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"Yep. A memory card for the original Playstation that had almost 300 save slots? That one was actually pretty cool..."
You forgot to add: "and had a penchant for randomly wiping all your saves..."
I still don't understand how Madcatz is still a company today (and making their own games no less)
You forgot to add: "and had a penchant for randomly wiping all your saves..."
I still don't understand how Madcatz is still a company today (and making their own games no less)
Can I write a blog about peripherals I don't own? I'd like to write about how the dual shock sucks and you have to buy two different peripherals to make it good.
really CBA to write a blog, but i will use this comment to say i own a vibrating backpack from the SNES generation, and it's just totally fucking shit. the worst part is that it does pretty much what i had reasonably expected it to do, it's just a horrible, horrible idea. i will never ever get that money back.
fuck man i'm glad you reminded me that i own that piece of shit, i'm going to find that sucker and break it.
smash it good.
fuck man i'm glad you reminded me that i own that piece of shit, i'm going to find that sucker and break it.
smash it good.
OMG. That freakin' Activator was the most misleading piece of crap ever. The commercials were all like "get in the game, tracks all your movements", etc. Nope. That piece of shit just makes it so you have to kick over a certain spot to hit the A button, or the B button... So you just look like a douchebag and it's really freaking hard to play any game except fighting games. And even in those, good luck doing Down+Punch for an uppercut, you'd have to punch your hand over the Down section of the octogon and kick your foot over the punch section at the same time.. ugh.. it was like DDR from hell >_<
I had a few of the fancy third-party controllers for SNES - like the SC ProgramPad. It had programmable macro buttons that WORKED, and it was pretty handy for fighting games. It still works today!
I also begged for, received, and then promptly hated the TurboTouch 360. This, like the ProgramPad, basically touted the ability to make you the master of all fighting games. The D-Pad area was a touch-sensitive surface that rested in this fairly deep inset; not only did it constantly punish you for resting your thumb on the d-pad (like you do with EVERY OTHER CONTROLLER), but it made many motions harder to do. This one also works, probably because it's been used about 10 times ever.
I also had a Handy Boy, this giant chunk of plastic that fit onto the face of the GameBoy and required you to place this insert into the battery compartment to power it. Foldout stereo speakers, screen lights, adjustable screen magnifier, optional overlay that snapped on over the controls that turned the D-Pad into a little joystick, and made the A and B buttons bigger. It was great for long/after-dark car rides, but it drained the batteries like a motherfucker.
I had an NES Max, which had this sliding disc where you would normally find the D-Pad. I didn't particularly like it, but it wasn't horrible - and the ring right around the disc part still had pressable directional buttons. The A and B buttons had a deeper concave than the original NES controller, which I did like, and little Turbo nub-buttons right under the A and B buttons.
I also begged for, received, and then promptly hated the TurboTouch 360. This, like the ProgramPad, basically touted the ability to make you the master of all fighting games. The D-Pad area was a touch-sensitive surface that rested in this fairly deep inset; not only did it constantly punish you for resting your thumb on the d-pad (like you do with EVERY OTHER CONTROLLER), but it made many motions harder to do. This one also works, probably because it's been used about 10 times ever.
I also had a Handy Boy, this giant chunk of plastic that fit onto the face of the GameBoy and required you to place this insert into the battery compartment to power it. Foldout stereo speakers, screen lights, adjustable screen magnifier, optional overlay that snapped on over the controls that turned the D-Pad into a little joystick, and made the A and B buttons bigger. It was great for long/after-dark car rides, but it drained the batteries like a motherfucker.
I had an NES Max, which had this sliding disc where you would normally find the D-Pad. I didn't particularly like it, but it wasn't horrible - and the ring right around the disc part still had pressable directional buttons. The A and B buttons had a deeper concave than the original NES controller, which I did like, and little Turbo nub-buttons right under the A and B buttons.
this was my all time favorite 3rd party controller for ps2. lights, rumble, shaped like a nes controller.
I have a working activator, actually it's under my bed right now as I am trying to find a place for it.
The biggest mistake I made in getting the activator was that somehow a novel control method was going to be greater than my complete lack of desire to expend any energy when playing video games. Seriously, fuck that thing, I used it about 2 times and put it away.
The biggest mistake I made in getting the activator was that somehow a novel control method was going to be greater than my complete lack of desire to expend any energy when playing video games. Seriously, fuck that thing, I used it about 2 times and put it away.
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