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The intellivision's d-pad was a special kind of terrible.
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@IceWolf It is perfectly round with no indication of where the cardinal directions are, and instead of being 8-directional it's 16-directional. this might be useful if you wanted to play an early 3d game like spyro and didn't have an analog stick for whatever reason, but this was a console contemporary with the Atari 2600.
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