With computers getting more and more advanced， it's no surprise that the range of peripherals we use to enjoy them are also slowly becoming more and more complicated. With the release of Rock Band 2 for the Wii， Xbox 360 and Playstation 2， we may have come across the weirdest and most complex collection of controllers yet. For， not content with allowing users to karaoke along to their favourite tracks， Rock Band 2 allows you to thrash， bnash and crash to your heart's content with its unique combination of controllers: a Fender Stratocaster guitar， a full drumkit， a microphone， and more.

隨著計(jì)算機(jī)技術(shù)的日新月異，無怪乎我們用來與之配套的周邊娛樂產(chǎn)品也越來越復(fù)雜。隨著《搖滾樂隊(duì)2》在 Wii、Xbox 360 以及PS2上發(fā)行后，我們也許要經(jīng)歷一場(chǎng)最不可思議、最為復(fù)雜的游戲控制器時(shí)期。不滿足于僅僅讓用戶跟著音樂K歌，《搖滾樂隊(duì)2》通過復(fù)合控制器直搗你內(nèi)心需求，可謂正中下懷。組件有：吉他形控制器、鼓狀控制器、麥克風(fēng)和其它設(shè)備。

To celebrate this fine display of awesomeness and sheer over-the-top gadget wizardry， we look back over nearly thirty years of video games to find the best strangest and most original controllers ever created.

為慶祝這個(gè)絕佳、無與倫比的科技酷品的誕生，我們來一起回顧30年來電視游戲所制造出的最好的控制器。

1) The Duck Hunt Gun《打鴨子》

24 years ago a game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was unlike anything seen before. Duck Hunt featured little pixellated waterfowl flying across an 8-bit video screen， and the aim of the game was to shoot as many of the measly mallards as possible. The best thing about the game， though， wasn't the endless slaughter of innocent birds， but the revolutionary controller. Now， for the first time ever， people could point a gun – a real， gun-shaped gun – at the screen， pull the trigger， and be awarded with an electronic \"bang\" (that sounded more like someone standing on an empty plastic bag) and a flurry of digital feathers. Pure， unadulterated class.

任天堂娛樂平臺(tái)在24年前推出了一款全新游戲。這款《打鴨子》游戲是一些低像素的水鴨在8比特（用以描述電腦數(shù)據(jù)量的最小單位）的屏幕前飛過，游戲目標(biāo)是盡可能多地打中其中的“病鴨”。該游戲最成功之處當(dāng)然不是無休無止地屠殺這些無辜的鴨子，而是對(duì)游戲控制器的革新。人們首次可以持槍——一把超級(jí)仿真的槍——瞄準(zhǔn)屏幕，扳動(dòng)扳機(jī)，聽到獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)性的“梆”的一聲槍響（聽起來更像是有人踩爆空塑料袋）和有如雪花般灑落的圖案。真是款完美無暇的游戲。

2) The Steel Battalion Dashboard Controller《鐵騎》

Stomping around a quasi-apocalyptic landscape in a giant robot， or mecha， and blasting the living hell out of anything else that moves has been a staple of anime fans and video gamers for decades. So， imagine the excitement when， in 2002， Capcom announced the release of Steel Battalion for the Xbox… a game that came with it's own Mecha Dashboard Controller – a 35-inch， 30-button/two joystick beast of a peripheral that included an eject button (which， if not pressed in time would make you lose all your save data) and a whole bunch of other over-the-top and frankly unnecessary functions.

操縱一個(gè)或者一群巨型機(jī)器人穿過末日般的場(chǎng)景去將那些活地獄炸得粉碎，這是動(dòng)漫迷和游戲發(fā)燒友們的最愛。因此想像一下2002年當(dāng)卡普空宣布在Xbox上發(fā)布《鐵騎》時(shí)該有多令人興奮。這款游戲以其強(qiáng)大的多功能按鍵控制器而著稱——35英寸大小、30個(gè)按鈕及兩個(gè)操縱桿其中包括一個(gè)發(fā)射鍵（如果沒有及時(shí)按便會(huì)丟失已有數(shù)據(jù)）和其它一些多功能按鈕。

3) The PCGamerBike 跑步機(jī)

Tired of merely pressing buttons to make your video game character move around the screen? Fed up with parents saying that sitting around playing the PC is unhealthy? Then treat yourself to the PCGamerBike， a bizarre contraption that allows you to control your character's movement by pedal power! Be it a racing car， a combat game， or an RPG， the faster you pedal， the faster you move! One of the best examples of the lengths to which fans of the new wave of Exergames will go， the PCGamerBike is both a comedy and a tragedy waiting to happen.

是不是有點(diǎn)厭倦了僅僅按下按鈕就讓電視游戲中的角色在屏幕上動(dòng)起來的游戲方式？是不是受夠了父母在耳邊嘮叨老坐著玩電腦不利于身體健康？那么就去嘗試下跑步機(jī)吧，一個(gè)依靠踏板就能讓你的角色動(dòng)起來的新奇小玩意。作為一個(gè)賽車游戲、格斗游戲或者RPG游戲（角色扮演游戲），你的踏板越快，人物動(dòng)作越快。作為新運(yùn)動(dòng)游戲浪潮的發(fā)燒友們追逐的最佳例子之一，跑步機(jī)的未來發(fā)展喜憂參半。

4) The Exus Foot Craz Activity Floorpad 跳舞墊

You've all seen the kids in the local arcade， jumping about like lunatics on Dance Dance Revolution machines， accompanied by really cheesy J-pop anthems and mid-90's boy band croonings， but did you know the first pressure-sensitive foot pad was released way back in 1987? A small， short-lived company called Exus created two games for this revolutionary device， Video Jogger and Video Reflex， both of which featured pressure-sensitive buttons， lots of athletic running and jumping， and made a whole generation of computer nerds look truly ridiculous.

你肯定見過在商店回廊中那些在跳舞機(jī)或跳舞毯上伴著日本音樂和90年代男孩組合的靡靡之音而瘋狂跳舞的孩子們，但你知道首款感壓腳墊的發(fā)行可以追溯到1987年嗎？Exus是一個(gè)規(guī)模小、曇花一現(xiàn)的公司，但它發(fā)行了兩款具有革命意義的游戲運(yùn)動(dòng)裝備：《視頻慢跑者》和《視頻反應(yīng)游戲》，二者都以感壓鈕、跑起跳下的動(dòng)作為特色，這使那些“電腦迷們”的人看起來傻到家了。

5) The Dreamcast Fishing Rod 夢(mèng)想傳播釣魚竿

Truly is nothing that the Japanese won't try to make into a video game. Train-driving simulations? No problem. Games where the main aim is to have sex with girls? Done already. But when Sega released Get Bass on the Dreamcast back in 2004， they seemed to have really hit the bottom of the barrel. Not only was the aim of the game to catch fish， they even provided you with a special rod-shaped controller to help you do it! No more sitting for hours on a muddy river bank in Scotland – now you could sit and do nothing for hours while waiting for a bite… in the comfort of your own home.

事實(shí)是日本人可以將一切轉(zhuǎn)換成游戲。模擬開火車？沒問題。游戲的主要目的是為了和女孩們發(fā)生關(guān)系？已經(jīng)實(shí)現(xiàn)了。但是當(dāng)Sega在夢(mèng)想傳播者（簡稱DC，原代號(hào)名為妖刀。是日本世嘉公司于1998年11月27日發(fā)售的一款游戲機(jī)）上發(fā)行《釣魚高手》時(shí)，他們似乎達(dá)到了極限。游戲的目標(biāo)不僅僅是抓到魚，他們甚至提供了特殊的魚竿型控制器幫你實(shí)現(xiàn)。再也不用在泥濘的蘇格蘭河岸邊傻坐幾個(gè)小時(shí)了——現(xiàn)在你只需無所事事地待上幾個(gè)小時(shí)等著那關(guān)鍵的“一咬”……而且還是悠閑的坐在家中。