I have always been confused by Xbox’s button names. I now learned its because there are 2 buttons missing on modern controllers
I have always been confused by Xbox’s button names. I now learned its because there are 2 buttons missing on modern controllers
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These are the bumpers/L1+R1 on modern controllers.
They aren’t missing, they just turned them into bumpers.
Huh?
Nobody called them c and z, they were black and white.
The OG xbox controllers were absolute units.
The SNES used ABXY (but in a different order) a couple years before the Genesis 6-button came out. Who knows why they skipped Z.
The Genesis 6-button controller only existed to be able to play that eras fighting games (MK/SF)… it was not a standard controller for the game platform itself.
Very few other games incorporated the additional button capacity into their builds, because they knew that it meant customers have to buy an additional controller that they otherwise might not have use for.
… I still have my original 1991 Sega Genesis, fully operational – and the base 3 button and the 6 button fighting controller.
There was a Trigger button which was on the N64 with the four C buttons aswell.
I think there was an arcade game with 28 buttons. Can not remember the name think it was something to do with missiles
Fun fact – after Sega ceased development of the Dreamcast and got out of the console hardware business, a bunch of their designers went to work for Microsoft on the OG Xbox. These controllers share DNA.
Honestly wish we still had those two buttons, some games definitely would do well having the two extra buttons on top of what we currently have
I forgot about those buttons completely til just now holy crap. Specifically the xbox ones. Man that controller felt like a brick in my little boy hands back then
Black and white buttons became the bumpers.
Still kinda makes nonsense. Why not ABCDEF?
Yeah the black and white buttons became the bumpers buttons. No button is missing mate. They just moved
Too late to complain about this.