Clearly horribly impractical for most fancy-doodle modern games, but god it’s lovely:
What would you play with this, lovely readers?
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Posted by Alec Meer on October 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm.
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Mighty Jill-Off. Or that Pogo game posted the other day, which I haven’t actually launched yet and which may or may not work for this.
Also, You Have To Burn The Rope.
Passage and Rohrer’s other stuff. Tons of great indie games that would be ideally playable with this I think.
The original MS Flight Sim in CGA.
What?
Some fine old sticks in this thread, but is still the best!
^TAC 2, that is. Let me edit my embarrassing html-breakdowns :(
I’d play Tank Pong, the greatest of all Pongs.
before the age of five i had wrecked at least three of the original 2600 sticks. my dad got pretty good at fixing them…at least for a time.
and the gemini controllers? dear lord. like they were made out of cheese.
the quickshot lasted a bit longer, iirc. not a whole lot longer, but a bit.
rei – finally some sense. Give me a TAC-2 or give me death!Or The Bug, that joystick was made for Gravity Force.
I second the Zipstick comment, though the bug was cute too.
Joysticks for me were mostly just for lobbing at the wall in rage and disgust. These days I’ve learnt to control my seething rage just long enough to find a pencil or something similar close to hand to lob about. Saves money you know.
Oh, and I reckon I’d be playing Battlemaster.
Steel Battalion.
what would be sweet is a merging of the joystick and atari paddles into one controller sort of like a logitech space navigator. then i could play robotron one handed.
The Zipstick looks like it’s from some alternate timeline where Microsoft designed the Atari 2600.
You’re all wroooong!
EPYX 500XJ
Best for Skate or Die (on the C64) or anything you need to spin the controller or… anything else really.
*CLICKITY CLICKITY CLICK!*
The Arcade stick was soooo superior to this.
Though I certainly remember killing my young hands (and occasionally the stick too) doing the Decathlon on the Atari joystick…. David Crane was a mad genius. 1500m? Really? You hate kids that much?