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Also worked for the Commodore 64 and Vic20.
Atari 2600 controller. Joystick & button.
My parents bought us a Nintendo 64 for Christmas when it came out.
Never played any games or consoles that came in between those two. It was wild.
NES controller
3 button megadrive controller
Intellivision II and Commodore 64 with joystick. Not sure which one we had first first.
A commodore 64 joystick. Next was the NES controller.
The reverse order for me. A borrowed NES first at 5-6, then a secondhand C64 at 8. Learned to type and program BASIC on that thing.
Learned basic on that thing as well. I remember having a magazine subscription that included a program in the center fold. Then saving it to a cassette tape to enjoy later. Lol
PS3
I appear to be quite young around here...
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
SNES
Yall making me feel like a little kid
N64, and no I'm still not sure how to hold it, I always end up walking funny.
Lol I love this.
There is no wrong way to hold an N64 controller. Any way you hold it, it is equally uncomfortable.
PS1. Unless mouse and keyboard counts….
C64 joystick was the first (playing Professional Ski Simulator...) but the Mega Drive controller was the one I used everyday.
A PS1 controller (without analogs) 😊
Without analogs? Was it custom made... just kidding
Hahaah "back in my days", dualshocks were luxurious things
The NES controller. Though I like 2 at the time. First one I remember playing is the SNES controller.
Sega Master System II
Commodore 64 joystick.
Atari controller
We upgraded to a Wica controller (same thing as the Atari controller just with better parts so it didn’t break so easily.)
Paddle or joystick?
Oh man, that brought back some memories, thanks!
First joystick and then paddles.
Xbox 360 controller. we got the console quite late, around 2012-ish? other than that we were mostly a pc household.
Technically NES but mostly N64. These days I just play everything on a PS5 controller. Pretty nice.
I’ve just had to search for the right model but the earliest that I remember is the Coin Control Competition Pro 5000. We had it in a dark/deep blue colour.
ps1 (dualshock)
The weird-ass Dreamcast controller. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/619JtZlXpWL.jpg
I never did figure out what the slot in the top was for as a kid.
You may already know this now, but I want to post it for those who don't because it's really cool and way ahead of its time.
That was for the VMU, the visual memory card. It stored your game saves but also some games had minigames you could play directly on it, often with bonuses in the main game. In the Sonic Adventure games you could take care of chao and such on it. That thing ate batteries like candy though.
Not counting dedicated Pong-type machines, this magnificent bastard. Still one of the best for precise twitch gaming with the short throw of the stick, and the paddles seemed slightly less prone to jitter.
Atari
Vic-20 joystick and keyboard. And the rotary knob on the woodgrain "pong" game.
Radio Shack Pong game.
I played many systems before the Dreamcast but I consider that controller my first.
Trackball/Portable computer keyboard, followed by NES
I had tac-2 style joystick on my spectravideo sv-738