Two girls run the Giant Joystick astatine LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, March 31, 2007 successful Asturias, Spain. The elephantine video crippled controller made of wood, rubber and alloy by a Dartmouth College prof Mary Flanagan has made it into the Guinness World Records 2022 arsenic the largest joystick. Flanagan created the controller successful 2006 to observe her puerility acquisition of playing Atari 2600 video games. (Mary Flanagan via AP) (Mary Flanagan)

HANOVER, N.H. – A 9-foot-tall (2.7-meter-tall) video crippled joystick made of wood, rubber and alloy has made it into the Guinness World Records 2022 arsenic the largest.

Dartmouth College prof Mary Flanagan created the elephantine controller — nearly 14 times the size of an archetypal classical Atari controller — successful 2006 to observe her puerility acquisition of “maniacally” playing Atari 2600 video games.

She besides wanted to spot what it would beryllium similar erstwhile a single-player acquisition becomes collaborative: It takes astatine slightest 2 radical to run the joystick and propulsion the fastener to play classical Atari games specified arsenic “Centipede" and “Breakout."

“To person this communal popular civilization artifact conscionable erupt successful the mediate of a abstraction and let radical to play thing familiar, yet not familiar, was exciting,” said Flanagan, an creator who is seat of Dartmouth's Film and Media Studies and the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor successful Digital Humanities.

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The joystick, which toured Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, is present portion of the imperishable postulation of ZKM Center for Art and Media successful Karlsruhe, Germany.

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