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The world's weirdest PC game controllers

Microsoft SideWinder Dual Strike



Somewhere around the end of the 20th century, a Microsoft designer decided to make a joystick that rotates about its lateral axis, and the SideWinder Dual Strike was born. At the heart of the controller (the joint between the sphere and the protrusion) sits an analog potentiometer that provides additional control in a handful of games. Otherwise, it's kinda like any other gamepad, only with weird buttons.

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