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Game Over: The Worst Video Game Accessories Ever

by Warren Riddle on June 21, 2009 at 02:01 PM

Video game manufacturers have always attempted to market gaming accessories, but some of those products proved to be colossal disasters, completely worthless or just awesomely bad. DVICE investigated some of those console peripherals, and selected six that could be the worst accessories of all gaming time.

While some of the choices just failed sales-wise and never caught on, they did pave the way for current popular products. The Nintendo Power Pad served as a predecessor to the touch pad used for the enormously popular Dance Dance Revolution. Similarly, the Nintendo Power Glove, which was laughably ridiculous at the time, is now succeeded by the motion controls of the Wii remote and nunchuk.

Still, a couple of the choices were truly terrible, like the dubiously named Rez Trance Vibrator for PlayStation 2, with an intended function that was never clearly defined. Other devices should have probably garnered mention as well, specifically Nintendo's Roll & Rocker, which, even though it may have helped spawn the Wii Fit balance board, didn't seem to work with any game.

While the idea was really cool (and used similar sensor technology as the Wii pointer) the Nintendo Super Scope bazooka also disappointed, but maybe that was because we could only find one game for it. Nintendo, who seems to lead the way in the absurd (see the voice-activated LaserScope) or ahead of their time products, also developed an incredible hands-free controller at the end of the '80s, but the mechanism never received the attention it deserved.

A wealth of worthless, and overlooked, gaming gadgets exist, so if we missed anything gathering dust in your basement, let us know. [From: DVICE]

Tags: accessories, fail, peripherals, top, VideoGameConsolePeripherals

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