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This Coin Operated Handheld Concept Uses Power Coins To Give Powerups In Games (retrododo.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The playdate's crank thing was an interesting gimmick that opened up new ways of controlling games. They also had a number of other design decisions and limitations that breed creativity.

This just reminds me of the Mario Galaxy games. Rather than pressing a button to attack, you instead swing the wiimote just for the sake of being a gimmick. The coin is just a fancier switch or button; what can you do with the coin that you can't do by holding a button combo?

Also, those coins are absolutely going to get lost, hopefully they're 3D printable. And hopefully they're not fomo tokens where you need to buy them separately...

Still, I hope I'm wrong about this and it does turn out to be good. Is certainly an interesting idea.