NES Controller Varsity Jacket would be more awesome with awesome models
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 28th 2009 4:37AM
posted Jan 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.
aw, what a cute crazed kidnappers face he has :(
Wow... what a horrible model, he has no hair
Awesome models? That's the target costumer modeling the jacket! Gamers who are greying, balding, etc with kids who are old enough to know what the hell a NES controller looks like and actually wants a jacket with the look on it in the first place.
Not going to blast the jacket model about his looks except for the hair. Why do dudes losing their hair cling to the remote possibility that their hairline will magically go unnoticed if they coiffe it up enough.
Dude... suck it up and delete the hair with a razor. Chicks dig it and you look harder.
Hey, that's my uncle!
I can't wait for the Intellivision version?
you would have to be a really nerdy white guy or a really cool black guy to pull that off.
While we're at it, let's make fun of his dying mother too!
Hey Guys,
This is Kevin from 80sTees. I want to thank engadget for putting up a link to our product even if it wasn't in the most flattering way possible. If I had known that having one of our employees model a jacket would lead to a link from Engadget I would have done it sooner.
I'm not going to apologize and now I'm definitely not hiring a model to reshoot this product since I don't want to ruin everyone's fun, but I will offer an explanation why we have a non professional model. Typically we sell t-shirts for $20 to $30. When we bought this jacket we had no idea if people would buy a $200 jacket when our next most expensive piece of clothing is a kick ass $120 Karate Kid Cobra Kai costume http://www.80stees.com/products/Authentic-Cobra-Kai-Gi.asp and then the next one after that is less than $100. Given that the economy isn't exactly conducive to spending $200 on anything we did not have high expectations.
So we bought a few jackets and had one of our employees model it (rather than pay the $100 or so it would cost us to shoot the product with a model and photographer) since it did not look good sans a person or mannequin to fill it out. Then last week we got got some press for the jacket (which is really cool since we didn't even ask for it) and now all of the sudden the pictures of our employee wearing a jacket are up all over the web.
At the very least I'm glad it gave some chuckles to your readers and even happier that it led to a link from a hugely popular site to our product.
it's odd, yet for some reason, this picture makes me have a flashback to Punch-Out!