John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss iPad use by three-year-olds, why non-gamers might consider the "Xbox" name a proxy for all of console gaming, the Wii generational hardware conundrum, and finally, an extremely long and obsessively detailed walk through the history of console game controllers, culminating in a rant about something that almost all other gamers love unconditionally.

Links for this episode:

  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System controller - Wikipedia
  • GameCube controller - Wikipedia
  • PlayStation 2 DualShock 2 controller - Wikipedia
  • PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 controller - Wikipedia
  • PlayStation 3 Sixaxis controller - Wikipedia
  • Nintendo 64 controller - Wikipedia
  • PlayStation DualShock controller - Wikipedia
  • Xbox controller - Wikipedia
  • Xbox Controller S - Wikipedia
  • Xbox 360 controller - Wikipedia
  • Blue Ocean Strategy - Wikipedia
  • Accidental Empires, by Robert X. Cringely - Amazon.com
  • Edge Magazine - January 2011 Issue #E236
  • Arcade emulator iMAME punted out of App Store - TUAW
  • Back to Work #27: Danny, Hold the License Plate
  • Barnes & Noble Considers Spinning Off Its Nook Unit - NYTimes.com
  • Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader - Wikipedia
  • Nintendo GameCube - Video Game Sales Wiki
  • Shovelware - Wikipedia
  • HOTAS - Wikipedia
  • What comes after primary, secondary, tertiary? - Oxford Dictionaries Online
  • PlayStation 3 "boomerang" controller (alternate picture) - ps3vault.com
  • PlayStation 3 "boomerang" controller - Wikipedia
  • Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller - Ursine Adventures
  • Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller again - The Rest of the Story
  • Purity - xkcd
  • Certainty - xkcd
  • Asymco on the reach of Apple's media stores
  • Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller once more - You Know What They Say…
  • Sony "Solo Shock" mockup by mindfad
  • Wild Gunman scene in Back to the future II - YouTube
  • Bonus: The Periodic Table of Controllers - Pixel Fantasy
  • Bonus: A bunch of stuff about game controllers - Tumblr
  • Bonus: The Evolution of Video Game Controllers poster - popchartlab.com
  • Nintendo Entertainment System controller - Wikipedia
  • PlayStation controller - Wikipedia

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