Since the collective world’s mind was blown with the release of the Atari 2600 in 1977, video game controllers have seen quite the evolution. There have been good controllers, bad controllers, and some f*cking terrible controllers. Whose brilliant idea was it to put 12+ buttons on one controller? Who is responsible for the controller that we know today? These questions and more are answered in our anthology of video game controllers after the jump!

Game control design has not always been a simple matter of evolution down the years – more a case of thrashing about blindly and hoping something works. Or copying whatever Nintendo does. Let’s now take a look back at the (strange and often slightly inbred) history of video game controllers.

There’s some sort of cosmic balance in the universe that decrees all things must have an opposite –”what goes up must come down” and all of that philosophical-new-age-jazz. This idiom holds true for video games, as well. For every smash hit, there’s something that makes you wish you had lost your thumbs in ‘Nam.

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