Comments on: The World’s Crapiest Gaming Peripherals

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:45:18 +0000

Thanks man!

You know, there are a lot of controllers that demand you move more than just your fingers. The guy puts the Negcon there just because of this, but so then, why don’t he includes the Dance Dance Revolution pad, real racing wheel controllers, the NES Zapper, and even Wii remote. He’ll probably feel stupid playing with those, so they must be among the crapiest (sic) controllers of all the time too.

The guy who wrote this article, probably is one of those guys that only wear a three-piece suit all the time and wants to look all neato all the time, but can only convince people around that he’s a frustrated nerd. (No offense to geeks, geeks are cool!)

By: Im with Ryan

Im with Ryan — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:21:03 +0000

The Gameboy camera was awesome your probably one of those idiots who couldn’t figure it out so gave up and cried. You may not have known you can make videos on your game boy camera and do other fun stuff.

The super scope was fine if you had half a brain and the games to play it with.

ROB well he didn’t do much so I can see why he was on the list.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:40:36 +0000

I disagree with the list too.

The Negcon is crap just because “makes you feel like an idiot?” It was made to simulate a wheel, and made its job BETTER THAN ANY ANALOG CONTROLLER EVER MADE!

I think YOU are the idiot, sir, because you got worried about looking dumb with a Negcon, one of the smoother controllers there was, and just left out the NINTENDO POWER GLOVE, THIS is the one that make you look stupid while playing.

You’re dumb. And clearly the only person in the world who didn’t like the Negcon.

By: mad hatter

mad hatter — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:01:55 +0000

NINTENDO POWER GLOVE!

By: Leonardo Ocaña

Leonardo Ocaña — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:55:33 +0000

What I really missed here, as long as I believed that, if mentioned, it would probably have been proclamed to be the #1 “crappy bad idea” (although I don’t know if “worst peripherals in the world that we could think of” is refering only to peripherals that got an actual release) is Atari’s “Mindlink”.

[ http://www.atarihq.com/museum/2678/mindlink.html ]

In fact, the mere thought about it being mentioned in this article (possibly bearing the golden medal) brought me to this, as I laughed my ass off.

This clumsy idea eventually might have become the inspiration for this experiment:

[ http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7800.html ]

… which actually is a really good thing. Not only for the particular value in bringing some enhancement in the quality of life of that anonymous 14-year-old epileptic (and, in extension, a possible enhancement in the life of every epileptic), but also for the improvement in the image the general public makes of videogames as a whole. Needless to say, a posture of preconception and discrimination towards electronic gaming still endures (a fact which, hopefully, will lessen with the “Wii Phenomenon”)

That’s it for now. =D

By: Trey

Trey — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:51:56 +0000

Why is the GB camera up there? I liked it. Where’s the power glove, Atari 5200 and the old Saturn controllers? ROB was ok. But i agree with sega activator.

By: Stinky

Stinky — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:00:16 +0000

I thought the gameboy printer was cool. You could make little tags like that funny brother ad where the guy is covered in them and he goes crazy.
The Jaguar controller looks worse than the xbox one so I think it should be 6 instead of 7.
The guy who mentioned the virtual boy (3d with red+blue+black screen) yeah I heard that was crap but I still wanted to play it anyway.
The head/helmet thing is similar to what army helicoptor pilots wear (except they use a button to fire instead of voice command) to controll a minigun mounted at the front of the gunship.
The activator looks lame but I could see it working for ppp games like some other guy was saying. I am wondering whether the jump kicks really translate to the same move on screen.
What about those fishing rod controllers (for snes/megadrive) they looked pretty bad?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:09:57 +0000

oh yeah and I get high and play virtual boy in only red 3-d
It is still the best 3-D ever in gaming its fucking awesomeThe “virtual reality”
has a way of messing with your brains equilibrium and it even has warnings not to drive or operate heavy machinery
Combine this with coming out of a dark binocular thing and smoking some chronic
and you will be so dizzy youll damn near fall down

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:05:18 +0000

I could see being unimpressed with the activator as a ten year old, but as a 22 year old I’m sorry I don’t have one. Can you imagine getting drunk or high or whatever and having two of those? Or better yet, turning fighting games in to drinking games. You lose you take a shot. You’d better be flailing your limbs like a burning Parkinson’s sufferer if you don’t want to drink. How about the running pad for nintendo? Awesome. Everybody would look like such a fag. Hahahaha.
Best peripheal I’ve got is a force feedback steering wheel.

By: Ethan Stryfe

Ethan Stryfe — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:37:02 +0000

I Agree with most of them som a REALLY sucky others not so much i mean negcon didn´t even made it where i live(ouside us), the game boy camera really sucked, now the scope leaving behind the issue of the 6 batteries (which i solve with rechargable ones) it was preatty good and i didn´t needed to calibrate it so often i mean maybe your was crapy or just broken but mine is still fine i mean i even use from time to time when i get bored and it IS still fun, shame it didn’t have more games; the attari jaguar look like a phone (AKA SUCKS), the XBOX controller was very shitty and was one of the reason i never bought an Xbox i mean i do have big hands but it is so unhandy . . . , now the ROB looks more like it is only there to leave your drink there ¬¬, fragmaster no coments, the konami laser scope and the uforce i didn’t know they’d exist and bot look SO crappy, the now the activator is so funny it’s so out of time i mean i looks good to play stuff like parapa the rapper or paraparadise, even dance dance revolution but did you ever tried to play a fight game or even a simpler game like Rockman in a dance dance pad i mean is the same thing and it is so dificult to move i’d like to see someone making just a shoryuken in pad it is simply imposible….

I See you left aside the power glove who yes mas something crappy as hell, and you also missed the NES Power Pad i think i oly used it when it was new and each time i looked at it and forgot that it was very crappy to play with it…

By: Keith L. Dick

Keith L. Dick — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:08:42 +0000

Yep the Fragmaster was really poorly made, “Piece of Junk”… Some of the rest I’ve never seen but they look pretty bad also hehe…

By: Spectre100

Spectre100 — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:25:05 +0000

so U-Force (which i owned) and Activator (which i didn’t) landed on the list but the power glove did not? that was like a big bag of crap you strapped to your hand and then ended up using the on-wrist pad one handed anyway…

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:16:46 +0000

I didn’t see my old Colecovision controller there. Would that count? it was possibly the worst design for a game controller ever. You had to hold it at a bizarre angle to play, like holding a phone.

By: freakpsychocaine

freakpsychocaine — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:06:21 +0000

holy sega activator suck pocket…

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By: MoominPapa

MoominPapa — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:01:42 +0000

OK, i thought i better reply to some of the comments on this article. I didn’t include the power glove as I have never used one, and also I found i was starting to pick on Nintendo console peripherals. All the peripherals included i have used at some point.
Also the Virtual Boy (Virtua would imply it was by sega, along with Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighting) is a console, not a peripheral, but I see where you are coming from. I am glad most readers agree with at least some of the list!

By: Ponce Leon

Ponce Leon — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:14:34 +0000

Okay, I agree with everything except for the NegCon.

Whoever wrote this made a downright mistake including the NegCon in the article instead of the Nintendo Powerglove, or even the VirtuaBoy (which is kind of a peripheral in itself).

The fact that the author even says that the NegCon was an excellent controller shows that he was running out of ideas. Saying that “it made you look silly” using it is just asenine. It is just like any other hand-held controller and you look no more like an idiot than anyone playing with any of the standard mordern controllers.

Edit the damned article, remove the NegCon and put the power glove up there at like # 2 or #3.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:31:11 +0000

The original xbox controller was great. I agree the black/white buttons were stupid but the size was fine. I guess I don’t have little asian or smaller european hands.

By: Dragon Knight

Dragon Knight — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:39:35 +0000

i have never herd of any of the stuff that are displayed on this web pages but they
do look like crap i mean a laser gun that uses 6AA !!!!!!!!!! thats just way 2 much all i can tell you is that that the nintendo wii is looking like a good idea with that new remote but i dont know if you old timers can handle the moving around ).

oh yeah and it shuld have kept the same name for the nintendo wii
(i like how you can play any game ever played in nintendo )