High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The game port was the traditional connector for video game input devices on x86-based PCs. Since about 1990, the game port has usually been integrated with a PC I/O or sound card, either ISA or PCI, or as an on-board feature of some motherboards; before that, it was usually on a dedicated ISA card. Microsoft has discontinued game port support with Windows Vista, so it is probable that manufacturers will cease to produce boards with this connector. However, it's still entirely possible to provide third-party drivers that will work with the game port, and some companies that have produced game port cards in the past do so. USB adapters that allow gameport controllers to work have also been available. Unlike most other joystick connectors during the early days of home computing and game consoles, the game port is actually analog rather than digital, relying on some form of ADC to interpret joystick movements. Early IBM-PC manuals describe this port as suitable for connecting two analog paddles rather than joysticks.

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