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Lincoln

29 Dec 2008, 2:44pm

Evolution of the game controller (http://gaming.icrontic.com/news/evolution-of-the-game-controller)

jokerz4fun

29 Dec 2008, 3:59pm

Im surprised they didn't have an intellivision controller.

Thrax

29 Dec 2008, 4:01pm

**** yeah intellivison! Atari blows.

Lincoln

29 Dec 2008, 4:18pm

I found this via http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/12/26/game-controllers in which Gruber laments the same omission.

MiracleManS

29 Dec 2008, 5:45pm

And, alas, ye handheld as been pretty damned consistent.

bothered

2 Jan 2009, 7:02am

It's only half a job. Where are all the PC game controllers? Microsoft, Logitech, Saitek and all the rest should at least get a mention or the title needs 'Console' adding.

2 Jan 2009, 5:33pm

They did put 'keyboard/mouse on the one poster (not the tree), but I think the PC gamepads wouldn't be good inclusions because they are always direct copies, rather than derivative evolutions. I've personally only owned three PC game pads in my life: My Gravis GamePad looked exactly like a SNES game pad, my WingMan was just a N64 controller, and my current gamepad, the Saitek p2900, is just an XBox controller.

Notice that the chart also didn't include any console controllers that didn't make any improvements on the previous generation (for example, the NES controller that came with the 'new' NES was literally just a small SNES controller with fewer buttons, so it's not on the tree).