When Sony unveiled a motion sensor "tilt" controller at this year's E3, the critics jumped down the company's Blu-ray lined throat. But, we've been working on this for years, replied Sony. Other haters wrote off the controller as a Wii-mote, rip-off. That's not true, replied the company.

An issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly from 1994 points to the JS-306 Power Pad Tilt made by third-party peripheral maker Champ. Looking somewhat like a SNES controller, the Power Pad had turbo buttons and a special "tilt" function. According to EGM, "actual physical movement of the pad controls your on-screen character."

Champ's product may have faded into nothing, but the Sony wizards have been toiling away to make the end-all tilt controller. Originality like that takes time to perfect. Brian Ashcraft

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