TOKYO — If you make a pilgrimage to Akihabara, you must sit in the Famicom Chair.
On the third floor of the retro game shop Super Potato is a classic game arcade, where Wired.com correspondent Jean Snow and I shared a game of* Final Fight*, and then found… this. It is a chair — a throne, really — built entirely out of loose Famicom cartridges. They did not nail these cartridges to an existing chair, nor fake it in any way — this is just a glued-together stack of old games.
Good ones, too. I was sitting directly on copies of Final Fantasy II and Yoshi’s Cookie.
I felt powerful, but was consumed by the sheer emotional weight of being the King Of Retrogames just for a minute, and had to leave shortly thereafter to resume our search for SuperGrafx stuff.
Jean didn’t like it as much, I don’t think.
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