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Fri 03/05/02 at 18:20
Regular
Posts: 787
I've got no idea how it plays, so don't ask. I'm reviewing it as a standalone product. I have a black official controller, for reference.

Well, I suppose you could first pick it up, and hold it for a while. I'll try that now and give a review.

Fantastic. It's extremely comfortable, and I can drum the L and R buttons to music.

Next, I'm going to review it's smell.

Oddly, it smells like a hint plastic. Nintendo have obviously crafted special effort into making the controller as odour free as possible.

I shall now try to skip with the controller.

Skipping with the controller is good fun. There's just enough length for me to skip just about properly, having to duck to bring the controller back over. My monkey like arms make it good to skip with.

The end bit that you plug into the Gamecube is really small and shiny. I don't have much to say about that bit.

If you turn the controller at an angle, upside down from behind, it kinda looks like a cat. With two big grey teeth. And a blue one.

There are four screws on it.

The buttons make me feel like a man when I press them. This is good. The X-Box's controller still upsets me with the really poncy buttons.

I think the D-Pad is cool. It looks really small, but I find it pretty easy to use, and I have pretty big hands.

All in all, it's probably best to have a Gamecube, before buying a controller.
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:33
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
*picks up pencial and balances it between lips and nose*

I'm that bored, where is my Cube?

I don't know weather I want Purple or Black either.
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:32
Regular
Posts: 23,216
*picks up cup with lips and sucks inwards so the pressure holds it there*
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:27
Posts: 3,348
the controller is great, it feels really comfortable but i cant see myself using the D-pad much as it is very small. The Z button is positioned well i think.
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:26
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
You just keep hanging in there.

Don't resort to the sticking of Monkeys on the TV either.

I figured out, by looking at my online banking thingy that if I don't eat for at lunch for a week i cna have a Gamecube around June time. Unless my Mum is willing to lendmy some cash.

*prays* :-)
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:24
Regular
Posts: 23,216
:0D

No.

I'm ok.
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:22
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
Grix, that Gamecube of yours come yet?
Sat 04/05/02 at 11:21
Regular
Posts: 23,216
Gamecube is class wrote:
"it is exelent even with my broken arm i can still play"

*breaks other arm*

Try playing now then! HAHAAHHAHAHAA
Sat 04/05/02 at 09:44
Regular
"Bobba you"
Posts: 1,767
Gamecube is class wrote:
> it is exelent even with my broken arm i can still play

Yeah but you can play witha broken arm with any pad. I know cos my mate was played on my PS2 when he broke his arm.
Sat 04/05/02 at 08:45
Regular
"previously phuzzy."
Posts: 3,487
The pad is all good, except for that Z-button. It doesn't actually feel like a button. And it makes the controller look non-samey (i cant spell that other word, symetrrical or watever)

I live the C pad and the A button though
Sat 04/05/02 at 08:34
Regular
"My head hurts"
Posts: 284
it is exelent even with my broken arm i can still play

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