re: Which controller did you start with?

I started with 2.

I remember seeing a broken Atari controller when I was really young and asked my mom why the handle was broken....she told me to ask my dad. So I went and asked him...he said that he was trying to move the 'thing' (he was playing space invaders if i remember correctly) to the left and it wasn't moving fast enough so he "made that piece of shite move left" and broke the joystick off.