Arcade games with unique controls

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Have you ever found or heard of an arcade game with controls that not too many other machines have, if any? Most arcade machine will have a joystick and buttons or a light gun or a steering wheel, pedals, and a stick shift like a car. But what arcade games have you come across that have control schemes that are very much out of the ordinary.

For me, that's Boong-Ga Boong-Ga.

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga is a game from 2001 where you pick a victim and spank them. That being said there is a plastic rear end sticking out of the front of the cabinet. You have to spank the plastic butt and if you spank them just right, not too hard, not too soft, the game gives you a little plastic trophy that looks like a golden smiling poo. This game was only in Japan and Korea by the way if you couldn't tell. this ad, which was very badly translated by the way, was an attempt to get it to the west but to no avail. Gee, I wonder why?

 

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There's Panic Park, a 2-Player Arcade game where the goal is to hold onto a lever and shove your friend to the side

Seems like it would be pretty easy to slam your hands together and get bloody knuckles

 

[cjl8336 cjl8336]

Sega had several - this one comes to mind first since it had the pennywise soundtrack

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga (2001)

I’m not sure what I can say about this game. I think I’ll let that picture of it do most of the talking, with the added caveat that the purpose of the game is maybe not quite as rude as you were thinking. Only just, mind you. Using your hand, or the plastic finger attachment, the player has to either spank or generally punish characters that make life difficult, from gangsters to ex-boyfriends to mothers-in-law. Yes, I’ve been deliberately vague with the phrase “generally punish”. Use your imagination, or even better, don’t.

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga is quite possibly the weirdest idea for a machine in all of history, as it’s the only game I know of with a plastic bent-over behind for a controller, and it dispenses a small plastic trophy shaped like a pile of faeces if you get a high enough score. Snacks ’n’ Jaxson barely raises an eyebrow in comparison.

Article from here.

 

[Alleway]

Never found one in the wild (I wish)
But the first one that came to mind was this one. You had a series of escalating opponents/obstacles coming at you and you had to punch the daylights out of them all. From a thug, to a truck, a monster or even a freakin' meteorite (Now THAT would have been an alternate ending to the movie Armageddon).
And by punch, the game meant literally. It provided a pair of gloves and you had to punch the target at the right time. Too weak or too early/late and you lost.

 

[Jeff]

Luigi's Mansion arcade lets you use the Poultergust 5000 to suck up ghosts. A creative idea.

 

[BrawlMan]

Brave Fire Fighters - I played this a lot with my dad back in the day at Dave & Busters.

The First Funky Fighter

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There's the original Street Fighter 1 cabinet with the two big pressure sensitive buttons too. How hard you hit the buttons determined if you got a light, medium, or heavy punch/kick. They were phased out for the now famous 6-button layout due to people hitting them way too hard and breaking them.

 

[Boo Man]

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga (2001)

I’m not sure what I can say about this game. I think I’ll let that picture of it do most of the talking, with the added caveat that the purpose of the game is maybe not quite as rude as you were thinking. Only just, mind you. Using your hand, or the plastic finger attachment, the player has to either spank or generally punish characters that make life difficult, from gangsters to ex-boyfriends to mothers-in-law. Yes, I’ve been deliberately vague with the phrase “generally punish”. Use your imagination, or even better, don’t.

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga is quite possibly the weirdest idea for a machine in all of history, as it’s the only game I know of with a plastic bent-over behind for a controller, and it dispenses a small plastic trophy shaped like a pile of faeces if you get a high enough score. Snacks ’n’ Jaxson barely raises an eyebrow in comparison.

Article from here.