The Game Controller Family Tree

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Remember when anything you could possibly imagine could be controlled with a single stick and a single button? Trace the evolution of human interaction in video gaming from 1980 to the present through this remarkable visual game controller family tree.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/06/the-game-controller-family-tree.html
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I have no idea what the Odyssey 2 is, but i think it’s the one on the second top row to the left?

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And now you can convert almost every controller pictured into a USB device!

http://www.retrousb.com/index.html

Very cool.