Continuing on with the search on the front page of Google, I found a listing from a website called PicClick.com, but it was just a repost of the other listing I had already found on eBay. But, at the bottom of first page of Google, there was a post dated July 24, 2000 from a website called GameIndustry.com. In the post called AIRPLAY WIRELESS CONTROLLER IS UNSTOPPABLE by Jeff Criscito. This is another quality review. A thing of note, is that the review gives a good insight into how cool it was in the year 2000 to have a wireless controller that worked on radio frequency as opposed to infrared. Infrared is the same technology found in television remotes. This was very innovative tech for a game controller (more on that later). The last result I found was on page 2, and it was just a series of forum posts promoting the sale of this controller bundled with a DVD remote.

And that was all I needed to see. Rare might not be the appropriate word, but I understand that listing an item on eBay as “obscure” is not quite the way to a sale with most people. By the time I made it back to eBay, the seller of the Airplay RF Wireless controller had sent me an offer in the form of a discount. Good deal. With not much delay, I was the proud owner of what could possibly be the rarest (or most obscure) controller for the Playstation 1 and Playstation 2. Then I just had to wait for the shipping. In the meantime, I would continue my search for more information on this mysterious piece of hardware.

The Airplay in the Media