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Why Should It Take Two Hands To Play Videogames?

Posted by simoniker on from the stand-by-for-hilarity dept.

Thanks to StatePaper.com for their article discussing a Nebraska radio talk show host's plans to create a one-handed game controller. The host, Mike Reed, "has learned to play many of the games using a controller with only one hand", following an accident which happened when "an acquaintance at a party pointed a loaded .410-caliber shotgun at Reed [and fired]", leaving him with very limited use of his right arm. He says that "many games are impossible to play one-handed", and has "designed a dual-motion game controller that consolidates all movement, button response and directional function into a one-handed video game controller", although he and his partners "haven't built a prototype yet." In the meantime, are there any existing console controllers that might work for those only using one hand?

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  1. oh dear lord by Frac · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a brain overload from the amount of jokes you can make from this...

  2. News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In related news:
    "TECMO INC. release one handed XBOX controller for Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball."

  3. After all my FurryMuck experience by TerryAtWork · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can TYPE one-handed! Does that count?

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  4. Punishment fitting the crime by frenchgates · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't the moron who shot the guy have to BE his one-handed controller for the rest of his life? He should have to just stand by the guy's videogame console 24/7 in case he wants to play something, and then hold and operate the controller as the victim beats him with an idiot stick on different parts of his body to signal which buttons to push.

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  5. Accident? by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...following an accident which happened when "an acquaintance at a party pointed a loaded .410-caliber shotgun at Reed [and fired]"...

    Apparently this is some strange new usage of the word "accident" which I was previously unfamiliar with.

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    1. Re:Accident? by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Apparently this is some strange new usage of the word "accident" which I was previously unfamiliar with."

      Hey, y'all! Watch this!

  6. Re:One Handed PSOne Controller by zenintrude · · Score: 2, Funny

    The feet are vastly underutilized in gaming, relegated to simple acceleration / deceleration, but they are capable of far more than that.

    something like, i don't know, dancing?

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  7. Re:GBA-SP by Jerf · · Score: 2, Funny

    My original message: I can eat or do other tedious things with one hand while playing the game with another.

    Sexy Pant's reply: I bet it rocks your penis too!

    I wouldn't say that qualifies as a "tedious thing".

  8. Re:It may seem ironic or moronic... by KDan · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sure he didn't just swap the left and right speakers?? :-P

    Daniel

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  9. Re:Dance Dance Revolution by cgenman · · Score: 2, Funny

    DDR is *all* about acceleration.

    P.S. 10 feet. :)

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