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D-pad. A Famicom controller. The D-pad/+Control Pad (cross shape on left) first came to prominence on the controller for the Famicom. A D-pad (short for directional pad) [ a] is a flat, typically thumb-operated, directional control. D-pads are found on nearly all modern gamepads, handheld game consoles, and audiovisual device remote controls.
An arcade controller is a collective set of input devices designed primarily for use in an arcade cabinet. A typical control set consists of a joystick and a number of push-buttons. Less common setups include devices such as trackballs or steering wheels. These devices are generally produced under the assumption that they will be used in ...
A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to provide input to a video game. Input devices that have been classified as game controllers include keyboards, mice, gamepads, and joysticks, as well as special purpose devices, such as steering ...
Classic Controller. The GameCube controller is the standard game controller for the GameCube home video game console, manufactured by Nintendo and launched in 2001. As the successor to the Nintendo 64 controller, it is the progression of Nintendo's controller design in numerous ways. The contentious M-shaped design of its predecessor was ...
As a result, the controllers we use to play those games have changed to adapt with that ever-advancing technology. Since the inception of video games in the 1970s, games and video game consoles ...
The Logitech Cordless Action Controller is an officially licensed wireless controller for the PlayStation 2 made by Logitech.It features all of the inputs found the standard DualShock 2 controller, i.e. ten analog (pressure-sensitive) buttons (, , , , L1, R1, L2, R2, Start and Select), three digital buttons (L3, R3 and the analog mode button) and two analog sticks.
The National Videogame Museum is a video game museum about the history of video games and the video game industry, located in Frisco, Texas.Opened in 2016, the museum includes classic video game arcade machines in an arcade setting, games on different video game consoles in a living room setting, games on historic computers, exhibits on the history of the industry, artifacts and memorabilia ...
Gravis PC GamePad. The Gravis PC GamePad is a game port game controller produced by Advanced Gravis Computer Technology first released in 1991. It was the first gamepad for the IBM PC compatible in a market then dominated by joysticks. [citation needed] Included with the gamepad was a shareware Commander Keen game, episode 1, Marooned on Mars ...