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The Ergonomics of Controllers

Posted by Zonk on from the ow-my-thumb-hurts! dept.

Rahul Choudhury writes "Over the years, the controller device we use as our extra limb into the world of gaming has evolved from joystick to d-pad, analogue control, and touchscreen. Gamingredients investigated the pros and cons of a variety of controllers from Colecovision to Xbox (and expressed their scores in flavours of coffee)."

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  1. Another site... by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This site shows a speculated tree of evolution of game controllers.

    It is indeed evolutionary, with each generation resembling the previous one, but a bit different.

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