The N64 Funtastic series was Nintendo’s a lot of chaotic design decision, which’s a compliment. Released in 1999, the translucent controllers and consoles come to the tail end of a wider cultural moment: Apple had actually just broken open the iMac G3’s candy-colored shell and revealed the world that visible circuitry could be beautiful, and the consumer electronic devices industry was scrambling to catch up. Nintendo’s variation can be found in 6 tastes, consisting of Ice Blue, a saturated cyan-teal that appeared like it had actually been put directly from a Jolly Rancher mold. The controllers were transparent all the method through, which meant you might see every lever, spring, and pivot point in the mechanism. That was the entire point. Revealing the guts was the item.
Killscreen, the Florida-based controller studio that has developed its whole brochure on surgical retro revisionism, has now transplanted that exact visual onto a PS5 DualSense. The Funtastic Ice Blue/Clear is a limited-edition PS5 controller with an Ice Blue clear front shell and a crystal-clear back exposing the circuit board, circuitry, and battery assembly below. It is native PS5 hardware, with wireless connection, haptic feedback, and adaptive triggers all undamaged. The base cost is $139, with optional Omron hair triggers, mechanical face buttons, and GuliKit TMR thumbsticks available as upgrades.
Designer: Killscreen
Killscreen co-founder Erik Consorsha is upfront about the fundamental absurdity here:”There’s something somewhat wrong about putting a Funtastic-style translucent controller on contemporary hardware. That’s precisely why we did it.”That impulse for productive wrongness is the throughline in whatever Killscreen has actually launched. The CubeSense put GameCube colorways and C-stick nubs on a DualSense. The 1080-R matched, with forensic precision, the precise gray of a factory-sealed 1995 PS1 controller, splitting one open just to get the color right. Each release is a purposeful category violation: taking a visual that came from one console, one era, one style culture, and suturing it onto hardware from an entirely various family tree. The Funtastic Ice Blue/Clear does the very same thing, other than the donor and recipient have actually never ever shared a style language in their lives.
The original Ice Blue N64 Funtastic controller sits beside the Killscreen variation in the press images, and the color match is uncomfortably close. What the image also captures is 25 years of ergonomic progress in a single frame: the N64’s trident shape, among the most geometrically baffling controllers ever mass-produced, against the DualSense’s exactly contoured twin-grip body. Same shade, entirely different concept of what a human hand needs. The face buttons on the Killscreen controller are bright main yellow, blue, and green, pulled from the N64’s own sweet scheme instead of PlayStation’s renowned shape symbols, and on a Sony controller body they check out as genuinely disorienting in the best possible method.
The 1999 Nintendo controllers were a single uniform clear color all the method through: very same Ice Blue from the front plate to the grip pointers to every molded ridge. Killscreen divides the register 3 methods: Ice Blue translucent on the front half, crystal-clear on the rear panel, and matte gray on the trigger caps, thumbstick tops, and d-pad. That tripartite product logic is more aesthetically thought about than anything Nintendo attempted in 1999. The clear back is where the real design self-confidence lives: you can see the circuit board, the electrical wiring harness in yellow and red, the USB-C port, and a Killscreen “Human Machine User interface” label on the main board. The internals are the screen item.
< img src ="https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2026/03/613181/killscreen_funtastic_blue_ps5_controller_8.jpg"alt =""width="1280 "height ="1280"/ > The upgrade alternatives alter the character of the controller considerably. The base$139 setup keeps the stock DualSense trigger mechanism with adaptive resistance. Adding Omron hair activates for$20 converts those into short-travel tactile clicks at around 2mm of travel, removing progressive resistance entirely in favor of on/off accuracy. Mechanical face buttons at another $20 swap the rubber membrane pads for microswitches, producing crisp tactile feedback more typically connected with high-end mechanical keyboards. The GuliKit TMR thumbsticks at $39 usage tunnel magnetoresistance sensors instead of traditional potentiometers, which indicates no contact wear and no drift. Fully specced, the controller lands at $208.
Killscreen puts together and evaluates every unit in-house in Florida, and the run is truly limited, constant with how every previous drop has gone. The Funtastic Ice Blue/Clear is compatible with PS5 and PC. If the CubeSense and 1080-R are any indicator, this one will be gone before the majority of people finish debating whether they need it.