Collection of strange and obscure Famicom peripherals, controllers

by Eric Caoili on May 21st 2008 1:15PM

It's astounding that, despite all the eBay auctions we've followed and Nintendo oddities we've researched, there are still so many Famicom accessories out there that we've never seen, much less heard of. Thankfully, an obsessive Japanese collector has put up a page documenting these rare controllers and peripherals, like Hori RF adapters and Disk System cleaning sprays. Check out the Hyper Shot Zapper-clone pictured above -- can you believe that Bandai made a submachine gun for the Famicom? Jump past the post break for more Famicom odds and ends.

Nintendo's answer to the Sega Master System's 3-D Glasses.

Isn't this Sanwa stick beautiful? Chasing the Neo Geo Stick 2 has become second priority, now that we know about this fantastic piece. Apparently, there's a whole world of Famicom joysticks and third-party controllers that we never knew about.

They had inflatable motorcycle controllers back then? Where's our inflatable kart controller?

[Via Kotaku]

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Tags: 3d-system, arcade, bandai, black, exciting-boxing, famicom, hyper-shot, konami, mr-joy, sanwa, sharp, stick, top-rider, varie

Reader Comments (3)

"Sit on the sore knob of Mr Joy."

If I was a copywriter that'd be how I'd sell that arcade stick.

what we really need is a good wii gun. the issue for most is the fact that getting the wiimote buttons to where you can hit them with your firing hand not the other hand that is holding the nunchuck, To solve this is easy just put the wiimote into the pistol grip, I think that if you used a rifle or short barreled shotgun design it would work better the trick then is the wiimote is tilted and not directly pointing at the sincer bar, I figure fill the berral of the gun with mirrors to reflex the light into the ir sincer but i cant find anything out there i can use like a calidascoop kinda thing, anyone good with mirror bounce light rays math or have anyideas on how to do it? (yes this idea has been patinded bhy one of those keep internet companys that will for $50 patintied so please dont try to steal it)

I loved the hell out of my Advantage, so I don't know why anybody would buy an add-on shell like that. Seriously, the thing felt like you could club somebody to death with it -- and it had independent turbo and slow-mo switches! Sure, the slow-mo was a terrible idea (toggled rapid-fire start button), but I don't hold that against them.