Added a second analog stick to the 3DS, communicated with it through the infrared port of all things. Not many games used it but the ones that did benefitted greatly. The New 3DS incorporated this into its design kinda haphazardly with a little trackpoint style nubbin.
Similar to the above but this one was for the 3DS XL. Exclusive to Japan so much rarer.
Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer
A weird little thing that again, used IR communication. This was made to support amiibo on the vanilla 3DS, 2DS and 3DS XL because they’d added an NFC reader to the New 3DS.
They’re still making and supporting these. They were made to latch onto the toys-to-life thing that Skylanders and Disney Infinity created. They’re largely useless as anything other than a collectible figurine. They sometimes unlock something in games, but usually they just sit on a shelf.
Originally mandatory for using an Xbox One, quickly discontinued when they realized no one wanted anything to do with it. Also it’s based on a different and worse technology than the original Xbox 360 Kinect.
did anyone really like the Gameboy color worm light? seemed completely silly to me, if it’s too dark to play Gameboy you should be in bed… nostalgia factor amazing tho.
Once when I was moving, I brought several IKEA bags of old junk to a local electronics recycler place. The guy combed through my stuff and was happily saying he’d take it all for free, until he picked up the Wii Balance Board. Then he visibly grimaced and said “we’ll charge you 20 dollars if you want us to take this”
The GBA e reader. bulky. the pitch was cool: games printed on cards that you could scan. but this just meant random NES games which would work a lot better on a cartridge. then they didn’t sell new cards or make new titles.
Curious, I’d never heard of it! That’s a really interesting technology mashup that only could’ve made sense at one specific point in history (and I guess not even then)
Looks like the ereader included a very basic NES emulator that was only able to support the earliest mappers. That’s one of the reasons the game lineup was so small.
