Gamer Finds Nintendo 64 Controller in Unexpected Place While on Walk

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A gamer stumbled across an oddly positioned Nintendo 64 while on a walk. The iconic three-pronged handset was commemorated in a unique way alongside a few other pieces of 1990s electronics and paraphernalia.

The Nintendo 64 launched 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 typical design 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 actual N64 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