Comments on: NES controller door for a games-room http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: hyljelyhje http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html#comment-1556829 hyljelyhje Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=187375#comment-1556829 What's going on with the window? It has completely different perspective! Makes my brain hurt... What’s going on with the window? It has completely different perspective! Makes my brain hurt…

]]> By: Ender Wiggin http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html#comment-1556696 Ender Wiggin Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=187375#comment-1556696 i should have caught that one. i blame lack of coffee i should have caught that one. i blame lack of coffee

]]> By: Syndaryl http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html#comment-1556697 Syndaryl Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=187375#comment-1556697 Like Ender, I see it more like "code switching" - sending a "secret" message to other old-skool gamers. It's one of those things you can use to say "one of us! one of us!" Like Ender, I see it more like “code switching” – sending a “secret” message to other old-skool gamers. It’s one of those things you can use to say “one of us! one of us!”

]]> By: Syndaryl http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html#comment-1556695 Syndaryl Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=187375#comment-1556695  "Get Off My Lawn" as in "You kids get off my lawn!", yelled while waving your cane and sitting in a rocking chair on your front porch. I.e. crotchety, and intolerant of "young people" and their "new-fangled ways".  ”Get Off My Lawn” as in “You kids get off my lawn!”, yelled while waving your cane and sitting in a rocking chair on your front porch.

I.e. crotchety, and intolerant of “young people” and their “new-fangled ways”.

]]> By: Ender Wiggin http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html#comment-1556675 Ender Wiggin Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=187375#comment-1556675 not sure what GOML stands for, but contextually, yes you are.  then again, i've never seen it used in marketing, usually it's a geek somewhere on the backend throwing in a cultural flag on the play so to speak.  Like the discordian calendar converter bundled with every linux kernal.    Wouldn't be the first time a marketing geek missed the point and tried to tag in though, where've you been seeing it? not sure what GOML stands for, but contextually, yes you are.  then again, i’ve never seen it used in marketing, usually it’s a geek somewhere on the backend throwing in a cultural flag on the play so to speak.  Like the discordian calendar converter bundled with every linux kernal.    Wouldn’t be the first time a marketing geek missed the point and tried to tag in though, where’ve you been seeing it?

]]> By: Aaron H http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/nes-controller-door-for-a-game.html#comment-1556663 Aaron H Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=187375#comment-1556663 I find this cultural obsession with the Konami code to be a little bizarre -- I mean, it was a great inside joke back when NES was the thing. But lately I keep seeing it in more and more strange places, and at times it feels like "the konami code" is treated as synonymous with retro-gaming in general.  I have been getting the feeling that marketers and their ilk are trying to hook into retrogaming nostalgia via the Konami code, which feels a bit like advertisers using provocative images to get people to click through. Am I just being overly GOML, or does anyone else feel similar? I find this cultural obsession with the Konami code to be a little bizarre — I mean, it was a great inside joke back when NES was the thing. But lately I keep seeing it in more and more strange places, and at times it feels like “the konami code” is treated as synonymous with retro-gaming in general.  I have been getting the feeling that marketers and their ilk are trying to hook into retrogaming nostalgia via the Konami code, which feels a bit like advertisers using provocative images to get people to click through.

Am I just being overly GOML, or does anyone else feel similar?

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