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The five best game console controllers of all time

By Andrew Lim on 22 May 2007, 12:30pm

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
This exercise in ergonomics is a curvy, multi-coloured, multi-buttoned evolution of the angular NES controller. This was the first controller to have shoulder buttons -- a revolution that made an arcade staple like Street Fighter II a viable proposition in the home. If we were feeling particularly daring, we might say it heralded the death of the arcade.

The original NES pad had a child-proof charm, but this one was an absolute beauty. Not only was the SNES pad very comfortable to hold, it was also responsive and incredibly well built. From Japan to the US, kids hammered these pads until their hands bled and they still kept going.

This was the pad that made Sega Megadrive owners cry, with their big, clumsy, three-buttoned monstrosity -- okay, the Megadrive brought the curvy first, but this was a huge step forward.

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