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Trust me people who use multiple monitors LOVE the VGA cable because it's +1 monitor on what usually would be only 1 HDMI slot, maybe 2 if you were lucky.
That’s serial not VGA right?
Correct.
It was pretty awesome because you could use it as a joystick port!
While the very first joysticks probably used serial ports. Common joysticks used a separate port that had less pins.
I had the pin number right, but the port needed to be the other gender, at least for my Gravis gamepad.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*J8s6MiCEute3lfhVVgYUJw.jpeg
Yeah... I had one of those too... Definitely 9 pin serial.
What's pictured in the OP is almost certainly CGA / EGA and not serial though.
CGA / EGA had an identical 9 pin connector, FWIW
Editing to add: now that I'm thinking about it the connector pictured almost certainly is CGA / EGA since it's female and 9 pin serial ports are typically male.