The N64 Controller's Tri-Handle Layout Revisited From a Modern Perspective

[Ganoncrotch]

Jumpin said:

Ganoncrotch said:

if you stop at the GC that means you're comparing it to the NES, SNES and GC? The NES / Master system choice to go with a rectangle of pain was something I could never understand even at the time, it just so clearly should have been rounded off at the edges, they served no purpose other than to inflict pain.

But yeah if you compare it to basically the SNES and GC pads then the N64 one does stand out.... most certainly doesn't stand out when you add in the WiiMote or the WiiU Gamepad though, those things are far less traditional controller than the N64 could ever have hoped to be.

What are you doing? Squeezing the controllers really hard? =P

I never had issues with the NES controller except for maybe a few finger blisters from the buttons.

Personally, I prefer the rectangular feeling to the rounded countrollers; especially the Gamecube's which forces your hands to conform to something made for smaller hands, and it gets crampy on certain games, like Mario Kart.

intense sessions of California games required controllers to be held tightly to get that perfect Frisbee throw!

 

But in honesty yeah, the way I play I hold my hand around the edges of the pad, the NES has pointed edges and my hands don't have square gaps for that to slot into, the SNES pad was like heaven after the NES's non ergonomic pad for me.