Wrap your Powerglove around this history of video game controllers - A.V. Club (blog)

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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=AFQjCNEW7tGAMeUiZPEJNSSfQjbZ7gJY8A&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779144748543&ei=TVl1V7iZKYLE1AbX0LGwDw&url=http://www.avclub.com/article/wrap-your-powerglove-around-history-video-game-con-238969"><img src="//t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTf94Y3zniTolNuM-RCGZb13n4MQok67xd8nFM7bvmS4jtmAXceOFlV9trlelNqz-jgCwwbbiyO-g" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">A.V. Club (blog)</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=AFQjCNEW7tGAMeUiZPEJNSSfQjbZ7gJY8A&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779144748543&ei=TVl1V7iZKYLE1AbX0LGwDw&url=http://www.avclub.com/article/wrap-your-powerglove-around-history-video-game-con-238969"><b>Wrap your Powerglove around this history of video game controllers</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">A.V. Club (blog)</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">Five years later, the <b>Atari 2600</b> had what looked like a recognizable joystick. From that point on, it was off to the races. Famicom, the Japanese version of the mighty Nintendo Entertainment System, had a controller with an actual D-pad as early as 1983.</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=dWg5OG2W1sSXABM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b>and more&nbsp;&raquo;</b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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