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Contest: Caption This Picture

by peterb

Today’s entry is brought to you courtesy of Nintendo, who has given us all a first look at the controller for their upcoming home game console, the Revolution.

It’s a pretty simple contest: caption this picture! If, in so captioning, you should happen to let slip what you think of the device, so much the better.

My entry:

From the company that brought you Virtual Boy.

(Really, once you see it “in action” it’s not quite as bad as all that. But that was still my first reaction.)

Posted by peterb at Friday, September 16th, 2005 5:27 pm

13 Responses

  1. Kosak says on September 16th, 2005 at 5:48 pm:

    “OK, this one is the vaginal probe and that one is the anal probe… right? Or is it the other way around?”

  2. Mark Denovich says on September 16th, 2005 at 7:48 pm:

    Damn, the first comment steals my thunder…

    Oh well:

    Nintendo reaches out to women gamers with a re-designed rumble pack. -or-

    From the company that brought you Virtual Boy:

    http://oralcaress.com/Conair_big.jpg

  3. Benoit says on September 16th, 2005 at 8:08 pm:

    >Nintendo breaks with more than 20 years of video >game history by abandoning the traditional >controller held with two hands and introducing an >all-new freehand-style unit held with one hand.

    I must have been drinking heavily, because I could have sworn I saw *two* hands there.

  4. Adam Rixey says on September 16th, 2005 at 10:21 pm:

    “Nintendo unveiled the new specialty controller for their much anticpated Pokemon Channel 2: Don’t Touch the Dial!”

  5. David Baisley says on September 16th, 2005 at 11:59 pm:

    The new Nintendo Revolution controller now with 33% less playability.

  6. Andrew Plotkin says on September 17th, 2005 at 3:30 pm:

    “Right: basic controller unit. Left: optional ‘joy-tit’ module.”

    (…latest in a great line of device names, following joy-stick and
    track-clit. Please help us ensure that this new one catches on.
    Gaming history is counting on you.)

  7. psu says on September 18th, 2005 at 7:23 am:

    Super Mario Sunshine Trance Vibrator

  8. Eric Tilton says on September 18th, 2005 at 11:48 am:

    That’s a pretty elaborate garotte controller for the next Hitman game.

    (Seriously, it’s a REMOTE CONTROL. If it’s supposed to be a weird pointy magic wand thingy, they should have made it look less like a REMOTE CONTROL. That doesn’t say “revolution” to me, it says “shut up and watch your television.)

  9. Andy P says on September 18th, 2005 at 1:01 pm:

    Nintendo: right angles. Except the curvy bit.

    I’m not sure where the big N are going with this. I can totally appreciate reaching out to the VERY casual gamer (they are a big audience), which this might do very well, but there again the VERY casual gamer won’t be willing to spend a lot of money on hardware; and the Revolution hardware might quite deliberately not be mega-powerful but I’m sure it won’t be cheap either.

  10. april says on September 18th, 2005 at 8:39 pm:

    Also works as Battle Weapon for forthcoming VR game: Double Dragon Revolution: Dance Dance Nunchakus

  11. Brian P says on September 19th, 2005 at 10:13 am:

    CRAP! All I want to do is change the channel - which button is CHANNEL UP?

    Brian
    http://myvogonpoetry.com

  12. Goob says on September 19th, 2005 at 10:20 am:

    “His and Hers.”

  13. Eric Tilton says on September 19th, 2005 at 11:04 am:

    http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=165

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