8 Video Game Controllers That Time Forgot
- Thread starter Fanghawk
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It still kinda baffles me how did the Master System managed to stay around with literally 2 buttons instead of 4 like the NES (counting the Start and Select buttons), and I mean with games more complex than your typical Atari 2600 game, with titles like Phantasy Star and such.
As for the Pippin, well... Sony kinda liked it.
As for the Pippin, well... Sony kinda liked it.
Similar to the Atari 5200, the colecovision controler was out on the market before the atari 5200 if i'm correct, but have an interesting difference. on the coleco, each games came with an insert that was going over the numeric pad
once inserted into the controler, the keys could have different function for each game without being confusing. i remember the complexity of the wargames game (sort of missiles command) where you had to track missiles on 6 maps, note the USA map on the insert, so that you could link each keys to a region.
OH SHIT!, you're right!, disregard what I said :3Jorpho said:
It's still kinda weird to have the pause button on the console itself, but I guess that's the natural evolution of coming from the 2600 days of having to fiddle the console to set it up.
