MTV Sports: Snowboarding

MTV Sports: Snowboarding In the mid to late 90s sports video games were an open market. It was a time when seemingly any company could publish whatever sports title they wanted, which kept EAvil companies from monopolizing every sport known to humanity. This was good for the consumer as it meant developers actually had to try harder with […]

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Peripheral Vision: ASCII Pad PS No.800 Controller

Peripheral Vision: ASCII Pad PS No.800 Controller Along side the Interact Barracuda and Nuby’s “The Rock”, there sits yet another controller I own for the Playstation that baffles me as to how it passed the R&D stage. I’m more familiar with ASCIIWare’s SNES and Genesis era controllers, and many of them are actually really nice. The slim, boxy design of the PS […]

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Peripheral Vision: Interact Barracuda

Peripheral Vision: Interact Barracuda If you’ve read a portion of my other Peripheral Vision posts you’ll know I have quite a few strange video game controllers. One of the strangest among the collection is my Interact Barracuda. Compared to all the other oddities I own this is an absolute unit. I’m a grown man with grown man hands I […]

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Eternal Eyes

Eternal Eyes In the age of Pokemon’s success everyone was looking for their slice of the pie. While Hudson Soft and Atlas were busy publishing Robopon to try and take down Game Freak’s behemoth other companies were trying to catch the trend curve and see where they might fit in. Sun Corporation quietly sat back and when […]

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Peripheral Vision: Sony’s Dual Analog

Peripheral Vision:  Sony’s Dual Analog Before the success of Sony’s DualShock series, there was another controller that looked slightly similar by the name of the Dual Analog. The Dual Analog was released in Japan in 1997, alongside a pair of compatible games, Bushido Blade and Tobal 2. The controller was advertised as giving more precise controls, with a rumble feature […]

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Auto Destruct

Auto Destruct As a teenager the Sony Playstation was my favorite console and I simply couldn’t get enough of what it had to offer. While perusing a rental store I found a game that caught my eye by the name of Auto Destruct. On the back of the box I read: “Your family was murdered by a […]

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