PERIPHERAL VISION: VIRTUAL BOY CONTROLLER
Virtual Boy Controller
» PLATFORM: VIRTUAL BOY » RELEASED: 1996 » COST: £N/A (LAUNCH, BUNDLED WITH CONSOLE), £20+ (TODAY, UNBOXED)
As a noted oddity, the Virtual Boy also sports an odd controller. Nintendo opted for a perfectly symmetrical design for this peripheral, with two d-pads, four face buttons and two rear buttons. While this allowed for left-handed players to adopt reversed controls where possible, which was a welcome feature, the bigger reason for including a second d-pad was to give players proper control over objects in 3D space. Of course, with the Virtual Boy’s library featuring so few games, this functionality was rarely exploited in practice.