Peripherals of badness!

[Crisp_Rapper]

i'm sure everyone here has purchased 3rd party goodies at some point or another, some things work superbly (like my old Snes Commander control pad) other things are really really poor quality (i had some huge rattly ps2 pad which my mum bought, bless her...)

this is a topic dedicated to kit you've bought/used/seen which has either been REALLY bad quality or just plain ugly.

i shall begin with this 'lovely' control pad i found looking for a picture of an old wwf wrestler called 'the berserker';



part of me thinks it's pretty cool in an 80's monster kind of way, the rest of me tells that part to shut the hell up.

do your worst (best?)

[in5ane]

Ever since being scarred by 3rd party, low quality 'programmable' joypads (which you don't seem to get anymore!) for the SNES, i don't think i've ever bought any unofficial add on

[seibu]

I had the Sega Master System 3D glasses.

The 3D effect was pretty good, but 40 quid??

http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/mallorcadisco/infoconsolas/fotos/SEGA/Master%20System/sms_3d.jpg

Plus there were only about five games for them. Amazing times #puffs imaginary pipe#.

[chopemon]

the resi 4 chainsaw controller redefinses stupidity. it almost works, they got so close, then the sticks are too far apart and the analogue stick is at an angle

did no one even try playing with it before they released it

[Kieran76]

I had the Sega Master System 3D glasses.

The 3D effect was pretty good, but 40 quid??

http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/...tem/sms_3d.jpg

Plus there were only about five games for them. Amazing times #puffs imaginary pipe#.

I had these as well, ****e they were. I got the pack with the light gun. I forced my folks to get me them and they were always moaning at me as to why I never used them. So I bought Space Harrier 3D to shut them up and it was ****e as well.

[Abhisara]

I once borrowed some 3D glasses and games off a friend. I thought they were alright.

A friend had a third party Mega Drive pad on which the D-pad was rotated by 45 degrees for some bizarre reason.

I had a third party SNES controller which was designed such that it was impossible to press both Start and Select at the same time which was useless for some games. Haven't bought any dodgy third party kit since then.

[Resonance]

Space Harrier 3D was damn hard. I thoght it was an okay game. Those glasses were damn uncomfortable tho. Made my nose hurt.

[mr_fantazmo]

Lets not forget that **** master sytem system joystick that was back to front!! (well for a right hander like me!!)

[Nijo]

That's the right way round for me, but I'm a cack-handed right-hander.

Dave Perry gave me some 3D glasses once. He had a truck load of them.

[anephric]

Speak not his name here.

[in5ane]

With a joystick 'round the wrong way' can't you use the same hands you normally would, just crossed over easch other. I think i had that Master System stick, but no memory of ever using it!

[mr_fantazmo]

With a joystick 'round the wrong way' can't you use the same hands you normally would, just crossed over easch other. I think i had that Master System stick, but no memory of ever using it!

Possibly but i never thought of that when i was younger!! Still think it's a pile of crap though, and funnily enough i've just noticed that the D pad and the buttons are the wrong way round on that pad that crisp rapper posted originally!!

Weird!!

[mr_fantazmo]

Dope the picture is upside down!!

I didn't even realise that it was a ps2 pad!!

[in5ane]

I had to look at it twice to realise what was going on with that PS2 pad!

[Pacman555]

Does anyone else remember that weird PSone controller thing that you had to strap to your hand? It was based on tilt, and sort of worked, but didn't have any point to it whatsoever. I think it was made by Gamester.

Nintendo Revolution prototype tbh