Worst video game controllers of all time

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Table of Contents Dreamcast controller Power Glove Atari Jaguar Pro controller SEGA Activator Atari 5200 controller Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw controller Tony Hawk: RIDE Skateboard controller

The best video game controllers are the ones you don’t even think about. They let you fully immerse yourself in the game and let you forget you’re even holding them. The best controllers today all follow a mostly standard design, but in the early console generations, each system took a completely unique approach. In fact, many consoles would experiment with multiple types of controllers of various shapes, sizes, and input methods. Most of them were bad, and there were a few that were even painful. No matter how amazing the game was to play or how great the graphics were, a bad controller would completely tank the experience. Looking back from the days of the NES up to the PS5, we’ve recalled the very worst video game controllers of all time.

Dreamcast controller

We’re starting off with a tame one here before working our way up. The Dreamcast controller looks fairly standard for the time — it has an analog stick, D-pad, triggers, and four face buttons. The problem with it is everything else. This thing is somehow bulkier and less comfortable to hold than the original Xbox’s Duke controller but made worse because the cable comes out of the bottom rather than the back or top. This made it awkward to handle for any length of time, and even the D-pad and buttons were hard on the thumbs. It wasn’t bad enough to cause the console to die the early death it did, but it by no means helped.

Power Glove

The NES controller was amazing for its time, but Nintendo has never been a company to rest on its laurels. There were plenty of peripherals for the NES, but none quite as bad as the Power Glove. In truth, Nintendo was just a few decades early with the idea of motion controls as we would see with the smash hit of the Wii. Back in the early ’90s, however, the technology was