Worst / Dumbest Gaming Accessories Ever

OK if you ever been duped into buying something that was so terrible that you wanted to cry or just remember some stupid gadget that came out, post it up here.


Here's one of my all-time favorite horrible attempts, The Nintendo Power Glove...

This thing was soo horrible. In the end it was most famous for its feature length commercial in the Fred Savage movie "The Wizard". This thing did absolutely nothing it was supposed to do. It caused a lot of frustration and probably a few dislocated shoulders from kids trying to play Mike Tyson's Punchout. You had to wait for the thing to re-calibrate after every movement. This is definitely one for the record.

To be fair, it was this idea that utimately became the motion control component in the Wii (with a few modifications of course). I guess you could just say they just tried it about twenty five years too soon.

Here's another one from Nintendo. I'd apologize to Nintendo, but hey they're the ones who made this stuff!

The Power Pad...

Here's another example of a failed attempt that later contributed to what became part of the Wii motion sensor idea. As it was the average consumer just thought it was a big electronic Twister mat.

The Konami LaserScope was a head-mounted light gun with a microphone and a crosshair that covered one eye (pirate style).

Released in 1990, The LaserScope was manufactured specifically for one Konami game, Laser Invasion. Not surprisingly, it didn`t become much of a success.

With the controller on your head, all you need to do is shout "fire!" into the microphone to fire a shot at the screen, while aiming with the headset's crosshair. It also has built-in headphones that a person would connect to the NES audio port for the video game sounds. It should work with any Lightgun compatible games.

My parents bought me the headset and were pissed that they had to spend the $100 on the headgear only to findout that it didn't come with the Laser Invasion game. I really wish I had video footage of me playing hours upon hours of Duck Hunt wearing this headset screaming "BANG, BANG, BANG" into the microphone. That would definitley be worth more than the headset.

That reminds me there was also a couple new headsets back in 97 98, kinda like the laser set but it could play like mortal kombat and stuff like that

Speaking of Mortal Kombat, do you remember this one?

The Sega Activator







The idea:
Finally you'll be able to feel like you're part of the game. When you punch, your guy punches, when you kick, your guy kicks and when you do a jump kick you'd finally be a little closer to becoming an international super-ninja.

The Reality:
Released in 1993 when Sega had an incredible 65 percent market share in the video game industry, the Activator seemed like a gift from the video game gods, sent decades ahead of its time. No more clunky A, B, Up, B, for finishing moves in Mortal Kombat. Just reach on down to the ground and whip your arm back up to remove your opponent's spine.

Well, no. Instead of button mashing you had to move your arms into one of the eight quadrants that made up the activator.

So to do Sub-Zero's fatality instead of pressing Forward, Down, Forward, A, you just had to throw a punch exactly in front of you, then one exactly behind you, another in front, and then one more punch behind you on either side.


Kano's finishing move combo? Turn, pivot, slide, jazz hands.

Even if you did move your arm at the right time and in the right area you had to deal with your ceiling screwing everything up. Yes, if you didn't have a low, flat ceiling without ceiling fan and no ceiling lights/chandelier, then you couldn't use the Activator because all the magical infrared beams would get distorted.

See, back then, this stuff was CRAZY high technology but now, all you can do is laugh at it.

Especially since it all cost around $100 and none of it worked worth a crap!!!