Texas family transforms house into vintage Nintendo video game, console
DALLAS – A Texas family was inspired to decorate their house for Christmas as one of the most sought-after gifts of the 1980s — an original Nintendo video game console complete with two controllers and Super Mario Brothers 3.
Katie and Mike Milam spent about a month transforming the front of their house into the vintage video game system and knob-controlled television set, displaying Super Mario Brothers on the makeshift screen with a letter to Santa, KTVT reported.
“It had to be Mario 3,” Katie Milam told KXAS. “We like the classics.”
After the family won first prize for a Halloween decorating contest at their son’s school earlier this year, they were motivated to do something different, and grander, for Christmas.
“This has been a crazy year for our family. For one, my husband is a first responder so you know having somebody that was in a stressful position all year,” Katie Milam told KTVT. “So this just provided … a fun artistic outlet to take your mind off the craziness outside the door.”
The response is just what they had hoped for.
“People honking their horns, hanging out the window waving at us,” Milam told KXAS. “We wanted to spread cheer and silliness and playfulness. We hope that people that come by with their kids in the car can tell them and it triggers childhood memory conversations and ‘I remember when I played Super Mario.’ And if somebody who is having a bad day, you want them to drive by and hopefully smile. Bring a little bit of joy to people’s lives.”
