/vr/ - Retro Games

I don't feel like making a new thread so I'll ask here.
Would it be a good idea to pick up a sidewinder gamepad and use it for old PC games and emulation? I remember owning one as a kid but I never used it much because fuck if I could actually plug it into the computer using my tiny baby hands. I actually just found out that they made newer models with usb instead of the fuckhuge pin connector, but I don't remember the quality of the buttons and whatnot.

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>Sega worked with Microsoft on the original Xbox controllers.

Source for this or I'm calling bullshit. Microsoft had a long line of PC controllers before the Xbox came out, look up the Sidewinder gamepad series. They had shoulder triggers too (I think they were buttons only, but shaped as triggers).


As far as I know, they only learned the business practices from Sega during the DC era, and then later Sega talked about making the Xbox DC compatible but it fell through because it would've made the Xbox more expensive to make (they sold it at a $100 loss for years).