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What was the purpose of these phone style layouts in these early game console controllers? Atari 5200 also had a number pad with * and # and everything, so unne
by skocznymroczny 4y ago
What was the purpose of these phone style layouts in these early game console controllers? Atari 5200 also had a number pad with * and # and everything, so unnecessary.
- acomjean 4y agoMany games you start by entering a numeric difficulty. Some games barely used them, but for others they were required. for football, you entered the play/formation information. Utopia (an island civilization sim) you used it to select what you wanted to build. Math learning games the keypad is self explanatory and for a lot of games it took the place of an on screen menu system(the resolution was low and the fonts quite big) https://atariage.com/forums/topic/90216-intellivision-overlays-utopia/ https://atariage.com/forums/topic/90216-intellivision-overla...