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9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

(Our Tech Blog) Let’s take a look of some crazy and awesome game controllers. Hardcore gamers will love them…

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

1.Long before Nintendo moved us with the Wii, it touched our hearts with the Power Glove. Though its archaic motion-sensing technology didn’t sense motion very well, it sure looked cool. Unfortunately, it will best be known as the subject of the 80’s Fred Savage film The Wizard, which featured the damning line, “I love the Power Glove. It’s so bad!” We couldn’t agree more.


9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs
2.One game, two sticks, 40 buttons!

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

3. You didn’t need a degree in musicology to dig the colorful maracas packaged with the hit Dreamcast rhythm game Samba de Amigo – you just needed a good party.

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

4.After getting trounced by EA’s Skate series two years running, the folks behind the Tony Hawk franchise decided to throw a Hail Mary with this motion-detecting slab of tech.

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

5.Think the Wii remote is just too light to adequately smash your TV into tiny pieces? Then drop it in the Wii Bowling Ball, forget to use the strap, and let ‘er rip!

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

6.While percussionists the world over were dismayed by these seemingly cheesy bongo controllers, gamers used them to heartily pound out beats in a series of Gamecube games.

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

7.It’s Nintendo’s short-lived Robotic Operating Buddy. Available for the original NES, R.O.B. was intended to make the system more attractive to retailers still feeling the sting of the video game crash of 1983. He only worked with two games.

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

8. So you think you can dance, but you’re kind of tired? Then check out these handheld dance mats and let your fingers do the walking.

9 Crazy And Awesome Game Controller Designs

9. Hands-free gaming might hit the big time with Project Natal, but Microsoft’s cool controller isn’t the first of its kind. Released as an add-on for the Sega Genesis, the octagonal Activator pad used infrared beams to read your movements. Sadly, it barely worked, leading to immediate deactivation by disgruntled gamers.



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