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NiGHTS into Dreams: The Game That Forced Sega to Reinvent Its Controller

NiGHTS into Dreams: The Game That Forced Sega to Reinvent Its Controller

In 1995, Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima finished NiGHTS into Dreams for the Saturn with an unsolvable problem: the standard pad's directional cross, limited to eight directions, couldn't handle the jester's analog flight. Sega had to design an entire controller in just a few months. This radical choice highlights an ongoing tension between gameplay ambition and available hardware.

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Lumnix Editorial·October 7, 2026·3 min read