What are/were some of the coolest peripherals ever?

[Arcade Antics]

2600 joyboard
2600 Track and Field controller
5200 Track Ball


I have also seen (from Japan) a controller for the PC Engine (I think, it was before I was realy paying attention to VG stuff) that attatches to your ,....... a..... well....let's just say that only boys can play . Has anyone else seen this? Probably not something you can put in tips and tricks. :P

But it sounds like it could go in "Tips and Trixxx"...

[crivit]

Konami laserscope gets my vote. I had WAAAAY too much fun playing duck hunt and hogan's alley with that back in the day. I used it so much it eventually fell apart on me In addition to the fun factor there's also the added bonus of making people wonder why you're yelling "kill" at the tv all day

[MrRetroGamer]

Vectrex 3D goggles!

[fcw3]

That's right ! The PC-Engine had a Pachinko controller for flipping balls into the pinball-like gamefields.

And don't forget the "Le Stick". The Atari 2600 compatable joystick without a base. It used some form of mercury switches to register movement.

And guns. Don't forget guns. Lots of guns...

FRED

[nesman85]

gameboy camera and printer.

[autobotracing]

dont forget this little jewel

[Mr-E_MaN]

I think the wavebird is the best and most useful peripheral I have ever owned... I bought 2 of them the day they came out and my console never fell off my TV since... The next best would have to be the 4 player adaptor for the SNES because 4 player bomberman rocked.

[christianscott27]

i heard nintendo made a NES controller for quadroplegics called the hands free where your chin controlled the joypad and the 2 buttons were controlled via a straw, sip for the b button and blow for the a...

anybody got one of these?
________
FERRARI ASCARI HISTORY

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

dont forget this little jewel

But I already have a white box with a red X in it!

I have to nominate the early voice synthesizers: Intellivoice and, my fave, the Voice of Odyssey 2. " HA ha ha ha HA! That's incredible!" Ain't nothin' better!

Kinda pedestrian, I know, but when you keep in mind that the add-on voice box became extinct as of the very next generation of consoles (i.e. the 5200's talking Baseball cart), those peripherals are kind of unusual in retrospect.