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Video-games are amazing software achievements, they need a powerful computer with a good graphic card but something that that is usually forgotten is that you also need a good controller that will let you interact with the game. This is the extension of your own body and mind. The game can be as good as its controller will let it. There are many kind of controllers, and in the history of video games a lot more have been tried. From gloves to steering wheels, buttons, switches, helmets, guns. But only a few where versatile enough to be used in different games, and some innovations persisted and were adapted in a lot of devices. What is the story of the controllers, or at least, some histories of them. Inverted T Layout All our computer keyboards have four arrows in an inverted T. This is the one of the main control…