Have you ever wondered what the face buttons on the PlayStation DualShock pads stand for? Of cꦐourse you haven't. You actually have a life. But✃ for all four gamers out there with miserable enough existences to ponder such mysteries, take your head out of that gas oven, becausein an interview with Famitsu...
In a lengthydiscussion with the legendary Japanese games mag, Goto states: "Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which is why we went with icons or symbols, and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square comb😼ination immediately afterward."
"I gave each symbol a meaning and a color."
"The triangle refers to viewpoint; I h🏅ad it represent one's head or direction and made it green."
"Square ♌refers to ﷽a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink."
"The circle anᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd X represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively."
So well done, Mr. Goto. You really are a talented son of ༒a bitch.
Of course, he's a🍎lso the maꦦn that came up with this...
Above: Mick Dundee called. He wants his shit controller back
26 Aug, 2010
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