Avenue Pad 6
From NEC Retro
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| Made for: PC Engine | ||||||||||
| Manufacturer: NEC Avenue | ||||||||||
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The Avenue Pad 6 (アベニューパッド6) is an officially licensed six button controller for the PC Engine released in 1993 by NEC Avenue. It was designed specifically for Street Fighter II': Champion Edition, which was released a week later, although several other titles (mostly fighting games) also supported the controller.
The controller adds four additional buttons (Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ and Ⅵ) in addition to the standard Ⅰ and Ⅱ buttons. The Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ buttons are laid on the bottom row from right to left similar to the earlier Avenue Pad 3, whereas Ⅳ, Ⅴ and Ⅵ are laid out on the top row from left to right. The controller also has four switches: two turbo switches for buttons Ⅰ and Ⅱ, a slow motion switch, and a switch that toggles between two-button controls (A mode) and six-button controls (B mode).
Other six-button controllers for the PC Engine include the Fighting Commander PC by Hori, released a month later than the Avenue Pad 6, and the Arcade Pad 6 by NEC, which became the standard-issue controller for the PC Engine Duo-RX.
Physical scans
| PC Engine, JP |
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| PC Engine |
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| PC Engine (1987) | CoreGrafx (1989) | CoreGrafx II (1991) X1 Twin (1987) | PC-KD863G (1988) | Shuttle (1989) | GT (1990) | LT (1991) |
| Add-Ons |
| AV Booster (1988) | Interface Unit (1988) | Ten no Koe 2 (1989) | Backup Booster (1989) | Backup Booster II (1989) | Ten no Koe Bank (1991) | Memory Base 128 (1993) |