Thread 724526007

>rectangular shape
>off-center cord output
>almost no buttons

nah, it feels surprisingly good in your hands for being a nearly perfect rectangular prism

>>724526216
i bet it feels "surprisingly good" in your ass

>>724526329
>immediately brings up homosexual acts out of nowhere
Yikes. Got something you want to tell us, anon?

>>724526007 (OP)
The shape and cord location are really the only complaints. Arcade games had the same amount of buttons. Two action buttons, the coin "button," and start.
>>724529146
Ackshually, that's not gay. No matter what orifice you play with, it's straight as long as guys aren't involved.

AH FUCK HURTS MY HANDS

I don't remember the cord being off center like that. I'm getting old....

There was a time, before the NES, that videogames controllers had knobs, phone-like numerical keys, discs and other weird stuff. Also, the select and pause buttons were on the console itself instead of the controller, can you believe that?

You're supposed to use your pointer and ring finger for A and B.

>>724526216
>>724526007 (OP)
>Be me
>Get a CRT off the sidewalk
>Dust off NES
>Shocked at how fucking smooth and responsive the NES on a CRT unlike emulation/Wii roms

>>724529257
TOBLEROOOOOOOOOOOOOONE

>>724526007 (OP)
Let's see your design then. I'm waiting.

>>724529196
>it's straight as long as guys aren't involved
ywnbaw

>>724530217
Later NES controllers had centered cords, but yes, the base NES controller had an off-centered cord.

If only this thing didn't have a shit thumbstick/D-pad. It would have been perfect

>>724531521
Wow the Dog Bone is just the SNES pad. It looks nice, very sexy.

>>724531537
turbo button is cheating

>>724531240
What I can't believe is how close you actually had to be to the television to play the damn thing. That wasn't just a little kid thing, it was required for anyone playing it.

>>724531576
I actually just now looked this up. There was a NES 2, an official updated version of the NES, that released in 1993 when the SNES was already out, and the console itself and the controller were based on the SNES. It was official hardware as well. Just looking at the thing, I would have assumed it was bootleg hardware.

>>724526007 (OP)
Why would you need more buttons than just jump and shoot?

>>724531381
>Shocked
that's because you're retarded

>>724531910
>photoshopped a WD-40 can instead of a Raid can

>>724531381
Emulation has faster response time on an OLED than real hardware on a CRT thoeverbeit.

>>724531871
I remember the console. I think AVGN had one before the toaster, it was a top loader iirc.

>>724531959
You know that 480p60 on a CRT looks like 4K480, right?

>>724531746
Maybe japanese/European. American NES controller has a huge cable.

>>724532040
ah you're right, I'm thinking of the genesis. Those cords weren't too long.

>>724531959
No it doesn't plus
Burn in
OLED glow
Ghosting
Over saturation of color

>>724526329
nta but I do a little party trick where I shove it up my ass and press the buttons with my polyps, I can beat the entire SMB this way

>>724526007 (OP)
You should have seen controllers immediately before it
There's a reason NES raped everyone back then

>>724532159
Ok Williams S. Burroughs circa Naked Lunch era.

>>724532105
>OLED glow
You've literally never seen an OLED.

>>724531576
It was released after the snes came out so yeah that's why it's near perfect but it was kind of too late to be used by most nes owners. the Max or the fighting stick were the weird controllers everyone remembers knowing some kid who had them. They both kinda sucked though. The Max was comfy ergonomically but shitty dpad and the fighting stink was impractical to hold and the joystick sucked in non arcadey titles

>>724532159
You should try feeding the cord through your mouth and out your asshole, facing away from the TV, and beating the game with audio alone. Only about 70,000 people have ever been able to do it this way.

>>724532236
I was literally there when the girst samsung phones with OLED rolled out.

If you don't know what OLED glow is it's the visual you get when a lit image is surrounded by darkness and you can see the bright area have a dark glowing edge.

>>724531910
Do you mind if i save this spray friend?

>>724531521
>dogbone
In the context of Super Mario Bros, it makes sense to have the B button situated under the A button like that, and the Gameboy had the same setup. It makes it easy to hold the run button with your thumb, and also roll your thumb to jump while still holding B.

Why the fuck do so many of Nintendo's official emulators have a weird configuration where the Mario run button is actually ABOVE the jump button? I'm not sure if you can change the layout on switch 2, haven't tried, but you couldn't change this on the 3DS and it made these games incredibly hard to play.

>>724532040
The controllers are wired directly into the console on the original Japanese version which just seems like a terrible design

>>724532425
go ahead, this pesky zoomers are a pain in the ass

>>724531639
on the nes it's surprisingly not that helpful. It either makes you rapidly jumps 2" off the ground something stupid like that or your attack has a built in cool down tied to framerate and you can't shoot any faster. The only game I remember it helping me with as a kid was shoot em-up like captain skyhawk and tiger heli.

>>724532919
turbo button is busted in the mega man games

>>724532739
The console itself had two controllers and a holding slot for each one. Apparently it was designed to be more maneuverable and to be kept closer to the actual players than the TV. I don't know how much better the top loader was, but if you tried to move the US version of the console, it would probably immediately freeze.

>>724532962
you might even say it was mega busted

>>724532991
The American console had that stupid spring loaded cartridge slot that was extremely unreliable and caused a massive amount of issues get games to properly work which is what led to some many people blowing on the games to try and get them to function. The top loader solved the issue but is RF output only which sucks.

>>724533481
was there a technical reason for that, or was it just because the famicom didn't have component outputs

>>724526007 (OP)
The crease of your knuckles should align pretty well with the top of the controller. Fits really well, like a 3DS

>>724531959
nes processing is tied to crt timing (i.e. blanking periods).
frames are generated in lock step with the crt (unless if a frame takes longer than 1/60 of a second to render, then it just skips the update until next frame when it tries to update the screen again)

>>724532739
Yeha but if you were Japanese with one of these you had a tiny tv in a tiny room.

>>724536123
I guess that would explain the whole Porygon thing.

>>724531576
I have two of them. It's basically perfect, the buttons are great, the D-pad is unbeatable, and the ergonomics a super comfy. If Start and Select were better buttons instead of gross rubber nubs, I'd call it the best controller ever.

>>724526007 (OP)
And yet it was all that was needed to save video games from the brink of destruction. Curious.

>>724537468
people always seem to claim ROB was responsible for that, but I'm really not sure how. It had two games, and I don't even know anybody who had one.

>>724532283
>>724532159

>>724532919
Track&Field was rapid press game and Tecmo World Wrestling benefitted from the turbo too for the training button smash and to kick out from pins and holds because they required rapid presses

>>724532919
It's useful in megaman and all shmups yes, though I remember one of the gradius games actually giving you autofire after you reached a certain power.

>>724531639
Fester's Quest is built around using a turbo controller.

>>724537569
ROB helped sell the NES as something other than a video game system. After the crash in 1983, retailers were wary of carrying video games and saw them as a fad that had passed. Parents were equally resistant to spending money on video games given the flood of expensive garbage on Atari. ROB's inclusion made the NES look more like an advanced computer toy that happened to plug into your TV which retailers and parents were more receptive to.

>>724532159
now this is shit posting

>>724531871
>1993
Ouch. The NES has a strong library but still, it must have been a uniquely shitty feeling to get a "new" 8 bit console as a kid only a year before 5th gen consoles started releasing

>>724538881
I'm sure plenty of kids dealt with that.
>what did you get for christmas, students?
>I got a playstation!
>I got an N64
>I got a super nintendo!
then all the kids start throwing stones at him

>>724539257
At least they didn't get an Atari Jaguar. There's probably some poor kid whose parents still thought Atari was still a relevant brand in the 90's and bought them that piece of crap

>>724526007 (OP)
And yet you likely fellate controllers that emulate all of its shortcomings because you think want a purely handheld controller.
Keyboard and mouse, flightsticks, throttles, arcade levers and more are much better than handheld controllers, because you will never waste fingers on suspending them ergonomically and you can move your arm relative to their stationary reference surface for more inputs that have more speed and precision than a thumbstick could ever have.
Even for VR, hand tracking and force feedback with inputs attached to your hands are superior to actually holding a controller.

>>724526007 (OP)
yes it did suck
the larping zoomzooms will never understand
they'll also pretend the dpad didn't hurt to use because that challenges their delusions that the past was better than the present

>>724540313
I dunno, my dad got in to computers in the early 90s, and for some reason my parents couldn't understand why I'd want more than one or two games for a console. My parents bought me an N64 and only ever got me two games for it lol

>The satisfaction of slamming a cartridge into that bitch
>Turning the TV on/off over and over to hear that heavenly sound
>Shooting ducks with the gun literally touching the screen
>That kino trigger pull feeling
OH LAWD TAKE ME BACK

>>724526007 (OP)
>almost no buttons
Still 4x more buttons than Atari.
Ain't got shit on Intellivision though.

>adds a pause button to the 5200 controller
>removes it for the 7800 controller
what did atari mean by that

>>724540976
My sega genesis was kinda fucked , and I felt like a genius every time I managed to finagle the cart to get it to boot up.

>>724526007 (OP)
you had to have been there
compared to what came before this was heavenly

>>724540527
>Mario 64 solo
>Goldeneye with the bros
Let me guess, you need more?

>>724531959
OLEDsnoys are subhuman

>>724541534
I had pokemon stadium and kirby 64. both good games in their own right, but not something I can play over and over, like mario and goldeneye.

>>724526007 (OP)
nigger

>>724532739
It's so you'd never play without a 2P, anon.

>>724541732
Did the NES not come with two controllers in the international market? I had an NES, but I don't remember having a second controller.

>>724532739
i just learnt famicom stands for family computer.

>>724542048
You'll never believe that NES means something as well

>>724541886
From what I remember seeing in the store as a kid, they did come with two controllers (europe)