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Why did gamepads overtake joysticks? Were they inherently more ergonomic for 2D games?

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First analog experience? Games on the Apple //e.

Actually, the Atari 5200, but we don't like to talk about that.

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>>1286053
It was worlds better than this piece of shit, which was what we played with before the Gravis.

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>>1119189
IBM & Apple II used analog joysticks, but had different sized connectors. The IBM sticks used a 15-pin DB plug, Apple used a 9-pin (for the //e and onward, II and //plus only had a 16 pin socket on the motherboard for game controllers.) Joysticks either came with a two-tail plug so you could use the corresponding one for your computer, or an adapter cable.

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