The line of game controllers used by the PlayStation series of game consoles beginning with the Playstation 1 in 1994. Like the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo's controller, which it was based on, the face of the controller features a D-pad on the left, four action buttons on the right, and initially two buttons in the middle (originally a Start and Select button). It also features two sets of shoulder buttons, unlike the SNES controller's single set, and improved the ability to use those buttons by adding hand grips.