2 Books on Video Game Controller History: Visual History or Controller-Design Reviews

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Choosing a book on video game controller history? Joysticks to Haptics pairs personal essays with rare peripheral photography provided with the Embracer Games Archive, while Ultra Massive Video Game Controller Guide Part 1, the 2018 older edition, presents a controller-design journey with humorous reviews.

Product	Controller-history focus
Joysticks to Haptics	Innovations from early dials and keypads through motion control
Ultra Massive Video Game Controller Guide Part 1	Controller-design journey with humorous reviews

1. Joysticks to Haptics

Best for Visual, essay-led controller history

For readers choosing a book on video game controller history, Joysticks to Haptics offers a visual, essay-led approach, tracing innovations from early dials and keypads through analog sticks and motion control. It combines hardware retrospectives and personal essays with rare peripheral photography provided with the Embracer Games Archive.

Joysticks to Haptics

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2. Ultra Massive Video Game Controller Guide Part 1

Best for Older controller-design review

For readers looking for a controller-design review, Ultra Massive Video Game Controller Guide Part 1 is a 2018 older edition, identified as Part 1 and Ultra Massive Volume 5. It presents a journey through controller design accompanied by humorous reviews.

Ultra Massive Video Game Controller Guide Part 1

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Which should you choose?

• For a history tracing controller innovations from early dials and keypads through analog sticks and motion control:
  • Joysticks to Haptics
• For the older 2018 volume presenting a controller-design journey with humorous reviews:
  • Ultra Massive Video Game Controller Guide Part 1