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Which controller did you start with?
(lemmy.world)
Atari 2600 followed by NES
3-button Genesis controller.
Same, and that is still the way a d-pad should feel IMO.
A commodore 64 joystick. Next was the NES controller.
The reverse order for me. A borrowed NES first at 5-6, then a secondhand C64 at 8. Learned to type and program BASIC on that thing.
Learned basic on that thing as well. I remember having a magazine subscription that included a program in the center fold. Then saving it to a cassette tape to enjoy later. Lol
NES controller
Atari 2600 controller. Joystick & button.
My parents bought us a Nintendo 64 for Christmas when it came out.
Never played any games or consoles that came in between those two. It was wild.
3 button megadrive controller
Spectrum +2A
Commodore 64 joystick.
Me too. I started with the little brown first-party stick that came with the Pro Pack, but soon switched to an inexplicably beige Quickshot II.
Intellivision II and Commodore 64 with joystick. Not sure which one we had first first.
PS3
I appear to be quite young around here...
Perhaps a bit.
Mine was ps2. Grandparents still had the original nes my dad played on. Fortunately got some duck hunt and Mario 1 memories
I played many systems before the Dreamcast but I consider that controller my first.
N64, and no I'm still not sure how to hold it, I always end up walking funny.
There is no wrong way to hold an N64 controller. Any way you hold it, it is equally uncomfortable.
Lol I love this.
Atari controller
We upgraded to a Wica controller (same thing as the Atari controller just with better parts so it didn’t break so easily.)
Paddle or joystick?
Oh man, that brought back some memories, thanks!
First joystick and then paddles.
PS1. Unless mouse and keyboard counts….
Radio Shack Pong game.
The NES controller. Though I like 2 at the time. First one I remember playing is the SNES controller.
Not a controller per say, but does a mouse and keyboard count?
Pong.
SNES
Yall making me feel like a little kid
A PS1 controller (without analogs) 😊
Without analogs? Was it custom made... just kidding
Hahaah "back in my days", dualshocks were luxurious things
Vic-20 joystick and keyboard. And the rotary knob on the woodgrain "pong" game.
Trackball/Portable computer keyboard, followed by NES
Sega Master System II
This bad boy:
(Mattel Intellivision)
C64 joystick was the first (playing Professional Ski Simulator...) but the Mega Drive controller was the one I used everyday.
Technically NES but mostly N64. These days I just play everything on a PS5 controller. Pretty nice.
Xbox 360 controller. we got the console quite late, around 2012-ish? other than that we were mostly a pc household.
The weird-ass Dreamcast controller. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/619JtZlXpWL.jpg
I never did figure out what the slot in the top was for as a kid.
You may already know this now, but I want to post it for those who don't because it's really cool and way ahead of its time.
That was for the VMU, the visual memory card. It stored your game saves but also some games had minigames you could play directly on it, often with bonuses in the main game. In the Sonic Adventure games you could take care of chao and such on it. That thing ate batteries like candy though.
ps1 (dualshock)
Atari
Keyboard and mouse, but when I started using computers I was so young that my hands were too small to hold the mouse properly, so I left clicked with my thumb up until three or four years ago when I got my first ergonomic mouse. Kinda funny how long habits can stay with you.
Sega Master System II
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