A.V. Club (blog)
Wrap your Powerglove around this history of video game controllers
A.V. Club (blog)
Five years later, the Atari 2600 had what looked like a recognizable joystick. From that point on, it was off to the races. Famicom, the Japanese version of the mighty Nintendo Entertainment System, had a controller with an actual D-pad as early as 1983.

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