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Tony Hawk Ride - trailer featuring gameplay and board from Activision In video game history, 2009 was the intersection of the “motion control all the things!” and “fake plastic instruments everywhere” eras, so the Tony Hawk skateboard peripheral must have seemed like a no-brainer. Released with Tony Hawk: Ride , the plastic skateboard was meant as a real controller, not a gimmicky collectible: It featured two accelerometers, four motion sensors, and you couldn’t play Ride without it. This was serious gaming stuff, and the $120 price tag reflected it. Ride and the controller were not successful, and that’s an understatement. Non-intuitive, confusing, and just kind of lame, the controller and game were relegated to the bargain rack, where they remain to this day. You can buy the Wii version for $20 . https://www.tausiinsider.com/12-of-the-weirdest-video-game-peripherals-ever-made/?feed_id=328798&_unique_id=64285d3a1dea6

Photo : robtek ( Shutterstock ) We’ll never truly get to relive the ‘ 90s again, but technology is getting us pretty darn close. This moment, you could be sitting in your modern home in 2022, surrounded by iPhones, big screen OLED TVs, and smart gadgets of all kinds, all the while experiencing a room decked out with classic posters, old-school TVs, and retro games filling every corner of the bookshelves. It’s not magic: It’s Emu VR . EmuVR recreates the 90s bedroom of your dreams, allowing you to play one of more than 70 different classic consoles one on TV, while watching retro cartoons on another. Because EmuVR is, at its core, an emulator, you can play games from a wide range of platforms, including PlayStation, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Sega Dreamcast, SNES, NES, and even more modern consoles like Wii. The coolest part of EmuVR, in my opinion, is it recreates the gaming experience down to the smallest detail. You don’t pick your games from some in-game UI, or dig through your Win...

Tony Hawk Ride - trailer featuring gameplay and board from Activision In video game history, 2009 was the intersection of the “motion control all the things!” and “fake plastic instruments everywhere” eras, so the Tony Hawk skateboard peripheral must have seemed like a no-brainer. Released with Tony Hawk: Ride , the plastic skateboard was meant as a real controller, not a gimmicky collectible: It featured two accelerometers, four motion sensors, and you couldn’t play Ride without it. This was serious gaming stuff, and the $120 price tag reflected it. Ride and the controller were not successful, and that’s an understatement. Non-intuitive, confusing, and just kind of lame, the controller and game were relegated to the bargain rack, where they remain to this day. You can buy the Wii version for $20 . https://news.winestle.com/12-of-the-weirdest-video-game-peripherals-ever-made/?feed_id=330195&_unique_id=63b92a0e303a9