11 weird and wonderful console peripherals

11 weird and wonderful console peripherals

By Emma Boyle

With gaming, sometimes a standard controller just isn’t enough. Over the years we’ve seen game developers and console manufacturers try their best to add something a bit different to player experiences with peripherals that are either themed or designed to make a console stand apart from others on the market.

Sometimes these efforts prove fruitful and timely – like the wildly popular Guitar Hero axes – but sometimes they result in weirdness that was either before its time or not suited to any time at all.

Read on for a selection of some of the kookiest controllers we’ve ever had a chance to get our hands on.

There’s niche…and then there’s the Dreamcast fishing rod. Believe it or not this wasn’t the first or last gaming peripheral to have been created specifically for fishing games but it’s the only official first party one. Created by Sega for the Dreamcast, it was launched with Sega Bass Fishing.

The peripheral ended up being compatible with only six fishing games overall but it was also useable with, for …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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