7th September 2006, 11:01 PM
And apparently the "joypad" was invented AFTER the D-pad at that. Something doesn't add up... What made the SNES more of a joypad than the NES controller? The shoulder buttons? Nope, that's considered a seperate innovation.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)