Failed Gaming Concepts/Ideas That You Wish Were Successful

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d21lewis said:

Illusion said:

Another one worth mentioning was the original N64 inverted trident controller. I love that controller so much. I always held it in a really weird way using three fingers to grip the analog stick, but it gave me a big advantage over everybody else who held it the normal way. I actually even managed to beat a semi-competitive gamer at Smash who would cream me in everything else including Melee and Brawl and I think it is mainly because of how I held that awesome controller: I just had so much control over slight movements of the analog stick.

I don't remember the N64 controller being hated that much back in the 90's and Nintendo obviously never saw the need to redesign it during the N64's life but man that controller gets so much hate nowadays.

I kinda loved and hated it back then but mostly because the D-pad was unresponsive compared to the SNES pad. The analog stick was super loose but it was still okay. 

I'd say the bigger issue was that there was just no way to hold it comfortably and easily each every button. You always had to sacrifice something-- the left shoulder and d-pad or z-button and analog. And lots of people just held it wrong.  People would be playing Mario 64 with one hand on the left grip and their thumb on the control stick. It was disgusting to witness!

A gaming mate of mine going by the name Lord Poseidon was really enthusiastic about the Trident controller he did have one strange complaint though something about it not being waterproof, still  the reason for a Trident controller always seemed very fishy to me and I still to this day can't fathom out why Lord Poseidon would love it.