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Those of us old enough to have played Halo: Combat Evolved when it was first around (I think we're boomers now?) will have probably done so with the most legendary of all Xbox controllers. The Duke.

Every Xbox controller has the familiar ABXY buttons and offset thumbsticks. But Microsoft has slowly evolved the controller over its quarter-century life.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For all the flak the first Xbox controller (dubbed "The Duke") got when it launched in 2001 for being huge and hard to hold for many players, ...