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Nintendo's most-failingest peripherals

Each and every one will (not) change the way we play games

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US

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sbghost64 - 4 months 20 days ago

my cousin got me the camera for my birthday but i never got the printer... my cousin said he would get it for me but he never did... alls those pictures, wasted...

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Xeacons - 4 months 20 days ago

Actually, the only difference I see between many of these (mike, pad, drums) is that on the Xbox & PS lines, developers ACTUALLY USE THEM! Nintendo throws these out there for everyone, but nobody touches them. Then when MS or Sony copycats, gamers are on that like Gordon Freeman on a headcrab.
Which does add an omnious shadow to the Wii Motion Plus. So much potential in 1:1, but it's useless if no one develops for it...

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CORNHOL0 - 4 months 20 days ago

Chevelle's Send the Pain Below was on Donkey Konga!!? WTF!!?

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sixboxes - 4 months 20 days ago

No Power Glove? This list is a sham.

Okay it's still an epic list. But unless I'm missing something, this list is made for the power glove. And I say this after certainly developing some kind of tendinitis playing embarrassingly significant amounts of super glove ball.

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mad2man - 4 months 20 days ago

I had the E reader and transfer pack. E reader was crap but it did come with awesome looking Pokemon cards. And back then I only played Pokemon so being able to play that on my TV was just awesome.

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dweller - 4 months 20 days ago

I hated how the Super scope strained one eye closed. Fine for a couple of minutes, tortuous after an hour. Still shooting robots was awesome.

Ah, the Sega Menacer. I don't remember it getting much support. I thought the binoculars attachment was dumb.

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Life - 4 months 20 days ago

Ah, the transfer pak.

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Pyr0qvy - 4 months 20 days ago

Don't diss phantasy star, that game was awesome.(the remake of the dreamcast game, not the shitty card battle one)

I would love to have one of those broadband things for the gamecube so that i would finally be able to play it[PSO]online, but i wouldn't pay what they ask for it, its not worth that much.

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Ensoul - 4 months 20 days ago

In defense of the camera; it wasn't really that bad at the time. Plus it was supposed to be used with the transfer pak for a feature in Perfect Dark. Putting your mug in the game; which at the time was a pretty cool idea. I believe the "Official" word was they couldn't get the feature working correctly, but I'm sure the whole Columbine inncident had a lot more to do with it.

As for the E-reader, I was really surprised Nintendo didn't go the "free inside" cereal box route. There was also a Mario Party card game that used it, which was kinda fun; but even that didn't "need" the e-reader to play it.

I also liked the transfer pak at the time; trading my character back and forth between the N64 Mario Golf and the GBC one.

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jakeroks - 4 months 20 days ago

i still have my transfer pack, but i lost pokemon stadium

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iluvmyDS - 4 months 20 days ago

There's a Game Boy Camera and Printer on sale at the thrift shop in the next town over.

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iluvmyDS - 4 months 20 days ago

Oh and an e-reader, and a bunch of other things that are awesome and cheap.

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anduin1 - 4 months 20 days ago

ROB was awesome but yea most of those sucked and thankfully I don't own ANY of those

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Kaz993 - 4 months 20 days ago

I searched forever for a broadband adapter... Because if you love PSO, like me, you wanted one. I wish it hadn't been horribly mauled with no other uses.

Why did you show the episode 3 intro? that's the only PSO that didn't make sense online - it was a card game that the creator literally said was a frame that they tacked a series onto.

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solidsnake_5552000 - 4 months 20 days ago

I would have liked to have the super scoope 7. It looked awesome, but on that time I didn't have enough money to afford one. What a shame.

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waynski1457 - 4 months 20 days ago

I can't believe how many of these I own.
GB Camera + Printer (I'm sorry, but the Camera was actually very awesome)
N64 Mic (came with Pikachu N64 + game)
DK Bongos (I can actually beat a lv 1 AI on SSBMelee with this)

Ok, not that much, but 2/3 of them turned out fun. And I prefer DK Jungle Beat w/ the drums.

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gothicknight - 4 months 20 days ago

i had half that crap
and the only thing good a bout hey you pikachu was that you could swear at it and it would just look confused

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GamesRadarBrettElston - 4 months 20 days ago

For the record, I loved DKJB with the drums. Just happens that's the ONLY good game that used the bongos, so it's all faily. Scope 6 was fun too, just under supported.

@sixboxes - I did mention the Power Glove, in the intro, specifically how it won't be in this list as it was made by Mattel, not Nintendo.

But yes, it was terrrrrrrrible.

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CaptainHead - 4 months 20 days ago

Those bongos... sure sounds like all them guitar hero controllers u see everywhere now...

That transfer pack though, was that the thing they kept saying you'd be able to use a camera to put ur face into Perfect Dark? I was so looking forward to making ASSface until they removed the feature.

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