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The Not-So-Secret History of Video Game Peripherals

February 26, 2010 in Blog comments 3

A funny look back at how Natal, Sony's Wand, and the Wiimote have all been tried before. Even Xbox Live existed in a 16-bit form. Time to travel back to what we once thought would be the future.

Maybe you've seen them at your local video game shop: piles of odd looking plug-ins, add-ons, and thingamajiggers in the corner collecting dust, over-excited proclamations screaming from their worn boxes -- "FULL BODY ACTION!" "Everything else is child's play!" "Now nothing comes between you and the game!"

What are they? Gaming's forgotten history, that's what. A history that could possibly repeat itself with the heaps of futuristic peripherals coming out from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.
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    plushy1anthony_9_9 Feb 28, 10
    Ahh, all these old gadgets remind me of other failures of trying to spice up gaming, like R.O.B.
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    Paradox Feb 28, 10
    We'll be looking down on future projects in a couple of years....
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    Ech0ez Feb 28, 10
    'Futuristic peripherals'?

    We've got a fancy webcam, a sex toy, a remote known for destroying televisions and then a load of random peripherals for the Wii which amount to plastic tennis rackets, wheels, toy lightsabers and so forth.

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