{"id":11179,"date":"2018-01-24T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:15:00","slug":"art-these-fantasy-nintendo-hardware-breakdowns-are-just-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/art-these-fantasy-nintendo-hardware-breakdowns-are-just-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: These Fantasy Nintendo Hardware Breakdowns Are Just Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consoles like the NES, SNES and Game Boy may just be fashioned from circuit boards, chips and plastic, but they&#8217;re a portal to a seemingly limitless world of possibilities and will, for many players, have provided a wondrous backdrop for <em>entire<\/em> childhoods.<\/p>\n<p>London-based artist <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/mazakii\">Jing Zhang<\/a> was recently commissioned by Sony to create an infographic for its &#8220;Parents&#8217; Guide&#8221; which added a little more magic to the reality of gaming tech, and she was then inspired to do the same for other classic hardware &#8211; mostly Nintendo-based. The images crack open some of the most iconic consoles of all time and add a little bit of fantasy to the internals.<\/p>\n<p>The series features the NES, SNES, Game Boy, DS, Switch and Wii.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"0910ac58592477.5a38f74d1b0a9.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/2\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/2\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"01675458592477.5a36ed84542bb.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/3\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/3\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"b7779758592477.5a38f9672f048.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/4\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/4\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"206aee58592477.5a26a5ff5f4e7.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/5\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/5\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"fae83458592477.5a370f9762525.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/6\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/art_these_fantasy_nintendo_hardware_breakdowns_are_just_magical\/attachment\/6\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"d26b0158592477.5a3712dd9cda7.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Even though we&#8217;re perfectly aware that all that lies inside our beloved consoles is cold, hard tech, we&#8217;d much prefer it if they contained some of the elements shown above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consoles like the NES, SNES and Game Boy may just be fashioned from circuit boards, chips and plastic, but they&#8217;re a portal to a seemingly limitless world of possibilities and will, for many players, have provided a wondrous backdrop for entire childhoods. 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