Foreword

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Contents

Page

1. Timeline

2. Exploration of brief

3. Compare & Contrast pg1

4. Compare & Contrast pg2

5. Rendered 3D freehand presentation quality drawing

6. Orthographic & Pictorial view of original

7. Exploded View

8. Photorealistic image

9. Analysis of brief-pg1

10. Analysis of brief-pg2

11. Rendered 3D freehand presentation quality drawing of modification

12. Orthagraphic & Pictorial view of modification

13. Exploded view

14. Photorealistic of modification

15. Appendix

First retail release in 1972

First home gaming controller with a console

Controller had 2 basic control dials not allowing much control

Connected to console via wire

Chunky and difficult to use

Paved the way for future home gaming & controllers

First retail release in 1977

Featured- a single button

-an 8 way directional joystick

Simple easy to use design

Connected to console via wire

Not the best form factor but user friendly

Influenced future handheld game controllers

Atari 2600

First retail release in 1976

Very Complex to control-

-forward, back, left, right(like a normal joystick)

-twisting clockwise & anticlockwise(like a paddle)

-in and out(like a pinball plunger)

Connected to console via wire

Very unique shape and style

First Retail Relese in 1983

First Example which utilized 4-way D pad

Attractive form factor

Simple, compact, easy to use controller

Indirectly Influenced current controllers that

still include the famous d-pad

Directly influnced the sega master system

controller->

First retail release in 1988

First controller that featured Wing-like handles.

Influenced future contollers that incorporate this

Featured a “cycloid” that could be moved in

directions for movement. Lacked analog response

Cycloid surronded by 8 traditional D-buttons

Smaller than standard controller

Nintendo Entertainment system

First Retail release in 2002

Substitute for the original gamecube controller

First wireless controller that worked just as well

as the default controller

Featured duel analog sticks

Influenced other controllers to incorporate

wireless technology

First retail release in 1989

Featured a 160 × 144 pixel 2.6” LCD screen

Included the patented D-pad first seen on the NES

Ran games off gameboy cartrigages

One built in speaker game mono sound but via the

headphone jack stereo sound could be achived

Sold 118.69 million units worldwide

Nintendo 64

Gameboy

First retail release in 1996

Unique m-shape never seen before

Featured both a D-pad and a centered

analog stick for directional movement

First console controller with vibration-

using the rumble pak in the expansion slot

Featured 10 different buttons!

First retail release in 1995

Featured 2 analog sticks for use with 3D games

Included an “analog” button to turn the sticks

on or off, or into a “flight stick” mode

Enlongated handles influenced from NES Max

Featured 4 shoulder buttons-L1, L2 & R1, R2

First retail release in 1998

First and only mainstream

controller to feature an LCD screen

Featured both the analog stick and

d-pad so player could choose which

to use

Exploration of brief

Maganavox Odyssey

Fairchild Channel F

NES Max

Gamecube WaveBird

PlayStation Dual Analog Controller

Nintendo Wii

First retail release in 2006

Revolutionary motion sensing capabilitys

Includes built-in speaker

Traditional buttons included but minimized

Additional “nunchuck” can be used for

more complex and intracite movements

Duelshock 3 controller

First retail release in 2006

In built wireless technology

Includes motion technology

Currently the indutry standard

Exam no: 115909

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DATE: 12/02/2010

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Appendix

Output 1-

Timeline- All following images courtsey of google images-http://images.google.ie/

Maganavox Odyssey

Fairchild channel F

Atari 2600

Gameboy

NES Max

Nintendo wii

Dreamcast

Gamecube Wavebird

All the following images i got from primary research using my camera phone-

Playstation duel analog controller

N64 controller

NES controller

Duelshock 3 controller

Exploration of brief 2nd page- all the following images courtsey of google images-http://images.google.ie/

Wii controller

Wii sensor bar

Wii guitar hero

Racing wheel seat

Xbox 360 modifications

“Hand” mouse

All other photos

Output 2-

Compare & contrast- All following images courtsey of google images-http://images.google.ie/

Black N64

Duelshock 3 controller

Output 7-

Graphical exploration of design features(pg1 & 2)- all the following images courtsey of google images-http://images.google.ie/

SD card slot

Psp

Headphone Jack

Racing wheel

Mini usb

GBA cartrige

Flip up phone

Joystick

“WLAN” symbol

Bluetooth logo

All the following images i got from primary research using my camera phone-

N64-front view

N64-back view