Well, this is interesting. For as long has you have lived(til now), you would have at least touched a gaming console before, and this diagram shows how has controllers evolved through time.

Well, it doesn’t matter if you’re into Sega, Xbox, Nintendo, Sony’s Playstations or “old-school” Atari, it’s all here.

The above diagram is “a collection of small multiples of game controllers of the main gaming systems from the past 25 years (..,) normalized, and the hands are all approximately the same size as each other, and thus the controllers all to scale”. His point was “to show the progression of controller design throughout the last quarter-century. With the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System, no more number pads were used on game controllers from that point on.”

And of course, there’s the console controller’s family tree, if ya interested.

But nothing will ever beat this console’s controller, for being the most complex ever.

“With 40 buttons and a nest of switches, levers and twitching LEDs it is the most ostentatious interface that console gaming’s ever known, an accolade that will likely remain unchallenged for many years to come.”

[from LiftLab and Chewing Pixels]