The Amazing Nintendo House

Posted by Stephen Johnson - Friday, April 20, 2007 10:32 AM

Check out the Nintendo House from Carnegie Mellon's spring carnival. Wouldn't you want to live there?

It's been making the net rounds all morning. We picked it up from Destructoid, but got some extra skinny from Dana Vinson, an alumni of that respected institution.

The pics were taken at the annual Spring Carnival. This year's theme is "Small Things Made Big," hence the Nintendo house, built by Sigma Epsilon fraternity.

"Carnegie Mellon is a buncha nerds, so there's always f*cking videogame sh*t," The foulmouth Vinson told TheFeed. "One year they re-built the Death Star for carnival. And there's intricate soapbox derby races. You know, nerd crap. "

"CMU is mainly engineering and architechture students, and they work on the carnival houses all year long. They're really structurally sound." Vinson added. She went on to express admiration for the school's policy of giving students two days off to "drink beer and get laid... well, maybe most of them don't get laid, and if they do, it's nerd sex and that's gross."

More pics under the cut.

Permalink Tags: Internets Culture, Videogames

Comment(s)

Posted by simonnewtboy - Friday, April 20, 2007 10:40 AM

I love Dana. She never responds to my emails... We practically grew up in the same town; isn't that enough reason to just marry me?

Posted by Snaileb - Friday, April 20, 2007 10:40 AM

Thanks for linking to Destructoid.com

Posted by FutureFugitive - Friday, April 20, 2007 10:49 AM

This is just lame

Posted by sjohnson - Friday, April 20, 2007 10:54 AM

LAME? Really? I was thinking more "awesome"

Posted by thedoctor46 - Friday, April 20, 2007 10:59 AM

Wait, isn't the cartridge upside down?

Posted by TKEmysterio - Friday, April 20, 2007 11:01 AM

Why is the cart in upside down? Is that suppose to be some sort of nerdy inside joke??

Posted by hetman - Friday, April 20, 2007 11:03 AM

Ahh I love nintendo but i still think this is kind of lame. What happend to the days when fraternities binge drank and practice all there homosexual rituals on one another. The good old days.

Posted by what0080 - Friday, April 20, 2007 12:46 PM

2 things (to confirm me as a geek)

1) The cartridge is upside down...

2) Super Mario Bros. didn't have a gold cartridge. If any game for the NES had a Gold cartridge in that style was either "The Legend of Zelda" or "Adventures of Link"

Posted by elpunk001 - Friday, April 20, 2007 1:36 PM

lame but nice

Posted by Innocentrage - Friday, April 20, 2007 5:04 PM

OMG CARNEGIE MELLON LIKE AS IN PITTSBURGH!!! I LIVE HERE SWEET IM GONNA GO SEE IT!!!

Posted by Zevious - Friday, April 20, 2007 5:35 PM

The Legend of Zelda was the gold cartridge game. It had a 5 yr battery save feature that I'm sure is corrupted by now- so if you've never played it get it on the Wii VC.

Posted by Asrugan - Friday, April 20, 2007 7:25 PM

I was going to say the same thing about the cart(upside down)

Posted by Blue_Eyed_Devil - Friday, April 20, 2007 8:19 PM

Holy Shit that is so funny ;]

Posted by lockepsb - Friday, April 20, 2007 9:33 PM

damn everyone else beat me to it... why the hell did they insert the cartridge upside down?! So people could Identify the cover of Zelda? And yes I can see that the front of the game is the Original Zelda, but what does the top of the game say... cause Legend of Zelda isn't what it looks like it says.

Posted by gaminggod623 - Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:12 AM

it says super mario bros. also the light gun isnt hooked up to the console. u guys took all the good ones already.

Posted by gaminggod623 - Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:13 AM

also on the left side on the console there is a big piece of tape with the letter w on it

Posted by futuerg4host - Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:29 PM

that is cool

Posted by antiburgerjob23 - Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:20 PM

NINTENDO FANBOYS, REGOICE!!!

Posted by Juggalojedi420 - Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:32 PM

nice im gonna go to the burgh to check it out, does anyone know where it is exactly

Posted by matix440 - Monday, April 23, 2007 1:11 AM

sweet

Posted by Clov3r - Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:42 PM

yeah the cartridge is totally upside down.
Cartidge is the wrong color.There were a few minor mistakes in the duck hunt area. But aside from total...I'm totally hijacking that house and living in it myself!!!
PMS Clov3r

Posted by sim527 - Monday, May 28, 2007 12:19 AM

wow, neat but no mario or koopas, i mean a lifesize bowzer would have been nice!
there weren't even any references to donkeykong arcade. and the steps should have been blocks leading up to a flag pole, tsk tsk tsk

Posted by sim527 - Monday, May 28, 2007 12:21 AM

wow, my spelling is atrotious...lol

Posted by Godzilla_Fan - Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:00 PM

that house is freaking awesome!!!!!!
i would sooo live in that house, or maybe rent it out 4 a helluva lotta $$!

P.S. what u think shigeru miyamoto is thinking about this?

Posted by Mixy_Acid - Sunday, August 05, 2007 3:27 AM

someone can buy me this if they get bored.

Posted by darkcobra - Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:31 AM

they should have show pictures of the whole house.

Posted by iamthegeek - Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:16 AM

that is the shit!

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