It’s a pointless mess, and with only two games compatible with it, Gyromite and Stack-up, it didn’t take long for R.O.B. will often drop the spinning tops before moving them into place, and instructions sent to the unit are misread, or missed entirely. Not only is this a slow and laborious process, making for painfully slow game progression, but, more often than not, it doesn’t work. pick up and place spinning tops onto pressure pads that then, in turn, presses buttons on the controller. You see, instead of simply creating a robot that pushed individual buttons prompted by signals from the TV, Nintendo created an amazingly unwieldy and sluggish system that makes R.O.B. Well, that’s not unless you let one of your hardware boffins go crazy and over-engineer it, creating a nightmarish and overly complex system that could fail and almost any point. It would use existing optical technology, already used by light guns like Nintendo’s own Zapper, to receive signals, which would trigger it to press certain buttons on a standard NES pad.
A companion that could enable two-player titles with only one human, and could interact with, and actually control the game. Create a seemingly intelligent robotic buddy for gamers to play with. Surely one of Nintendo’s most ambitious projects, and one of its biggest misguided failures, R.O.B., or Robotic Operating Buddy, goes down in history as an idea that should have been killed off in the planning stage. Any gamer of the NES generation will remember this incredible piece of robotic plastic. It did though, and crazily enough, it isn’t all that bad, even if it is a silly premise.
Now we don’t know about you, but the last time we checked, driving a car is nothing like giving someone a Chinese burn, so it’s a mystery why this idea managed to make it into the light of day. It also features triggers used for accelerate and brake.
By twisting it, you can use the pad to turn the wheel of your vehicle, supposedly simulating a real driving experience. A standard game pad on the face of things, this PlayStation controller also features a twisting steering control situated in the middle of the pad. That’s just what this oddball controller from Namco does. What’s better for racing game fans than a game controller in the shape of a steering wheel? A game controller that makes the action of wringing out a wet towel into a driving mechanic, that’s what. never manage to catch their dinner with it. The motion control capabilities can even be used to control some other games in a limited fashion, including Namco’s Soul Calibur, although Siegfried, Taki and Co. Devices that are so outlandish, or just plain pointless that they deserve to be recognised, for good, and bad. Not all game controllers are created equal, however, and throughout gaming’s history, we’ve been treated to some of the most bizarre and downright crazy input devices ever created. There are few faults, and certainly nothing amazing about them, they simply do their job, which is the most important feature of any controller. These controllers tick all the boxes, being comfortable, functional and good all ’round devices. Game controllers have evolved a great deal from the one or two button pads and joysticks of yesteryear, and we’ve arguably found the pinnacle of the technology with the PlayStation’s DualShock, and the Xbox 360’s wireless pad. Of course, the controllers have to appeal to the end user too. All elements of the controller have to be meticulously planned and designed, taking into account ergonomics, functionality, future proofing, battery life, cost to produce, and much more. In order to create the perfect game controller, a huge amount of research and focus testing has to be performed.
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