Episode 2: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right... - a podcast by Tian Chen

Surprisingly, this isn't about the Konami Code.

Nintendo once saw themselves with a huge problem, one of their first gaming devices needed a control interface that could move a player in all four cardinal directions. Being Nintendo, they didn't just decide to use normal buttons, but rather they invented a button that would change gaming forever.

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