear nerd jackets. Maybe me, maybe you, but nobody with a "Life" would be caught dead in that. That model is AWE-SOME! He needs to also model for Beer, MySpace, and Xbox.
I think I'd rock it
Can you please buy a big Jacket so I can "play" with the "up, down, left and right" arows?
I'd definitely rock it...probably not for $200 though.
these jackets are actually way old news, I don't know how they just found these, they got a couple more jackets with different nintendo trends on it, but there hell expensive, i couldnt spend it, but id def wear it thou! the guy indeed in the picture is scary, hes a pedophile like everyone else said, ugly muthafucka.
Learn to spell paedophile, you nonces.
Actually, both spellings are accepted. However, you seem to be slightly defensive of pedophilia, Cosmic. Anything you'd like to tell us?
This should be bundled with Sega's Love Trainer. Also Homer's Mr Plow jacket.
Person Inquires about Jacket, Sales Person Show Fine Print in Ad, Fine Print Reads - Receding Hair Line Not Included... Bald Gene Strictly Hereditary and Does Not Come as a Result of Wearing this Jacket...
Come on, Engadget, can't you police your own elementary-school (or below) commentary? And would you write similarly about a non-10 female model?
He looks a little like David Hayter on the left.
Should be hot blonde, nice rack in bra, g-string, fishnets and stilettos, suitably posed, then chuck the jacket over top for good measure. Now that's marketing !!
If he shaved his head he'd look like Joe the Plumber.
Yeah, the only problem here is the kind of people who will wear this jacket actually look like that guy, so throwing it on some model isn't a proper representation :)
The only thing gag-worthy here is the writing.