Phillips CDi Controllers
You may have heard of the Phillips CDi and its partnership with Nintendo to release not one, not two, but three different Zelda games on the platform, as well as a Mario game called Hotel Mario.
These games have a notoriously bad reputation, and it is well-deserved. But their awfulness is amplified by the fact that you had to play using one of the worst controllers of all time.
First, the regular Phillips CDi Controller was more like a DVD Remote, with a couple of awkwardly placed buttons on each side of the d-pad which sat in the middle. So although you could play most games with only one hand, your other hand was left available to rip your hair out while you suffered through some of the worst games ever made.
The other horrible abomination of a controller created for the Phillips CDi was the Phillips CDi Touchpad controller, and when they say touchpad, boy do they mean it.
Just take a look at the size of that joystick! What human on this planet has a thumb long enough to reach the top while your other hand operates the buttons? This confusing piece of hardware still boggles the mind after all these years and only adds to the complete failure that was the CDi.
