Dryden on 30 December 2008
Best Video Game Controller?
1a - The NES Advantage Joystick. The thing was a tank.
1b - The original 3DO pad for the Panasonic FZ-1. 3 face buttons + play/pause, 2 shoulder buttons, the cord was a ridiculous 12 or 15 feet long, it had a 1/4" headphone jack w/ volume control on the controller, and each controller had another controller jack on it, so you could daisy-chain up to 8 controllers together for multi-player without needing to buy a multi-tap. Seeing these in 1993 was like a revelation of how all future game controllers should be designed, at least until analog thumb sticks became commonplace.
