@rolstoppable

First off, don't put words in my mouth. Nowhere did i say the sony's flight controller was pretty much the same as the nintendo 64 controller, only that it had dual analog sticks thus providing inspiration for sony's handheld controller.

Did you miss this part: First, it wasn't actually analog. Analog joysticks like the 5200's had too many moving parts and were prone to breaking. Nintendo's stick was digital, but provided enough levels of sensitivity that the distinction was moot. 

So nintendo obviously followed suit by making their subsequesnt controllers with analog sticks on them.

Looks just like a thumbstick to me.

No it wasnt, the vectrex is my favorite non nintendo console and I used to steal change from my dads pockets every day so i could rent and play that badboy every weekend :).

It was too long to be used as a thumbstick but this sucker with the vector graphics showed gamers the future of todays gaming back then oh god i miss that console it was a gem of gems.

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the vectrex is your favourite console?!
that console... is crap. only good thing about it was that it contained a game where the character talked.

So your saying Nintendo can see the future? Since this is from 2006...

I said non nintendo console and it was far from shit, maybe with todays standards but that isnt a fair comparison now is it.

Regardless, it was the the precursor to the modern design. This is obvious. It's a fully functioning analog stick.

you wouldn say that if you actually had played with one or wasnt interested in not givin props to Nintendo for their contributions.

You can spin in how much you ever want but history is allready written and it rightly credits Nintendo for its contributions wether you want it or not.

Well there was the second father of consoles!  Atari and the graphic powerhouse (back then )  Intellivision!

It's not just me saying it.

Many, if not most, 1970s video game consoles featured an analog joystick, see under, the VC 4000 (1978) for more info. In 1982 Atari released the first controller with a potentiometer-based analog stick^[2] for their Atari 5200 home console. However, the non-centering joystick design proved to be ungainly and unreliable, alienating many consumers at the time. During that same year, General Consumer Electronics introduced the Vectrex, a vector graphics based system which used a self-centering analog stick, obviously a precursor to the modern design.

I don't even understand why you nintendo fans are arguing this. It's not a big deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_stick

Yeah i know i played thoose too but this one was magical at the time, with the vector graphics you could with a little imagination (wich i had lots of as a kid) fill in the blanks and see how graphics would look like in the future beyond the sprites that was common back then.

It actually came with three single colored seethrough plastic screens you put on the screen so you could have color in your games it was really revolutionary.