So someone sent me a link to this forum thread over on the Playstation boards, and I was instantly blown away by what’s been accomplished here. A user who goes by KitsuneNoYume is disabled and sadly unable to use his hands well enough to get his game on. So what’s he do? Like some sort of Mad scientist he creates a controller that he can play with his feet, hands and mouth. There are straws, cutting boards, tables, switches, wires and all sorts of stuff making this work. Seriously, this guy needs to get hired by NASA or something.

So I’m reading through this and scanning the pics and while it’s beyond impressive there’s a part of me that just wonders how precise can the controls really be. I mean it probably works great for certain titles, and be fine for games like Jeopardy and such, but can it really replace the standard controller? Well, he posted a video showing off the contraption and how it all works. At the end of it there’s a quick pan over to the TV and what game is he playing? Wipeout fucking HD. A game so twitch-sensitive that a good number of able-bodied people can’t manage it.

My hats off to you my friend, you’re a gamer in every sense of the word and it’s stories like this that make me proud to be able to consider myself a fellow gamer. We can certainly be a cynical bunch but damn if we ain’t resourceful!

This is some really fine map-making work here. Possibly the finest conversion map I’ve ever seen and as a bonus it looks like it would actually be fun to play!

[Waxy via Boing Boing]

UPDATED! You can download the map by clicking on this link. Enjoy!

Poor Arthur Dent. The man really had the worst day EVER, didn’t he?

Thanks to having to rummage through a huge pile of old pictures I came across a couple gaming artifacts that I forgot I own. These date back to the old Infocom days when companies really knew how to make game packaging special and Infocom were the Kings. They included special “feelies” in every game you purchased from them. Many times these little game-themed trinkets had an actual purpose but in the case of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy they were mainly just funny as hell. Below you’ll find scans of the Order Of Destruction paperwork for Arthur Dent’s house in English and the Order of Destruction for Planet Earth in Vogon! Click ‘em to em’biggem ‘em.

Click here for the Wikipedia page that lists the other “feelies” included with the game.