I Can't Believe No One Bought These Crazy Game Controllers
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
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It’s impossible to know just how many bizarre game controllers have come and gone over the years, and they’re DEFINTELY not all winners. We’ve gotten our hands on a fresh batch to try out - will find a diamond in the rough?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:54 High Five
6:36 There will be no turkey
10:52 I was analog BEFORE it was cool
14:21 All aboard!
21:21 Credits - Věda a technologie
The NeGcon was $60 when it first released in ‘95
the WHAT?
@@z3ke002 same
Thank you controller captain
The Namco NeGcon for the PSX. An awesome controller that revolutionized racing games.
Now, I know that's cool, but the Namco Volumen controller is even better.
I guess that's not adjusted for inflation?
Japanese train simulator: 15 sec late and you loose.
German train simulator: you win if you reach your station within the same day.
US train simulator: It's a Greyhound.
@@Ubernaught012 Desert Bus
French train simulator: Oh no ! There is a national strike. You loose.
@@TheZaherell i wonder if there's more days where transport drivers sit and complain about pay than days where they're actually doing their job.
sometimes feels like that
British trains: if you turn up for work, you win, but only if there isn't a picket line.
Putting Dennis in charge of advertising was probably the best idea ever. I used to just skip the ads, but I’ll watch them with Dennis as he’s entertaining and creative.
I came from floatplane just to watch the ads...
This
dennis ads are just hilarious content.😆
Live, Laugh, Liao.
@@jakooboo147 legendary
20:12 From everything I have heard about Japanese railway system from people visiting and living in Japan, this is pretty accurate to the expectations Japan has on their trains. I've seen news articles from Japan where train companies profusely apologized for being a minute late, as if it was the world's end, and heard that they have done the same thing when they were 15 seconds early.
are you Russian or are you dragon, or are you going to be ON MY FUKIN TIME
bro as a train conductor if you arrive a minute late in japan your carrier is at risk.
you gotta spend whole day apologizing to every train companies and higher ups lol
There was a tragic accident in 2005 that killed 107 people when the operator try to avoid a minute delay. Japanese culture is... yikes.
Japanese culture really is... Special. Even as a customer I don't think I'd want to see somebody apologize to me that hard for something so meaningless.
@@noscopesallowed8128: it's not meaningless if you miss your next train
Linus is brave wearing sandals with a bowling ball, especially when he drops everything all the time
He probably has Titanium heatshield tow nails 😂
@@LazyTeeRex are we just going to assume he still have toe nails?
_Bowled_ of you to assume that bowling alleys provide steel-toed shoes
Is it really brave though when they literally gave him training wheels....or in this case a wrist strap 😂. His team knows him so well lol
He usually Drops more expensive stuff so No worries
5:35 It looks like the keybind for opening the door was missing, it should say "You can open the door by tapping (key). That's why there's a space between "tapping" and the period at the end of the sentence, there's supposed to be a keybind there.
Yeah I think the Game didn't recognize the Buttons on the Controller so it was acting like the Interact button wasn't Bound
the button was the period probably
I was just annoyed he never once tapped on something with the glove.
well he opened it somehow
@@dorian6021 and instructions would have helped like tapping what is tapping, like a knock on the door?
16:27 Linus’ face when he heard about “easy mode”, like he hasn’t ridden a Japanese train before. 😂
The train game and controller honestly looks kinda sick as hell all the train fanatics I know would love it better than your typical train sim because of the controller
The newest one is on Switch IIRC. Techmoan did a video about it.
densha de go is actually a HUGE franchise over in japan, there's versions of the game and special controller on just about every major console (and even weird handheld ports like the wonderswan) and pretty much any of them are worth a try if you ever get a chance and can at least kinda read japanese (or just memorize all the messages)
I loved playing Densha de Go! when I was a kid. Got a disc imported to my country and I was curious about this damn game that I don't even understand. I spent hundreds of hours playing it with my brother and we usually switched roles because some train runs can take hours to complete.
Gotta love it when the game allows you to go unlimited speed and all of a sudden you have to slow to 60km/h.
That train conductor segment was hilarious!
Until you realize is actually accurate.
that's not an arcade game, that's a simulator, and surprisingly accurate given the time
@@666Tomato666 especially accurate was the "and I'm dead"
@@defeqel6537 that's what Linus said, not what the game displayed...
@@666Tomato666 A train simulator game that started as an arcade game, not the difficulty but that big box thingy.
The dank pods "Can you believe nobody bought this" in the beginning LMAO
exactly what I was thinking
wait am I missing something? I can't find the section?
@@ishkar5k the little tagline thing during the intro
It's a nugget for sure.
*_A brand new nug..._* 🎶
20:31 I was expecting Riley to pop out of that container like old times
8:05 possibly the first time anyone has played tennis with a bowling ball
Fun fact, all PS2 controllers (official, anyway) had analog face buttons, it just almost never got used. Yes, I realize the NeGcon is for PS1, I'm just saying.
This is the reason it sucks trying to play Metal Gear Solid 2 or 3 on anything that isn't a PS2. On a PS2 pressing the square button with a small amount of pressure allowed you to aim, and then fully pressing square made you fire, you could also gently release square to put the firearm down without firing (for when you wanted to interigate/holdup someone) On a PS3, PS4 or PS5 pressing square in any fashion just makes you empty the magazine...
@@admiralrustyshackleford119 That's weird cuz the PS3 had analog buttons as well
@@admiralrustyshackleford119 Yep. Gran Turismo 3 and 4 SUCK in emulation for exactly this reason
@@JontysCornerim not sure about 3, but at least with 4 you have options. you can change the button layout in game so it uses l2 and r2 for brake and throttle, or by default the right stick up and down will also control brake and throttle
@@AdrianVM19maybe the emulation doesn't pass the analog-ness for some reason?
0:20 lmao linus got some moves 😂😂
Goodness Gracious!
Just like he’s got some segways… to our sponsor!
That shit gave me cancer.......
Reminds me of Jésus Quintana
8-year olds Dude
@@BennyColynJesus man...
That stopwatch at 15:30 was very cute 😊
I am honestly impressed by the train conductor panel. So much control and precision and it seemed to work flawlessly as well.
It's not the peripheral's fault that the game attached to it is so hard.
It started as an arcade game IIRC. Perfect for score attack, or rather, going for the perfect run.
@@bahamutbbob now i am imagining an arcade filled with several full size cabinets of different train routes in Japan
@@meinacco The arcades would have about 2-5 booths for the train game. Booths as in like those Photo Booths.
@@KuroRyuu86 I would guess the arcade version is more punishing so most people won't sit for hours just to finish a run. I only played the PS1 version and some runs could take a long time to finish.
4:00 'Turn it off, turn off your hand ' and Linus goes Attack on LTT
Warhammer Titan Linus, sure to drop hell upon you through P A T H S
I had the P5 glove back in the day. Actually I might still have it. Anyway, it shipped with the game "Black & White" where you control a hand inside a 3D world to interact with your god-avatar. It was really cool... Except you ended up very tired in your hand/arm from holding it outstretched all the time.
It was where the glove shined honestly and I really wish more games has proper support for it, but just like with most people this video didn't do the glove justice :(
You could always be a more hands-off god. That was a fun game.
VR, inside out Tracking. Like on the Quest. You can just use your hands. Dont need the controller all the time. And VR has been fine for like over 6 years. Only the really needy people want a ultimate Experience( what you need to use insane 💲💲💲 on) standalone like Quest 2&3 is amazing and cheap.
A match made in heaven
@@Lorten369 The P5 "Glove" in this video is 20+ years old. 😉
In Japan, the neGcon was relatively well-known back in the day. It was about 5000 yen.
Also the name "neGcon" comes from the Japanese word "ねじる (nejiru)" meaning "twisting,” and the correct reading is ”Nejikon.”
For the negcon, i found that if you operated it like you were holding a steering wheel, it would twist correctly for the amount you were turning the 'wheel'. I had it primarily for wipeout and gran turismo, you still needed to get muscle memory to make the most of it but as you say, at the time there was no equivalent, no analogue anything.
Racing down Spilskinanke on the hardest setting in Wipeout 2097 with Firestarter as the soundtrack will forever be my favourite gaming moment of all time. There's absolutely no way I could have finished that game on the hardest mode without my Negcon. What a fantastic controller it was and just infinitely superior to the standard joypad
1:30 Is it just me or does that guy on the box kinda look like Linus?!?!?!?
They knew that Linus was going to feature it on LTT
Linus just has kept the 90's look all these years.
It looks like young linus
0:30 this has to be the best Ridge ad i've ever seen
Yeah, I should play more of the Ridge Racer games and...
wait...
The Ridge ad at the end was also pretty good
"open door by tapping" is probably meant to say "open door by tapping X" where X is the key bind, but the game can't pull the names for the glove inputs so it's blank. I don't think it means to tap your hand.
I had a NeGcon back in the day. They weren't a high end item - you could find them in any EB store. I don't remember the exact MSRP sorry but I would say about 40-50 bucks? They actually weren't as good as you would think. Ridge Racer et al were all designed to play well with standard non analog controllers. So by playing with a Negcon I actually found it harder to drive because now I had to do a full rotation movement to do a hard turn rather than tap a button. It ended up being kind of a gimmick and I guess that's why the design never took off. Still was a very innovative idea for its time though.
I disagree entirely. If you really spent time honing your skills on the Negcon (as I did), it was FAR superior to the standard controller. It was better than the Dual Shock as well.
@@papaquonis Fully agree. It was amazing in CART!
@@papaquonis *shrug* I can see that. I guess I just wasn't willing to put in the time.
@@Afrotechmods It's a bit like the really advanced racing games. You start by driving the regular cars in default config, but with time you start getting frustrated as the top gamers post amazing times and you can't get anywhere near those times. So you start screwing around with individual suspension adjustment for each wheel, adjust the pressure in each wheel depending on the track, the surface and the weather, change the gears, you generally tweak everything and hey presto, you suck just as bad. Then you finally realize that the top gamers doesn't have hundreds of hours in the game but thousands. And they document everything every single thing analyzing the results. And finally you realize that you have a real life, not only several thousand hours to spend on a advanced game claiming to be a simulator.
Been there. The advanced games trying to simulate everything are interesting but far from easy. Sometimes an arcade racer can be more fun, especially when playing with friends who also have a real life. Same with controllers the advanced controllers are nice, no joke. But they also tend to be real expensive and so advanced that if you don't plan to put at least a thousand hours into a very good simulator/game they are way overkill. And for the arcade racer they might even be worse than a control pad.
Get what controller and game/simulator you want. But don't think that a better (more expensive) controller will automatically make you a better gamer.
Imo the NeG is the superior option for almost every game that supports it.
It'll take a little while to rewire your brain to stop thinking about it as a PS controller, and to treat it more like an RC car controller.
It's not always my first choise of controller, but i've gotten much faster times on all games i've tried it on.
Though, there is one game i would never play without the NeG, that being Ridge Racer Type 4. That game works absolutely flawless with it, and seeing how badly they nerfed the controls on regular controllers, no thank you. If i can't use a NeG, i'm not playing R4
The Big Lebowski is the best; great reference to The Jesus
I love when you let Dennis do the sponsor segments, he has so much fun with it and you're not losing any advertising power. If anything you get a higher viewer retention because of how fun he makes it.
Damn, Linus really said _"Fuck it, Wii Ball."_ 😹
HAving the closing shot be Linus in the dumpster, retrieving the horrible hand mouse is pretty funny. I love the lengths the team goes to for segues and bits.
11:26 -
"Okay this one I'm legitimately excited for! It might suck." Lol
11:36 it was 49,95 German Marks when i bought it back in the day…
I got one of those NagCon controllers around 1998 give or take a year, and it was on sale for about $50CAD after taxes, I believe original price was either $64.99 or 69.99+tx CAD.
I want Linus to be forced to use that hand controller for a week
Linus please review graphics tablets by Wacom, Huion, and XP-Pen
hosted by Llyod
since he's the graphic artist guy who I know uses a lot of tablet drawing
Wacom do some good tablets, especially for their price.
@@Cyberpunk_2023 Especially for their price? Last time I checked Wacom tablets were the most expensive ones out there for their respective size / feature set.
@@Cyberpunk_2023 Oh please, Huion, XP-Pen and literally everyone else is catching up to them now in terms of value. The only reason why you'd get a Wacom nowadays is if you don't trust anyone else.
@@MR-vg7yn They do have some more epxsive models, but I bought one for £50 and it's great. £10 more than other brands that haven't been very good at all, for a fully functioning product. I could be wrong overall though, since I only have one graphics tablet and don't constantly change out or peer at other models and brands. I bought one, it was cheap, and it works
11:38 Live in Japan. MSRP was about 5,000JPY(4,800or4,980JPY I think). Was not popular so you could often find deals. I loved it.
I feel like you guys have seriously levelled up your productions lately and I am loving it. Maybe it's a result of the refocusing, maybe it's just improvement, doesn't matter, I am enjoying it so much anyway. The smoother transitions, the extra mile jokes, the sponsor spots, the embellishments and retries when needed. Sick!
0:52 That's how you know you're thinning out the soup a bit too much, mate.
13:33 You got the versions wrong, the NeGcon with the sweeping shoulder buttons is the Version 1, the one with the flatter shoulder buttons is the 2nd version. I own all 3.
Gotta get Linus on the Jogcon too
Been absolutely LOVING the content in the last few months, videos are refreshing, creative, and very informative. This is exactly what I subscribed for like 10 years ago lol
I gotta say, of all the sponsor spots on videos, I find the way LTT handles them to be the most palatable. Short and sweet at the start and not just genetic talking points. Because of that they have also been successful in getting me to buy stuff a few times
"you look one like too" killed me xD
Editors never disappoint :D
never getting on a train driven by Linus 🤣
the first MINUTE of this video is more chaotic than a YTP, i LOVE how crazy this channel goes
Watching Linus drive a virtual train was the best thing ever. I can die happy now XD
Linus... Blink twice if you need help💀
"You said it man! Nobody fucks with the Leenus!"
A man of culture
"8-year-olds, Dude."
@@qwertyferix "He's cracking."
Well thats just, like, your opinion, man
The train bit was amazing. Seems like a great party and drinking game!
I loved this video. This gave more AVGN vibes than current AVGN. It felt like I was going through the learning processes with Linus.
@0:04
I'm the mother lovin jesús... now f'n roll 😂
Now that's what I call, PLAYING WITH POWER!!!
genuinely my favourite ridge ad good job you guys hahaha
I love how happy Jordan is in these videos. He takes the video from a 10 to a solid 12.
Love the DankPods reference in the intro.
That first one is exactly how it felt to try playing Kinect games in the early 2010s.
HAHAHA the rain part for Ridge was 11/10!
The end sponsor spot was great! Great transition!
0:58 What are you doing on the box, Linus?
I wonder if LTT has covered any Nintendo Labo things before... but time to watch and research later I guess lol
czcams.com/video/sXGWomuz5a0/video.htmlfeature=shared
Pretty sure this is the only video they did
@Naith123 That's fantastic, thanks for sharing
I had the NegCon back in the 90's. Absolutely LOVED it!
My favourite game was Rapid Racer, a boat racing game.
The controller had a bit of a learning curve, but once you figured it out, you were unstoppable.
I don't remember the cost.
I love that you connected the bowling ball, and just as we expect to see bowling, you start hitting a tennis ball around with your bowling ball. 😂
I see Big Lebowski reference - I press like!
one of my favorite video intros and sponsor spots so far
The flow of the video was great. Wonder how many TVs were sacrificed to that bowling remote 😂
I love these old peripherals videos. It’s a nice throwback to when gaming tech really was the wild west.
18:17 Japanese Train_Sim:
15sec late and you are dead
If the game was made by the Germans Train company aka #deutschebahn
one day late, its totally in time bro
>15sec late and you are dead
That is reality, people died because of that mentality (Amagasaki derailment).
So many versatility and creative controllers being made. I am curious for what future is coming haha
That jittery mouse movement with the hand controller is the same experience I have had with any non-microsoft controller I've ever tried to use with Windows. Whether it was a name brand like Logitec or some cheap joystick. I eventually gave up ever trying to play games on a PC other than using a mouse and keyboard.
If you do another one of these, I recommend seeking out the Sega Genesis Activator, the Taiko drums, the PS2 Final Fantasy gun controllers, and the Nintendo 64 glove.
Tell me is there a glove-controller?
Update : there is one 🎉
Update 2 : the glove-controller really sucks
9:40 nostalgia hits hard ngl
Hoooow?!?!? you commented this 2 minutes after release???
Linus and his team are such goats. Imagine having 10 mil subs, and posting a high quality video nearly every day
Yea, It gets even weirder down the rabbit hole.
I would love to watch Linus doing a 5-hour live stream with High Five.
Beardless Linus is weird in itself
Has you checking what year the vid is from
@@BrianGon89 frfr
I remember that jank glove from junior high. Our school just got an East Lab program and threw money at a bunch of "cutting edge tech" like that glove. It sat on a shelf and never got used for more than a few minutes of students playing with it.
The handsome guy with the glasses is so neutrally funny the whole video. He explains stuff so quickly and easily. What a guy.
imagine using this on 18+ games and there's an actual interactions, like squeezing 'you know what'
Ahh yes, I know this game!
You are the CEO of the very successful startup and you gotta meet quite a few client to strike the best deals. And you know how they measure the chances of your success, right? That's right! Your first handshake with them determines how well mannered you are and how reliable you can be! Squeeze their hands like you mean it!
Side quests include offering them glasses of water/drinks/wine. Offering them stacks of very detailed files and report about your company metrics. That's the best 18+ game ever made!
Linus, that mouse glove is a great excercise for badminton :P Keep that racquet high!
Jordan and Elijah are some of my favourite people at LMG, please more of them!!
The sacrifices poor Jordan makes for Linus...
that intro sponsor read was epic, one of the best I've seen to date!
When Linus was trying out the Racing controller and making a car sound, an actual car with loud exhaust syncs perfectly with the sound he made even with the shifting or turbo sound.
It was funny how you dressed up and redid (a little be of it at least) the scene in The Big Lebowski where we meet Jesus Quintana plaued by John Turturro.
A really long time ago I used the Power of 5 controller with a metal DDR pad to play WoW on a 52" DLP big screen TV. I did custom bindings for all my abilities and movement. It was a fun experiment, but tiring AF and reaction time for movement was a slower.
Production quality trough the roof! Holy $HIT the intro was amazing!🎉
2:31 Seeing this Bending data thing, this makes me think that this could be a really cool way to get finger tracking for VR/VTubing purposes on a budget (or if for some ungodly reason you purchased it at that time for full price), if there was a way to get access to that data without the... less good "mouse controlling" parts. I see the potential of this thing at least, even if it was pretty terrible for the use cases of its time.
0:31 wow it’s crazy what a number compression does in Linus in the rain the blocks around his face. I heard confetti and rain is hard and I’d agree lol 😂
Thanks for yet another awesome video! Didn't expect to end it with an epic sponsorshot!
oh my god when Linus put the bowling ball on and starts playing and tennis I fully lost it hahahahhaha
I love these janky review videos the best 😊
The best part of the NeGcon is that it was the defacto standard for racing games. So even if you never owned one, if you ever bought a PSX steering wheel or used the "Steering Wheel" switch on a controller adapter, it was likely using the NeGcon protocol.
Namco/Taito also used that protocol to make a paddle control for old pong-style games on Namco Museum and even Taito's Puchi Carat.
14:00 I vividly remember playing a PS1 or a PSX with a dualshock-like controller. It had analogs on it and they worked in some of the games, but it wasn't 1:1 PS2 dualshock. I think it had different thumb sticks and didn't vibrate.
"You're mousing" had me dying😂😂😂😂
I played soooo much wipeout with that negcon, the analog throttle was perfect to get the start boost, and man I had so good times on all the maps. Legit great controller for its time and games .
The bring my shuttle line was so cool. We'd have to wait so long to see Vader clearly angry ever again. Put it back!
I had one of those NeGcon controllers, and it's REALLY good for driving games, I loved it with Wipeout and Need For Speed.
Every new Denis ad gets a full watch. I can't say the same for any other ad supported platform. He's a goldmine.
I wonder if the studio lights were messing with the P5, I had one of those back in the day and while certainly a gimmick it was pretty cool when paired with stereoscopic glasses and games that had 3D interaction.
I love these controller videos! So hilarious! 😂😂
21:02 Its not a concealed pocket if YOU PUT A MASSIVE LABEL RIGHT AT THE OPENING
It says tear away
You can still see the stitching. It’s also right in the front when you open it
I would love to see a follow up video about the glove, but which uses a Leap Motion as a comparison - since those actually, you know, work.