 This past weekend, I took a little break from Nintendo Prime because my kids needed me they needed their dad They needed to have some fun times with dad but Just because I wasn't around doesn't mean that things stop happening in fact things happened right before the weekend that failed to come across my desk until Saturday and I just had a wait till now to talk about it. And this is because a piece of my childhood is no more and I'm kind of gonna miss it So for those who haven't heard mad cats the peripheral company that made a whole bunch of peripherals for consoles and PC for I don't know third almost 30 years. I think they were founded in 1989 They are gone. They have filed for chapter 7 bank receiving in the US and some sort of bankruptcy in Canada where they are located and all of their assets and everything have been handed over to a company called Price Waterhouse Coopers Inc Who are now the trustees of all the assets who are gonna liquidate it so they could pay off all of their various creditors? employees are No longer like there is no employees the entire board has resigned and All of the employees have been locked out of the offices and been told to go home so that's it mad cats is done and I just want to draw attention to this because mad cats is a big part of my childhood they were always one of the go-to companies for cheap peripherals and I know there's you know a long-standing thing with cheaper riffles that they're not very good, right? You know you look at some of the PDP GameCube style controllers that work as classic controller pros you look at a lot of the peripherals out there that come from these third-party companies and They're generally not that good They break they don't last long They're almost worth getting warranties on but because they're so cheap I've never really bought a warranty on any of these third-party peripheral makers But I did own a lot of mad cat stuff as a kid and I understood that there's a market for this Especially when you're a child, right? You don't have a lot of money. You got your allowance You got maybe some money you earned doing chores if that wasn't part of your allowance or in addition to your allowance You some of you know you're 15 you have a job You know your parents signed up and let you get a job in the United States. That's great or You know more people's lawns and earn money that way or had your kool-aid stand on the corner Like I did when I was a kid Either way maybe the only money has your birthday money it assuming you get birthday money I did when I was a kid So I you know I didn't have a lot of money when I was a child So when I wanted to get games it had to come out of the little bit of money I did have or I had a hope and pray I got it for my birthday or Christmas as those are the only two times per year that I got gifts and I mean that makes sense I even today I don't expect gifts from anyone if I do get a gift great But again a couple times a year. That's about it Otherwise I buy everything myself and I'm 30 now. It's no big deal If I really really want something I will find a way to purchase it For the most part within reason Obviously I have budget and children and things to worry about however Mad cats was there for me when I was a kid if I wanted extra Nintendo 64 controllers I bought mad cats versions If I wanted memory cards I couldn't afford the official branded ones, but I could afford several mad cats versions and Yes, that means I dealt with the various issues those profiles had such as occasionally deleting save data that sucked That was a real thing. I think I even had a mad cats rumble pack for my Nintendo 64 and what really sunk the company is poor management obviously And making some bad deals They partnered hardcore with rock band 4 that didn't pan out rock band 4 did not take off Like the people who made the game hoped it would Obviously the way that mad cats were they had a lot of money tied up in rock band 4 and making all the peripherals for that and it failed The whole guitar hero rock band era is kind of past this I know there was a recent guitar hero game like what two three four years ago, but Again, we're talking years ago. I was actually shocked when I went to my local Roller skate rink. Yes, we still have roller skate rinks in this area or at least one of them And they had a rock band arcade game there. It it's kind of cool But it reminds me of an older era of gaming And I think it's perfectly fits well into an arcade sunny Just like you could still see some of those dancing games out there dance dance revolution So mad cats is no more Their most recent announcement had I think was in January. I believe it was for Tekken 7 About a fight stick and it turns all that fight stick was just reskin of Controller they already had a fight stick they already created so it didn't improve anything It wasn't new if you owned an older mad cats fights like you already had what this new version was minus the art and There's a lot of ways you can skin these things. So there's no reason necessarily buy a new thing just for art unless you're a collector and I don't know anyone who collected mad cats merchandise I know people that collect like amiibo people who collect Pokemon cards people who even collect the animal crossing Animal crossing cards or football cards baseball cards, etc. I understand you know people who collect coins mad cats is just not stuff you collect I don't know anyone who's like yeah, I'm a big mad cats fan, but still it's part of my childhood that's gone and I Have the same kind I'm gonna miss them Like I know there's other companies out there that have done things a little better I Already mentioned it before PDP is one of the major companies that supports into switch and it's supporting Nintendo and has officially licensed things That's why they were able to make themed gamecube controllers for the Wii U that weren't really gamecube controllers But whatever the point is is that Nintendo allowed them to do that They signed a licensing deal and not everything PDP makes is crap Just like not everything mad cats made over the years was crap I used to have a mad cats controller for my PC for PC games, and it was fine I used it for I think three or four years until I lost it during the move And that's when by then Xbox 360 I come out and I was able to pair my 360 controller So I didn't really have a reason to buy a new one still mad cats is gone part of my childhood is gone and You know what I want to hear from you guys is what are some of your favorite mad cats peripheral stories? You have over the years. Maybe it's just a peripheral you still use today Maybe it's a peripheral that surprisingly broke during a really bad situation in a game Maybe you lost, you know, five years with the save data under Nintendo 64 Whatever the case may be let me know down in the comments what your favorite memory from mad cats was and I'm gonna miss them. I'm good. This is how I could tell I'm getting old Things for my childhood are slowly starting to disappear Mad cats you had a good run Sorry, you bet big on rock band or didn't work out This is Nate from Nintendo Prime signing out