Cartridge clock pulls us back in time

by Alisha Karabinus { Mar 6th 2008 at 11:30PM }

Have any old NES carts lying around that you're not using? If you can possibly spare to sacrifice one to a greater (or lesser, depending on your opinion) cause, this might be a fun project: the NES cart clock. Of course, if you're not up to a little DIY project, you can pick this one up at Etsy, courtesy of seller GeekGear. While we can't decide of Days of Thunder is a good choice for hanging on the wall or propping up on a nightstand, we can certainly think of a few NES games that might make good craft projects ....

Tags: cartridge, clock, crafts, days-of-thunder, diy, nes

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

oOo BioShock oOo @ Mar 7th 2008 12:01AM

Sign me up, Ive already bought 10 of them!!!...........

JC Fletcher @ Mar 7th 2008 12:25AM

Hey, I've got a NES cartridge clock on the wall over my desk!

Anticrawl @ Mar 7th 2008 2:44AM

Finally a use for that old Back to the Future game!

dannybuoy @ Mar 7th 2008 4:07AM

Shame the clock hands are so old fashioned looking... they should be the more modern straight hands rather than hands that might appear on your grandparents kitchen clock... Oh well.. good effort

ssuk @ Mar 7th 2008 6:26AM

Someone should mock up a NES Crono Trigger label and stick it on to that, just for comedic value.

Unbreakable_idea @ Mar 7th 2008 2:58PM

Very cool. I had an MP3 player that I had gotten for free a while back by signing up for some sort of trial AAA style auto service and, low and behold, some of the buttons eventually crapped out on it. So I did what any video game freak who loves to case mod and solder would do and decided to take it apart and rebuild it into a NES cart. Of course, I would never butcher any of my classic titles, but I saw a few carts for sale at Gamecrazy for $1 a piece. When I went to purchase one, they weren't listed in the computer, so the guy just gave it to me for free. The player has a bright blue LCD screen, 2 gigs of storage, a small joystick for navigation, usb and audio jacks, and I used the a/b/x/y buttons cannibalized from an old knockoff third party Sega Dreamcast fishing controller (don't worry, I still have my real Sega fishing controller) for the four buttons that had crapped out originally on the player (volume up/down, menu and repeat). Works a charm and draws constant compliments. Runs on one AAA battery, located in the slot at the bottom of the cart (easily replaced, but otherwise secure. In case no one on here has noticed, it's been my avatar for a while now. Cool clock!