Giant video game joystick earns Guinness World Records achievement

Here's a video game controller for the record books: A 9-foot-tall Atari joystick that plays Centipede and Breakout. The giant – and functional – joystick, made of wood, rubber and steel is now in the Guinness World Records 2022 as the largest joystick. Dartmouth College professor Mary Flanagan created the joystick, which is nearly 14 times the size of the classic Atari controller, in 2006 to celebrate her childhood gaming history "maniacally" playing Atari 2600 games, she said on Dartmouth's web site. Currently housed at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, the joystick has previously been exhibited in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 'Call of Duty: Vanguard':Latest edition of first-person shooter video game is bloody, exciting fun Flanagan created the eight-direction joystick in 2006 with a single red button, which needs two people to operate it, to "investigate the idea of collaboration and the sharing of an otherwise single-person gaming experience, and also to focus on the'exploration of the cultural and sociological effects of technology,'" according to Guinness.