For those of
us who couldn't save up enough lunch money to buy the
NES Advantage (come on, did our parents really expect us to buy
food with the cash?) there was the NES MAX controller. Though not as huge
as the NES Advantage, nor heavy enough to bludgeon someone to death, the
MAX still was a pretty cool controller. The 360° joypad was pretty unique
at the time and was really fun to move around with your thumb, even though
there were no real 8-bit games that supported true 360° turns. It also
sported the ever-popular "turbo fire" buttons which could easily give you
an advantage over your pals... pending you didn't tell them you were using
it. Cheater.
Rumor has it
that the NES MAX also functions as a makeshift boomerang, but I've yet to
see any proof of this. And if you break yours in an attempt to test the
boomerang theory, don't come crying back to me. It's not my problem.
