Mammoth Saturn controller takes custom console crown
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gonzo @ Mar 10th 2006 6:07PM
I built something even cooler once for katamari damacy. The poor kid next door will never walk again though.
Ian @ Mar 10th 2006 6:10PM
I love the tiny T.V. with it.
hiroprotagonist @ Mar 10th 2006 6:13PM
Call me sycophantic with a narcissistic rage problem, my doctor does, but you have to get your freak on with a giant flying bug to control the game. No wonder you get killed so fast.
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 gettin your freak on controller.
But hey who am I to say I need my meds anyway.
Dan Choi @ Mar 10th 2006 6:34PM
Just remember: "giant electronic novelties are a great way to entertain people at otherwise dull cocktail parties." =)
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=8480
Guises @ Mar 10th 2006 7:05PM
If you wanted a gun based game for dreamcast, there weren't a whole lot of choices.
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!"
Einhanderkiller @ Mar 10th 2006 7:11PM
So to use it, you have to hump it?
Ryuukuro @ Mar 10th 2006 9:04PM
That looks like a reject from RahXephon being used by a frumpy Chobit.
I'm all about the anime references today.
i24 @ Mar 10th 2006 9:09PM
uhm....can anyone explain to me why the player is wearing a maid's dress?
Momus @ Mar 10th 2006 9:10PM
I wish I were a big humpable controller. Lol.
Pretty Obvious @ Mar 11th 2006 5:33AM
WTF???
DCSimian @ Mar 11th 2006 9:35AM
#10...QFT!
Franklin @ Mar 11th 2006 11:14AM
That's not a "player" -- that's a anime mannequin dressed in a Victorian maid outfit.
Double WTF.
ManekiNeko @ Mar 11th 2006 8:49PM
The sad irony is, the game that controller was built for was the worst released on the Saturn, and quite possibly the worst light gun game ever made. It's like building a towering monument to an Uwe Boll film, or the television series Small Wonder.
JR
Garrett @ Mar 12th 2006 5:24AM
First off, what muscles do you need to move that thing? Since this is apparently a lightgun game(?) you'd need to, however even if it's hollow plastic I can't imagine it's very light. That wouldn't help your ingame survival odds either.
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.