Systems with best and worst controls?

[JB]

For older systems ive owned id say the cx40s are the worst    "im left handed"

Hey, I'm a rightie and I hate the CX40.

 

Maybe it has to do with not growing up on one, but I've always felt the sticks were mushy and uncomfortable to hold. And too small to set on a table, feet or not.

 

Of course, I have no great affection towards my 99/4a sticks, which were the vast majority of my formative years.

 

 

I don't have any idea why people say the 5200 controller is bad.

 

Because you couldn't use one for more than a couple of minutes before it broke.

 

I kinda like the 5200 controllers but if you were around at the time, you knew why they sucked. There's nothing worse than getting your brand new, expensive system home and a month later having to go out and buy a replacement set of controllers.

Yah. I quite enjoy them from a gameplay perspective, but they're a bitch in terms of maintainence.

 

Plus, as someone else said, any controller with side-mounted fire buttons is crap.  Thank god the industry moved away from this design.

I LIKE the side buttons.

I can readily see the problem of the 7800 or INTV, where the buttons are on diffrent sides(INTV software usually mirrored them, negating that particular issue, though they still sucked), but the single-side solution of the 5200 works quite well IMO. Especially as they're still thumb-operated, unlike the modern equivalent of "shoulder" keys.

[ATARIeric]

For older systems ive owned id say the cx40s are the worst    "im left handed"

Hey, I'm a rightie and I hate the CX40.

 

Maybe it has to do with not growing up on one, but I've always felt the sticks were mushy and uncomfortable to hold. And too small to set on a table, feet or not.

 

Of course, I have no great affection towards my 99/4a sticks, which were the vast majority of my formative years.

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My bestfriend got the atari 2600 & I got the schwinn 36/36 bike that year for the holidays. I would ride my bike 8 houses down and play his 2600 every day, I remember moving the joystick from hand to hand, non stop flipping it upside down , even though I had to do that I would still laugh my ass off when playing until his younger brother would always wait for me to look away then flip the difficulty switch on me so his bro "ritchie" would have the advantage. It must of took around a year before I found out it had them switches

 

Once the wicos came out it was pure heaven compared to the cx40's and then when the nes came out I was sold based on the joypad comfort factor.

 

Im still glad I got that bicycle instead & besides I still have it

Edited July 25, 2005 by ATARIeric

[Room 34]

Diss on the 5200's joysticks all you want, but I think the award for the WORST controllers ever is a tie between the Intellivision and the "Pro-Line" joysticks that came with the 7800. (Poorer construction than even the 5200 sticks, and guaranteed to cause severe hand cramps within minutes.)

 

Best controllers (IMHO) are on the GameCube. Of course, if I owned a PS2 or an XBOX, I'd probably say it was the controllers to whichever of those systems I owned. But since the 'Cube is what I own, I think it's better. I've played the PS2 once and thought its controllers were crap. XBOX is better, but I still prefer the 'Cube. Maybe I just don't have big enough hands.

Edited July 25, 2005 by Room 34

[keilbaca]

Worst controllers? Intellivision and Colecovision, with Atari 5200 close behind.

 

Best controllers? Gamecube, SNES, Genesis and the SF Anniversary collection pads for psx/ps2. Those pads are by far the best fighting pads on psx and ps2, unless you're counting fighting sticks. Then the Tekken 5 joystick wins hands down.

[sega saturn x]

For 2-d games the saturn is king and for 3-d i like the cubes. For lousy controller i would go with the jaguar and intellvision, got to love those number pads!

Edited July 25, 2005 by sega saturn x

[JB]

Ya know, while it doesn't change my vtote, the Vectrex had miserably bad controllers too.

 

A stubby thumbstick-size control that you can't properly grip and a fire button that rests under your pinky unless you clutch the controller like a swollen gamepad, which makes the other 3 buttons all but inaccessable.

[+RangerG]

In my opinion nothing is as uncomfortable as the Intellivision controller. The disc is bad enough, but the worst are the fire buttons. They are durable though compared to the 5200 controller which I like except that they break. A nice stock controller to me is the Jaguar controller.

[shadow460]

It must make a difference, then, that my hands are pretty big. The Dual shock 2 is too small for me, but I got used to it. That's why I liked the Dual Analog--it filled my hands up with those grips. To give you an idea of my hands, I was able to hold a copy of Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic CD in one hand comfortably with my fingers and thumb all on the outer rim of the disc.

For the record, I stand a hair under six feet (1.82 meters).

 

I usually wrap my left hand all the way around a Pro Line with my thumb across the top of the controller itself. That gives me a death grip on the thing, which doesn't slip. With the CX-40, I wrap that massive hand around the entire left side of the controller's base and use my thumb appropriately.

 

Small controllers (to me) include the Amiga Power Stick, the DS2, and to some extent, most arcade controllers other than single joysticks (yes, the Twin Stick is a little small comparde to its arcade counterpart, and restricts arm movement a bit).

Large controllers, well, by and far the dual analog is large.

[AlexKIDD]

Controllers I like:

Genesis 6-button

Turbo Grafx

Snes

Ps2

 

Controllers I don't like:

Intellivision

Jaguar

n64

7800

 

I've never played a 5200 and i'm assuming these controllers are so bad they're not worth playing.

[JB]

I've never played a 5200 and i'm assuming these controllers are so bad they're not worth playing.

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I'd reserve judgement until you've used some. I quite like them.

[xenomorpher]

My favorites

PS2/PSX

Gamecube

XBox

Dreamcast

NES

Mastersystem

3DO

 

The N64 and Xbox controllers are my favorite for playing First Person Shooter games. The N64 controller's stick makes my thumb sore after a long time of playing it. Other than that I like it.

[+kisrael]

Hmm.

 

I don't think the N64 was that bad...I give it props for bringing back analog control. It does grind a bit over time.

 

I think in general sticks are getting better over the years. I'd say Xbox has the edge right. PS2 I find the sticks poorly positioned. GC are great but not the most durable.

 

Historically, I dunno. Thos 7800 prolines just ain't comfortable. Not crazy abot colecovision mushrooms either.

[Gabriel]

I don't have any idea why people say the 5200 controller is bad.

 

Because you couldn't use one for more than a couple of minutes before it broke.

 

I kinda like the 5200 controllers but if you were around at the time, you knew why they sucked. There's nothing worse than getting your brand new, expensive system home and a month later having to go out and buy a replacement set of controllers.

 

Plus, as someone else said, any controller with side-mounted fire buttons is crap. Thank god the industry moved away from this design.

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I was around at the time.

 

While the first two controllers I had only lasted about a year, the second two I bought lasted from 1984 to about 1990 or so. Considering my 5200 was my primary system through those years, I gave those controllers heavy use.

 

And, most importantly, they controlled the games well.

[Osbo]

For older systems ive owned id say the cx40s are the worst    "im left handed"

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There is a cable to convert the cx40 to lefthanded players. I think I saw it in the atariage store long time ago.

 

My favorite is the CX40, I use it in the C64, 800XL and the VCS

I totally hate the 5200, 7800, and mushroom controllers in general.

[masschamber]

best first party saturn 3d controller, perfect for basically anything, second Genesis 6 button

 

worst first party, rca studio I don't know if those count but man there bad

 

Best third party basically anthing by Wico, You'd think atari would have contracted them to design there controllers, the 5200 command controller make the 5200 a much better system,

 

Worst 3rd party any genesis 6 button controller, not nessicarilly in design, but I've never found a good working one

[Atari-Jess]

I love the "dog bone" style controllers of the NES or the SNES controllers.

 

nice and comfortable, but highly responsive.

 

The original NES is a little too boxy but I like its control.

 

I hate the colecovision controllers the most.

[+kisrael]

SNES added shoulder buttons and was clever enough to arrange its buttons like a crosspad...pretty good port of SmashTV! Unfortunately some games took a bit too much advantage of the extra buttons...I always thought Super Mario World had overly-fiddly controls.

[Dones]

Hmm.

 

I don't think the N64 was that bad...I give it props for bringing back analog control. It does grind a bit over time.

It's a good controller. It's just that some people have the Dualshock too internalized to think outside the box. Edited July 25, 2005 by Dones

[Classic Pac]

As for the worst why hasn't anybody mentioned the original XBOX controllers, they were so bad that Microsoft was forced to change them.

 

The Best to me is a toss up between ones fo the SEGA Genesis and the 7800

[pinball22]

I really like the N64 stick... it might be my favorite stock controller.

I haven't had any problems with them breaking, and I think the location of the Z button

is actually really convenient.

 

The Wavebird, Sega 3-button pad, the SNES pad, and the CX-40 are all also excellent stock controllers, I think.

 

Least favorite... the NES pad is pretty bad... the corners eventually hurt my hands.

I don't mind the actual stick on the 5200, or the shape, but the buttons are pretty

annoying -- it's too hard to press them just the right way, and they wear out my thumb.

 

I wish the Dual Shock had the L2 and R2 buttons in a different place -- I have

trouble with games that use all four shoulder buttons a lot. I've seen a third-party

controller that had them in a more trigger-button location, which I think would be

much better, but I haven't tried one yet.

 

My favorite third-party controllers are the QuickShot/Archer/SpectraVideo for the 2600

and the Microcon for the Xbox, which I find much more comfortable in my tiny hands

than the original or S controller.

[n8littlefield]

My least favorite (coming from someone who's never played Coleco/Jag or many of the others mentioned) would have to be the 3 button Genesis controller. After using the 6 button, I can't go back it feels unneccesarily large and like it's just full of emptyness.

 

My favorite would probably be the Gamecube - even though I sold my system, the controllers were just so comfortable for long sessions - just not for d-pad games!

[pinball22]

P.S. I'm suprized that nobody's said channel f yet. The most phallic controllers in history.

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I think that honor actually goes to the Spidey all-in-one stick:

 

[NintendoDieScreaming]

Best - The Japanese Saturn Controller.

 

Worst - Intellivision.

[TuzenTCA]

Is this the controller that yall keep calling the 3D controller? If so give me a yes, if it ain't then show me what is please.

 

 

Thanks,

 

--James

[sega saturn x]

Yep that's the 3-D controller used in a whopping 13 games i think.