Formally known as “Duck Hunt Gun Soap,” this Nintendo Zapper is compatible with all kinds of dirt and grime, even though the thought of rubbing a gun all over yourself is kind of creepy. The Duck Hunt Gun Soap weighs 12 ounces and is, unfortunately, completely flat on one side. But it is loaded with coconut, palm and safflower oils, plus glycerin and a bunch of other materials I’d rather not get acquainted with on a name-basis. Digitalsoaps is selling this big bar of Zapper over at Etsy for $17, plus $8 shipping to the United States. [Etsy via Technabob]

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Super Smash Bros. looks like all fun and games from afar, but Robot Pencil envisions the game as a Fight Club of sorts, where all your favorite Nintendo characters go to feel more like real men (even Samus). The above image is the first in an upcoming series by DeviantArtist Robot Pencil, mashing up Smash Bros. with the grit of David Fincher’s frightening 1999 film.

If only Nintendo had the guts to give Smash Bros. the gory, primal spin-off it deserves, we could finally learn that Mario is actually Luigi’s dominant alter-ego, and that Donkey Kong is just a washed up bodybuilder with gynecomastia. Call it Super Smash Bros. Mayhem. [DeviantArt via GameCulture]

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Netherlands-based hacker Hasse’s brother can only use one of his hands, which makes playing video games nearly impossible. So Hasse applied some Wii principles to a standard Gamecube controller, adding motion control that makes it easy to play games one-handed. An accelerometer controls basic movement — the green LED lights where the gamepad is usually located indicate direction — and the left trigger was swapped to the underside of the right handle, where it can be pressed with an index finger. There’s even a toggle for turning on analog controls.

To do this at home, you’ll need a Gamecube controller (Hasse started with four from various manufacturers, so he could figure out the best one to build from), a microcontroller, an accelerometer, a digital to audio converter and a bit of technical know-how. Hasse’s web page walks through the process, and there’s a YouTube video tutorial as well. The whole set-up cost 135 Euros, but you can shave the cost down if you’ve already got a Gamecube system and spare controllers. Hasse notes:

And then… playing games with a bottle of beer in my left hand… It seems it also very handy for people that are able to use both hands.

Right on. [Hasse's Hacks via Engadget]

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Wow, I wish there was more information about this video, in which Super Mario Bros. is played against a tall sidewalk curb. Unfortunately, the only description on Vimeo is of the game’s plot. In German. From the user comments, it looks like there’s some camera motion tracking involved, possibly with software such as PFhoe. You only need to watch a minute or so of the video to get the gist. Also worth noting: This is a flawless run of Super Mario Bros (albeit with warp zones). [via Gizmodo]

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“Mario and the Malicious Mushroom Kingdom” subscribes to the philosophy that everything’s better with zombies (See also: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). So while the short tale, penned by Destructoid community member goodgamer77, looks like a fun little fairy tale on its face, it quickly reveals a sinister side.

Here’s how goodgamer77 describes it, though I wouldn’t take anything he says at face value after seeing what he did to some of gaming’s most beloved characters:

As a father of spastic two-year old son, I am saddened by the state of children’s books available. The only passable books I found at Barnes and Noble were books that were made shortly after The Great War. While I appreciate a classic Cat in the Hat or Winnie the Pooh tale, I wanted to weave a yarn more relevant to our times. The project began to stray a bit, but it ends with a good moral.

I’m not going to post the whole thing in full here, so just check it out on Destructoid. Think of it as one of those dark fairy tales, and please, think twice before ruining Mario for your young children. [Destructoid via Albotas]

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When I was young I tinkered with my NES, removing the top and using a deck of playing cards to hold down the cartridge just to see if it would still work. And it did. True story! But if my NES was all fancy and glow-in-the-dark like the one gameculture.com found I might think twice about taking it apart, let alone using it for anything other than a display.

To get that invincibility star glow the console has been painted with a special type of paint that reacts to blacklights. It still glows without one, but for maximum effect one is required. This sucker sells for $250, but alas, it’s presently sold out. Maybe by Christmas-time it’ll be back in stock.

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Using a Nintendo Game Boy and a cell phone, a high-school student in Florida allegedly concocted a fake bomb in hopes of winning the admiration of his peers. I say he could’ve done that by creating some sweet chiptunes or at least getting a respectable score in Tetris, but instead police say 18 year-old Lars O’Mara tied the Game Boy and cell phone together, exposed some wires out of the contraption and taped the whole thing beneath a bathroom sink. Another student spotted the fake Game Boy bomb and told the authorities.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Panama City Beach, Fla., says O’Mara admitted to creating and planting the fake bomb, hoping it would make him popular and get his fellow students out of class. The latter was a success at least, as three quarters of the student body went home or were pulled from school by their parents. The rest waited an hour outside before returning to class, but I doubt they got much learning done with most of their peers gone. O’Mara faces felony charges of manufacturing a hoax explosive. A smarter prankster would’ve tried this at 17, so his name wouldn’t be revealed and forever spread across the Web. Alas, his future is probably tarnished, as is a perfectly good Game Boy. [Miami Herald via Kotaku]

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The world of video game soaps is vast, but the latest Nintendo cartridges from GeekSoap look good enough to play. From the creator, PinkToque:

GEEKSOAP Game Cartridge bars are handmade one-at-a-time from natural vegetable glycerin and moisturizers, enriched with aloe and vitamin E. These bars are generously scented with an incredibly refreshing lime mint fragrance and come shrink-wrapped to seal in freshness and allow you to keep the soap on display until you’re ready to use it. GEEKSOAP is vegan friendly!

More photos past the jump.

The basic Nintendo cartridge and the 16-bit SNES cartridge cost $6.50 each. There’s also a Nintendo 64 cartridge for $5 and tiny Game Boy guest soaps for $2 each. If you order a home console soap now, GeekSoap is giving a way a free Game Boy cartridge with every purchase. All soaps are available unscented, if you’re not down with smelling like lime and mint, but still want to be cleansed by Nintendo. [GeekSoap via Geeky-Gadgets]

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If you love Bo Jackson and video games, wear a size 8.5 sneaker and have $140 to burn, we’ve got great news: Someone’s selling a pair of “Bo Knows” Nike sneakers commemorating the former baseball and football star on eBay. As you can see above, the gaming angle is on the inside of one of the tongues, with pixelated versions of Jackson in Tecmo Bowl and a baseball game that I’m not sure about. Bo Jackson Baseball, perhaps?

Jackson’s performance in the NES classic Tecmo Bowl is about as legendary as his real-life accomplishments, or perhaps more so, given that his professional career only lasted about five years (plus a brief comeback to baseball in 1993). His Tecmo Bowl character is known for monster running plays, as you can see on YouTube. “I can guarantee that I can’t go a week without someone mentioning something about ‘Tecmo Bowl,” he told Salon in 2004. That might be why these sneakers, new in box, command such a pretty penny on eBay. Note that they’re technically a size 9, but the seller says they run small, so they’d really fit best for a size 8.5. Bo doesn’t know shoe sizes. [via GameSniped]

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Nintendo wants you to know that it’s working on a new handheld gaming console, the Nintendo 3DS. Sure, the company doesn’t want you to know much of anything about it right now, but at least you can sleep soundly knowing that something greater than incremental improvements to the Nintendo DS is on the way. According to a press release (PDF) the temporarily-named Nintendo 3DS will have two screens like its predecessors, will display 3D images that don’t require special glasses and will be backwards compatible with all DS and DSi games. It’ll be released — at the very least in Japan — sometime this fiscal year, which technically ends in March 2011. Expect to hear more at the E3 expo in June.

What don’t we know? Aside from the basics, like price, release date, physical design and launch titles, Nintendo hasn’t even said how the technology will work. Ars Technica speculates that it’ll be something like this downloadable games for the existing DS, which tracks head movement and lets you peer into the screen at different angles, but if there’s got to be more, otherwise Nintendo wouldn’t build a whole new handheld around it. Also, will the Nintendo 3DS pull a Virtual Boy and ask players to take periodic breaks for the sake of your eyeballs?

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If you’re too lazy to construct the NES harmonica that surfaced a couple years ago, now’s your chance to cheat and buy one on eBay. As of now, there are seven bids on the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge harmonica with six days left, the high bid at $15.50. Not a bad price for an awesome addition to your coffee table of gaming. Here’s what the seller has to say:

This harmonica was constructed by using a Hohner Pocket Pal harmonica and building it into a Super Mario Bros 3 cartridge.  As you can see in the picture, this appears to be a standard NES cartridge at first glance.  Fool your friends by blowing into it and see the look on their faces when they realize it is a harmonica!!

Harmonicas made from Legend of Zelda and Dick Tracy cartridges are also up from auction. Not sure if this is the same guy who posted a how-to page a couple years back, but here are the instructions if you’ve got spare time and a cartridge you don’t mind parting with. To the high bidder, I suggest you give the cartridge a good wipe down before you start playing the blues. [eBay via GoNintendo and UberGizmo]

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Isn’t this how all rare collectible stories go? A woman in Haw River, N.C., dug out the old Nintendo Entertainment System and five games from her closet for sale on eBay. As she put it:

I HAVE HAD THIS STORED IN THE CLOSET FOR YEARS FOR MY KIDS TO PLAY BUT THE WAY THAT ELECTRONICS COME & GO AND CHANGE FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT THEY WANTED ALL OF THE NEW HOT ITEMS OF THEIR OWN NOW AND NOW IT’S TIME TO GET RID OF THINGS THAT ARE NO LONGER BEING USED OR WANTED.

Turns out, one of those games was Stadium Events, whose American NTSC version is one of the rarest NES games in existence. That the auction included the box and manual seriously sweetened the deal, as one BoingBoing commenter pegged the box at $9,000, the manual at $1,500 and the game for $2,000. Bidding closed at $13,105.

As a game, Stadium Events is nothing special, a set of track and field events using Bandai’s Family Fun Fitness Pad. Nintendo wanted to license the game and sell it as World Class Track Meet, bundled with the iconic Power Pad. However, due to a miscommunication, Bandai sold the game for a brief period in a Woolworth’s department store before Nintendo secured the rights and recalled Stadium Events. It’s said that collectors own less than 10 copies. Guess the seller’s kids can get all the hot new items now. [eBay via BoingBoing]

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