Ah, the humble Start button – an essential part of the video game landscape for decades, we'd arguably be in a tight spot without it.
This most essential of commands not only allows you to begin your game – a pretty important feature, we'd say – but it has also had other additional functions over the years, such as pausing the game or bringing up a menu.
Given how vital this button is on any controller or console, we thought it might be fun to test your knowledge of Start buttons through the ages. We've assembled a selection of buttons across gaming's rich history and challenge you to identify as many as possible as quickly as possible.
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This is very European lol it got me on a few I should have known!
I don’t know how I did so bad.
My family has owned every single one of these home consoles and most of the handhelds but I only got 11 out of 25!
Now I understand why my wife, kids, brothers, parents, work colleagues, and random strangers keep telling me I’m not very observant.
24/25! I got hasty and clicked DS before I saw the 3DS option! 😆
good quiz! 👍
I stupidly didn't notice the Game Gear option on the last one but overall pretty pleased with a score of 22. Just the Wonderswan and Gamate that I didn't know.
That was fun
Not knowing Sega or PC killed me but 16 ain't bad
Only one made me think for a bit.
I like they included some obscure ones
That was almost too easy.
One of the controllers i got wrong ( Neo Geo) I got no excuse for, I own one of those bloody arcade controllers.
I just dont like it very much.
23/25
17/25 Didn't do too bad there all things considered.
I missed the Gamecube(been a while since I used one of those cotrollers), the Gamate, and the Euro Mega Drive six-button pad. I'm surprised the other ones I had to guess went my way.
@-wc- lol I did the same for the DS one. Fun game!
This was humbling. Maybe I should move the tassel in my pic back to the other side.
If I was on my computer, I probably could have gotten higher. Scrolling on a phone sucks the time away!
@-wc-
To be fair, 3ds keeps changing the button layouts!
16 out of 25, not to bad if i do say so myself.
Some of those are a bit of cheat.
The Saturn is a non-default. It is also the Japanese controller. I remember the US controller is a black and gray scheme because I remember playing Nights on the demo kiosk at Target as a child and being overwhelmed by it.
That "3DS" one is also not the OG 3DS but... either the XL, Lite or New or all of them. The OG 3DS Start and Select buttons are NOT good. They were front of the front panel and you had to really push to register them.
I guess at the least they didn't go to using any obscure third-party controllers.
At least the PC-FX pad gave us a hint with the "Run" button.
(as I suppose the GBA SP's Triforce logo)
@carlos82 I probably wouldn't have guessed WonderSwan if I didn't own one (and know the SOUND button next to it as a giveaway).
@KitsuneNight Not only was that not the default NeoGeo controller (it does say that was for the CD) but I thought even the NeoGeo CD's standard controller was a SNES-like arrangement. Or was that just the Mini's extra controller (which I own one)?
@sdelfin Now I feel bad guessing Jaguar for that one. Now that I recall, I think Jaguar doesn't even HAVE a Start button.
I think its buttons are PAUSE and OPTION.
15/25. Fun, I like the leaderboard on this!
I got 18, not too bad considering I've never used most of these. It was a bit cheeky using a picture of a New 3DS, which has Start and Select buttons that look much more like the DS than the standard 3DS!
23/25, and I messed up the first one because I stupidly thought it was a trick. ^^'
(in my defense, my GBA SP is a NES edition)
Q21 should specify New 3DS. The start buttons on the 3DS look completely different.
I got all the Nintendo, Sega, Playstation and Xbox ones. Anything else was a loss.
@ScalenePowers I agree I was thrown off by the colors of several systems.
@KingMike I think I guessed Jaguar on that one too. I'm not familiar enough with it to know what its layout is by memory, other than that keypad.
@KingMike
You mean this one ?
https://nfgworld.com/snk-neo-geo-cd-pad-review/
Thats a way better controller and the one I prefer for my Neo Geo CD.
I really enjoy these, well done!
Damn Europe and their red start button Mega Drive controllers! I got every other one!
Didn't know there was a time limit!
24 out of 25 in two minutes! The Game Gear screwed me over XD
20/25. My biggest shame was not recognizing the GameCube controller's Start button!
I could have got a few extra points had he not used Japanese versions of certain hardware.
22/25 Not bad really
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