Yup. An option button would have been much more useful IMO. (the aspect ratio could have been just one of the options you could access...)     The console switches are just generic inputs that can be read by the processor. It's the game that determines their function. And as time passed, and their original function wasn't needed anymore (on screen menus were used instead of difficulty and select switches, and B&W TVs were less common) they were often reused for other pu