The Wiimote is cleverly designed so that when turned on its side it functions as a classic video game controller. But if you’ve filled your Wii with classic 16-bit titles from the Virtual Console, you owe it to yourself to pick up this classic Super Famicom controller instead.
The image here, which popped up on Twitter not long ago but has now — unsurprisingly — vanished from the internet, shows what looks like, at first glance, a tablet controller for Nintendo’s Wii U. Except it’s not quite the same as the promo shots and preview devices we’ve seen. For one thing, it has real-proper analogue thumb sticks, instead of the flat, nub-like ones of the old model.
Do you remember where you were five years ago? If you’re a gamer there’s a good chance you were standing in line waiting for the Nintendo Wii, and an even better chance you didn’t get one.
The iPhone and the iPad are card-carrying members. Modern Warfare 3 is, like, the President. I’m talking, of course, about the Million-Plus Preorder Club. Now the Amazon Kindle Fire has joined the ranks. Before anyone even touched a Kindle Fire.
