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Seven Failed Foot-Based Game Controllers
Ant writes "GamePro.com says the path to Wii Fit's success was paved with a slew of failed foot-based controllers. Here are seven particularly awful ones that are currently collecting dust in the attics of gamers worldwide."
Same with the DDR pads. While they aren't quite as cool as the ones on the arcade machine, they also don't cost thousands of dollars. I've used them on occasion, and they work pretty good. Even for people who are serious about DDR. Maybe if you're one of those tournament DDR players these things don't cut it. But for how use, they do the job just fine.
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#2 the Arcade Mx body force. They say it was only demonstrated at CES.
yes lets make a top xyz list of silly ideas and mention items that weren't ever sold? wtf. Companies are allowed to experiment, granted it should have been obvious on paper it wouldn't work.
These top 10 (or 7 or 8..) lists always seem to make stretches so they can have content.
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Some of you guys are forgetting our disabled friends in the gaming crowd.
There's a fellow over at shacknews who has lost the ability to do much with one hand (if I recall) and I always feel for the guy when I hear about things like this, it must be so difficult to enjoy a good game when you're using a controller with one hand (that being said he's still finished some pretty awesome games)
I can imagine a good engineer could whip up some kind of combo controller which supports both feet one hand and an elbow perhaps to get yourself some fairly good controls but of course the market is so small, it's not made, so these people just sit ignored sadly.
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So be thankful you have what you have when some of you make jokes on such a topic.