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U-Force

The U-Force is a game controller made by Broderbund for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It employs a pair of perpendicular consumer IR sensor panels to translate the user's hand movements into controller signals.

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U-Force
DeveloperBroderbund
ManufacturerBroderbund
Released1989 (1989)
PlatformNintendo Entertainment System

The U-Force is a game controller made by Broderbund for the Nintendo Entertainment System.1 It employs a pair of perpendicular consumer IR sensor panels to translate the user's hand movements into controller signals.

Reception

The U-Force was ranked the eighth worst video game controller by IGN editor Craig Harris.2 MSN listed it as one of the top 10 worst game peripherals, writing "Second only to the Sega Activator in terms of all-out crappiness, the U-Force also used infrared sensors to create a truly nightmarish controller...'Don't Touch' said the adverts for the device, in a rare example of an advertising campaign that got it spot on."3

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References

References

  1. Tricked-out Videogames, BY FRANK VIZARD, Popular Mechanics, Oct 1989, Page 106
  2. "Top 10 Tuesday: Worst Game Controllers". IGN. 2006-02-21. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  3. "U-Force". MSN. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2009.