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Evolution of Video Game Controllers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we've-come-a-long-way-baby dept.

Ant writes "This Revolution Advanced article takes a look at the evolution of controllers from the days of Atari 2600 to Nintendo Revolution." Tragically the Intellivision controller is missing. But oh the nostalgia.

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  1. blasphemers! by mickyflynn · · Score: 4, Funny

    game controllers really WERE intelligently designed!

    1. Re:blasphemers! by ceeam · · Score: 3, Funny

      Are you sure certain game controllers have not just had sex with TV remotes?

    2. Re:blasphemers! by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think that this is a case of the inadequacy of the fossil record. If the intellivison, colecovision, and various outher game controllers were added, as well as the species adapted for computer use, the so-caled gaps would not be apparent. Pure Sophistry, in my view. But then, ID is sophistry.

    3. Re:blasphemers! by 3.14159265 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Intelligently designed? Well, there's at least one fact against your "theory": the original XBox controller :)

    4. Re:blasphemers! by sehryan · · Score: 1, Funny

      Controllers were designed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which is why they have so many buttons. Only the FSM could use any of the current gen controllers to their full potential.

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  2. Re:Commodore 64 joystick... by edremy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I have permanant scars from that thing- or maybe those are from that other hand/eye coordination building technique I learned a year or two later.... Image available at http://www.geocities.com/big_al_1401/c64joy.jpg

    I don't know about anyone else, but there's no way I'm clicking on that link

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  3. Re:Commodore 64 joystick... by THESuperShawn · · Score: 2, Funny

    oops..I guess I worded that a litle weird. The link is juat a Commodore joystick picture I googled...it's not me googling my joystick.

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