The Offender: Atari The Console: Jaguar Worst Component: Everything. Redeeming Feature: All the people that never played another game after handling this monstrosity might have gone on to have productive, distraction-free lives. Everything about the Atari Jaguar's controller is depressing. About as ergonomic as a brick, this controller could only have been designed by someone that had never played a game before, or desperately wanted the industry to crash and burn. Nothing is well positioned, from the tilted D-pad, to the puzzling keypad that dominates the controller's body. Just looking at it is enough to give you hand cramp, and we can smell the cheap plastic all the way from over here. An exercise in making a product as consumer unfriendly as possible, even the cable was badly thought out, and would come unplugged at the slightest of tugs. It was also released during a time when fighting games were becoming all the rage, but the three face buttons severely limited the Jaguar on this front. Like the Microsoft and the Fatty, Atari eventually saw the error of their ways and released the Jaguar Pro controller. By then it was too late though, and the Jaguar was discontinued only months later, followed by Atari shortly after. As the only controller that can be credited with bringing down what was once the largest video game company in the world, it can be safely said that the Atari Jaguar had well and truly the worst controller design of all time.
