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9/18/95 Microsoft announces Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro for MS-DOS and Windows 95, a digital-optical joystick designed specifically to enhance the way PC gamers play.
9/18/95 Microsoft announces Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro for MS-DOS and Windows 95, a digital-optical joystick designed specifically to enhance the way PC gamers play.
Henk Rogers: You know, in a previous... like in the late 80s, I sold 2 million joypads to Nintendo. We created a new kind of joypad. It was called BPS Max in Japan, and it was called NES Max in the US. Basically, I was selling like 100,000 a month, and finally- and Arakawa and I would negotiate on a monthly basis trying to get the price down, and finally I said, "Look, you know, you want to get the price down, order a million, and I'll give you, you know, I'll get you the best price." And he did. So we ended up making altogether 2 million joypads.