Growing up in the nineties and early 2000s was a great time to be a gamer, with the advent of new technology that was sweeping the industr♚y there was a plethora of exciting games 𒊎and consoles to check out. We all remember having to use the notorious Worm Light on our Game Boy Color systems, and this was just one of the many innovative and off-ball accessories that came about on video game consoles during this period of time. Video game manufacturers were doing anything and everything to sell you their console, and if this meant offering a weird accessory that may or may not be useful then they would.

Mad Catz is one of the most well-known brands that comes to mind when you think about a peripheral manufacturer, aꦦs they made most of the accessories that we used to play with during the nineties and early 2000s for everything from the Nintendo 64 to the Game Boy. There were many video game accessories that should not have seen the light of day, and we are going to be taking a look at these sometimes awful and utterly useless accessories that have seemed to flood the market during this time. Everything from a glove for the N64 Controller to a unique infrared fighting system that was way ahead of its time, all of which still managed to b🀅e a part of video game history. Let's take a look at these ridiculous accessories and see which ones were actually useful for the modern gamer.

30 Strange: ASG Vid🀅eo 💫Jukebox

Do you remember what it was like to have to get up and switch a game on a cartridge-based game console? From blowing out the cartridge to having to find your favor▨ite game in a stack of games that were usually dumped in a little tote. Well, the ASG Video Jukebox was a unique product that was designed for the Sega Genesis that allo🦋wed you to switch up to six games at once with the push of a button. Unfortunately, this was a massively overpriced device, and with the 32X and Sega CD attached, your Genesis console ended up looking like a monster instead of a video game console.

29 💖 Strange: Skywriter Stick Station

You can tell that things were difficult for Atari during this period of time, because the Skywriter Stick Station was a massive chunk of wood with a joystick attached to it. We’re not sure what Atari was thinking at this point in time, but the Stick Station was a failed attempt at an arcade quality controller tha🐓t looked more like a child made it. The Skywriter Stick Station will go down as one of the worst Atari accessories of all time, and one that we’d like to forget when we get our Flashback Consoles going.

28 Useful: Nintendo 6♉4 GameShark

There once was a time when 🦂finding a game cheat was a big accomplishment, and by finding the game cheat you’d be able to unlock all kinds of secrets. The GameShark was a well-known peripheral that was sold for quite a few different consoles, and the Nintendo 64 model is no different. The GameShark was a revolutionary product that made the entire ga𝓀ming experience a little better, and who can forget figuring out your favorite parts of a game and getting unlimited lives or money.

27 𒀰 ꧋ Strange: Champion Video Game Gloves

So, apparently, gaming was such a sport during the nineties that Champion saw an opportunity for a new sports goods brand, and thus the Champion Video Game Gloves were created. The style was quite unique and totally nineti💫es, as the gloves ꦅwere brightly colored and looked like the other Champion fitness apparel at the time. We are sure there are some gamers who play so diligently that they might need these, but we cannot see the mainstream use for a pair of gamer gloves and this was a wasted Video Game Accessory, to say the least.

26 Strange: Aura Interactor 🌼🦹

Virtual reality has always been a dream of gamers, for as far back as we can remember. The Aura Interactor is a unique piece of nineties game culture that really shouldn’t have existed until it was further tested. The gaming device used infrared motion sensors to read your facial movements, and this proved to be a rather unique device that could have made for a futuristic gaming experience if it had been developed a little further. The Aura Interactor was later surpassed by the Nintendo Wii, in terms of a virtual reality ꧃kit.

25 🍬 Useful: Sega Dreamcast VMU 🎶

The Dreamcast really innovated the video game industry in a lot of ways, by offering one of the most technologically advanced consoles on the market. The VMU was another innovative device that not only put a screen in the gaming controller but allowed gamers to take minigames around with them and earn points toward tꦓheir progress on the big screen. In a way, the VMU was much like the Nintendo Switch of yesteryear, and we fondly remember how the little device created a buzz around the Dreamcast.

24 🔯 🌸 Strange: Nintendo 64 Controller Glove

Nintendo was the champion of odd-ball video game peripherals during the nineties, whether it be for their Nintendo 64 consoles or their Game Boy consoles. There was a steady mix of innovative accessories for the console, and there were also quite a few that made us scratch our heads. The Nintendo 64 Controller Glove which was sold in the Nintendo Power M✅agazine was a unique product and one that we really can’t see serving an actual purpose to any gamer who really put the effort into their Nintendo 64 Console.

23 ꦑ Str🎃ange: Sega Activator

Feel like playing some classic Streets Of Rage in person? Well, the Sega Activator was designed to allow users to👍 fight using their actual feet and arms. This innovative♕ device never managed to catch on with consumers, and thus the motion sensor movement never really took off for gaming until Nintendo released the Wii in 2006. The Sega Activator will go down in history as one of the forgotten gems of the console genre, and we prefer to keep the Activator as a relic rather than something we’d actually play.

22 𓆉 Useful: Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak 🦩

Back when games were still evolving during the nineties there was one accessory that every gamer wanted to really experience the gameplay, and that was a Rumble Pak. The Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak was a must-have accessory for the console that really improved the quality of gameplay and made the gaming experience more interactive for gamers as they enjoyed their Favorite N64 games such as Mortal Kombat and even Super Smash Brothers which was also Rumble Pak compatible.

21 St𝓡range: Hꦬey You, Pikachu!

Pokémon was so big during the late nineties and 2000s that just about every kid knew who Pikachu was, so naturally, Nintendo decided to capitalize on this and give gamers a virtual pet. Similar to Seaman for the Sega Dreamcast, Hey You, Pikachu! was a virtual pet that the gamer could talk to and interact with. We liked the overall premise, but the end product was a boring game that really didn’t feature anything unique to the Pokémon brand such as a battle mode or adventure mode.