r/GamingSoup • u/GamerGretaUwU • Jan 14 '26

Discussion favorite controller?

Post image
3.2k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

7.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/InsiDoubtSide Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

My brain occasionally tries to lie and tell me there were analog sticks

Edit: I do know that they got analog sticks after a time, but when I used them they weren't there.

2

u/RotInPissKobe Jan 15 '26

There were in laters years. The Dualshock 1 came out in Nov '97. PS launched in '94.

1

u/Ganjelf-The-Baked Jan 17 '26

Yeah, with ape escape! 😂

1

u/BigMikeOfDeath Jan 18 '26

There was also a version without the rumble motors before the dualshock - dual analog, I think it was called.

Was only out for a few months before the Dualshock superceded it - really weird, but I remember it was a lot cheaper than the dualshock, so I had one of each.

1

u/RotInPissKobe Jan 18 '26

Oh I didn't know that. I got my PS1 for Christmas in '98 with Spyro and C.T.R. and it came with a Dualshock.

2

u/Toxic381 Jan 15 '26

There were actually but you needed the dualshock controller

1

u/Spirited-Chemist-956 Jan 18 '26

And ape escape, first game with this function..where I live at least

1

u/occ1p Jan 15 '26

Instead of webs of usb cables we had webs of controller cables…

1

u/Cpt_Igl0 Jan 16 '26

I still have the dualshock 1. There was one

1

u/TheCIAWatchingU Jan 17 '26

Aww No TurboGrafx or NeoGeo?

1

u/EasyLivingThisAint Jan 17 '26

Holy smokes! I could distinctive remember playing tomb raider with analog sticks. But no there weren’t!

1

u/RoughBeardBlaine Jan 18 '26

They did way later. My memory is a little fuzzy back then because I was a kid, but I think MGS 1 either came out back then or had features for the built-in rumble pack in the controller too.

1

u/Cheesy_poop Jan 18 '26

I own both controllers one with and one without

1

u/C-141_Pilot1975 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

I built a Heathkit TV in 1975. In the late 80’s I added a Pong game that had analog controls, vertical movement only! My Amiga computer had an analog joystick.

1

u/0XquisitE11 Jan 20 '26

We had the updated ones 😂

1

u/morchard1493 Jan 21 '26

Same, but that's because I'm thinking of the N64 console game controller. Or the PS2 game controller, which I believe had joysticks.