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The Development History of Game Controller
Since the early 1990s, computer games have risen quietly, but in 10, it has become a trend that a single spark can start a prairie fire. Only PC enthusiasts can really have the opportunity to pay attention to this field full of business opportunities and make people linger. Senior PC users with a history of more than ten years probably remember the game Police and Thieves today. Although the game seems too naive today, there is no denying that many people were very excited at that time.

It is precisely because of the popularity of computer games that special control equipment specially used for games has begun to attract the attention of mass game lovers. Many game lovers may have realized that it is not enough to rely on the keyboard, mouse or their combination to be comfortable in all kinds of unpredictable fierce competitions, which leads to the emergence of game-specific control devices.

The earliest type of GamePad was gamepad, and then all kinds of joysticks (also called joysticks, joysticks or joysticks in some media) flooded into the market, almost having a super player. Then the professional steering wheel (wheel &; Pedal has become an indispensable and important "weapon" for super players. When your childhood dream of flying in the blue sky is now "come true" and driving Hawk against the air, you can truly realize that special equipment such as steering wheel is absolutely indispensable in large-scale action games.

As many gamers know, some friends who used to patronize arcade (a large game machine seen in entertainment places) began to turn to computer games because of the faster processing speed of computer CPU. In order to meet the needs of these "players", manufacturers have introduced a special joystick for PC, which has made a "qualitative" leap in computer games. Although playing games with ordinary joystick is far from keyboard and mouse, the realism is still unsatisfactory in difficult action games and real-life simulation games such as soaring in the universe, exploring alone, flying airplanes, fighting and shooting. Therefore, the joystick and steering wheel with force feedback function finally stand out under the continuous innovation of various manufacturers.