The surprising uses of games controllers - BBC News

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNELr2cI6iK3DFlmpOcM51TLfTvnNw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=z-iKVLjDDtOQigbqsoCQBg&url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141212-press-x-press-y-fire-laser"><img src="//t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStLDwwy2OPxZxdVik-udplrTm3HCfdxSpRWwHvGLOoGD5GAbqV2j1NFk0xXwJcLYaP5e 9W0-3N" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">BBC News</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNELr2cI6iK3DFlmpOcM51TLfTvnNw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=z-iKVLjDDtOQigbqsoCQBg&url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141212-press-x-press-y-fire-laser"><b>The surprising uses of games controllers</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">BBC News</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">It was only with the release of the <b>Nintendo Entertainment System</b> in the 1980s that controllers radically evolved to the gamepad design we are now familiar with. This style of game controller replaced the once-popular joystick with the directional-pad <b>...</b></font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dfe-lGLM9-8SQjM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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