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Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. (media.piefed.world)
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[โ€“] Bubs12@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

N64 only has 1 joystick so games had to work around that. The joystick makes you walk forward/backwards and look left/right. There are also the C buttons that act as a D-pad for your right hand. Up/down is look and left/right is strafe. There were considered advanced movements that the majority of casual players could ignore.

[โ€“] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

One of the first console shooters where you could reasonably circle strafe.