«©NCSX» Portuguese-language website Ponto Eletronico has created an info-graphic which recounts the evolution of gaming controllers from 1977 to the current day. Back in the early days of home console gaming, the Atari 2600 ruled the land with a non-ergonomic joystick that wasn’t comfortable to grip and only had one button. Repeat: One button. That means in games that required jumping, you had to push up on the joystick in order to leap upwards. The Atari 2600 joystick also broke fairly easily because the plastic control rod inside the joystick would snap if too much pressure was applied which deactivated the direction in which the plastic had broken.
The info-graphic skips a few consoles between the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo 64 such as the Sega Master System, the Sega Genesis, and the Neo Geo but it’s an otherwise acceptable presentation. According to the website Ponto Eletronico, Andrew Peniche and “Mari” helped with the creation of the info-graphic.
4 comments:
The N64 controller wasn't released in 1994, it was 1996.
The n64 was the first analog joystick? Then how come in the Atari version of Indiana Jones where you go when you leave the screen depends on how far you're pushing the joystick down?
The D-Pad would have been very relevant to this "info-graphic." Especially if it's showing how controllers got to the Wii U controller since the Wii U controller has a D-Pad on it.
As someone else already pointed out, the n64 controller did not come out in 1994. Also, they mention how the n64 controller had the first trigger, but then points to the right shoulder button. I assume they mean the "Z" button, since shoulder buttons were nothing new.
The rumble pak (sic) for the n64 came out in April of 1997 while the dualshock controller came out in November of 1997, making the n64 the first controller to have rumble.
As far as I know, the Dreamcast information is accurate, surprisingly enough.
The WaveBird was far from the first wireless controller. I had wireless controllers for the NES. They were poor quality, but they were wireless.
Wii wasn't the first to make a motion-based controller... once again, you can look at the NES. See: Power Glove.
PS3 controller has a six axes sensor bringing more depth to the gameplay... lol.
Thanks for pointing out where the face is for the kinect part...
Also, there's a difference between a video game and a video game system. They keep referring to systems as video games. What the hell?
tl;dr This "info-graphic" fails in almost every way.
I agree with everything above. Also, the oldest official wireless controller I have is a japanese Sega Saturn controller...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/3996240703_b857079aeb.jpg
Also, rumble pak came first and the Sega Activator came way before the Kinect.
Many mistakes done in this yeah...
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