Game Controllers - Scott The Woz

Scott takes a look at the history of game controllers and just how exactly we got to the Wii U GamePad.

Music Used:
"Menu" from SNES Classic Edition
"Creative Exercise" from Mario Paint
"Main Theme" from Mappy
"Rally-X Remix (World 1)" from Namco Museum Remix
"Easton Kingdom" from Super Mario Land
"Moon" from DuckTales (NES)
"Overworld" from Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)
"Vampire Killer" from Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
"Emerald Hill Zone" from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
"Mii News - Breaking News" from Tomodachi Life
"Battle" from Chrono Trigger
"Route 99" from Atari Karts
"Bob-omb Battlefield" from Super Mario 64
"The Mantle" from Nights Into Dreams
"Aridia" from Ratchet & Clank
"Overworld" from Conker: Live & Reloaded
"Circuit Theme" from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
"Get Me Through This" from Crackdown
"Main Theme" from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
"Quilty Square" from Kirby's Epic Yarn
"Main Theme" from Wii Shop Channel
"Ruddy Road" from Paper Mario Color Splash
"Menu 1" from Everybody's Golf (PS4)
"Honeylune Ridge (Caves)" from Super Mario Odyssey
"Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes

[CalmTony]

Videos like this almost make me want YouTube to implement a feature that tells me how many times I’ve rewatched a specific video.

[claram]

When I was little, I didn’t really understand that Nintendo’s Wiimote was one of the biggest outliers in all of video game controllers, so whenever I saw a PS 4 controller or whatever, I would immediately think, “Oh, it’s one of the weird ones”

[jubjub]

The Wii classic controller has trap doors underneath to allow the small creatures running the mechanisms inside to escape in case of emergency.

[WafflezMC]

It’s a tradition to come back to this video every once in a while

[nikolascamilleri]

'You can survive a whole week in the wilderness with just this'
*Goes to wilderness with only Wii U gamepad*

'You are too far away from the console'

[pungoblin]

“Atari, just go home”
Atari: alright **calls a cab with controller**

[thomastyrrell]

Fun fact
The duke is massive because the person who made it didn’t realise that you could connect two circuit board with a wire so they just used one big one

“Fun”

[mistersp]

That button on top of the Classic Controller was for a plastic adapter that connected it to the Wii Remote. That made it so the Wii Remote wasn't just dangling while using the Classic Controller. It's actually pretty great.

[dachking]

Ah, it’s time for my monthly viewing of this video. YouTube has recommended it once again.

[awesomedude]

Scott (talking about PS4 controller): "It's the one controller I constantly have problems with."

Left JoyCon: "Prepare for trouble."
Right JoyCon: "Make it double."

[ChiefPeakes]

Scott: “When it works, it really works, when it doesn’t work, it really doesn’t work”

*Truest thing ever to be said about the Wii remote*

[creativemaster]

I’m not at all surprised that this is Scott’s most viewed video. This is in my opinion, one of the best videos to show someone who hasn’t seen any of Scott The Woz.

[mizuu_btw]

I remember looking for L3 and R3 on the PS2 and being like “Where?”

[snazzy]

I want each controller to be rated with knee slaps.

[kyledavis]

The reason the “duke” xbox controller was so big, was because when microsoft first designed the controller, the wanted it to be in a V shape. But then later, they changed their mind, to make it more like the playstation controller. But they already 3D printed a ton of circuit boards, all in the V shape, so they just decided to make it bigger so it would fit.

[goldwooper]

Scott: The Atari 2600 controller is too big to hold like a modern controller

Also Scott: *Holds NES Advantage like a modern controller*

[smik]

Watching Scott mash the A and B buttons on the NES controller made me feel emotions I didn’t know I had

[williammcinni]

14:42, my dad literally bought me that controller when I was 9 and a week later we got bed bugs. Wtf, im starting to think this man is more than a youtuber.

[yoshikagekira]

Scott: “The joycons are perfectly usable”

The joycons: *D R I F T*

[TZ_]

12:08 I find the face buttons being analogue really cool, and I really liked how the Metal Gear Solid games used the feature