This article was published on January 19, 2009

Thirty years of game controllers evolution and its victims


Thirty years of game controllers evolution and its victims

The great Infographics blog by Randy Krum presents this game controller overview – created by Damien Lopez. From one stick plus one button to a motion sensitive controlling device.

game controllers

Evolution isn’t always better though, as this video from Gizmodo proves. Breaking your precious screen was a whole lot harder with the Atari 2600.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBTMUVxbB0]

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