How many buttons did your PC joystick/pad have? (1990-2000)

[d4rk3lf]

Just a quick poll, that will be handy (maybe) later, for some other threads.
Or maybe not.
But anyway, I am curious about it.

Edit:
My English sucks. I am sorry for that.
Any mod, hopefully, could change it to more meaningful title.

[Mikerochip]

1990-1996 : No PC
1996: Laptop, no Joystick.
1997: Joypad, 6 buttons + Steering wheel, 4 buttons, 2 paddles.
1998-2000: Joypad, Microsoft, 9 buttons. + Joystick, Logitech, 8 buttons, hat, throttle, spinner.
2000- : Hanaho Hotrod, 2 joysticks, 18 buttons. + Microsoft Steering wheel, force feedback. Hotrod was PS/2. (Later updated with iPac2)

Other years: Various N64, Atari, SNES, PSX, XBox, Dreamcast, Gamecube etc PC adapters. Some were Parallel (N64) most were USB.

[d4rk3lf]

@Mikerochip
Thank you very much for so detailed answer.
Hopefully, the others will go your steps.

[Nobby_UK]

I had a Logic 3 PC Sprint Pad

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Nobby_UK

I had a Logic 3 PC Sprint Pad

Me too! (At least a gamepad that looked almost identical) Got it with my soundcard. Got my first PC in 1995 and the soundcard along with it.

[Biscuit]

In the 90s the only computer I had was an Amiga 500. Don't know whether to be sad or proud.

[Misclegend]

the basic db15 soundblaster joystick port support 4 buttons
so most of the joystick 1990-2000 had 4 buttons
however some joys added circuitry but required drivers which supported more buttons ie 10 buttons like the genius max fire G09 or microsoft sidewinder

[lilalurl]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

Any mod, hopefully, could change it to more meaningful title.

I did some changes, hopefully for the best.

I have added joypad in the titles (thread/poll) as several people have mentioned these and given that in your answer to Mikerochip you ddin't mention a restriction to joysticks (either arcade-style or flight-simulator-style) only.

Feel free to PM me for any required change.

[d4rk3lf]

Thank you lilalurl.
It's perfect.

[Valken]

Pelican AfterGlow PS2 Wired Pad with PS2 to USB PC adapter.

13 buttons + 1x 4 Digital Pad + 2x 4 way analog sticks.

Basically a USB Dual Shock 2 controller but with the Nintendo cross or + directional pad layout, instead of the 4 separate buttons.

Yes, I used a USB to PS2 adapter and it works amazing for all emulators. Now if I can figure out how to use a PS3/4/5 Wireless on the PC, I would be in heaven.

[Jope]

You missed the most common type, two buttons. the 15 pin game port had two buttons per player.

Mine was a two button joystick.

[gimbal]

1994-around 2012 I guess - no joystick, pure keyboard +mouse play. I had a spare gravis gamepad lying around for some extremely rare multiplayer stuff, but I never used it myself.

2012 and up: I count 10 buttons on my XBox 360 pad, not counting the start + select buttons but I do count both sticks. So grand total is 12.

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by Jope

You missed the most common type, two buttons. the 15 pin game port had two buttons per player.

Mine was a two button joystick.

Sorry abut that.
Any mod is free to update pool whenever he wants.

[lilalurl]

Poll updated.

[kkgarbod]

The Sidewinder I bough in 1998ish had 8 (3 on the stick + trigger, and 4 on the base)

[Daedalus]

Hmmm... At that time, I was using an analogue joystick with 4 buttons on my Amiga, along with a 6-button (7 if you count pause) CD32 pad. I didn't do that much gaming on the PC, but when I did, I used either keyboard & mouse or the same 4-button joystick.

Consoles was a different story of course...

[Anubis]

I still have most of original controllers I got for PC through time, from MS SIdewinder Gamepad, Logitech WIngman (loved it for MegaDrive/Genesis emulators since it had 2 rows of 3 buttons), some flysticks (One of them is MS)... can't remember how many buttons each had, but it is quite few from what I remember, compared to 2 on Amiga controller back in day.

I tied many controllers on PC (mostly for emulation), from PS3, PS4, xbox, Steam and NVidia, so far xbox one is by far the best option.

Originally Posted by Valken

Now if I can figure out how to use a PS3/4/5 Wireless on the PC, I would be in heaven.

May I suggest to look into xbox one controller? Until few years back I would never consider using xbox controller, but now its almost as standard, from games to key configuration. I actually got 2nd xbox just because it came with 2 controllers @ reasonable price.

[Sgt Jack V]

I've been currently using a Dualshock 4 with WinUAE, but I plan to get an actual joystick soon (I have my eyes on one of those USB Competition Pros, although I've considered a 500XJ and a NES adapter too)

[Solo Kazuki]

Is there any similar poll about Amiga, not PC?

Sorry, but i'm more interested how many Amiga users have/had 1/2/3/7 buttons joystick/joypad. In PC world it's rather common, for Amiga it's even nowadays not so obvious...

[gimbal]

I don't recall seeing one. It'd have to be a multiselect poll though, because I'm pretty sure quite a few people on this board are going to want to tick most if not all the boxes. I myself (well, me and my brother) burned through a plethora of joysticks during my Amiga's lifespan which ended in 1994, I can't imagine how many joysticks people went through that had the machine for far longer than me or even to this day have one.