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Games with wacky controls
jimjim:
I remember a game that I had to look up called submarine. You would launch torpedoes at battleships.
A cool game that Sega made for the Dreamcast and was in the arcades is Virtual On. It used two joysticks.
clhug:
--- Quote from: jimjim on April 17, 2006, 08:02:04 pm ---I remember a game that I had to look up called submarine. You would launch torpedoes at battleships.
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That sounds like Sea Wolf. One of my favorites as a kid and definitely an odd control. It basically mimicked looking through a periscope in a submarine and could move it back and fourth and pressed a fire button the handles of the periscope to launch your torpedoes at the right time. Very simple game but looking through the periscope somehow added another dimension to it. I suppose today you could mimic the play with a rotary stick or even a trackball, but it just wouldn't be the same without actually looking through the periscope.
PetitMorte:
Mad Planets uses a Tron setup. trigger stick + a spinner to aim.
Also, my local Gamewerks has a nifty fighter game where you stand against a blue-screen and have to *actually* jump, throw punches and kicks, and move forward and back to control your character. ...My wife regularly kicks ---my bottom--- at that game. She's figured out how to do the "little girl" character's killer move. It's emberassing. :'(
StuckInJapan:
Tracked down pictures of "Inu No Osanpo" by Sega,
a dog-walking game where you had to actually walk on a treadmill
while using a leash-shaped controller to guide your dog through
various obstacles.
danny_galaga:
youd have to say dance dance revolution has pretty funny controls (",) and whats that game where you wave your hands to music? theres also the game where you hold a boxing glove and punch into the air to hit your opponent...