The Random Questions About Gaming Thread - or TRQAGT for short

Question: When was the moment when we got remote controllers?

I'm having an old man moment

...and google is giving me the right but wrong answer.. fucking Atari, c'mon.



I'm thinking it was the Playstation 3, but.... I honestly can't remember. When did it happen?

I'm serious, I literally can't remember when controllers went wireless and I googled that and I KNOW it wasn't Atari... they're just giving me the technical jargon answer of when it literally happened. When did us plebes bask in the glory of remote freedom? It was PS3 right? (but what about Xbox / Nintendo? That's why I'm asking...)

Edaw said:

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1989

Was some variations back to 1983 for things like Atari, Vic-20, etc. NES was probably the first main-stream console with the option.

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I have never once heard about that controller, Wade.

We had the NES Max and NES Advantage... both were wired (and damn good controllers for their respective functions):





I'm talking about mainstream. As I said, I know google gave me the ultimately correct answer, but I was curious about when it really was in the hands of most people. I know it's not really important but I was playing and I thought to myself... holy crap, I don't remember there ever being a day when I was super excited about being wireless on a console simply due to the fact that it became mainstream after I got into EQ and was 100% devoted to a keyboard/mouse then. PS2 was the last console I played a bunch and had a shitload of games for before EQ and that was wired too. That's why I assumed PS3 was the first but I don't know if Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, Atari had it before PS3... I really just don't know. I also didn't know what thread was most appropriate to ask and get a genuine answer so... Amod it is! They can move it if they please but I'm not trolling, I just wanted to know

Denamian said:

If only we had a forum dedicated to gaming...

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...and if only there were a thread called "Random questions about gaming" to post under.

What do you want me to do... create a new thread so people would say I'm just attention whoring again? That'd be absurd!

Denamian said:

Vanessa , if you would like your posts moved, say the word.

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I'm indifferent... I leave it in your fine hands.

What I find weird is that the freedom of being unplugged wasn't a bigger deal than it was back then. It should've been marketed and hyped up more imo, which... maybe it was and I wasn't paying attention because: EQ, amirite?