The 10 worst video game controllers of all time

Controllers are an essential part of gaming, but there have been many failures along the way to the standards we have now.

While plenty of people enjoy gaming at their PC with a mouse and keyboard, it’s not exactly practical when sitting on your couch, so it didn’t take long for the controller to be developed. Nowadays, controllers have a very well-defined shape that anyone can recognize, but it’s been a long road to get here.

Whether it’s an ill-thought-out experiment that designers thought could be the future, or simply a novelty that hurts to hold for too long, we’ve picked out the worst controllers of all time that you should never use.

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