10 Rare & Valuable Video Game Controllers You Might Own

10. WuTang: Shaolin Style Pad

Now and then throughout video game history, celebrities have tried their hand at expanding the value of their brand by looking at interactive entertainment. Actors, sports stars and musicians have all crossed the Rubicon into the world of video games to varying results.

Wu-Tang Clan, one of the 1990s most successful rap groups, tried their own attempt with the PS1 fighting game Shaolin Style. Reviews of the title range from middling to pretty positive, especially as it did its best to celebrate the musicians identity in its soundtrack and, of course, in it's specialist controller.

Stylised on the group’s logo, the Wu-Tang Shaolin Style controller is one of the most unique silhouettes for a gamepad you’ll ever see. Whilst many musicians have put their likeness to video game software, few can say they’ve done the same for hardware.

With the game launching in 1999 however, this controller was functionally outdated as its lack of sticks and vibration made it far lesser than the new and rather revolutionary DualShock. Also, as cool as the shape was, it wasn’t exactly a comfortable piece of plastic to be holding onto.

Maybe not one to particularly use then, this rare controller is more of a collectors item than the best way to play.