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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.