17th September 2005, 7:06 PM
The first Game and Watch came out just a few months after the Intellivision. Nintendo has, or had, the patent on that particularly style of cross pad seen on the Game and Watch and most consoles since copied that style rather than the flat circle pad [which worked similarly to the cross pad] of the Intellivision. So I suppose it would be more accurate to say that Nintendo invented the MODERN D-pad.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.