Nowadays we have very modern game controllers, especially Nintendo Wii’s, but let’s travel through the history a bit and find out how “revolutionary” controllers were produced then. There was always a big hunt for alternative controllers and because of that there were some really weird solutions. Most game controllers were coming from Japan and mostly because of their not so big success, they haven’t been sold in the rest of the world. Let’s see what people had on their mind and what they produced.
Hit The Drums
Konami Drummania Controller is the biggest, most realistic and most grandiose of all music controllers. Thanks to it’s stable leggs, sticks and pedal for leg, this set is almost the same as real drum. This controller is compatible with Guitar Freeks game, so it can be combined with guitar on PlayStation.
PS2 Pad With A Keyboard
More functionality on PS2 then this can’t be found! Sammy Keyboard Pad was made for online games and for Capcom’s racing games. Under the buttons and joystick there is a keyboard. Using the standard QWERTY keyboard you can precisely type text and numbers.
Very Bad Magnetic Field Simulator
The NES console had a lot of weird controllers, almost none of which worked properly. The U-Force was meant to detect your hand movements and turn them into button presses! This controller was meant just for the fools and their money.
Masochistic Controller
Most people play video games to relax, but if you are a weird person Mindwire is a real thing for you! You attach a set of electrode pads to your skin and then when you get hit by a bullet or crash into a wall it gives you an electric shock to punish you!
For Dredgers
It looks like Taito wants to put all vehicles in the games. So far we have controllers for driving a metro, bus and airplane, and this one is the weirdest for sure. Taito Power Shovel has two sticks and typical yellow color.
With One Hand
Somebody got an idea that there is no point of using both hands while playing games. Ascii Group V is used with just one hand, and for example you can dig your nose with the other one!
13 Comments, Comment or Ping
asdasdas
Ehh you didn’t quite understand the point of the one handed controller: did it occur to you that there are people with only one hand, or two hands with one of them paralyzed or doesn’t function normally because of some other reason?
Nov 19th, 2008
Gregory Pitt
ASDASDAS is right, i have to use a special controller because I lost most of my left hand in Iraq. But it’s much nicer than this one, I also have a special keyboard for one handed people.
Nov 19th, 2008
niiniiboo
Wasn’t feeling the list much…
Nov 20th, 2008
rafterman
Yeah that one handed controller would be useful for people limited to just one hand, but look at the buttons. How the hell would you play mario with only your thumb? They should have put some buttons on the sides of it, you know where the other four fingers are just sitting there supporting the 4 oz of plastic.
Nov 20th, 2008
rafterman
And I want that one that delivers the shock every time you get hit in a video game. Well actually I want everybody else to have one. Yeah, everybody else. That way when I teabag your corpse, you will be able to feel my balls of thunder rain down upon your pale forearms!
Nov 20th, 2008
Funked
ASDASDAS, its not for cripples its for people who play anime games and shit clamps who fap of to manga at the same time, as does 90% of Japan at any given moment.
Nov 20th, 2008
Turkish
How about that glove controller for Playstation all those years ago?
Nov 20th, 2008
Brian
Also how many games like RPG’s or Puzzle games only require the D-pad and 1 or 2 buttons
Nov 21st, 2008
blah
Short list. I think there has been weirder… The power glove by Nintendo comes to mind.
Nov 22nd, 2008
HBG
There was a gravity style controller released from Logic 3, whick looked more like a sextoy.
Nov 23rd, 2008
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