Episode 49: 49: Pinching the Harmonica
- Author
- 5by5
- Published
- Sat 07 Jan 2012
- Episode Link
- https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/49
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss iPad use by three-year-olds, why non-gamers might consider the "Xbox" name a proxy for all of console gaming, the Wii generational hardware conundrum, and finally, an extremely long and obsessively detailed walk through the history of console game controllers, culminating in a rant about something that almost all other gamers love unconditionally.
Links for this episode:
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System controller - Wikipedia
- GameCube controller - Wikipedia
- PlayStation 2 DualShock 2 controller - Wikipedia
- PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 controller - Wikipedia
- PlayStation 3 Sixaxis controller - Wikipedia
- Nintendo 64 controller - Wikipedia
- PlayStation DualShock controller - Wikipedia
- Xbox controller - Wikipedia
- Xbox Controller S - Wikipedia
- Xbox 360 controller - Wikipedia
- Blue Ocean Strategy - Wikipedia
- Accidental Empires, by Robert X. Cringely - Amazon.com
- Edge Magazine - January 2011 Issue #E236
- Arcade emulator iMAME punted out of App Store - TUAW
- Back to Work #27: Danny, Hold the License Plate
- Barnes & Noble Considers Spinning Off Its Nook Unit - NYTimes.com
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader - Wikipedia
- Nintendo GameCube - Video Game Sales Wiki
- Shovelware - Wikipedia
- HOTAS - Wikipedia
- What comes after primary, secondary, tertiary? - Oxford Dictionaries Online
- PlayStation 3 "boomerang" controller (alternate picture) - ps3vault.com
- PlayStation 3 "boomerang" controller - Wikipedia
- Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller - Ursine Adventures
- Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller again - The Rest of the Story
- Purity - xkcd
- Certainty - xkcd
- Asymco on the reach of Apple's media stores
- Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller once more - You Know What They Say…
- Sony "Solo Shock" mockup by mindfad
- Wild Gunman scene in Back to the future II - YouTube
- Bonus: The Periodic Table of Controllers - Pixel Fantasy
- Bonus: A bunch of stuff about game controllers - Tumblr
- Bonus: The Evolution of Video Game Controllers poster - popchartlab.com
- Nintendo Entertainment System controller - Wikipedia
- PlayStation controller - Wikipedia
