Game Consoles

This page contains brief descriptions of all game consoles (new and classics). Some users may prefer to use a game console as a base.

Note:

• If a game consoles is bold, it still in the market
• If a game consoles is italic, it still on the way to the market

Company	Console	Players	Game Sticks1	Game Buttons2	Cabfriendly Emulators3	Year
3DO Company	3DO Interactive Multiplayer	1?	Digital	5	?	1993
Atari	Atari 2600	2	Digital4	1	Stella	1977
	Atari 5200	4	Analog + Keypad	2	MESS	1982
	Atari 7800	2	Digital4	?	MESS	1986
	Atari Jaguar	2	Digital + Keypad	3	Virtual Jaguar	1993
Bally	Bally Astrocade	4	Digital + Spinner	1	?	1978
Bandai	Bandai Atmark (Apple Pippin)	2	Digital + Trackball	6	?	1995
Coleco	Colecovision	2	Digital + Keypad	1	MESS	1982
Commodore	Commodore 64 GS	2	Digital4	1	?	1982
	Commodore CDTV	1	Digital + Keypad	2	?	1991
	Commodore CD32	2	Digital	6	?	1993
Emerson	Hanimex HMG 2650 (Arcadia)	?	?	?	MESS	198?
Epoch	Cassettevision	2	?	?	?	1981
Fairchild	Fairchild Channel F	?	?	?	MESS	1976
Interton	Interton VC4000	?	?	?	?	1978
Magnavox	Magnavox Odyssey	2	Spinner	?	?	1972
	Magnavox Odyssey 2	2	Digital	1	?	1978
Mattel	Intellivision	2	16-direction disc + Keypad	3	Nostalgia	1980
Microsoft	Xbox	4	Digital + 2xAnalog	6d 2t	?	2001
	Xbox 360	?	?	?	NO	2005
NEC	PC Engine/Turbografx 16	?	?	?	MagicEngine	1987
	Nec PC-FX	?	?	?	?	1994
Nintendo	Nintendo NES/Famicom	2 (4 with adaptor)	Digital	2	FCE Ultra VirtuaNES	1983
	Super Nintendo (Super Famicom)	2 (5 with adaptor)	Digital	6	Zsnes Snes9x	1990
	Nintendo 64	4	Digital + Analog	9	Project 64	1996
	Nintendo Gamecube	4	Digital + 2xAnalog	5d 2t	Dolphin	2001
	Nintendo Wii	?	Unique Motion Control	?	NO	2006(exp)
Nuon	Nuon	?	?	?	Nuance	?
Philips	Philips CD-i	?	?	?	?	1991
	Philips G7000	?	?	?	?	1978
Sega	Sega Master System	2	Digital4	2	Kega Fusion	1985
	Sega Megadrive/Genesis/32X	2	Digital4	3	Kega Fusion	1988
	Sega Saturn	?	?	?	SSF	1995
	Sega Dreamcast	?	Digital + Analog	4d 2t	Chankast	1998
SNK	SNK NeoGeo	2	Digital	4	?	1990
Sony	Sony Playstation	2	Digital	8	ePSXe	1994
	Playstation 2	2	Digital/Analog + 2xAnalog	8a	PCSX2	2000
	Playstation 3	?	Digital/Analog + 2xAnalog + Tilt	6a 2t	NO	2006(exp)
Vectrex	Vectrex	?	?	?	MESS	1982

1) Game Sticks:

• Some consoles had Digital and/or Analog controls, both are listed.
• Some consoles may have digital/Analog hybrid pad. They feel like a normally digital pad, but is technical analog (not all games take advance of this).
• Some older conrolse may use a keypad, wich is mentioned under the sticks.
• Only the standard control that came with the machine are "listed" (Any addons like Dual Shock (PSX) and Pro Controllers (Genesis, Jaguar etc) are explained in the indepth page. These may require more buttons).

2) Buttons:

• Digital buttons is marked as d. If only digital buttons is used, there would been none letters.
• Analog buttons (that feel like as digital) is marked as a. Only some games may take advance of these, hince they can been used as a digital button.
• Analog trigges is markedas t. These feel really like a analog button. These are typical placed as a L/R shoulder buttons.

Notes:

• This list count only fire/triggers buttons on their control that are used to play the games. Note that the buttons are listed for one player only.
• Some systems may have start/select and/or other system buttons/swiches, but these are not counted (most emulators have special keys for those).

3) Cabfriendly:

• Only the most commonly used cabinet friendly emulator(s) is(are) listed. The console's page might have a more comprehensive list of emulators.

4) Hacking:

• These Atari controllers are very easy to interface to your arcade controls. It's even compatible with other systems too.

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