Master Higgins interview discovery: he invented the classic controller Turbo Button!
Master Higgins invented the Turbo Button which was made standardized on the Japanese PC Engine, as revealed in 1-Ups exclusive interview below. The PC-Engine was released in the U.S. as the TurboGrafx-16.
The Turbo Button switches on the system’s controllers allowed players to switch on a “rapid-fire” mode, so that instead of having to repeatedly press the button to fire more rapidly, you would simply hold the button down. Back in the day, third party “turbo controllers” that featured turbo switches or buttons were a huge hit back in the 8 and 16-bit days for Nintendo & Sega systems.
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If you don’t know who Master Higgins is, he is the main character in the Adventure Island series of games and was named after “Takahashi Meijin”, who is the infamous executive of Hudson who became popular due to his extremely fast finger which could press the fire button on a controller 16-times a second! He starred in some hilarious commercials that made him famous in Japan and the name “Takahashi Meijin” literally translates to “Famous Takahashi”. His real name is Toshiyuki Takahashi.
4 August 2009 15:19Dudly
A hate turbo controllers they are so annoying
