I've been gaming since the Atari days, and the controllers they had back then were god-awful. The NES controller was a revolution and there wasn't any going back to big, bulky Atari-style joysticks.
And other than the NES days, when Nintendo had almost total control of the industry, there's always been debate over controllers. The Genesis had a three-button controller that crippled it somewhat when it came to the most popular third-party games of the 16-bit era, Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. The SNES had enough buttons to play those games and was in fact nicely laid out for Mortal Kombat. So Sega made a six-button controller with the Street Fighter II layout. There was actually a fair bit of debate among gamers about 16-bit controllers. Then there was the N64 with its analog stick and the Rumble Pak, which caused Sony to release the Dual Shock controller.
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