In my twenty-odd years of video gaming, I don't think I've ever used the SELECT button on a game console's controller. Has anyone? Or is it some vestigial remnant of something from gaming's past, kept around merely out of a sense of tradition, like an electronic appendix?
Start Select was a staple on the SNES - how else would you end a mario level without losing a life?
ReplyDeleteBut why was it never used to actually "select" an option? It was always "Hit A to select".
ReplyDeleteI think it's very suspicious.
Exactly. The SELECT button was never used to select things. You always used one of the main buttons for that...
ReplyDeleteI lied in my original post; I have used it, but only in a "push all buttons to reset game" situation. Curioser and curioser.
I think it's used in some GB and GBA games for SELECTing weapons. Like in Metroid and such. It's been a while since I've played those, though.
ReplyDeleteWasn't the select button used to pause games? Or was that start?
ReplyDeleteMetroid was a great game. I played it for the first time last year under emulation. Or was it Super Metroid? Probably.
START was used, almost exclusively, to pause games.
ReplyDeleteI just got Maximo: Ghosts to Glory for the PS2 a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised to find that it uses the select button. You gather ability pick-ups through the game, but can use only three at a time. The select button brings up the menu to select which ones to use. Unfortunately, that's about all there is to recommend about the game so I don't suggest you see for yourself.
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