The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoLet's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1427
arrow-up1427imageLet's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.media.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squareProve_your_argument@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-27 hours agoThe transition period from the 90s to mid 2000s for control schemes was so fragmented. I remember a dozen games with wildly different control schemes. Wasn’t until the late 2000s when things started getting more standardized to what we know today.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoImagine if people kept having to port their games to Dreamcast with its single-stick controllers. We dodged a bullet when that console failed.
minus-squareProve_your_argument@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agobut we could be playing samba with maracas!
The transition period from the 90s to mid 2000s for control schemes was so fragmented. I remember a dozen games with wildly different control schemes. Wasn’t until the late 2000s when things started getting more standardized to what we know today.
Imagine if people kept having to port their games to Dreamcast with its single-stick controllers. We dodged a bullet when that console failed.
but we could be playing samba with maracas!