Gyromite NES Review - Grade: F

For those of you who don't remember or simply blocked it out of your memory - Nintendo, in the 80s, released some pretty idiotic peripherals for the NES.

The most idiotic was R.O.B., your robotic operating buddy who took his commands from the television, and the television got it's commands from you. It was dumb, because essentially you pressed a key to perform an action, but instead it sent a signal to rob to press the key on his controller - slowly and clumsily - to perform the action.

Worthless does not even begin to describe this - Ninteno obviously wanted to show off the fact that it could make a machine take subtle signals from a TV screen, but that's not that amazing when it's a really dumb toy that only works with dumb games and makes them even dumber.

Gyromite was acceptable when you put R.O.B. away and just used the 2nd controller yourself. But even then, it was still kind of odd and not very fun.

-Hokum