Nintendo, One Year Later

Re:Nintendo, One Year Later by whoisthemachine on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:05AM (#8539090)

From what I can tell, the NES controller was the first gamepad to be used on a major console[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamepad#Third_Generation

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Re:Nintendo, One Year Later by ekianjo on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:12AM (#8539132)

There were joysticks with buttons way before the NES. Do you consider putting a piece of plastic instead of a joystick a major invention?

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Re:Nintendo, One Year Later by LukasMathis on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:22AM (#8539194)

I think the fact that there were many joysticks before the NES came out, and many other kinds of input devices, kind of shows that the d-pad was a non-obvious invention. In hindsight, it seems super obvious, but back then, it was a major invention.

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Re:Nintendo, One Year Later by ekianjo on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:31AM (#8539256)

And the Atari 7800 controller from 1984 does not qualify as a gamepad? Come on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800#mediaviewer/File:Ata...

If anyone is rewriting history here, that's certainly not me.

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Re:Nintendo, One Year Later by LukasMathis on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:39PM (#8539683)

I think the relevant thing is the d-pad.

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