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1367443 No.1367443[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

What's so awful about this controller? It doesn't look that bad.

Is it cheaply made or something? The buttons look kinda like they'd be stiff, but other than that it doesn't really look that awful.

>> No.1367461 [DELETED] 

Console plebs are overwhelmed by any controller with more than six buttons.

>> No.1367469

looks can be deceiving, my hands hurt just thinking about that damn controller. it was designed by someone who wanted to destroy peoples wrists. Damn atari never, NEVER made a decent controller. They started off with a half way crappy controller with the 2600 and proceeded to go downhill from there.

anyway, yeah, its ok, but not comfortable for more than 60 seconds.

>> No.1367481

I only played the demo console at KB a few times. But I remember the controller feeling really weird in my hands. Like a plastic block. Also I was about 13 at the time so maybe it was too big for my hands. But the only way I can describe it from memory is blocky and awkward. And the keypad confused me because at the time I didn't know that the 5200 had them. I was only familiar with the 2600.

>> No.1367562

As a little kid a think the way I played it was by laying the controller flat on the ground.

My family rented a Jaguar from the local mom and pop video store for a weekend - I truly thought it was the future of gaming.

Look at how many bits the console had! Look at the buttons! Obviously that means you can do more stuff!

>> No.1367572

Is there even a reason those number buttons are on there? Did any game use them?

>> No.1367603

>>1367461

Uh

A PSX controller has 10 buttons, homeboy. Think before you shitpost.

>> No.1367624

>>1367572
DOOM?

>> No.1367632

Yes, it looks horrible. But that's not really the point. I prefer a good pad over a good looking pad.

Sadly, the pad isn't good. The d-pad is wonky as fuck, the num buttons are out of reach until you have alien thumbs and it's an ergonomic disaster as a whole.

>> No.1367643

>>1367572
Alien vs Predator did. Some games had little over-lay cards you would place over the keypad that showed what it did (as best it could). Of course AvP was the best game on the system as well

>> No.1367660

A family friend brought that thing over to play one time. It doesn't feel very comfortable. 99% of the utility is squeezed into the top half of the pad. It's like playing with the back of a tea dish.

>> No.1368054

Atari always had this weird fetish for overlays.

>> No.1368065

>>1367443
Try and hold it. Your hands will hate you after playing with that controller for some time.

>> No.1368086

>>1367443
Look it at. It's a megadrive controller with a number pad stuck on the bottom.

>> No.1368090

>>1368086
At least the Megadrive controller's buttons didn't slant almost totally vertically.

>> No.1368092

>>1367572
Atari knew that future games would probably need more than a dpad and 3 action buttons, but they didn't think to arrange them in an ergonomic way.

>> No.1368095

>>1368090
Fair point. It's a poor copy of a megadrive controller with a number pad stuck on the bottom.

>> No.1368097

>>1367443
>Is it cheaply made or something?
Everything about the Jag was cheaply-made. Atari couldn't even spend a few cents to spring for a cartridge slot cover.