The "General Games Chat" forum, which includes Retro Game Reviews, has been archived and is now read-only. You cannot post here or create a new thread or review on this forum.
There is no shortage of accessories aimed at enhancing your gaming pleasure, from the obvious Light Gun add on for shooting games, to the more niche items such as flight sticks and fishing rods. Think about it, ten years ago, who would have thought that there would be dance mats for home use? Coming up with the right novelty accessory could make a fortune, so below are a few ideas:
The Fear Effect: Some videogames try their hardest to be as scary as possible (think Resident Evil, Silent Hill etc.), but unfortunately, some people may think that these games are too frightening and so wouldn’t play the game, and others may feel that the game is quite simply boring and would find it extremely difficult to enjoy the game properly as its not making them jump. The poor videogame company gets hit by a two pronged barrage of complaints, half saying the game is too scary, and the other half saying that it wasn’t frightening enough. To overcome this problem, the fear effect was created. On the outside it may look little more than a sweatband and a nappy, but probe deeper and you would find that they are in fact highly sensitive measuring devices, that alter the amount of tension and fear in the game to match the individual gamers preferences, trying to keep sweating and other bodily secretions within a set parameter, ensuring that everyone who play the game has a similarly scary experience. Alternate uses for these sophisticated sensory units (specifically the nappies motion detectors) would be to ensure the ‘action’ in titles such as BMX XXX is geared to the right audience.
Beat Maniac: Every time a martial arts movie comes out, everyone who’s seen it seems to think that they have somehow picked up all the knowledge needed to achieve a black belt, similarly every time a Rocky movie came out, audiences came out thinking they could win the world title if they wanted to. And more recently, when the WWF (now WWE) was at the peak of its popularity, there were a lot of backyard wrestlers and the like who thought that they knew how to wrestle as they’d seen it on TV. The beat maniac is just the accessory for them, based on the box man trainer that some gyms have, it is essentially a mannequin packed with sensors, which register when you hit it, and so you can show off your abilities to your friends. However I do see problems with this product, namely complaints from parents whose kids buy the deluxe version that fights back, or those who find their kids using it with unendorsed games with names like Erotomania 6900.
Homework Hand: This is an accessory with a difference, it doesn’t enhance your gaming pleasure, it allows you to play games, while the fully automised hand does your homework, giving you plenty of time to play your favourite games. Sadly this too will likely get banned when patches are released making it compatible with Erotomania 6900.
The Bat: No not the controller for an Osbournes game, but a baseball bat for baseball games. Special attachments will be available for Cricket and tennis games. A major selling point will be its compatibility with the beat maniac and Streets Of Rage 4. Sadly this too is doomed to be banned when developers forget to make special amendments to the two player versus mode, and many Fear Effect units are overloaded.
The Food Tube/Toilet Drain: With games becoming more and more realistic, and more and more epic in scale, its becoming harder and harder for gamers to rip themselves away from their consoles to eat food or go to the toilet, this left our nations hospitals swarmed by cases of gaming related malnutrition and bladder bustings. Seeing a potential money spinner several games companies release rival food tubes and toilet drains that allow the gamer to both receive nourishment and relieve themselves from the comfort of their seats while not interrupting their games playing. However the products were forced to be pulled off the shelves when the rival companies resort to cut throat tactics to gain dominance of the market, and whether the results were due to cheap manufacturing or sabotage by competitors, the mix up over which tube was which meant that a lot of customers were both left with a bad taste in their mouth and found the whole ordeal a pain in the bottom.
3D Scanners: With design a character modes becoming more and more advanced, a 3D scanner would allow the player to scan themselves, their pets or whatever they want into their games. This would be a huge hit especially with fans of first person shooters and wrestling fans who have always wanted to see themselves in a game. However, things go wrong for the manufacturers when they are hit with a lawsuit when a hacker makes the final code of the tweenies game feature real buttheads as the main characters. The lawsuit is not from the games characters or from concerned parents, but from an insurance company – the said butts in the game belonged to one Jennifer Lopez, whose posterior was insured with the said insurance company for $1,000,000. The unfortunate lawsuit which was similar to those levied against various file sharing software providers, charged the manufacturers of the 3d scanner with aiding people to break copyright laws. So in the end, the 3D scanner was yet another invention squashed by Ms. Lopez’ rather amp behind.
Windows XB: Microsoft, not content with trying to annihilate the competition by buying out all the games developers, try to make the leap from merely evil sadists to purely satanic hate mongers release the update for the X box which finally reveals the truth, that the X Box was really a PC pretending to be a games console. Also hidden inside this operating system is a secret virus, that becomes activated when playing multi format online games, it infects the rival consoles with the Trojan horse style virus that waits on the rivals hard drives waiting for the user to log off, at which time an animated Bill Gates pops up mooning those unfortunate enough to have contracted the virus, that has become known as the Steve Jobs virus, after it was found that the animation was based on a video conference call from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs when Microsoft bought out Apple.
Well, that’s all that I can think of for now, if I think of any others I’ll post them in here again, and please feel free to contribute your suggestions for both new accessories, and alternate uses for the above. Hope you enjoyed the post.
The Fear Effect: Some videogames try their hardest to be as scary as possible (think Resident Evil, Silent Hill etc.), but unfortunately, some people may think that these games are too frightening and so wouldn’t play the game, and others may feel that the game is quite simply boring and would find it extremely difficult to enjoy the game properly as its not making them jump. The poor videogame company gets hit by a two pronged barrage of complaints, half saying the game is too scary, and the other half saying that it wasn’t frightening enough. To overcome this problem, the fear effect was created. On the outside it may look little more than a sweatband and a nappy, but probe deeper and you would find that they are in fact highly sensitive measuring devices, that alter the amount of tension and fear in the game to match the individual gamers preferences, trying to keep sweating and other bodily secretions within a set parameter, ensuring that everyone who play the game has a similarly scary experience. Alternate uses for these sophisticated sensory units (specifically the nappies motion detectors) would be to ensure the ‘action’ in titles such as BMX XXX is geared to the right audience.
Beat Maniac: Every time a martial arts movie comes out, everyone who’s seen it seems to think that they have somehow picked up all the knowledge needed to achieve a black belt, similarly every time a Rocky movie came out, audiences came out thinking they could win the world title if they wanted to. And more recently, when the WWF (now WWE) was at the peak of its popularity, there were a lot of backyard wrestlers and the like who thought that they knew how to wrestle as they’d seen it on TV. The beat maniac is just the accessory for them, based on the box man trainer that some gyms have, it is essentially a mannequin packed with sensors, which register when you hit it, and so you can show off your abilities to your friends. However I do see problems with this product, namely complaints from parents whose kids buy the deluxe version that fights back, or those who find their kids using it with unendorsed games with names like Erotomania 6900.
Homework Hand: This is an accessory with a difference, it doesn’t enhance your gaming pleasure, it allows you to play games, while the fully automised hand does your homework, giving you plenty of time to play your favourite games. Sadly this too will likely get banned when patches are released making it compatible with Erotomania 6900.
The Bat: No not the controller for an Osbournes game, but a baseball bat for baseball games. Special attachments will be available for Cricket and tennis games. A major selling point will be its compatibility with the beat maniac and Streets Of Rage 4. Sadly this too is doomed to be banned when developers forget to make special amendments to the two player versus mode, and many Fear Effect units are overloaded.
The Food Tube/Toilet Drain: With games becoming more and more realistic, and more and more epic in scale, its becoming harder and harder for gamers to rip themselves away from their consoles to eat food or go to the toilet, this left our nations hospitals swarmed by cases of gaming related malnutrition and bladder bustings. Seeing a potential money spinner several games companies release rival food tubes and toilet drains that allow the gamer to both receive nourishment and relieve themselves from the comfort of their seats while not interrupting their games playing. However the products were forced to be pulled off the shelves when the rival companies resort to cut throat tactics to gain dominance of the market, and whether the results were due to cheap manufacturing or sabotage by competitors, the mix up over which tube was which meant that a lot of customers were both left with a bad taste in their mouth and found the whole ordeal a pain in the bottom.
3D Scanners: With design a character modes becoming more and more advanced, a 3D scanner would allow the player to scan themselves, their pets or whatever they want into their games. This would be a huge hit especially with fans of first person shooters and wrestling fans who have always wanted to see themselves in a game. However, things go wrong for the manufacturers when they are hit with a lawsuit when a hacker makes the final code of the tweenies game feature real buttheads as the main characters. The lawsuit is not from the games characters or from concerned parents, but from an insurance company – the said butts in the game belonged to one Jennifer Lopez, whose posterior was insured with the said insurance company for $1,000,000. The unfortunate lawsuit which was similar to those levied against various file sharing software providers, charged the manufacturers of the 3d scanner with aiding people to break copyright laws. So in the end, the 3D scanner was yet another invention squashed by Ms. Lopez’ rather amp behind.
Windows XB: Microsoft, not content with trying to annihilate the competition by buying out all the games developers, try to make the leap from merely evil sadists to purely satanic hate mongers release the update for the X box which finally reveals the truth, that the X Box was really a PC pretending to be a games console. Also hidden inside this operating system is a secret virus, that becomes activated when playing multi format online games, it infects the rival consoles with the Trojan horse style virus that waits on the rivals hard drives waiting for the user to log off, at which time an animated Bill Gates pops up mooning those unfortunate enough to have contracted the virus, that has become known as the Steve Jobs virus, after it was found that the animation was based on a video conference call from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs when Microsoft bought out Apple.
Well, that’s all that I can think of for now, if I think of any others I’ll post them in here again, and please feel free to contribute your suggestions for both new accessories, and alternate uses for the above. Hope you enjoyed the post.
Ok, I would have comented constructively, but I had to use my "sumo in a shopping trolley" comment.
Basically your initial idea was good, as was your first example. The others were fairly medioka until the last one which was also alright.
It would have been a very good post if all of the examples had been like the first or last ones, however they werent, and I am entitled to my opinion.
I hope this constructive criticism is taken a bit better than my preceeding comment.
Basically your initial idea was good, as was your first example. The others were fairly medioka until the last one which was also alright.
It would have been a very good post if all of the examples had been like the first or last ones, however they werent, and I am entitled to my opinion.
I hope this constructive criticism is taken a bit better than my preceeding comment.
The old saying goes if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all, but hey everyone's entitled to their 2 cents.
Although do you know that its better if people reply constructively, suggest whats wrong with it rather than just say you didn't like it.
Still better than replying totally sycophantically to really droll topics, much like many have done to one particular topic about sunday afternoon gaming posted in this topic, know anything about that, eh?
Although do you know that its better if people reply constructively, suggest whats wrong with it rather than just say you didn't like it.
Still better than replying totally sycophantically to really droll topics, much like many have done to one particular topic about sunday afternoon gaming posted in this topic, know anything about that, eh?
It started off good, but went downhil faster than a sumo wrestler in a shopping trolley. A promising concept but pretty unfulfilling for the reader. Not bad, but far from brilliant.
There is no shortage of accessories aimed at enhancing your gaming pleasure, from the obvious Light Gun add on for shooting games, to the more niche items such as flight sticks and fishing rods. Think about it, ten years ago, who would have thought that there would be dance mats for home use? Coming up with the right novelty accessory could make a fortune, so below are a few ideas:
The Fear Effect: Some videogames try their hardest to be as scary as possible (think Resident Evil, Silent Hill etc.), but unfortunately, some people may think that these games are too frightening and so wouldn’t play the game, and others may feel that the game is quite simply boring and would find it extremely difficult to enjoy the game properly as its not making them jump. The poor videogame company gets hit by a two pronged barrage of complaints, half saying the game is too scary, and the other half saying that it wasn’t frightening enough. To overcome this problem, the fear effect was created. On the outside it may look little more than a sweatband and a nappy, but probe deeper and you would find that they are in fact highly sensitive measuring devices, that alter the amount of tension and fear in the game to match the individual gamers preferences, trying to keep sweating and other bodily secretions within a set parameter, ensuring that everyone who play the game has a similarly scary experience. Alternate uses for these sophisticated sensory units (specifically the nappies motion detectors) would be to ensure the ‘action’ in titles such as BMX XXX is geared to the right audience.
Beat Maniac: Every time a martial arts movie comes out, everyone who’s seen it seems to think that they have somehow picked up all the knowledge needed to achieve a black belt, similarly every time a Rocky movie came out, audiences came out thinking they could win the world title if they wanted to. And more recently, when the WWF (now WWE) was at the peak of its popularity, there were a lot of backyard wrestlers and the like who thought that they knew how to wrestle as they’d seen it on TV. The beat maniac is just the accessory for them, based on the box man trainer that some gyms have, it is essentially a mannequin packed with sensors, which register when you hit it, and so you can show off your abilities to your friends. However I do see problems with this product, namely complaints from parents whose kids buy the deluxe version that fights back, or those who find their kids using it with unendorsed games with names like Erotomania 6900.
Homework Hand: This is an accessory with a difference, it doesn’t enhance your gaming pleasure, it allows you to play games, while the fully automised hand does your homework, giving you plenty of time to play your favourite games. Sadly this too will likely get banned when patches are released making it compatible with Erotomania 6900.
The Bat: No not the controller for an Osbournes game, but a baseball bat for baseball games. Special attachments will be available for Cricket and tennis games. A major selling point will be its compatibility with the beat maniac and Streets Of Rage 4. Sadly this too is doomed to be banned when developers forget to make special amendments to the two player versus mode, and many Fear Effect units are overloaded.
The Food Tube/Toilet Drain: With games becoming more and more realistic, and more and more epic in scale, its becoming harder and harder for gamers to rip themselves away from their consoles to eat food or go to the toilet, this left our nations hospitals swarmed by cases of gaming related malnutrition and bladder bustings. Seeing a potential money spinner several games companies release rival food tubes and toilet drains that allow the gamer to both receive nourishment and relieve themselves from the comfort of their seats while not interrupting their games playing. However the products were forced to be pulled off the shelves when the rival companies resort to cut throat tactics to gain dominance of the market, and whether the results were due to cheap manufacturing or sabotage by competitors, the mix up over which tube was which meant that a lot of customers were both left with a bad taste in their mouth and found the whole ordeal a pain in the bottom.
3D Scanners: With design a character modes becoming more and more advanced, a 3D scanner would allow the player to scan themselves, their pets or whatever they want into their games. This would be a huge hit especially with fans of first person shooters and wrestling fans who have always wanted to see themselves in a game. However, things go wrong for the manufacturers when they are hit with a lawsuit when a hacker makes the final code of the tweenies game feature real buttheads as the main characters. The lawsuit is not from the games characters or from concerned parents, but from an insurance company – the said butts in the game belonged to one Jennifer Lopez, whose posterior was insured with the said insurance company for $1,000,000. The unfortunate lawsuit which was similar to those levied against various file sharing software providers, charged the manufacturers of the 3d scanner with aiding people to break copyright laws. So in the end, the 3D scanner was yet another invention squashed by Ms. Lopez’ rather amp behind.
Windows XB: Microsoft, not content with trying to annihilate the competition by buying out all the games developers, try to make the leap from merely evil sadists to purely satanic hate mongers release the update for the X box which finally reveals the truth, that the X Box was really a PC pretending to be a games console. Also hidden inside this operating system is a secret virus, that becomes activated when playing multi format online games, it infects the rival consoles with the Trojan horse style virus that waits on the rivals hard drives waiting for the user to log off, at which time an animated Bill Gates pops up mooning those unfortunate enough to have contracted the virus, that has become known as the Steve Jobs virus, after it was found that the animation was based on a video conference call from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs when Microsoft bought out Apple.
Well, that’s all that I can think of for now, if I think of any others I’ll post them in here again, and please feel free to contribute your suggestions for both new accessories, and alternate uses for the above. Hope you enjoyed the post.
The Fear Effect: Some videogames try their hardest to be as scary as possible (think Resident Evil, Silent Hill etc.), but unfortunately, some people may think that these games are too frightening and so wouldn’t play the game, and others may feel that the game is quite simply boring and would find it extremely difficult to enjoy the game properly as its not making them jump. The poor videogame company gets hit by a two pronged barrage of complaints, half saying the game is too scary, and the other half saying that it wasn’t frightening enough. To overcome this problem, the fear effect was created. On the outside it may look little more than a sweatband and a nappy, but probe deeper and you would find that they are in fact highly sensitive measuring devices, that alter the amount of tension and fear in the game to match the individual gamers preferences, trying to keep sweating and other bodily secretions within a set parameter, ensuring that everyone who play the game has a similarly scary experience. Alternate uses for these sophisticated sensory units (specifically the nappies motion detectors) would be to ensure the ‘action’ in titles such as BMX XXX is geared to the right audience.
Beat Maniac: Every time a martial arts movie comes out, everyone who’s seen it seems to think that they have somehow picked up all the knowledge needed to achieve a black belt, similarly every time a Rocky movie came out, audiences came out thinking they could win the world title if they wanted to. And more recently, when the WWF (now WWE) was at the peak of its popularity, there were a lot of backyard wrestlers and the like who thought that they knew how to wrestle as they’d seen it on TV. The beat maniac is just the accessory for them, based on the box man trainer that some gyms have, it is essentially a mannequin packed with sensors, which register when you hit it, and so you can show off your abilities to your friends. However I do see problems with this product, namely complaints from parents whose kids buy the deluxe version that fights back, or those who find their kids using it with unendorsed games with names like Erotomania 6900.
Homework Hand: This is an accessory with a difference, it doesn’t enhance your gaming pleasure, it allows you to play games, while the fully automised hand does your homework, giving you plenty of time to play your favourite games. Sadly this too will likely get banned when patches are released making it compatible with Erotomania 6900.
The Bat: No not the controller for an Osbournes game, but a baseball bat for baseball games. Special attachments will be available for Cricket and tennis games. A major selling point will be its compatibility with the beat maniac and Streets Of Rage 4. Sadly this too is doomed to be banned when developers forget to make special amendments to the two player versus mode, and many Fear Effect units are overloaded.
The Food Tube/Toilet Drain: With games becoming more and more realistic, and more and more epic in scale, its becoming harder and harder for gamers to rip themselves away from their consoles to eat food or go to the toilet, this left our nations hospitals swarmed by cases of gaming related malnutrition and bladder bustings. Seeing a potential money spinner several games companies release rival food tubes and toilet drains that allow the gamer to both receive nourishment and relieve themselves from the comfort of their seats while not interrupting their games playing. However the products were forced to be pulled off the shelves when the rival companies resort to cut throat tactics to gain dominance of the market, and whether the results were due to cheap manufacturing or sabotage by competitors, the mix up over which tube was which meant that a lot of customers were both left with a bad taste in their mouth and found the whole ordeal a pain in the bottom.
3D Scanners: With design a character modes becoming more and more advanced, a 3D scanner would allow the player to scan themselves, their pets or whatever they want into their games. This would be a huge hit especially with fans of first person shooters and wrestling fans who have always wanted to see themselves in a game. However, things go wrong for the manufacturers when they are hit with a lawsuit when a hacker makes the final code of the tweenies game feature real buttheads as the main characters. The lawsuit is not from the games characters or from concerned parents, but from an insurance company – the said butts in the game belonged to one Jennifer Lopez, whose posterior was insured with the said insurance company for $1,000,000. The unfortunate lawsuit which was similar to those levied against various file sharing software providers, charged the manufacturers of the 3d scanner with aiding people to break copyright laws. So in the end, the 3D scanner was yet another invention squashed by Ms. Lopez’ rather amp behind.
Windows XB: Microsoft, not content with trying to annihilate the competition by buying out all the games developers, try to make the leap from merely evil sadists to purely satanic hate mongers release the update for the X box which finally reveals the truth, that the X Box was really a PC pretending to be a games console. Also hidden inside this operating system is a secret virus, that becomes activated when playing multi format online games, it infects the rival consoles with the Trojan horse style virus that waits on the rivals hard drives waiting for the user to log off, at which time an animated Bill Gates pops up mooning those unfortunate enough to have contracted the virus, that has become known as the Steve Jobs virus, after it was found that the animation was based on a video conference call from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs when Microsoft bought out Apple.
Well, that’s all that I can think of for now, if I think of any others I’ll post them in here again, and please feel free to contribute your suggestions for both new accessories, and alternate uses for the above. Hope you enjoyed the post.