Sorry for the tacky mirror picture (and the goofy look), but I wanted to show off my new t-shirt. I picked it up during Woot.com’s Woot-off the other week — it’s the first shirt they ever sold on their t-shirt site, and they brought it back for a limited run, so I grabbed it. Obviously it’s got all kinds of video game controllers on it, and so since I now own and will be wearing the shirt, I figured I should know what they all are. Here’s the list of all the controllers on there, straight from the designer, with a little information added about my sordid history with games:

Atari 2600 #v
GCE Vectrex
NES #*^&!
NES Max #*
Magnavox Odyssey
Colecovision
Atari 7800
NES Advantage #
Mattel Intelivision
Atari 5200
Sega Master System@
NEC Turbografx-16@
Nintendo Super Family
Panasonic 3D0
Sony Playstation #*v
Nintendo 64 #*
Sega Genesis #*
Sega Genesis 6 Button #*%!
Nintendo Virtual Boy @
Sony Playstation Dual Analog #*^
Super NES #@
Atari Jaguar
Sega Saturn @
Sega Saturn 3D
XBOX Controller S #@
Wavebird #*^
Wii #*%
Sega Dreamcast #@&
XBOX “Duke” #@v$
XBOX 360 #*%^&
Wii Classic #*%
Gamecube #*

# = I recognized these controllers on the shirt before I saw this list.
* = I owned these controllers at one point in my life.
% = I still own these controllers today.
@ = I never actually owned these controllers, but I spent a large amount of time with them — either at a friend’s house, in a K-mart while waiting for my mom to finish shopping, or in a Gamestop.
^ = Controllers I particularly like.
v = Controllers I particularly dislike.
& = Controllers that I have actually thrown in frustration.
! = Controllers that make me extremely nostalgic, remembering nights as a kid, spent with a friend, enthralled at this new form of entertainment, and how it made you feel a certain incredible way with simple pixels and noises from a television set. Losses, victories, lives and deaths, enemies defeated, goals met, monsters vanquished, and princesses rescued, over and over again.
$ = Seriously, it’s gigantic. Who ever thought that was a good idea?