Comments on: The Evolution of Nintendo’s Game Controllers

By: Triaxx2

Triaxx2 — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:44:07 +0000

See, I love Nintendo, because one of the things they did was release the NES2, with the controller redesigned ala the SNES, removing the eye puncturing edges. No work with the file needed to play the NES any more. YAY. (And no lost hours of my life trying to get the games to work…)

By: PrinceJonathan

PrinceJonathan — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:53:48 +0000

Yes I am surprised at how my old SNES still works after almost what…20 years!

Hell I’ve mentioned several times how I got pissed at one of my N64 games and put a big hole in the back of it AND IT STILL WORKS! Yet if I so much as look at a Gamecube disk funny it’ll “disk read error, cannot read disk”.

Then there is the Gameboy Color, that thing was built like a Nokia 3310. I could throw mine across the room
and it would still work, hell I could probably throw it into the fires of Mt. Doom and it’d still work. Yet I’ve gone through 4 GBASPs and 3 DSlites, I swear they must be made of hemophiliac babies or something!

By: Metal C0Mmander

Metal C0Mmander — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:47:09 +0000

To be fair the c-stick wasn’t great either. And the four main buttons, altough fine for most of the games you played with the controller, feel so alien whenever I try to play on the virtual console. However one thing I really liked were the shoulder buttons sensitivity to how much pressure you would put on them.

By: Hyshinara

Hyshinara — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:06:08 +0000

I cleaned out one of my N64 controllers just yesterday because I wanted to try the scotch tape analog stick repair trick. HOLY SHIT, was I shocked at the amount of ground up analog casing that came out
I didn’t know about that shit, so for some reason, the first thought going throug my mind was: “Dude what the fuck, Nintendo crams it’s N64 controllers with cocaine?!

By: Xuncu

Xuncu — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:50:12 +0000

Point being, the previous generation’s stuff is as fragile as shit, and I’m not so sure about the current gen stuff’s durability, since it hasn’t been out THAT long. ANyone with a PS3 got that wobbly stick yet, like the PS2 controllers had after, like ONE month of hardcore playing?