Every Gamer's Nightmare: Taming the Tangled Cord Beast

Noooooo! The nightmare has begun.

After 20 minutes of careful threading, yanking and pulling, I whittled it down to this. Still so smashed together that you can dangle it all without anything falling out. Disgusting. Now, what strangeness might we find in here?

NES controller with "Happy 1993!" sticker from an issue of Nintendo Power. B Button doesn't work. Great!

Cheat to Win!(TM) with this vintage ASCII Pad. Only fools would dare play Mega Man X with a non-turbo controller. It also rattles when you shake it, the true mark of any classic controller.

Look, it's cutting edge infrared technology from Nintendo! No, not the Wii Remote, it's the Super Scope 6's sensor box from 1992.

Isn't it great waiting 14 years for marginally enhanced, tacky peripherals?

You can see the infrared shame.

Bouquet of Obsolescence. Also the name of the next Castlevania.

Brett Elston

A fomer Executive Editor at GamesRadar, Brett also contributed content to many other Future gaming publications including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Brett has worked at Capcom in several senior roles, is an experienced podcaster, and now works as a Senior Manager of Content Communications at PlayStation SIE.