"What Were They Thinking?": The Dreamcast's B Button was Blue

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Skylark: Apr 27, 2007; ︵‿୨🤍୧‿︵
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Today in "WTF"s of Gaming History, a reminder that the 🅱 button on the Dreamcast was Blue. When I think B button, I think: Going back, Cancel, No; Stop. Things that are usually associated with red. So, file this one under "Where the Dream🅱ast went wrong" - it makes absolutely no sense for a B button to be blue.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 08:54

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Wormskull: Aug 23, 2009

You mean 🅱ancel.

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Skylark: Apr 27, 2007; ︵‿୨🤍୧‿︵
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Deadass 🅱ringeing @ this 🅱utton 💀🙅

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# ? Mar 7, 2017 08:58

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

the 🅱reamcast.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 11:35

Fredrik1: Jan 22, 2005; Gopherslayer; Fallen Rib

This is why the dreamcast failed

# ? Mar 7, 2017 12:53

PaletteSwappedNinja: Jun 3, 2008; One Nation, Under God.

N64 B-button is green and the B is off-center

# ? Mar 7, 2017 13:16

Plutonis: Mar 25, 2011

Wormskull posted:

You mean 🅱ancel.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 13:36

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

In Japan they use the B buttons for accept :staredog:

# ? Mar 7, 2017 15:00

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

In Training posted:

In Japan they use the B buttons for accept

Jesus Christ. What are they smoking over there?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 17:06

frank.club: Jan 15, 2011; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Circle to accept hosed me up in every MGS game at least once

# ? Mar 7, 2017 17:47

Skylark: Apr 27, 2007; ︵‿୨🤍୧‿︵
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In Training posted:

In Japan they use the B buttons for accept

Please tell me this isnt true.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 20:16

Chilled Milk: Jun 22, 2003; No one here is alone,
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Skylark posted:

Please tell me this isnt true.

I'm sorry

# ? Mar 7, 2017 20:54

Skylark: Apr 27, 2007; ︵‿୨🤍୧‿︵
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I know Japan uses the circle button to confirm. I can live with that, even though it's red and the X is blue. Because a circle means confirm, and an X means cancel, and back, in my mind.

But did they really use B to confirm on Dreamcast? What about on Japanese xboxes?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 20:56

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Think about the SNES too. B button was always Accept

# ? Mar 7, 2017 21:06

Bolverkur: Aug 9, 2012

In Training posted:

Think about the SNES too. B button was always Accept

I think it was usually A/B were accept and X/Y were cancel, so it's like one side vs the other. but yeah B for Accept is hosed Up

# ? Mar 7, 2017 21:21

tao of lmao: Oct 9, 2005

In Training posted:

Think about the SNES too. B button was always Accept

On the Wii U the made the B button confirm but they labeled it A just to keep up the ruse.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 21:28

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

just imagine a blue stop sign, OP

# ? Mar 7, 2017 22:12

Kazvall: Mar 20, 2009

You should never go back in life. That brings depression, and a blue feeling. Red is the fiery color of inspiration and new awakening, thus to accept new things is a very red thing to do.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 02:37

Skylark: Apr 27, 2007; ︵‿୨🤍୧‿︵
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Kazvall posted:

You should never go back in life. That brings depression, and a blue feeling. Red is the fiery color of inspiration and new awakening, thus to accept new things is a very red thing to do.

This is compelling tbh. But.... I dont think its enough to change the way I feel about this.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 02:52

Unexpected Raw Anime: Oct 9, 2012

Skylark posted:

I know Japan uses the circle button to confirm. I can live with that, even though it's red and the X is blue. Because a circle means confirm, and an X means cancel, and back, in my mind.

But did they really use B to confirm on Dreamcast? What about on Japanese xboxes?

i think they sold like seven xboxs in japan

# ? Mar 8, 2017 22:00

Bill Barber: Aug 26, 2015; Hot Rope Guy

Switching back and forth between BotW and MGSV is loving with my brain.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 22:05

Elusif: Jun 9, 2008

Bill Barber posted:

Switching back and forth between BotW and MGSV is loving with my brain.

fulton a moblin

# ? Mar 8, 2017 22:33

Baxate: Feb 1, 2011

In Training posted:

In Japan they use the B buttons for accept

theres a reason Nintendo puts the A button where they do

# ? Mar 9, 2017 00:10

Baxate: Feb 1, 2011

The greatest crime the Xbox committed is causing young gamers to think think the B button is on the right. Smdh right now

# ? Mar 9, 2017 00:14

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Unexpected Raw Anime posted:

i think they sold like seven xboxs in japan

I bought one of them.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 00:22

Jared Kush: Mar 4, 2015; by zen death robot

Ludwig van Halen posted:

The greatest crime the Xbox committed is causing young gamers to think think the B button is on the right. Smdh right now

That's where it is in the English alphabet.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 00:50

Punished Chuck: Dec 27, 2010

In Training posted:

In Japan they use the B buttons for accept

[Tries to light a cigarette but my hands are shaking too badly]

# ? Mar 9, 2017 04:36

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

In Training posted:

Think about the SNES too. B button was always Accept

tetris attack in particular was very picky about this

A was cancel which confused literally every friend i got to play the game with me

# ? Mar 9, 2017 17:27

Syncopated: Oct 21, 2010

Coolguye posted:

tetris attack in particular was very picky about this

A was cancel which confused literally every friend i got to play the game with me

so it wasn't really a problem for you then

# ? Mar 9, 2017 19:04

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Syncopated posted:

so it wasn't really a problem for you then

drat dude.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 20:41

Retarded_Clown_: Feb 18, 2012

Syncopated posted:

so it wasn't really a problem for you then

https://youtu.be/7OFCu2-jxHw

# ? Mar 10, 2017 00:26

Elusif: Jun 9, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kqhNcAqpzw

# ? Mar 10, 2017 00:40

NickRoweFillea: Sep 27, 2012; doin thangs

Syncopated posted:

so it wasn't really a problem for you then

Lol

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Oh Don Piano: Nov 4, 2009

going back to ps1 or 2 and having triangle go back is weird also i think its a green triangle

# ? Mar 10, 2017 06:20

Skylark: Apr 27, 2007; ︵‿୨🤍୧‿︵
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Oh Don Piano posted:

going back to ps1 or 2 and having triangle go back is weird also i think its a green triangle

Triangle to go back was a bad idea all around. The way i see it, if you have to move your finger just to go back in a menu, theres a problem. When i was a kid i definitel ythought it was weird that a green triangle was the way that I cancel, but I made sense of it like this: the bottom botton is OK, so the button at the top (opposite of bottom) is cancel. There's a sort of logic to that aspect of it.

But bottom line: Green triangle to go back doesn't bother me nearly as much as a blue button named B that confirms.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 08:03

Wormskull: Aug 23, 2009

Interesting thought, though -- if you turn the controller about 30 degrees clockwise in your hand, the triangle strongly resembles a "Back"-style arrow, that is, pointing backwards to denote going back.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 08:27

HORMELCHILI: Jan 13, 2010

Wormskull posted:

Interesting thought, though -- if you turn the controller about 30 degrees clockwise in your hand, the triangle strongly resembles a "Back"-style arrow, that is, pointing backwards to denote going back.

this is the preferred asian way of holding a controller, similar to the ping-pong padle style employed by many asian nations. Makes sense when you consider how the japanese owned the market back then.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 08:35