Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Amiga Joyboard Patent

Control Unit for Video Games and the Like

Filed February 7th, 1983

Behold the Joyboard, the joystick you controlled with your feet–an ancestor of sorts of today’s Wii Fit. It was the first product of the Amiga Corporation, later responsible for the landmark multimedia PC that bore its name.

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