stackyFACTSThe highly comfortable ergonomic shape and asymmetric joystick layout of today's dominant gaming pads were heavily derived from experimental, chunky peripherals created during the final hardware generation of Sega.
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When your base hardware is already struggling, the best solution is clearly to bolt an enormous disc tray underneath it. This bulky peripheral required its…
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Sega's entire marketing campaign revolved around 'Blast Processing' and unrivaled speed, which was mostly a lie to hide their console's panic attacks. Yuji…
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You can thank monkeys for your comfortable controller. In the mid-90s, the original PlayStation controller only had a D-pad. When developers started making…
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Adding a screen to a storage block was revolutionary until you realized the electrical logistics. The tiny peripheral ran entirely on watch batteries, meaning…
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Because nothing says 'cutting-edge gaming innovation' like staring at a pixelated LCD mini-screen while getting absolutely destroyed on your television. The…
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For years, everyone assumed that aggressively bright LED bar blinding them in dark rooms was just a terrible aesthetic choice. It turns out Sony was playing…
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