"Does stuff like [the NES Zapper] count?" Scott you spent two and a half minutes talking about the Poké Ball Plus

28:00 the fact that he's had a switch since launch, has owned multiple pairs of joycon straps, and has never once accidentally seen the locking lever on them, is truly amazing

28:00 SCOTT YOURE SUPPOSED TO UNLOCK IT AND THEN PRESS THE LITTLE BUTTON

N64's controller just screams "we don't know what the best way to control 3D games will be since i was just invented so here's like 10 different options someone will optimize this, hopefully"

The composition of the controllers at the start was actually visually pleasing.

One thing i actually really like about the joy cons is that i can play with each of my hands separate from each other rather than in one position, so I'm able to play in more comfortable positions for me

i feel like ive heard scott’s opinion on these controllers like 5 times each

Scott - "Hey, you want to watch another video of Scott bitching about controllers for 50 minutes?" Me - "For the hundredth time...yes."

28:02 Scott please, you're supposed to pull the little tab at the bottom of the strap THEN pull it up 😭

This guy sounds like Scott The Woz.

For all the weird crap about the Wii remote, using it as Samus' arm cannon in Metroid Prime is the most immersive non-VR experience I've ever had in a game

You can definitely tell Nintendo favors the D pad more than the analog stick.

My hottest take is that the Wiimote + nunchuk combo is the best/most comfortable controller there’s been. With a single-form controller, the way you can sit or lie down is limited. With the wiimote/‘chuk, I could contort into all *sorts* of lazy positions and still *perfectly* play whatever (non-pointer) game I had on. There were times I’d play flat on my back, head turned toward the TV, with my right hand (Wiimote) resting comfortably on my chest, and my left (nunchuk) hand atop my head or draped over the edge of the couch. It was glorious. Still my preferred way to play Smash Bros, legitimately.

Kirby 64 took major advantage of the d-pad and buttons concept, it even brought that to the switch online port

watching this 7 minutes in and scott’s already on the n64. gee i wonder which controller he’s gonna talk about for like 20 minutes.. 😂😂

Scott the Joycon straps have a locking latch…

27:58 Scott channeling his inner AVGN in this clip

"Wagling is a different sensation" - Scott the Woz 2024

I'm surprised that Scott didn't mention the Wii remote's speaker. Some games got creative with that, like GoldenEye 007 and Driver San Francisco, for example.

The NES controller is iconic. You don't even have to do the same layout as the controller or type "Nintendo", just do the color scheme and accents and _anyone_ absolutely _anyone_ will think "videogame"

Wii U pro controller is seriously slept on. It feels great and its light with an insane battery life.

scott there is a lock switch on the bottom of the joy con strap, when you strap it to a joycon and want to take it off pull the lock down and it will be a lot easier to remove it.

Scott's reflection in the Wii U controller was the best part of the video.

You ever just tune in to watch scott complain that joy-con straps are hard to take off when he clearly forgets that there's a lock tab at the very bottom of the strap to hold the thing in place?

Gotta love how we didn't get the colored buttons on the SNES controller in the states because fun is banned.

The DK Bongos actually have 4 buttons, each bongo has 2 buttons on top, split in half. I reconfigured the controls for F-ZERO GX and was able to play with them successfully

I always wanted to eat the buttons on the SNES controller. They look like Smarties 🤤

An underrated aspect of the SNES controller is having concave X and Y buttons, and convex A and B buttons. It's perfect for something like Mario or Donkey Kong Country where you hold Y to run and press B to jump.

The Wii controller will always have a special place in my heart. The simple charm of it is what makes it stand out. Also, The Gamepad is underrated, and overhated imo

The simplicity of the Wii controller will always have my heart

46:08 "...that's too big to bring on to the carpet down here." -Scott, maintaining the fiction of the carpet actually being on the floor

my all-time favorite fact about the Wii U is that the console has the built-in ability to have two Gamepads connected simultaneously. no game ever used this feature and it was never advertised.

The Wii U Pro controller was nearly perfect, having the dpad and buttons at the bottom recreated the SNES format as well as made it unique from the competition. I also find the sticks at the top comfy for 3d games. I sometimes still use my pro controller on the switch with an adapter.

Hot take: I think the Wii U game pad is fantastic for open world games. Having a map on your bottom screen allows for the HUD to be less obtrusive, since it doesn’t need a mini map, you almost never need to pause the game to scroll the map or place waypoints and you can easily track down collectibles It worked wonders for the Batman Arkham games, and the gamepad is still my favorite controller for those games. You could just fly around, collecting riddler trophies, without needing to pause once. Since all the necessary info was available at all times on the gamepad. It’s incredibly immersive Did it make the Wii U unnecessarily expensive? Yes, does the Wii U have very few open world games, let alone ones that used it (cough couch, breath of the Wild)? Yes. But damn it, when it’s used well, it makes open world games so much better and immersive

Just today I had a road trip so I downloaded a bunch of Scott The Woz and specially Scott's Stash videos to watch during it, so this is perfect! A new Scott's Stash video! Which is just what I needed after, more Scott's Stash! Which is just what I needed after, more Scott's Stash! Which is just what I needed after, more Scott's Stash! Which is just what I needed after, more Scott's Stash! Which is just what I needed after, more Sc-

No Power Glove? 0/10 video. Sorry Scott, I don't make the rules.

You didn’t mention that the Wii remote Was the first Nintendo controller that had sound, the first with a button to turn on the console from across the room, and the first to have built in storage in the remote itself to bring mii’s from your house to a friends house. And I’m not sure if the wavebird ever had a rechargeable add on but the Wii remote may also be the first rechargeable controller with an optional accessory with a charging dock.

9:25 Fun side fact - the Atari wireless didn't use IR, but medium band RF. Of course, that had a totally different set of problems, but they did better than IR trash.

Nintendo making a normal controller challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

When Nintendo has more controllers than Atari, Sega, Sony and Microsoft combined.

This is great BUT WHERES THE L BUTTON?

That is the cleanest most shiny game pad I’ve ever seen in my life

"Great ideas Nintendo! Let's do better next time." Is EXACTLY how I feel about the joy-cons. I honestly hated using those things from the very first moment I had them in my hands.

Out of all the controllers Scott didn't talk about the SNES mouse was one of them

Man the GameCube controller being so good genuinely perplexes me It’s so weirdly shaped and constructed but it just feels so right in my hands Smash bros isn’t the same for me without it and I use a third party replica to play other platform fighters like Multiversus on my PS5 bc of how good it is for platform fighters and (most) games in general

My favorite mainline Nintendo controller is the SNES, because it set the standard, but my all time favorite Nintendo controller is the Switch Pro controller!

Shoutout to the few games that actually used the n64 d-pad as the main directional source: Kibry64, Pokemon Stadium 1+2, Pokemon Puzzle League, Clay Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dr. Mario and Tetrisphere.

Playing Mega Man 9 with the sideways Wiimote was actually pretty sweet, small D-pad aside. It just felt right.

I feel like Scott made this video to show that he has a Color Game 6 in the original box. . . . . And I love it.

The WiiU pro controller is hands down my favourite. Perfect ergonomics (symmetrical > asymmetrical sticks), great d pad and everything worth playing on the WiiU uses it. Wish they’d just slapped some analogue triggers on it and used it as the Switch Pro controller.

this is really just his main channel now this is just the controller video on the floor😭

Gamecube controller will always be my favorite. Definitely somewhat rooted in nostalgia, but it's so comfortable and the twin sticks along with the analog shoulder buttons and every button being a little different so you know where everything is...just perfect to me

The analogue triggers on the Gamecube were used in a tonne of games, Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, FZero GX, Kirby's Air Ride, Metroid Prime, Star Fox Adventures.

I replayed Metroid Prime 3 last year and caught myself just holding and appreciating the Nunchuk. It's sooo excellent in its design shape and ergonomic form factor. It's holds soo nice and its just so simple. Really had a huge appreciation for its design 15 years later

Gamecube controller has to be one of the most comfortable controllers I've ever held. That thing is on another level.

Gonna be honest? I like separate button D-Pads more than a single wobbly unit. My favorite D-Pad though is the Xbox Series controller with the very clicky separate buttons under the concave shell

Comments section whenever Scott does unspeakable things to his collection in the videos: "haha, so relatable." Comments section when Scott doesn't use the intended way of removing the joycon strap: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

While watching this video I never really looked at the N64 controller for so long and now it looks... so alien and weird. I'm so used to looking at it at a glance and remembering how iconic it is, but when you really study how it's shaped and the button layouts... this thing is a freak.

I played smash with a gamecube controller for the first time about two months ago. It was honestly amazing, it felt like it melted in my hands, if that makes sense. It just... Works

The A button on the pokeball plus is the joystick. I once accidentally ran from zapdos because of it and had to re-fight the elite 4 so i can actually catch the damn bird.

Sony actually had a dual analog controller pre-dating the Dual Shock but it was only on the market for like, three months before being replaced entirely by the Dual Shock.

I played all of Breath of the Wild with the Wii U Gamepad. And I loved it. It was actually quite comfortable. The size made it so my hands were in a more relaxed position for my arms and shoulders. And the buttons felt good. Now, I wouldn't want them to bring it back, but I liked it at the time.

I havent watched it yet. Even the virtual boy? Wow, even the virtual boy.

Scott dropping another hint at the upcoming L button episode?

The nintendo 64 controller will always remain a special place in my heart.

The Wii remote is one of the best ever dude. Playing with one hand on the belly and the other one behind your head is the best!. Also, it's multi-funcional

hearing that Scott doesn't own an original model Famicom makes me sad as someone who owns like 6 of them and one of them is the rare square rubber button variant

I love this channel Scott could talk about anything on here and I'm all ears

46:37 i wasn't expecting to have such a visceral and horrified reaction to the letters on the buttons being lowercase on a couple of those controllers, but here we are

I'm glad to hear Scott talking about his control issues.

wii u had a good controller purely because it felt amazing to play on, i was able to play botw for HOURS and not get tired of holding it

I played a lot of Monster Hunter Tri, and Virtual Console games on that Wii Classic controller. My parents also got me a clip-on grip so it had little wings. Later I got a black Pro for Monster Hunter. Honestly I like the classic without wings, but yeah the Pro's wings do help and the should buttons being stacked vertically helps a lot too.

This is one of the videos where Scott talks about controllers of all time

I really liked the WiiU gamepad and Pro Controller, they just felt nice in my hands.

27:58 *SCOTT YOU MAKING ME ANGRY!!!* You're supposed to pull the small letter at bottom first and then push the little button to release the Joy Con form the Joy Con Strap! No wonder you have a hard time to get it off!

Scott’s face in the reflection if the WiiU GamePad

The virtual boy had a dedicated controller too. If you are looking for D-pads .. here you have two :-D

The Gamepad is great. Comfy, can play off TV and inspiration for the Steam Deck.

That one part on the bottom of the controller that has no use, it was supposed to be the plug for accessories (but since the Wii U had a poor reputation, those accessories never got made)

I cannot stress how much the entire donkey konga segment looks like the box and bongos are superimposed

27:56 Scott you are breaking them. The little latch near the wrist strap is supposed to be undone to allow the bigger buttons to slide off. Everytime you brute force it you’re damaging it

30:39 don’t forget most of (all?) the DS line D-pads! Kinda makes me wish he would’ve included handheld control layouts in the video tbh

1:45 nes 3:58 snes 5:22 n64 8:34 gamecube 11:27 wii remote 18:53 wii u gamepad 24:43 switch joycons --- 29:34 virtual boy 33:07 pokéball plus 35:38 dk bongos 38:48 color tv game 15 39:17 nes extras 42:45 wii u pro controller 45:06 switch pro controller 45:57 nes zapper so i can skip around :P

i will be defending joycons with my life.

The AA Joycon expansion gives them the caboose you're looking for, but who was actually looking for a AA battery pack addon for their controller with a built in rechargable battery

Xenoblade Chronicles X uses the gamepad super well, I think. Being able to change probes on the fly and in its own mini game, almost, was super fun.

Jungle Beat with the bongos was amazing! Getting the best combo going to score thousands of pounts was crack

Imo the Gamepad was the most comfortable controller I've ever used. It just feels so perfect, especially for a bigger guy like me.

The switch pro controller feels soft and substantial because it's made of polycarbonate, while most controllers are made from ABS, which is a much cheaper plastic. I believe the Wii remote is also polycarbonate, but you don't touch that because it's forever in a case.

there is nothing more Scott than a nearly 50-minute long video on nintendo controllers and I'm here for it

Not me over here looking super closely at the Wii wrist strap to see which iteration Scott has 👀 Turns out, it’s the original wrist strap. For those who don’t know, Nintendo offered free replacement wrist straps (and rubber cases/sleeves) for the original controllers, as people kept complaining about the straps breaking off during play, and the remotes flying into objects/people. Seeing an original wrist strap is fairly rare, in my opinion. I usually see the replacements, or the modern style that locks.

the wii U could've actually gotten ports of FNAF, like you use the game pad as the camera and the TV for the office.

The Wii U Gamepad turned out to be pretty good, at least for me. Star Fox Zero was a lot of fun.

Scott can talk about controllers endlessly and I'd probably watch it, it just goes together like peanut butter and jelly I can't explain it

Am I the only one who loves the switch joycons?😅

One thing to note about the Super Famicom controller, the lead is suuuper short! I believe you were expected to place the console on the living room table in japan, rather then by the tv like in the west.

Never thought I'd live to see the day where Scott name drops the Nexus 7, that was my device for the longest time until I got a phone

The Wii remote had some extremely underutilized potential. Using the Wii motion plus as a gyro aim method on PC is amazing

I think the BEST Nintendo controller is the GameCube controller. I even use the power a GCN controller for the switch. It adds an additional shoulder button, clicking sticks, etc and it’s awesome. I know Scott covered it in his switch GCN controller video.

I can understand not in including the Wii Fit Plus or Power Pad, but he didn’t even mention the Power Glove! Probably one of the most iconic things from the NES days. Sort of understand only because the NES has a rabbit hole of things like the Miracle Piano and the U-Force which would have made this thing go on forever! Would be a neat episode all on its own though 🤔