A Kotaku reader, and prison guard extraordinaire, recently wrote in to talk about prisoners and their love of video games. Turns out, some U.S. prisons provide inmates with money to acquire video game systems as a reward for their hard work. This made the prison guards' jobs that much more difficult, though, as inmates would use the video game systems and various components to create things that weren't intended with their design.For example, inmates would take the motor out of the N64 Rumble Pak and in combining it with some ink and a needle, could fashion it into a makeshift tattoo gun. We imagine many of the convicts on the receiving end of such a tattoo weren't getting Mario's face put on their body.
[Thanks, hvnlysoldr!]
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7-30-2007 @ 4:49PM
Michael K. said...
I want a tattoo from an N64 rumble pak.
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7-30-2007 @ 4:54PM
Media Glutton said...
I want a tattoo that says "Official Nintendo of America Seal of Quality." That way ladies will know I'm legit.
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7-30-2007 @ 5:10PM
Cameron said...
Imagine the shank you could make with an N64 controller.
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7-30-2007 @ 5:17PM
Jonathan Tran said...
Next thing you know, games won't just be murder simulators; the discs will be broken and sharpened and actually used to commit murders!!!!!
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7-30-2007 @ 6:21PM
Nushio said...
I can only imagine Michael Scofield and Haywire trying to fix his broken tatoo after it got burned :P
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7-30-2007 @ 6:25PM
Mr Khan said...
TV Talk Show Host: "So you say Goldeneye 007 was responsible for this brutal prison murder?"
Prisoner live Via Satellite: "Yeah, totally."
TV Talk Show Host: "So the brutal violence of that game tempted one of the prisoners to kill someone?"
Prisoner live Via Satellite: "No man, Silicon makes a good shiv."
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7-30-2007 @ 8:34PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Peter Moore should totally use that to change his tatoos.
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