Don't Touch This Horror Of A NES Controller
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
This is the U-Force. It’s a motion-control peripheral released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the late 1980’s. In some ways, it’s an amazing piece of technology. In most other ways, it was an absolute disaster. Unlike Sega’s rival Activator peripheral, which we looked at the other day, [[link]] the U-Force was not a full-body motion-sensing rig. Instead, it was designed to read only the player’s hands and arms, translating their gestures into control pad inputs.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); https://kotaku.com/sega-tried-kinect-once-and-it-didnt-go-so-well-5748382 It was released in 1989 after a promising CES debut, and while it was a Nintendo Entertainment System controller, it was not a product of the Japanese company. It was instead the work of Brøderbund, the classic (and sadly now defunct) publisher of PC games like Prince of Persia, Myst and Carmen Sandiego. The U-Force was part of a brief attempt by the company to dip into the home console business, which saw them publish a number of NES games. While some of those were a success, the same could not be said of its sole attempt at console hardware, the U-Force. Looking like a futuristic version of Battleship (or a GIANT Nintendo DS), the U-Force comprised of two “screens” which used infared to register the movement of a player’s hands “over” them. These movements would then, in theory, be turned into in-game actions. For example, if you were playing Punch-Out and wanted to move left, [[link]] you’d move your hands left and the U-Force would respond. Or, it would if it worked. Which the U-Force did not. Getting the device to accurately detect a player’s movements was something
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