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FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Which controller did you start with?

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Which controller did you start with?

FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Calavera@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Atari 2600 joystick

    • SteveDinn@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Also worked for the Commodore 64 and Vic20.

  • kaboom36@ani.social
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    2 years ago

    PS3

    I appear to be quite young around here…

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
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      Perhaps a bit.

      Mine was ps2. Grandparents still had the original nes my dad played on. Fortunately got some duck hunt and Mario 1 memories

  • criitz@reddthat.com
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    2 years ago

    NES controller

  • sv1sjp@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    A PS1 controller (without analogs) 😊

    • FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.worldOP
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      Without analogs? Was it custom made… just kidding

      • sv1sjp@lemmy.world
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        Hahaah “back in my days”, dualshocks were luxurious things

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    This bad boy:

    (Mattel Intellivision)

  • Null@pawb.social
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    A commodore 64 joystick. Next was the NES controller.

  • cheet@infosec.pub
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    2 years ago

    N64, and no I’m still not sure how to hold it, I always end up walking funny.

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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      There is no wrong way to hold an N64 controller. Any way you hold it, it is equally uncomfortable.

  • Nunya@lemdro.id
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    Intellivision II and Commodore 64 with joystick. Not sure which one we had first first.

  • joeyv120@ttrpg.network
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    Commodore 64 joystick.

  • RaineV1@kbin.social
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    The NES controller. Though I like 2 at the time. First one I remember playing is the SNES controller.

  • LW_defederate_from_Threads@lemmy.world
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    Xbox 360 controller. we got the console quite late, around 2012-ish? other than that we were mostly a pc household.

  • retrieval4558@mander.xyz
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    Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

  • pseudorandom@kbin.social
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    Radio Shack Pong game.

  • Corgana@startrek.website
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    I played many systems before the Dreamcast but I consider that controller my first.

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    Trackball/Portable computer keyboard, followed by NES

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