The top videogame controller buttons - Part 1

Nintendo could have just added a simple D-button and still been ahead of the competition, but they threw a curveball into the controller mix. And to shake a stick at tradition even more violently, they designed the R-button to be p🎀ressed with an index finger, not the thumb. This button, like several others on our list, turned ꧂the entire industry on its head.


Above: We promise the R-button is there. You just can’t see it

Both durable and non-circular, the “R” has stood the test of time. Controllers continue to use the index finger option to add extra buttons in the same way the SNES did💫 all those years ago. (However, the coloration of future buttons tended to emulat🍬e the European, Japanese and Australian scheme, instead of the North American one.)


Above: Sorry, non-North Americans, you’re not tough enough to use the purple version

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