To play games, you must have control in a way or another. Joypads, keyboards and mouses, light guns, and so forth – we haven’t seen a unique way to play in three decades. This solution has to be the best so far!
Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield has created a bra controller (!) to play Dead or Alive. The buttons are fully functional, so the players can play the game using the bra! While it looks sexist at first sight, the artists’ aim was the polar opposite. „The artists use their own bodies to challenge exaggerated representations of the human body.” The first reveal for this bra controller happened in Toronto, Canada in 2013 at the Vector convention.
Gamers got to grips with real bodies and not the on-screen equivalent. After all, Dead or Alive does have female fighters with big breasts, plus the game itself has a unique engine to make them bounce…
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