Nintendo Never had a "normal controller"

[wombat123]

onionberry said:

VGPolyglot said:
The Intellivision had a circular pad that functioned similarly to the d-pad, and I believe that the Vectrex had an analog stick way before the N64.

not trying to start the "nintendo did this first argument" hopefully you can understand my point with this thread.

I think you meant that Nintendo doesn't follow trends but tries to create trends.  They may not have been the ones that innovated all of the controller additions that are attributed to them but they're the ones that popularized/standardized them.