There's a new heavyweight champion of the gaming world — a 265lbs, 12-foot wide NES controller that cost around £4,000 ($6,000) to build. It was designed by Ben Allen, an engineering student at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. It's on display at Liverpool St. station in London to promote the new edition of the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition, meaning it has official status as the world's largest video game controller. The device is fully working, though you'll need some friends and a lot of coordination if you're going to get past the first stage of Mega Man 2.
World's largest video game controller unveiled in London

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He`d be better off drinking through that sum.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 8:47 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
this is just stupid
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:00 AM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
Stupid or not, I’m going to visit it next week.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:12 AM EST reply Recommend (7) Flag actions
Hell yeh, I’m gonna check it out.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 8:48 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Unless their sole aim was ’world’s largest’ ; Kind of pointless, No?
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:05 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m pretty sure it was. Hence the collaboration with Guinness.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:11 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
It cost far too much to build. Maybe they added beer cost to the build cost.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:12 AM EST reply Recommend (3) Flag actions
£4000 my ass. It’s just 8 buttons tied to a regular NES controller board which is probably inside.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:24 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
What’s the largest thing you’ve ever built? How big was it and what materials did you use? Believe me, scaling things up without it collapsing isn’t as easy as it sounds. More so when it’s a electro-mechanical device that actually works.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 9:55 AM EST reply Recommend (3) Flag actions
please. i could have built that thing out of fiberglass for a fraction of the cost. have it weigh half as much and still allow for four peeps to climb on it. still though… neat project.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 12:06 PM EST reply Recommend (3) Flag actions
Really? And you just happen to have the production equipment required for fibreglass construction in your basement? Which presumably was free, maybe you just “found” it?
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 12:24 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Dude this is not worth £4000.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 1:16 PM EST reply Recommend (3) Flag actions
Then don’t buy it!!
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 1:22 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I steal.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 2:07 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this on G4 (attack of the show probably) a couple years ago… Unless this is the same exact thing by the same people, then I don’t see this as being the world’s largest, or at least the first. :/
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 11:48 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Here is the clip in question with Kevin Rose and Kevin Pereira on Attack of the Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBbRQa9q4s
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 2:09 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m not impressed, I’m just amused.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 11:52 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
impressive would have been for that working controller to open up with leather seating so peeps can play a real game..
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 12:09 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
See that’s what we do best in England build useless expensive crap!
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 12:29 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Hard to say. Ben Allen, the credited designed is British but the two co-designers are Dutch. It was a 5 month university project at a Dutch university so there is a fair chance this was the work of those crazy clog-wearing, tulip-sniffing, edam-chomping, windmill-building Netherlanders.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 12:41 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Didn’t want to start on the Dutch…
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 1:11 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
The Dutch are AWESOME.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 1:13 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Bollocks, I’m pretty sure the Original Xbox controller is still the largest.
Long live The Duke!
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 12:41 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
What about the Atari Jaguar controller? That thing was so clunky, it could have broken bones if it slipped out of your hand.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 5:23 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Pfft. Best game input device ever made right here.

Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 5:41 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m pretty sure this is bigger.

Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 1:31 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I think it’s smaller.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 3:32 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Lol. The one they made for fat American hands, I always found that amusing.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 8:50 PM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
Aye, especially because it’s not true. Fat hands != further reach.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 10:18 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Stole my post
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 10:17 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
So what exactly makes this that darn expensive? Decent carpentry skills can build a controller probably even bigger than this with just a pocket-sized circuit running the entire thing that could have just been stripped from a real controller. And all that wont even probably cost a grand or two
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 1:51 PM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
well woopty-freakin’-doo.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 2:10 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Now that is cool. Wonder if someone could make a Dual Shock 3 controller of that size.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 3:45 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I agree with the rest of the comments, Why so expensive? Did they just scale EVERYTHING? So they needed a big transistors for the logic or something? What class at a university would have a project like this? This seems like it could be bested with an eighth of the cost as a summer project.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 5:07 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
It’s amazing how many people are whining about the cost. Who fucking cares, it’s a giant NES controller!
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 8:52 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Look what we built. Not as big, but it is playable – http://www.house4hack.co.za/?p=333
Posted on Jan 23, 2012 | 1:56 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
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