[gavinray]

When I was about 9/10, my grandfather put ZSNES on my computer, along with ROMs for most SNES games ever made.

ZSNES gave me some of the best memories of my childhood.

The coolest bit was that he had soldered a real SNES controller so that it worked with those old-school trapezoid 9-pin keyboard input things. I still think that is pure magic, to this day.

[zerocrates]

Probably the old "game port." That's cool. My experience was definitely more in the "use the A, S, Z, and X keys for the face buttons" realm.

[hotnfresh]

Serial was my guess, if it was in fact 9-pin. I don’t think I ever had a serial-port keyboard, but I did used to have a serial-port mouse.

Game port had more pins.