controller buttons "naming"

[dunno001]

KylieDog said:

dunno001 said:

KylieDog said:
Shapes and letters? You are all noobs.


Cool people remember them from the colour coding.

Really? When did color coding come into play? Earliest I can remember was the Super Famicom (Was the EU SNES also color-coded?). (In the US, the first raw color distinction was the PS1, and the first to play it up was Dreamcast, even if it used the ABXY pattern that is also on the XBox, though with the colors moved around.) Whereas the NES (and Famicom) used A and B, the Sega Master System used I and II, the 2-button Atari controllers were identical (and not named), and I can keep going.

Sorry, but some of us "old-timers" kinda take offense to being called a "noob" for remembering when there wasn't a color distinction.

 

All the cool people bought third party pads with colours!

 

Yes, I saved my original comment there I think.  Euro SNES was coloured, becuse Euro SNES was cool.

I didn't count 3rd-party controllers because they weren't what came with the system, and thus the games could refer to the colors. I did have a 3rd-party SNES controller that was color-coded, though. (And now that I think about it, I should check on Super Metroid, as the colors of the letters when you get something may actually align to the SFC button colors...)