A gamer stumbled across an oddly positionedNintendo 64while on a walk. The iconic three-pronged handset was commemorated in a unique way alongside a few otherpieces of 1990s electronicsand paraphernalia.
TheNintendo 64launched in Japan and the US in 1996, arriving in Europe and Australia the following year. It was the first home console to feature a 64-bit processor, one of the first to feature four controller ports, and the last Nintendo console to run games off of cartridges until the Nintendo Switch. However, its unique trident-shaped controller was probably the N64’s most memorable trait. The unique shape was designed to let players hold it in different configurations depending on whether they are playing a 2D or 3D game, with the button positions optimized for ease of use.
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While Nintendo transitioned to a more typicaldesign for the GameCube controller, the three-pronged design remains iconic. Therefore, the shape was no doubt instantly recognizable when Reddit user baxterrocky spotted it protruding from a cement slab at Roma Street Parkland, an 11-hectare Botanical Garden in the center of Brisbane, Australia. The concrete mold of an N64 controller was protruding from a pink concrete slab alongside a 90s Nokia phone, keyboard, mouse, and CD jewel case.
At first glance, it might look like baxterrocky stumbled across an actualN64 controller, mouse, phone, keyboard, and CD case embedded in the concrete as a strange form of time capsule. While it seems to serve a similar role to a time capsule, closer inspection reveals that the objects are molded from the concrete rather than stuck into it. The sculptor likely covered the objects in plaster or some other mold compound, then removed them once it set. Whoever created the piece then filled the resulting cast with cement. Assuming the form wasn’t immediately destroyed or thrown away, there could be more pieces like this elsewhere in the world.
Users on the gaming subreddit were impressed and amused by this unusual outdoor artwork. Some people made jokes about ancient mysterious carvings. Meanwhile, the top comment suggested that future archaeologists might be very confused when they stumble across it, assuming that the people of 1990s Australia worship some particularly strange-looking gods. One eagle-eyed commenter even managed to identify that the keyboard predates Windows 95 due to the lack of a Windows key. Altogether the art piece makes a charming tribute to theNintendo 64 and the 1990s in general.
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