Have you guys seen this book? I stumbled upon it by accident, so I apologize if this is common knowledge.
This thing is awesome!! Technically, the name is 'Joysticks-Eine Illustrierte Geschichte der Game Controller 1972-2004' by Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer. It's all in German, and I can only understand about 5-10% of it, but it doesn't matter. This book is AWESOME.
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASI...314005-1050123
It seems they've done a couple other books:
Das grosse Lexikon der Computerspiele! ---The Big Lexicon of Computergames, I suppose.
I paid way too much in shipping to USA, but I'm a very happy camper.
Looks like on the back of the book is a website... Gameplan.de...I'll check it out.
-Rob