> Rather than using a joystick, Asteroids used buttons for all it controls. There was “rotate left”, “rotate right”, “thrust”, “fire” and “hyperspace”. That man

> Rather than using a joystick, Asteroids used buttons for all it controls. There was “rotate left”, “rotate right”, “thrust”, “fire” and “hyperspace”. That many buttons really messes with me! This really hit home for me. Having gravitated toward games with "simple" controls like PacMan, Crazy Climber, Space Invaders, Tron etc., I never evolved to master multiple button games like Defender, Asteroids etc. For modern platforms, like Switch/Xbox/PS series, I'm hopelessly lost.