Classic Gaming: Fake Game Made Real

Family Computer (FAMICOM) is how the NES is called in Japan. There's some slight hardware changes from it to the US/EURO version (the NES) including the fact that instead of SELECT/START buttons, the second player controller has a MICROPHONE which forwards the audio to the TV (and the sound is readable by the game program through a single bit A/D converter circuit).

With that in mind a Japanese blogger created this cover for a fictional game called "???????UTACO ???????????????"
http://famicase.com/11/softs/41.html

A while after a guy from Argentina took the ball and made a game with that cartridge design in mind:


(the game actually scans the microphone and reacts to what you sing)

As an classic gamer, I found this very interesting... lol

(btw, the Japanese version of BattleToads start the game with the 'A' button instead of start since Famicom has no start button on the second player controller ... lol)

NESDEV link for the game:

http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9915
(it's free homebrew and apparently work on emulators)

LOL the designer had a good sense of humour. ^^ I loved the storyline progression and dialogue. :p