I also like to
collect controllers, different types of controllers. And just like my games,
if they aren't useful or liked, I usually sell of them. I am not a collector
just for collecting sake. Here are some of the controllers & accessories
I have:
The NES Advantage a very nice controller.
It has slow motion and turbo! It also has 2 plug-ins that allow 2
player games as long as they are not simultaneous. I own 2 of these.
The Nintendo Four Score. It allows you
to play 4 players. This is a nice accessory for multi-player games like
R.C. Pro-AM 2.
Four
Score manual click here
The Game Genie allows you to enter codes.
There are codes that allow you more lives, stronger or more powers, enter
higher levels, and many other types of cheat codes. A very nice accessory.
I use it but not often. One popular use for me is lengthening the game
of MULE past 12 months to 18 months. So it's not always cheating, it can
be used simply to make some games go longer.
Official
Game Genie Codes click here
Game
Genie Code Creators Club Codes - extra codes discovered by other people
The NES Max is another controller. It has
turbo and has 2 methods of control. You can use the black circle as a controller
or move the red button inside the circle around to control the game. It's
an okay controller, not the best and certainly not the worst.
NES
MAX manual
This QuickShot controller is a simple little
controller and is another okay controller I have. You can turn on or off
the auto-fire which is turbo. When you use this controller you hold it
what you would think is upside-down, like the picture shows.
Another QuickShot controller. Some people
call it a track-ball, I do not know it's official name, but it is not a
real track ball, it does not spin or move at all. It slightly rotates in
all directions. I kept this controller because it is huge and I have a
friend who is very tall and has big hands and this controller is good for
him.
This is a very unusual controller called
the U-Force. There is alot of negative reviews about this controller. And
unless you read the instructions and practice with the practice plastic
holder pieces it is near impossible to use. But I got pretty good with
this in racing games and have heard of someone who could finish the 1st
level of Super Mario with this. But what is cool about this controller
is you put your hands in the open air above the black "field" and front
of the other and touch nothing, but the controller senses your hand movements
and allows you to control the games and including pushing invisible/imaginary
A/B buttons.
This is the NES Zoomer. I like this controller
for racing games. We all know people who have worn out or broke controllers,
well I have worn out the Zoomer like 2 or 3 times and had to have it fixed
by a friend. There is a slow motion control, and I think there is a degree
control turbo button as well.

This is the NES Zapper light gun. I have
the orange one and the grey one as well.
Zapper
manual
Known Zapper games to exist:
Adventures of Bayou Billy
Baby Boomer
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
Chiller
Duck Hunt
Freedom Force
Gotcha
Gumshoe
Hogan's Alley
Laser Invasion
Lone Ranger
Mechanized Attack
Operation Wolf
Shooting Range
To The Earth
Track & Field 2
Wild Gunman
This is the "dogbone" controller that came
with the NES 2/top loading NES. This is one of my top two controllers.
The original NES controller. Most everyone
has seen one. I own one. Here is the manual:
NES
Controller manual
This was my absolutely favorite controller.
I got it soon after just purchasing my NES. It allowed you to control the
game by the slightest touch, no pushing down, it is touch sensitive. It
also had turbo buttons. They guaranteed it would be your favorite controller
after playing it for a week. It did take a little getting used to, not
as bad as the U-Force, but it indeed became a great controller to use once
you got used to it. Unfortunately it began to wear out on me and I stopped
using it. A couple years ago I found another one, but I had fallen out
of practice so I am not used to it yet.
Mega - Programmable control pad with an
LCD screen by Bandai. This may be rare. I couldn't find anything on the
internet except a small line of info on Wikipedia and one for sale on Ebay.
This is an exception to my collection, as I never used this controller.
I believe there were preset moves for games like Spy-Hunter.
The Game Handler is another exception to
my collection. Some day I may sell this one. I found this new in a store
about 1995, very late I would think, my guess that is even late in the
SNES era. It came with a VHS video seen in the picture. The cord unplugged
from the controller and could be kept in a cheap dome container also seen
in the picture. The Game Handler was usually described as a "one-handed
controller". The Game Handler had no base -- it was just a free-floating
cylinder that you tilted to make your game character move. Unfortunately,
it didn't really work properly, and the technology inside ended up sending
all sorts of weird signals that the NES didn't know what to do with. So
of course, this was billed as a "feature." Make Mario run backward! Make
your Ninja Turtle disappear! The controller features reversible A and B
buttons, so right and left handed people could use it I assume, as well
as a 10 foot cable. Turbo fire of some kind is available, as well as slow
motion. I did not like this controller although I have tried it.
The Power Pad. At the time of this writing,
this was the last controller I ever got. Yeah, I never had a Power Pad
until recently, I also never had the Zapper until recently as well. I got
it on Ebay and it was practically new, and came with the original box,
I turned around and sold the box on Ebay believe it or not! The Power Pad
has 2 sides, and while there aren't many games for the Power Pad, most
use side B. I have 1 game that uses side A. I believe some dancing and
exercise games use side A, which I do not own.
Power
Pad manual
Known Power Pad games to exist:
Athletic World
Dance Aerobics
Short Order/Eggsplode
Stadium Events
Street Cop
Super Team Games
World Class Track Meet (same game as Stadium
Events)
Links on my website:
The
NES Page - my main page of the Nintendo Entertainment System
The
Entertainment Pages - This page will be a center hub of any other pages
I may have concerning entertainment.
Interactive
3D Temple Module for NWN - this page describes in detail about a 3D
Temple I created for the game NeverWinter Nights. It's a free module you
can download for the game. Details can be found there.
My
Lord of the Rings Pages - now out-dated. While I still have over half
of my collection listed there, some of its been sold or given away. I have
lost interest. My disinterest began with the 3rd film. While I believe
the films are great, I was upset at the scene on the volcano where Frodo
used his ring against Gollum. That scene was in the book, but not in the
movie. It also was the reason why Frodo got his energy back to run the
rest of the way up. The movie made it look like Frodo just wanted to ride
on Sam's back cause he was lazy, because he fell off and then just ran
away!
Links elsewhere:
The
Faithful Knights of Christ - a christian gamers message board
THE
CHRISTIAN GAMERS GUILD
Christian
Duke Nukem Maps
Christ
Centered Game Reviews
TALES
OF THE UNWRITTEN - Christian MMORG in development
Yahoo
group for Christian EQ players
Christian
guild for the World of Warcraft
Wisdom
Tree - Makers and distributors of top selling Christian computer games
designed for the Christian Community. (Yeah they're still in business and
still have some Nintendo stuff for sale and other cool stuff as well.)
WARNING:
The following links are probably not christian. Most are reasonably safe,
but some are on sites that may have vulgar language or vulgar advertisements,
but most of these links are just lists to manuals. Many gaming sites are
notorious for that kind of stuff. Please be careful and be warned!
IGN:
Wisdom Tree - IGN's list of all the Wisdom Tree Games
Cory's
Web Log - details a project called "Super Mario Clouds", of which is
used in my graphic above.
NES
Message Board
NES
Game FAQ's - a page from the site above where you can get info for
specific games
How
to Refurbish Your NES
The
NES Player - a good NES website
The
Mushroom Kingdom Animated GIFs - the origin of some of the graphics
on my pages
The
100 Best NES Games Ever - a comprehensive list and review of 100 games,
this was done by 6 individuals, this is not a statistic of actual popularity
Top
100 NES Games of All Time Vol.5 by GameFAQs - This is voted on by many
many more people! And you can too!
Online NES Manuals:
An
Index of NES manuals - nothing fancy, but a huge list of links of manuals
in text form
World
of Video Games NES manuals - another large list of manuals
Another
link to the same site, in a simpler less graphic form
NES
Manuals - Another huge list of manuals, but many manuals are missing
NES
FlashBack manual list - a very small manual list
The
Warp Zone manuals - an old outdated site with manuals
Warp
Zone's newer manual page - seems the manuals listed under # (such as
the game "8 Eyes") do not work, but I found the ones I looked at under
letters do.
Nintendo
Repository NES manuals - a very large collection of manuals, some in
PDF format, most in txt
Replacementdocs.com
list of NES manuals - another very large site with many manuals
Smackdown's
NES manuals - a nice list of manuals, some manuals for NES hardware
and accessories too! However, his other pages can get vulgar
TSR's
NES Archive (manuals section) - a nice list of manuals, some manuals
for NES hardware and accessories too!
Vimm's
Lair - a nice site, however it's programmed in such a way I cannot
give you the exact page for the manuals. On that page click on "The Manual
Project", then click on "Nintendo" or whatever other system you want to
find a manual in. Once there type in the name of the game, or click on
the 1st letter of the manual you want. You may get a list of all the manuals
starting with that letter. Then you click on the manual you are interested
in and then you will go to an interesting page where you have 3 options:
View
Manual, Download vlm, or Download pdf. You will actually end up with a
scan of the actual manual rather than just the text of the manuals.
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