lance@uunet.UU.NET (10/10/90)
I picked up a Sega Game Master controller the other day and couldn't figure out how to use it. It's shaped like a kidney bean crescent and has a circular rocker at one end and three buttons marching up and right at the other. Later I saw an ad showing a kid holding it with both hands, working the rocker with the left and the three buttons with the right. How retro! I was assuming that I was supposed to use it with one hand, like a mouse. I'm thinking a pistol grip with the rocker under your thumb, so you move your thumb around like you're thumb-wrestling. Then, as you move the gizmo around in space, the tilt and motion are reported via simple acceleration sensors (pots connected to damped weights?) and voila: 5 dimensions, 4 buttons. Lance