Gamepads can be held conveniently in two hands and do not require any particular mounting surface nor an exact fixed posture from the user. The gamepad provides basic functions to control a game such as Start/Pause, Select, 4- or 8-way navigation, and various different actions via other buttons (numbering from two to roughly a dozen). Among the first gamepads were those game controllers bundled with the U.S.-market Nintendo Entertainment System or Japanese-market Famicom, and throughout the 8-, 16- and 32-bit eras, video game consoles featured gamepads as basic controllers. Since the 64-bit era, they also include analog thumbsticks.
