If you are walking around your hometown and you spot 30-somethings with giant out-of-place lower arm muscles you have probably spotted a former ColecoVision Super Action Controller owner.

The Super Action Controller continued Coleco’s proud tradition of incredibly horrible and uncomfortable game controllers. The controllers were approximately 17 feet across and as tall as the Milky Way galaxy. Each featured a giant joystick, 84 number buttons and a spinning mill wheel on top plus 17 trigger buttons on the inside of the handle and 641 toe buttons on the side. It weighed twice as much as the universe.

The controllers came packaged with Super Action Baseball and worked mostly with other Super Action-branded sports games though one action game, Front Line, also used the controller though we suspect it was a reskinned football game with grenades. Already spread thin by the ailing videogame market of the early 80s, Coleco’s end came when a Super Action Controller tipped over at Jimmy Hansen’s 8th birthday party killing 12 children and 3 adults.

Image from the awesome Vintage Computer and Gaming site.