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video game controller

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video game controller

The input device used to control a video game. Controllers have evolved from a single joy stick with one button to devices with joy sticks, pedals and dozens of buttons. See video game console and joy stick.

Full Cockpit Controls
Capcom's Steel Battalion controller for the Xbox puts the gamer inside a futuristic robotic war machine. It uses joy sticks, levers, dials and more than 40 buttons to simulate the cockpit of the "Vertical Tank." (Image courtesy of Capcom Entertainment.)



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For instance, the powerful electronic brain of the Sony PlayStation 3 video game controller jams nine microprocessors onto a single chip.
In an age where kids seem like they're born with a remote control in one hand and a video game controller in the other, these children actually seem excited about reading books.
The telephone handset serves as a video game controller or a keyboard for composing a fax message.
 
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