{"id":130056,"date":"2022-11-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141716"},"modified":"2022-11-25T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:00:00","slug":"random-no-famicom-disk-system-games-cant-be-used-for-public-transport-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/25\/random-no-famicom-disk-system-games-cant-be-used-for-public-transport-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: No, Famicom Disk System Games Can&#8217;t Be Used For Public Transport Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c78fa889ee993\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c78fa889ee993\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Famicom Disk System\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c78fa889ee993\/famicom-disk-system.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c78fa889ee993\/famicom-disk-system.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Famicom Disk System\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hopping on and off public transport can be a boring task at the best of times and an all-out nightmare at the worst. But what if instead of having to pay for the bus with our normal people hard-earned money, we could instead use all that which we had collected in video games, let&#8217;s say rupees?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this out of the way early, this is not actually possible. Though it is a nice thought.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was brought up on Twitter by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LotteMakesStuff\">@LotteMakesStuff<\/a> who was seemingly able to use a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a> for the Famicom Disk System as a public transport pass. Seriously, just check out the following tweet. That is <em>definitely<\/em> a copy of the game and those machines are <em>definitely<\/em> accepting it as payment.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/lottemakesstuff\/statuses\/1590417105370767360 @ 2022-11-26T06:32:35+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did you know that Legend of Zelda (for the *Famicom Disk System* ONLY) works a pass for any mass transit system with contactless payment? \ud83d\udcbe\ud83d\ude8b\ud83d\udd3a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WSyrIYfZR0\">pic.twitter.com\/WSyrIYfZR0<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Lotte &#8216;just an idiot&#8217; May \ud83d\udc96\ud83c\udf53\ud83c\udf08\ud83d\udc39\ud83c\udfae\u2615\ud83c\udf6b\ud83c\udf69 (@LotteMakesStuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LotteMakesStuff\/status\/1590417105370767360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Of course, this method won&#8217;t actually get you on the train &#8211; despite our best efforts at inserting a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/legend_of_zelda_phantom_hourglass\">Phantom Hourglass<\/a> into the barriers at Baker Street. What we are seeing is just a transit card case from one of Japan&#8217;s Nintendo Stores, which provides a snazzy method of keeping your cards bus-ready.<\/p>\n<p>Keen to not encourage people out into the wild, Famicom Disk in hand, attempting to swipe their copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/kid_icarus\">Kid Icarus<\/a> in order to secure a spot on the underground, Lotte was kind enough to provide a follow-up tweet explaining all this. Pfft, we totally weren&#8217;t about to <em>actually<\/em> try it&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/lottemakesstuff\/statuses\/1590418137853198337 @ 2022-11-26T06:57:44+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(It\u2019s actually a transit card case they sell in Nintendo Store in japan just please pretend it\u2019s and actual disk and just works for some weird reason it\u2019s more fun like that)<\/span>\u2014 Lotte &#8216;just an idiot&#8217; May \ud83d\udc96\ud83c\udf53\ud83c\udf08\ud83d\udc39\ud83c\udfae\u2615\ud83c\udf6b\ud83c\udf69 (@LotteMakesStuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LotteMakesStuff\/status\/1590418137853198337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If this discovery has made one thing abundantly clear, it&#8217;s that our travel cards aren&#8217;t nearly snazzy enough. Trip to Japan anyone?<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of this case? Blip into the comments and share your thoughts below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life Hopping on and off public transport can be a boring task at the best of times and an all-out nightmare at the worst. But what if instead of having to pay for the bus with our normal people hard-earned money, we could instead use all that which we had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}