Hasta La Gadget!

This guitar-shaped controller for the original Nintendo Entertainment System will look wonderfully right next to the NES Controller Coffee Table we discovered a little while back. Over at Hack A Day, one user has built what she’s calling the NES Paul (see what she did there?) to be a controller that looks and feels like a guitar for a game she’s building at the same time that will feature video game music from classic games, called 8-Bit Hero. 

The controller is entirely hand-made, made from wood and a few other easily obtained materials. The wiring and button controls were all pulled from an XBox 360 controller that was disassembled and transformed into the d-pad, start and select buttons, and the A and B buttons on the neck of the guitar. 

The whole thing is pretty incredible for a DIY project, and with Guitar Hero now dead, you never know – maybe 8-Bit Hero will take off. She’ll have to find a way to mass produce those NES Pauls though.