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It was--and still is--unique in a first-party analog "stick," to my knowledge. The thumb-rest was a concave indentation in an almost spherical ball that rotated in a socket: it had grip-like rings set in the indentation. I recall it working pretty well, but it did seem to have a bit more travel to it than today's analog sticks--maybe that's why it was never immitated...Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
Works ok in "Outrun", but "Afterburner" and "Space Harrier" demand the Mission Stick.
Good for lefties and righties!
I did a bit more research into this, and I thought i'd report back with my findings for ya'll to dismiss and/or debunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanegashima
The N64 control stick wasn't true analog. It was still digital, but offered varying degrees of sensitivity so as to simulate analog control quite convincingly.
After the 5200's controller was so badly received, no one thought to include an analog control stick on their controllers (as evidenced by the original pads for the PSX and Saturn). After the N64 controller was unveiled, Sega and Sony scrambled to get their own competing controllers onto the market.
Sega reacted so quickly that their controller debuted in the states before the N64's launch.
http://www.edu.lahti.fi/~aaspinen/ku...controller.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
I forgot the US version was black, I have the lighter colored Japanese one.
Funky colored buttons too.
I don't think the Saturn analog controller was a reaction to the N64 one. It was designed for NiGHTS, which was already well into development by the time the N64 controller was shown. I remember reading in SSM that NiGHTS officially began development on April Fool's Day 1995, and the controller was designed six months later. That would put it at almost two months before the N64 controller was shown. Sega might have had insider knowledge of the N64 controller before the general public, but I doubt it; Nintendo was notoriously secretive about it. Remember also that the Mission Stick and Arcade Racer were both analog, and were available at launch.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
Funky colored buttons kick ass. It always bugged me they took away the color from the American controllers, Snes, Saturn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
I don't care what anyone says, those red, blue, green, yellow buttons on the Super Fami looked cool.
Plus the Super Famicom case itself was sexy too.
Why the US SNES had to be made Sarah Jessica Parker fugly with friggin purple/lavender accents I have no idea.
Many people say it has to do with preventing drinks from being spilled inside the unit, though I'm not too sure about it. Having both the Super Famicom and Super NES, I can definitely say that the Super Famicom, even when discolored a bit, looks SOOOO much better than the US Super NES. It makes me want to buy a dead European Super NES and swapping out its motherboard with that of my US Super NES.
I always thought the multicolored buttons just looked like fun. Why would anyone want to take the fun away?
Well, they corrected their mistakes with the Dreamcast controller. And then XBox joined in on the fun!
I'm inclined to believe Nintendo of America wanted us to have a system that looked like ass and had purple accents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace
If drinks getting inside the damn thing was the concern then a slight altering of the design is in order, not a total redesign that makes the system look like some fugly-ass 1970's spaceship.
Drinks? I missed out on that story.
That is because that story is 100,000% lies.
And I'm willing to second that, though I will NEVER understand Nintendo's decision to redesign the Super NES into that boxy thing we got. Hell, even the redesigned Super NES Mini looks better, so much so that I have the full-size Super NES hiding on the side of my shelf(where you can only see it if you look directly in the shelf from where the TV is placed), while the Super NES Mini and Super Famicom are in the open in that same shelf.