With the spotlight on—or rather, searching for—Nintendo's mysterious Revolution controller, 1UP had decided to piece together a history of "gaming input devices." The journey takes us way back to 1961 when a group of MIT students designed a controller that used two metal flip-switches and a single button in order to play the first computer game (which they also created), Spacewar. And from there, the rest is history…
A brief history of the game controller
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