As the lone conduit between our brain-tanks and our consoles (or computers), controllers need to be able to do a lot of different things for a lot of different games, and do them all well enough that they're effectively invisible. The best designs do just that. Great controllers from our childhood are recalled with the same fondness as a first kiss, or a favourite pair of slippers. Conversely, while it was certainly ground-breaking, we remember the 'analogue' stick on the N64 controller like that time we had pneumonia.
So, to celebrate the shocking announcement that the DualShock 4 will look much the same as the last three, we've delved into the archives to bring you nine of the weirdest and wackiest controllers in gaming history. Some are genuinely innovative, and hold ideas that would be well worth revisiting, and others should probably have been left on the shelf. (Hell, two of them could actually be used for shelves, in a pinch.)
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