CRASHED JOYSTICK

The first game controller was modeled after a crab. Which explains why your hands feel attacked after two hours.

✗ FAKE
Game controllers evolved from joysticks and paddles to gamepads, with Nintendo's directional pad in the early 1980s as a major step. A crab was not the model.

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