Two shoes, 1 yay, 1 nay and a whole lot of Nintendo x Nike love!

I've now seen two Nike shoes on CNET's Crave blog and while one made me smile, the other made me frown.



The first shoe features a lot of nice subtle hints to the old NES controller. There's a d-pad pattern and the words 'START' and 'SELECT' well placed and small enough not to distract from the excellent choices in colour. As a huge NES fan and NES owner, these really got me excited.

I was really surprised to see another article amongst the articles in my Google reader but was sorely disappointed with the monstrosity I was greeted with!



I think this particular shell for a shoe is quite ugly anyway, but adding lots of black and grey then highlighting in red isn't going to hide that fact. The d-pad pattern is a nice touch, but it has nothing else going for it. It is a matter of taste though and I'm sure people will love this just as much, if not more, than the first pair.

I am on the lookout for the first ones, so holla at me if you find them! :)