14 Facts About Rumble Pak

Rumble Pak is a removable device from Nintendo which provides force feedback while playing video games.

Versions of the Rumble Pak are available for the Nintendo 64, the Nintendo DS, and the Nintendo DS Lite.

Original Rumble Pak, designed for the Nintendo 64 controller, was released in April 1997 in Japan, July 1997 in North America, and October 1997 in Europe.

Originally named "Jolting Rumble Pak", it was announced as what IGN called "the biggest surprise" of the 1996 Shoshinkai show.

The Rumble Pak was introduced bundled with the game Star Fox 64 and made available as a separate purchase two months later.

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The TremorRumble Pak Plus allows a memory card to be inserted simultaneously, eliminating the need to switch between two accessories.

The Nyko Hyper Rumble Pak Plus contains internal memory and allows the user to adjust the amount of feedback between "hard" and "too hard".

IGN's Levi Buchanan wrote an 11th birthday article on the Nintendo 64's Rumble Pak, describing how its influence led to rumble being "an industry standard within a single generation".

Rumble Pak said that it is bulky and heavy when attached to the Nintendo 64 controller, but that "the trade-off was actually worth it".

Rumble Pak for the Nintendo DS is an official DS Option Pak shaped like a Game Boy Advance Game Pak and is designed to be inserted in the system's GBA game slot .

Various DS games supporting the Rumble Pak had been released in Europe before the accessory was available.

Nintendo DS Rumble Pak is incompatible with the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL, as both consoles lack a SLOT-2.

However, none of the games supporting the Rumble Pak require it for proper operation of the game, meaning that the games themselves are still compatible with DSi .

Nintendo DS Rumble Pak was initially met with harsh criticism as reviewers pointed out the limited number of games compatible with the card .