/vr/ - Retro Games

"control"
same amount of syllables and you don't sound like a Pong dorkus

>>6059067
But it doesn't apply to Pong. Every controller was called a paddle. Up until N64. That was a joystick controller.

Even the playstation was a paddle.

>>6059057
It's called a trick and sticky click and slicky.

>>6059057
It doesn't even look like a paddle. You play ping-pong with a paddle. That is clearly a joypad.

>>6059068
>Every controller was called a paddle. Up until N64.
This is retarded beyond belief and warrants no rebuttal beyond calling you a retard.

>>6059081
kys zoomer

>>6059057
ok boomer

How about the manual or on the back of the box that called it a controller? The Atari 2600 had additional dial controllers they called paddles for games like breakout but the main controller was called a joystick. OP is retarded

It was only called a paddle during the 1st and 2nd gens, because the dial-based controller was well known and was used to control the Pong's virtual paddle. Any further mention is likely a Gen Xer stuck in their ways; Nintendo made it a point to name their shit specifically to avoid genericization.

>>6059057
No, THIS is a paddle.
People only called controllers, paddles, out of confusion after the 2600 and pong stand alone games of the 70s/early 80s.
If you're calling a controller a paddle, you're just as clueless as literal boomers who called every videogame "Mario Bros".

>>6059118
To further make my point, here is the instructions from the original Super Mario Bros, its called a "Controller" here too.

>>6059057
>When did we stop calling them paddles and start calling them controllers?
Gen 4.

>>6059057
boom boom boom shake the room

>>6059057
>What the fuck changed?

You got old, and instead of video games being part of a paradigm you understood, they became the paradigm.

>>6059057
30 year old Boomer here, we called them controllers when I was a wee lad

>>6059118
>it's called a paddle because it controls a pong paddle on the screen
>outside of a dedicated pong console the name doesn't even make sense, it's a dial
From now on we should call all game controllers dials

>>6059057
when /vr/ first started up it was a good place to learn about retro games/maintaining old systems/learning about the different emulation options. why does everything on 4chan have to turn into /v/ shit? the scotformer trolling/sega system trolling/psx trolling/dreamcast noise and now paddle trolling.

fuck off, i was a nes kid and they were never called paddles, ever. they were controllers right from the nes era onward, i cant speak for the atari era as i wasnt around.

>>6059057

Paddles always had a potentiometer.
The transitory term used for these things before "controller" stuck is "joypad".

What shit corner of Europe are you from?

>the pad in gamepad means paddle
oh fuck

It's a Nintendo remote

>>6059068
Paddle was still being used in your region, at most. SNES/Genesis/let alone N64 era were controllers.

>>6059173
ok kid

>>6059057
/VR/, always tackling the major issues in retro gaming.

>>6059057
born 80 here
my dad (maybe the only dad among my pweer group that actually played games) called them paddles but I thought that was ridiculous and Icalled them controllers

He'd also call levels 'boards'

>>6059436
>board

Everyone I knew as a kid called levels boards, but I still have no idea why.

>>6059118
This. Basically until the NES there were joysticks and there were paddles and that was pretty much it. Cokecovision and Intellivisions controllers were actually confusing to people in that they were shaped like paddles but controlled like joysticks. Nintendo standardizing the cross d-pad was the point where random people instantly grasped what they were looking at and so there was need for a new term, "controller" or as my older son hilariously called them until he was about 4 and a half, 'trollers.

>>6059439
Weren't pinball machines sometimes called boards?

>>6059068
I'm 34, and never once in my life have I heard anyone refer to one as a paddle.

>>6059737
Maybe you are from some backwater shithole part of the country? In New England aka the classy US they are paddles

>>6059326
Whoah

>>6059915
Maybe, but you would be wrong.

>>6059927
Not a argument

>>6059954
There's nothing to argue. You theory about my origin is simple wrong.

>>6059915
You're wrong about NE. Bunch of drunken idiot men and fat, horsefaced, drunken women with awful accents. Real classy.

>>6059976
I banged a girl from Bangor bussing back from a busted Internet entanglement in Iowa. Apparently everyone there does heroin.

>>6059057
Because they don't have paddles anymore

>>6059057
"We" never called those paddles. Pretending "everyone" did just outs you as a zoomer.

>>6059057
Assuming this isn't B8, I only remember atari 2600 paddles being called paddles. We called the controller the joystick. NES and beyond were always called controllers, I think it even called them controllers or control pads ( or "pads") in documentation. Pretty much "spinners" were the only thing called paddles, born in 80 if that makes a difference.

>>6059057
nigga, paddles dont got buttons and the only ones that got cords have a pink ball attached on the other end

>>6059986
>Iowa. Apparently everyone there does heroin.
Nope, that's just the junkie chicks, not much heroin in rural areas at all. Meth though, you fucking see tweakers in any store. Hell, I heard about some tweaker staring at a storm drain while naked a few towns over. Dude was right by a school too, but I think it was on the weekend so no kids around.

>>6060116
I meant in Maine but I see where the way I wrote it was unclear

>>6059057
I only ever heard my dad and many a couple of kids call it a paddle, Anon. Most people my age remembered that a paddle was what you controlled Night Driver and Kaboom with on the Atari 2600. Most of us called it a controller, and I live out in the boonies where you'd think we'd call it the wrong thing.

>>6059468
Are Father Electronics Boutique and Father Electronics Couture the same person? Is he your doppleganger? Are you his?

Everyone still called them joysticks.

>>6059057
no it's not you stupid faggot, a paddle controller is completely different. Has a dial. A Joystick is a stick, and a NES controller or gamepad is the correct terminology. It says it in the instruction manual.

>>6060476
Pad as a term comes from paddle

>>6060515
Pads are flat objects you press on

>>6059915
There are plenty of backwater shitholes scattered about New England.

>>6060520
Find me any source that suggest this

>>6059057
>Everyone called them paddles in the 80's-90's
This can't possibly be verified, so it's just going to be your word against everyone else's. Good luck.

>>6059136
This. It was always called a controller at the time. Like in "pass me the controller, bro".

>>6060583
What do you mean? Everyone agrees with me retard

Yeah OP is right. We called them paddles

>>6059057
kid from 1981 here
I never called them paddles

>>6059057
I've known people who call levels "boards" but I've never known anyone who calls a controller a paddle.

>>6059068
I was gaming in the early 90s. I called them controllers. Paddles is a 70s or 80s thing

>>6059057
>Everyone called them paddles in the 80's-90's.

LOL, no they didn't. They were even called controllers in the manuals that came with the systems. Sorry that you are a retard.

Not OP but he's right

Yeah I called them paddles

I agree they were always called paddles

Controllers are a zoomer thing they are paddles 100%

Why is this thread filled with children? It's called a fucking paddle.

>>6059057
In the Famiclone land of Eastern Europe we called them... joysticks. Yep, joysticks, with no actual sticks.

88 here. They're paddles. Full stop

+1 for paddles

I'm from Cali and we all called them paddles

It's hilarious that all these zoomers from v are posturing about this issue. Paddles were a major colloquial term, like regular nintendo

>>6059057
In the UK they were called Joy Pads for s while.

>>6059057
>Everyone called them paddles in the 80's-90's.
I'm in my forties. Literally no one called them "paddles" at any point in time.

>>6060792
>forties
Holy fucking cringe. Go away gramps, the 30 year olds are talking.

Hey Justin remember I told you my dad was going to get me a new Nintendo tape? It's Marry-o 2! I can't beat the first board yet. Did you get another paddle for your Nintendo? Is the hookup still broken? Thanks for telling me that secret on how to get an extra man, though.

>>6060837
Only thing I don't like is tape

>>6059057
It never was called a paddle, maybe in your third world country/city.
Paddles are something completely different.

>>6060894
Wrong

Google any system and paddle. You get controllers. Rest case.

ITT: OP forces another unfunny memeword nobody asked for.

>>6060974
Google furry porn and you get it. This doesn't make the degeneracy right, or make any less case for forced sterilization and/or euthanasia.

You're argument fails.

>>6060515
mind fucking blown over here

>>6060631
Holy shit, can your samefagging be more obvious, you literal hillbilly?
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>>6060768
I grew up in the deep, deep southern US, and only my dad and a couple of retarded kids I knew called them paddles. Everyone else knew that paddles were what you played Kaboom! with on Atari 2600 and that the NES used controllers. Get over it.

>>6061013
wat

Is this going to be the new "Sega System" autism around here?

>>6061056
Haha you're so mad that everyone disagrees with you

>>6061080
Someone called Master System the Sega System?

>>6061081
>everyone =/= one autist spamming the same wrong information
The entire thread is against you. Eat shit.

>>6060792
Which should put the entire argument to rest, but the literal autist here >>6061081 can't accept that he's in a minority of mouthbreathing hicks who can't be bothered to learn the proper words for things. If he'd been born in the UK he'd be calling the NES "Nez".

OP is mentally ill. Probably trans too.

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>>6061027
No it isn't. Pad is pad, which is an own word. Same "pad" as is in e.g. "Note_PAD_".

>>6060349
Sometimes I just automatically type "Electronics Boutique" from it being second nature and sometimes I use other names to and now there are multiple people who also like to post under my names since I haven't bothered with a trip since a year ago. I find the effect it's having on the board interesting

>>6061135
We all know you're a tranny that defends fake translations, don't worry.

>>6061135
>since I haven't bothered with a trip since a year ago
You really should. Yeah there'll be some people who shit on you for having a trip, but those same idiots call you tranny anyway. Personally speaking I usually enjoy your posts, but to each his own.

>>6061142
And we all know you're the second faggot that defends made up translations.

>>6061150
I don't even know what you're talking about. What the bloody fuck is a "made up" translation? How do you make a translation up, you sperg?

>>6061107
Except in this case it derives from paddle and was shortened to pad BECAUSE pad is also a word.

However, it came from paddle. With a joystick it became a joy-paddle, or joypad. When you then removed the joystick to replace it with only buttons, it became a "game pad" or a controller.

>>6061107
Are you honestly arguing that it's a coincidence that controllers were literally called PADDLES for 2 entire generations but that calling them PADS afterwards had nothing to do with this association?

Your fucking retarded

>>6061171
Atari 2600 joystick nomenclature.

>>6061172
Atari 2600 PADDLE nomenclature.

>>6061081
Intellivision controller nomenclature.

>>6060903
Collecovision controller nomenclature.

>>6060515
NES controller nomenclature.

Cope.

>>6061189
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>>6061180
Yeah and check out this controll-

GET the fuck outta here with that nonsense. 33yo here, grew up in Chicago. All my friends and family called them controllers. Even my dad.

Literally definition number 4 on urban dictionary

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Paddles

paddle

A video game controller, originates from PONG, the first video game ever.
The XBOX 360 is the first game system to come out the box with wireless paddles.

>>6061191
>quotes Atari 2600 paddle instructions (>>6061183)
>posts 2600 paddle as proof that controllers were always called paddles
Imagine being this illiterate!

>>6061142
Nah it's actually that the janny that has a major problem with me would just get that trip banned for ban evasion. Like, he just got triggered yesterday from me posting in a thread about what retro characters people masturbated to talking about having sex with actual girls in the 90s, the kind of stories normal people and people who aspire to be normal usually enjoy. He actually got me some kind of shadow ban this morning where it just acted like captchas weren't working. Lame. It's actually pretty funny to observe the way the moderation is attempting to control a chan, which is designed from the bottom up to be uncontrollable. Apparently the "new" flavor that's supposed to be marketable is to only be politically incorrect ironically but despite unironically towing the leftist pussy line still being a socially isolated loser. Talk about the worst of both worlds. Happily all one needs do is have an easily flexible IP from too big a range to ban without hurting traffic and resist the urge to trip up. Fortunately I'm enough of an egotist to believe my writing style alone is plenty recognizable.

>>6061160
Basically he's one of these dudes that's assblasted I didn't jump on top of this guy that was cranking out low quality PC98 translations earlier this year. I like when shit becomes more accessible but "secret club" anons don't. If a translation is too literal to suit them it's "machine translated" (as if any modern translation doesn't start out that way) and if in their opinion it's been too adapted its "fan fiction". These are the people I wish I could see interact in person with someone like Vic "Pussy Crusher" Ireland

>>6061226
Once again you lie. They weren't low quality, they were fake. The mistakes in them proven then guy used machine translation and didn't know any Japanese at all.

Face this reality, you mentally ill tranny. And face yourself being a male.

>>6059209
You are totally right. Fuck OP, and fuck the assholes getting duped by this transparent attempt at trolling.

This is now a paddle controller thread, post your best games that use an actual paddle controller. Pic related, Kaboom is buttery smooth and one of the most intense games on the 2600. I dare people to play this and say the 2600 isn't worth playing in 2019.

>>6061263
Kaboom is always great, but here's something that might be a little more obscure for your taste: Piece O' Cake! It gives an interesting twist to the classic "catch falling objects" gameplay scheme by putting you in control of when the objects drop, with the aim being to build perfect cakes as plates enter the screen below you on a conveyor belt.

>>6061298
And it has one of my favorite box arts for the system.

>>6059080
why is it called a joypad? does it bring you joy?

>>6059057
It's for controlling a game, not beating someone with

Bump

>>6061298
I love obscure shit actually, excellent choice anon. May I suggest "Party Mix" for the 2600? Its a supercharger game that acts as one of if not the first competitive multiplayer party game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBpH3hzZcPo

>>6062272
>split screen
>multiple multicolored animated sprites
I can hardly believe this is running on the 2600! I would've believed this was a 5200 cartridge if you told me. Nice.

Pass me the Xbox paddle bro

>>6059057
Games are far too complex now.
It's an appropriate name for something that might as well have been a parlor amusement to a lot of the west at the time. The buildup to it's overall popularity in the west was a slower burn than some people think.

There are only two buttons on this paddle? Wtf!?

>>6059057
Controller is just a better name. You use it to 'control' the game character.

>>6062293
Like I said, its a Starpath game, so more memory than what was possible on a base 2600. That screen before the title screen is actually a load screen as the tape is played.

>>6059136
what does it mean?

>>6062641
Probably just trying to hide that you can use it to climb vines. Its a cool little secret the first time you find it. You don't even really need to press up to climb, but you can if you want.

I call them paddles

>>6059068
Meanwhile the saturn pads were called "Controllingbrick" in my language

>>6059068
It was probably some regional thing, I've never once heard anyone call them paddles.

>>6061237
Wubba wubba zub zub

>>6063353
My brothers and I called them paddles and I know the reason. Both of my parents were early adopters of video games in the 70s and played Pong and Pac-Man and the like extensively. They were the ones who called Regular Nintendo controllers "paddles", and we adopted this until the influence of peers changed our usage to "controllers."

But this was true of many kids until things like gaming magazines became more prevalent and started to affect our choice of words.

>>6059732
Most arcade games referred to the playing field as a board up until they got into scrolling fields.

>>6059326
same with dpad
:o

>>6059057
Always called it a controller even in the 80s. But the console was called a "system" and games we often called "tapes."

>>6061204
>PONG, the first video game ever
Normalfags are so fucking retarded

>>6065374
If you thought that was an earnest post, perhaps it is you who is the normie. Or at least are really gullible.

>>6061082
They pretty much launched a campaign in /vr/ trying to rewrite history to that effect.

>>6065346
this

>game paddle
>directional paddle
>number paddle
This is not okay.

>>6059057
They were called paddles because of the Pong home console fad

>>6059093
I started gaming with the NES and I've only ever said controller. I'm 32 so you're an idiot.

>>6065909
>32
>didn't start with the genesis or snes
You were poor, weren't you anon?

>>6061082
It was a common bait thread earlier this year. Someone would insist that the Master System be called the Sega System, and would even post poorly photoshopped images to that effect.

>>6065897
Only paddle controllers were called paddles. Standard controllers were called controllers or joysticks.

>>6065921
And they're called paddle controllers because you used them to play Pong.

>>6059068
27, never heard people calling them that.
I've heard gamepad or controller.

>>6060515
>note paddle
>launch paddle
>paddle lock
>menstruation paddle
>buffer paddle
Shut up, you double ended anus.

>>6059068
I dunno what dumbass place you’re from but every one called them controllers since the NES days where I was from.

>>6065915
I'm the 27 year old, started with an NES and that's what we had for many years, got a Gameboy Pocket at one point at a trip, my brother saved up to buy his own Gameboy before me.
In retrospect it's probably because my dad is a massive cheapskate.

We gamed some on PCs too, though going from seeing Megaman and Duck Hunt on your TV to Super Mario 64 and Goldeneye 64 was a remarkable leap to me at the time.

>>6059057
I only play my official DOS-ROMs with my Gravis paddles, no PSX countroller. Best way to play belt-scroller boards on my floppy tapes while conserving free coin credits

>>6066838
fairly sure he meant pad in the game sense

Mario Bros Play basketball IRL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG-KqfByyXw

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>>6066992
Wow yeah offical terminology is the same as colloquial use awlasy

>>6061056
OP was just owned.

>>6067082
Like how we colloquially call your mom a bicycle?

>>6067346
You might want to check the expiration date on that "witty" comeback

>>6067349
Yeah, never

>>6061226
>Like, he just got triggered yesterday from me posting in a thread about what retro characters people masturbated to talking about having sex with actual girls in the 90s, the kind of stories normal people and people who aspire to be normal usually enjoy
It sounds like you're looking to brag to nerds about your sexlife (and I see you do it constantly around here), which is extremely funny. Are you fishing for validation from virgins?

I suppose you would get banned for ban evasion, considering you frequently >>>/soc/ post.

>>6067349
You might wanna check the air in her tires.

>>6065942
Which would already make it dated around the time of the Atari 2600, so we can only surmise that OP is like a 63 year old man, certainly old enough for senility to have set in.

>>6067352
Bragging about his long past sexlife even.
>yeah guys, I was a real stud 30 years ago
>these days? not so much
>i can only get an erection by namefagging

>>6059068
this is more retarded than the "Sega System" meme. No talkie.

>>6065915
No, I just got interested in gaming with the NES first. I mostly just watched my dad play the SNES because the games looked harder.

>>6059057
>another sega system thing
Oh nononononono the state of this board

>>6059057
I'm 33 and everything was always a controller. Are you from some third world shithole that doesn't speak real English?

>>6067413
Yeah, New England.

>>6059068
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, I heard "joystick" and "paddle" only through second gen. After that, it was "controller" almost exclusively for the basic hardware included with most consoles.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paddle
>7. (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
This rings a bell. I definitely remember those knobby ones being called paddles. Some people might have called other things paddles by association, but that definitely died out like 35 years ago in most places.

It's called a button hub you losers.

>>6071191
My late grandmother used to call it my apparatus.

>>6071192
Her dildo?

>>6059057
Only retarded Americans called them paddle. The rest of the world always referred to them as controllers.

>>6071580
It's literally only OP who calls them paddles

>>6059068
>Even the playstation was a paddle.
Literally the first result I found in Google Images. Don't project your illiteracy onto the rest of the world.

>Oi mate, pass the Game Gizmo

>>6071580
They were known as JoyPads in the UK for a little while until people realised controller was the way to go.

>>6072449
Joypads is what PC games called them, but I've never heard that term applied to consoles.

Paddles are what my grandma used to call them, she drank herself to death so I think that answers your question OP.

>>6060837
>it's Marry-o 2!
That's literally how you pronounce Mario, though.

We can all agree that OP sucks miles of cock, right?

>>6073983
Absolutely

35 and british.

nes, master system, snes and megadrive etc had "pads".
N64, playstation + are "Controllers"

>>6073580
no, i dont think your faggy anecdote answers shit

>>6059068
I knew like one person in my life who called then paddles, and it was a mom. I was born in 1985.

>>6074089
OP does sound like an elderly alcoholic though.

>>6059057