There are larger gaming enclosures out there in arcades, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a controller this big for a console game at home.
This "Extreme-style console controller" was created for a cult, but crappy Saturn game called Death Crimson (which was also rereleased in Japan on the PS2). If this weren't created for a museum display, we'd consider it a lot of work for a game where "you can expect to survive for under 30 seconds, literally," the first time you play.
According to this source, "This mammoth controller and mad game console is now going to be shipped to the EU for Art Exhibition in C21, from 11 February to 9 April 2006 (maybe) - a year-long cultural and community arts event in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, UK." Can anyone confirm if that's true? Whatever the case, it appears that Steel Battalion has lost its title as the game with the biggest custom controller (huge NES pads made for E3 notwithstanding).
[Thanks, White Rose Duelist]
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I would think, in the land of pseudo under age school girls running ramped showing there panties to everyone, that they could have come up with a much much better gett’in your freak on controller.
But hey who am I to say I need my meds anyway.
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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=8480
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Funny thing with this game (and only good part) was that during the cinimatic bits when you weren't supposed to shoot there'd be some flashing text in the bottom corner of the screen saying, "Hold your crimson!"
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I'm all about the anime references today.
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Double WTF.
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JR
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And yes from that position it does indeed look very much like she's humping that repulsive flying gnat.
Of course it could be that riding (no pun) on the creature's rear end is a perfectly G-rated and normal practice in this game. And considering the track record of Japanese anime that wouldn't surprise me. Not one bit.
Me, I'd far rather have a full suit of Spartan armour built around a pair of those LCD glasses with the controller buttons activated by touching the fingers against the glove palm (so as not to spoil the feeling). And I'll have that in a small please.
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