17th September 2005, 3:35 PM
Yeah, d-pads are a nice ergonomic design for direction buttons. Did Nintendo come up with it first? I'm pretty sure that is a console first actually.
"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)