{"id":1713,"date":"2013-05-06T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2013-05-02T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T23:25:49","slug":"the-evolution-of-video-game-controllers-look-how-far-weve-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/the-evolution-of-video-game-controllers-look-how-far-weve-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Video Game Controllers: Look How Far We’ve Come"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all have memories of our first video game system. For me, the original Nintendo (NES) was set up in my childhood dentist’s office — who knew there were ways to get seven year olds excited about oral hygiene?<\/em> But if you’ve been gaming since joysticks were the height of technological prowess, it’s nearly impossible to remember them all. Until now. Blow a little air into the dusty cartridge of your memory and check out the newest print from Pop Chart Lab featuring the meticulous and beautiful Evolution of Video Game Controllers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What started with a single button and knob combo circa 1958’s Tennis for Two<\/em> has evolved into controllers in nearly every shape imaginable. Wheels, guns, guitars, magic wands and, hey, is that a set of maracas I spot in there? It reads like a Choose Your Own Adventure chart by way of a Family Tree, with a color key at the bottom to define the different controller types and how they’re chronologically related.\u00a0Remarkable.<\/p>\n

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Pop Chart Lab’s The Evolution of Video Game Controllers tracks video game system controllers from 1958’s ‘Tennis for Two’ to the impending, ultra-modern DualShock 4 (PS4).<\/p><\/div>\n

Want a closer look? Over at\u00a0Pop Chart<\/a>, you can zoom in on the entire print in all of its painfully detailed glory (as well as purchase a poster for you game room).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have memories of our first video game system. For me, the original Nintendo (NES) was set up in my childhood dentist’s office — who knew there were ways to get seven year olds excited about oral hygiene? But if you’ve been gaming since joysticks were the height of technological prowess, it’s nearly impossible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[219,261,30,142,25],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-art","tag-controllers","tag-design","tag-nintendo","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}