Ruddo
1 (3). Super Mario
2 (12). GameCube
3 (17). Resident Evil
4 (26). Pokemon
5 (31). Call of Duty
6 (40). Joystick for the Atari 2600
7 (45). Kirby
8 (54). Guitar Hero guitar
9 (59). Tecmo Bowl
10 (68). Star Fox


Trag
1 (4). Final Fantasy
2 (11). Nintendo Entertainment System
3 (18). The Last Of Us
4 (25). Madden
5 (32). Tetris
6 (39). Super Scope 6
7 (46). Portal
8 (53). Adaptive Controller for XBOX
9 (60). Guitar Hero
10 (67). Tony Hawk

Trag 71, Ruddo 64

How you gonna make me choose between these two titans in the first round?

I vote trag

Ruddo has Pokemon, Kirby.

Trag has FINAL FANTASY, Tetris, Portal and Tony Hawk's.

Trag.

This is because of what i said about you and Star Fox isn’t it?

The fantasy... it's final, Ruddo. You cannot fuck with that.

Also yeah fuck you.

Ruddo
Mario is my favourite Nintendo franchise - another one I have memories of multiple iterations and can get nostalgic for different times of my life.

I played a lot of CoD with mates at university, and prefer it to Halo, but it was more a means to an end than a great experience.

The Guitar Hero guitar is the best peripheral draft, easily.

The rest of the list is a bit Nintendo-heavy, and features games I haven't really got any active experience with.

Trag
Oh man, I sunk HOURS in the SNES Final Fantasy games (and Chrono Trigger). FFVI is a stupendous experience.

The NES never came to South Africa, but we did have knock-offs called "Golden China", and boy howdy, it was the best for little ABNorman and his brother. This is my favourite console pick.

I enjoyed the first TLoU, but I feel like it hasn't quite proven itself as a franchise just yet.

Tetris is a solid, if slightly dull pick.

Madden = sports = bleh.

The Portal games are unimpeachable. Tony Hawk was basically all I played on my brother's PlayStation, and I miss the hell out of Guitar Hero.

My wife is a lecturer in human-computer interaction, so the Adaptive Controller got big props in this household.

Never heard of the Super Scope.

Pretty easy vote for TRAG

Vote for Ruddo

Is that good?

What are you implying? Yeah

Just asking.

Think the regular xbox controllers are the best out there.

You must not have tried the PS five Controller

Five? No. Four was much worse.

I think that as we judge controllers, we’re conditioned to ask certain questions. Let’s be honest, they haven’t changed all that much since the NES. Up/Down/Left/Right, some action buttons, some menu buttons...

Then we got the L3/R3, which introduced some new movement mechanics.

Then it’s like, “how well does it fit in my hand?” and “Is it cordless?” “Battery life?” “Other bells and whistles?”

Once the PS5 controller went, I was more interested in thinking outside the box. And I’m being 100% genuine when I say I think the adaptive controller is a brilliant piece of design that improves certain people’s lives immeasurably.

Gamecube was your second round pick?