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Perhaps one of the most interesting controllers for the NES is the Turbo Touch 360 (The one you see above is from my own collection).
Created by a Company known as Triax, this controller is unique in that it features a Touch-Sensitive Control Pad, as opposed to a regular D-Pad. It also features turbo buttons for the A and B buttons.
But is this thing any good? I personally think, yes, it's alright. It's certainly not perfect though. Here's the 411 on this thing.
It was advertised as a superior controller to regular, first party ones (Commercial at the bottom of this post). However, a lot of people didn't like it for whatever reason.
Using it myself, I found it to be easy at some points, and hard at other points. A perfect example is "The Adventures of Bayou Billy". The Turbo Buttons are handy for fighting the extremely tough enemies, especially when it comes to the first "Street Fighting" Boss in it. Now the Driving Stages, on the other hand...I could not get through them to save my life. The directional pad is VERY sensitive, which caused me to drive the truck like I was playing Twisted Metal. Needless to say, I lost all my lives pretty quickly.
Now, for the street fighting stages, the directional pad is okay. It's a lot easier to maneuver around using it, as opposed to a regular controller, but it CAN get annoying sometimes, having nothing to rest your thumb on.
Would I recommend this controller to my friends? Yes, I would, but I would NOT use it for driving games, unless you like crashing.
Well, that's it for this post! Thanks for reading!
Oh, and here's that commercial I mentioned earlier:
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I grew up with these as a kid:
http://www.rfgeneration.com/PHP/gethwinfo.php?ID=U-027-H-00100-A
They gave the freedom of an 8-directional pad without the extra sensitivity. I could breeze through Contra on 1 life when I was a kid using it.
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I have one of these, and while I use it occasionally, I still prefer the regular controller. I think its probably just because I'm more familiar to the original than it is that this controller is inferior.
@Shadow Kisuragi: I love these (that's mine in the picture actually), I especially liked it for Marble Madness. I remember getting it at a garage sale with our second NES back in the mid-90's. It does add a bit of "clunkiness" to the controller though, but its still a must have for some games.
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I'm not a huge fan of these controllers and they are primarily because of one of the points you mentioned: nothing to rest your thumb on. I let my thumb go down on accident and suddenly I'm moving. I could never get moves down in games like Street Fighter II either because I didn't get the response of actually moving the d-pad. I didn't own one, but I tried it out when I went to my friend's house to play.
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I've never tried one of these. I was always (and still am) a Max user. If I run across one at the right price I might pick it up and give it a go though.
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I played quite a bit with the Genesis one (which the guy was wearing in the advertisement) and never had any problems with it. I liked it a lot compared to the Genesis D-Pad, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about it replacing the NES D-Pad. I'd definitely like to give it a go though.
I liked the PC/Mac style commercial. Good times!
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