Editing Game controller (section)

== History ==
[[File:Tennis for Two - Modern recreation.jpg|thumb|A modern recreation of the controller for the 1958 video game ''Tennis For Two'']]
One of the first video game controllers was a simple dial and single button, used to control the game ''[[Tennis for Two]]''. Controllers have since evolved to include [[D-pad|directional pads]], multiple buttons, [[analog stick]]s, [[joystick]]s, [[motion detection]], [[touch screen]]s and a plethora of other features.

Game controllers have been designed and improved over the years to be as user friendly as possible. The [[Xbox (console)|Microsoft Xbox]] controller, with its ''shoulder triggers'' that mimic actual triggers such as those found on guns, has become popular for [[Shooter game|shooting games]].<ref name="stanford">{{Cite web |last=Lu |first=William |title=Evolution of Video Game Controllers |url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/sites/default/files2/wlu_2003_1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821172337/http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/sites/default/files2/wlu_2003_1.pdf |archive-date=August 21, 2012 |access-date=March 28, 2013}}</ref>

Before the [[seventh generation of video game consoles]], plugging in a controller into one of a console's controller ports was the primary means of using a game controller, although since then they have been replaced by wireless controllers, which do not require controller ports on the console but are [[Electric battery|battery]]-powered. [[USB]] game controllers could also be connected to a [[computer]] with a USB port.