This Is Awesome: Making Harmonicas Out Of Nintendo Cartridges

You remember them. The clunky, unattractive cartridges you had to stuff into your old-school Nintendo. And sure they worked great for a while, bringing Mario, Luigi and eighty-three different versions of Zelda to your bedroom on a huge convex-screen television. But then one day you flipped the switch and nothing happens. Or you got some weird snowy mess on the screen. What is a kid to do in a time before Geek Squads and IT departments across this great nation? Blow on them! All it took were a few puffs on the cartridge (and maybe a shake or two) and you were right back in business.

I miss those days, when all it took were a few blows to get the fun started again. Ok, so maybe things haven’t changed that much (mind is definitely in the gutter), but apparently some people have taken that idea and ran with it. Introducing Nintendo cartridge harmonicas. Now available on eBay, these bits of musical awesomeness were created by a Nintendo modder with clearly too much time on his hands. But either way, they’re pretty cool and are a nice early 90s throwback for any video gamer lover.

Via: Asylum via Streetlevel