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Controllers provide analogue controls (eg. thumbsticks and triggers) that most keyboards don't have.

If, as you suggest, the control schemes of video games are becoming less complex (Forward, down, forward, high punch) then surely the result would be more games that are playable with only a keyboard, not fewer?

>>skibz+(OP)
Heh the MK combo mention was a joke. Forgot I’m on HN.

>>nottor+c4
Original MK, Sub-Zero spine tear, sigh, the first one I ever did. Got me into gamedev. I appreciated it!

>>dirkde+Ue
Had to look it up to post :)

It was back in the days when we gathered at the kid whose keyboard could actually support so many simultaneous keypresses and did tournaments.

>>nottor+ff
Trying to play with 2 players on the same keyboard was a nightmare. On mine WASD seemed to cope better than the arrows, so there was always a rush to pick sides of the keyboard. Ah, good times.