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Adinnieken said:
HoloDust said:
Keyboard + Mouse - more or less unchanged and still kicking butt for 40+ years.

Wow!  You are way off.

Keyboard and mouse for game control didn't come until the late 1980's.

Initially, PC games were widely joystick-based, or if they used the keyboard, they used the entire keyboard and games with a keyboard overlay.

So, truly, the keyboard + mouse combination didn't come into gaming as it is today until the mid to late 1990's with RTS games and eventually FPS. 


I meant Keyboard and Mouse is 40+ years old as input method. Not specifically K&M as in FPS combo.

I had mouse for C64 and remember playing Arkanoid with it, and from '88 I had Amiga 500 which has mouse by default. So, while maybe not being used in games for 40+ years (no idea if Xerox Alto had any games), they have been used way before mid 90s.