On: Nintendo 64 Joystick Pinout for Arduino

[vlunkr]

That controller has to be one the strangest design choices nintendo has ever made. I'm pretty sure I used that d-pad in <= 1 game

[maxerickson → vlunkr]

It was the biggest launch to date of thumb sticks, I think they wanted people to not worry about whether they would like them or not.

[vlunkr → maxerickson]

That makes sense. If people ended up not liking them or they broke easily developers could fall back to using the d-pad instead.