Gaming Control Device

Joshua Tarin & Mary Rodriguez

William Higinbotham

• used an oscilloscope to produce a system to display the audio modulation of a radio station's high frequency radio output

• general-purpose technician

• worked on cathode-ray tube displays in MIT Radiation Laboratory

1st controller • Tennis for Two• Located in Brookhaven

National Laboratory, Georgia

• Released to the public in 1958

• Inventor: William Higinbotham

Ralph H. Baer

• Born in Germany Served in U.S. army

• Fought during WWII• Built M.I. snooping

equipment for use in Berlin to monitor Soviet transmissions

• Became first Engineering Fellow at Sanders

• Invented the brown box

1st Home Controller & Home Console

• Magnavox Odyssey• Dial controller• Invented 1972• Patent # 3,728,480

(US) issued April 17, 1973

• Inventor: Ralph H. Baer

• Powered by batteries

Dial Controllers Atari pong 1975

JoyStick

• The inventor is unknown

• Atari is the company that made the joystick famous in household video game controllers

A thumbstick is an evolutionized joystick

Gunpei Yokoi

• 1941 – 1997

• Inventor of Gameboy• Inventor of the DPad• So Many Inventions!

• http://www.virtual-boy.org/gunpei%20yokoi.htm

DPad

• Engineered by Gunpei Yokoi in 1982

• NINTENDO• Created for games

like Donkey Kong

TRIGGERS (Shoulder Buttons)

• First released on the Sony PlayStation

ABXY BUTTONS

• A and B buttons first shown on Nintendo controllers

• Buttons have always been used since the first video game controller

Wireless

• Atari created the first wireless controllers in the 1980s

• It created more mobility for the player• The problem of tangled game controller

wires was solved

Todays Controllers

• YOU!• The XBOX kinect has sensors, lasors, and

cameras that follow your movement therefore the only controller is your body

Tomorrows Controllers

• Your mind• Being able to play the

game by simply thinking about it

• http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/03/atari-vcs-2600/

• http://imageshack.us/f/136/bild18yp2.png/• http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,20292

21,00.html• http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/magod

yssey.htm• http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp• http://coedmagazine.com/2010/10/13/a-pictorial-hist

ory-of-video-game-controllers/