What gets all the glory in the gaming world? New consoles and new games.
But it’s not those things that work on thumb calluses as you spend evening after fruitless evening trying to finish a boss in Dark Souls III. The console controller is the real gatekeeper between you and your games, and as anyone who has bought an awful third-party controller knows: the quality of a gamepad matters.
We’ve dug through console gaming’s history to pick out the 25 most important games console controllers of all time.
There can be only one controller in the top spot, so get ready to spatter your anger all over the comments if you disagree.
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A controller doesn’t need to be good to be important. Just look at the Mattel Intellivision pad.
It’s a pretty nasty thing: looks like a telephone and uses a cheap-feeling membrane under its buttons. However, it was the first home console to use something approaching a D-pad.
The round disc at the bottom is a 16-way controller. Even the NES pad has …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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