Peripherals

 Arkanoid Controller

This was  a peripheral for the N.E.S. too. The hit Arkanoid Controller was obviously for playing the Famicom/N.E.S. video game Arkanoid. 

ASCII Stick L5 

Despite it's extremley long name of importance, this controller did not do that much. Nope, it wasn't very significant, even though I like it. It was just a one handed controller for the Famicom.

 N.E.S. Advantage

The N.E.S. Advantage was one of my favorite peripherals for the N.E.S. As you can see, it was a form of joystick that was well, an advantage to the Nintendo Entertainment System. The N.E.S. Advantage was released around mid 1985 wiht the Nintendo Action Set. Unlike a normal Nintendo controller, it took up two controller ports instead of one.

Nintendo Zapper

The Nintendo Zapper is my second most favorite peripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Along with the N.E.S. Advantadge, it too came with the Nintendo Action Set. This game was mainly used for Duck Hunt, which was released in 1985 in the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge that came with Nintendo Entertainment System.

N.E.S. MAX 

The N.E.S. MAX was something that I myself didn't know about for quite some time. The N.E.S. is a very fun controller to use though, for it has two, count them, two turbo fire buttons to use. Not only that, but the joypad is very comfortable on one's thumbs, and is easy to use.

 Nintendo Power Glove

The Nintendo Power Glove was released in the summer of 1989. It was one of Nintendo's first virtual devices made. There only  a few games that were compatible with the Nintendo Power Glove, and they weren't the type of video games that would be seen on a virtual peripheral. Instead of the video games having extremely advanced graphics way ahead of their time, the Nintendo Power Glove was only compatible with Nintendo Entertainment System game cartridges.

Europe and Austrailia Super Nintendo Entertainment System Controller

I remember stumbly upon one of these at a party at two a.m. I was very surprised that my friend was able to get a hold of one of thes e in America. The European version isn't much different looking though. It is my favorite though because it has a Super Famicom look to it.

Super Famicom Satellaview

Now this is one peripheral that I haven't even heard of. It is pretty uncommon itself in NA because it was for the Super Famicom. The Satellaview allowed users to connect to the satellite radio station St. GIGA, for updates on Super Famicom video games.

 XBAND

The XBAND is very similar to the Super Famicom Satellaview. Instead of being released in Europe and Austrailia and places of the such, XBAND was released here in NA. God Bless America for it's awesome game peripherals. XBAND was far a head of it's time(thus explains why it is also for the Sega Genesis.) XBAND, in it's shortly lived life, allowed gamers to compete with other gamers across the country. Very similar to today's Wi-Fi and Xbox Live.                        

Nerf Wii Sports Peripherals

These perhiperals are currently new for the Wii. They make playing Wii sports a lot more fun and give a realistic feel to each sport played. All the player has to do is insert the Wii remote into the peripheral that is most appropriate for the sport.

Commodore Datassette

This is my favorite of all of Commodore's peripherals. The Commodore Datassette was like no other cassette player. Instead of playing music, it stored memory for Commodore 16-32 bit computers. It was basically a really awesome oversized flash drive for Commodore computers.

Commodore 1541 Floppy Disk Drive

This was yet another nifty peripheral for the Commodore 64, along with the Datassette. The Commodore 1541 Floppy Disk drive obviously played floppy disks. It was an amazingly slow disk drive. Ironically enough, that is what made the 1541 famous. Whenever I use one of these, I'll go and grab a cup of coffee in my car and come back, and it still might be loading. Which brings up the famous saying to "grab a cup of hot chocolate milk" while the disk drive is loading. These gadgets are so cool though. I don't care what people say, I love this disk drive as much as I love my laptop. (which is a lot, it's an IBM Thinkpad)

Commdore 1350 Mouse

Of all of the failures of products that Commodore produced, it made up for it by creating awesome simple peripherals like this one, the Commdore 1350 mouse. It is basically you simple mouse, with the right and left click button option. The Super Nintendo mimicked this style with their mouse for Mario Paint.

 Commodore MPS 801 Printer

Old or new, no computer company is complete without a line of printers. Commodore produced their own line of printers in the 80's. This is the most creativity I have ever seen put into a printing device though. Today, you have your lazer lightning speed printers (I won't lie, I have one too!) But this, was something else. To print out graphics and colors, it used four tiny ball-point ink pens. I mean, come on. ink pens! It's like, the ultimate improvization!

Commodore 1702 Color Computer Monitor

This has to be my favorite peripheral for the Commodore 64. My second favorite is the Datassette. Despite it's crappy quality, I found this to be pretty nifty for the Commodore 64. There isn't that much to say about it, it displayed 8 or 16-bit graphics, and performed the functions of your standard 80's monitor.

 Atari 400 Data Cassette Drive

The Atari 400 Data Cassette Drive was very similar to the Commodore Datassette. Though I prefer Atari. This cassette player wasn't just used to store data. It could store data, and audio, and speech, and pictures.

Atari Space Age Joystick

Sorry about the eh..squished image. Anyway, these were really cool. The Atari Space Age Joystick was a peripheral for the Atari 2600. It looks sort of like  a gadget one would find on Star Trek. Asteroids is a good video game to use these controllers on.