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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 :)

  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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