Joysticks

Description

From the classic Atari stick to the handy pads from Sega and Nintendo to the optical precision devices of the first-person shooter present, joysticks play with the best, but also the most notorious controllers.

Joysticks provoke emotions: Controllers are thrown out of the window after the eleventh game over and have to hold out the button as a final excuse: “I can’t help it – my pad is stuck” are the last words of the multiplayer loser. Scapegoat, accomplice and lifesaver: pad and stick are the only accessories that every player takes in their hands – that connects them.

In collaboration with Take 2, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer present the reference work for all game fans: Joysticks shows the best and the coolest, the most bizarre and daring controllers from 30 years of computer and video game history.

• A treasure trove: rich in color pictures and technical drawings
  – c’t.
• Very well-founded text, very informative technical section
  – Golem.de
• A must-read: Get the new book from Gameplan immediately
  – Man!ac
• The joystick authors show how changeable the piece of plastic is … how it still shapes the worlds through which it moves the player.
  – Star.

Joysticks for collectors, connoisseurs and modern gamers:

• around 400 photos and drawings
• History, technology and functions – all information on 200 devices
• classic museum pieces – for the first time in their full splendor
• the most important and iconic controllers of the home computer era
• the best precision devices for PC and console
• Special chapter on the evolution of game controllers
• Large technology index