By Alec Meer on October 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm.
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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Geek Lust: USB Atari Controller
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17/10/2008 at 13:28 Nuyan says:
World of.. Goo?
Should be playable.
17/10/2008 at 13:29 eyemessiah says:
Mirrors edge.
17/10/2008 at 13:32 Okami says:
Pong
17/10/2008 at 13:32 Hieremias says:
I’m certain that thing would reduce my hands to useless, aching stumps in about ten minutes. I challenge anyone to find a controller with worse ergonomics.
17/10/2008 at 13:35 eyemessiah says:
Try this.
17/10/2008 at 13:50 Reid says:
Or try the Atari
17/10/2008 at 13:51 Reid says:
Er. . . , I meant to post this link:
http://www.jakkstvgames.com/atari.html
17/10/2008 at 13:54 Dan Milburn says:
Also, that style of joystick is completely useless for us left-handers. In general I mourn the passing of the digital joystick, but not in that style..
17/10/2008 at 13:58 TentSalesman says:
There’s only one game I can think of right now that could do this justice: Sensible Soccer.
17/10/2008 at 14:08 Bobsy says:
Ugh. Bring me a USB Zipstick and I’ll be interested. The Zipstick was king of digital joysticks.
17/10/2008 at 14:17 Schadenfreude says:
What Bobsy said. This one right here in fact. Loved that joystick and no matter how many games I play on WinUAE it’s just no the same without it.
17/10/2008 at 14:25 Gap Gen says:
Battlezone 2.
17/10/2008 at 14:25 theleif says:
Why cant they do a similar release for The Bug for Amiga? Or am i really the only one in the world that loved it? Simply the best joystick ever for playing Gravity Force!
17/10/2008 at 14:27 Reid says:
PlasmaPong
I remember playing it a while ago (shareware that wasoff a PCG disc I think, not sure exactly) – seems to fit perfectly with the idea here (both being classics remastered for the modern(er) era of gaming
17/10/2008 at 14:30 Love Albatross says:
Schadenfreude, what about this?
It’s quite nice, has lovely clicky buttons and stick.
17/10/2008 at 14:31 Khargan says:
@Schadenfreude: Why not try a Competition Pro? http://www.speed-link.com/?p=2&cat=313&pid=18089&paus=1
17/10/2008 at 14:34 Graham says:
I think i’d have to dig out my copy of Sensible World of Soccer for some one button football madness.
17/10/2008 at 14:34 El Zomba says:
I would play on my mother’s heartstrings until she bought me a Quickshot 2 Turbo (6 mircoswitches and Autofire, pew!), so I could throw that vile lump of plastic in the bin, just like I did twenty years ago.
17/10/2008 at 14:45 mashakos says:
I wouldn’t pay for THAT. A Quickshot II Turbo on the other hand? HELL YES!
I don’t what El Zombo is talking about, unless he got jealousof how awesome that joystick was.
17/10/2008 at 14:46 Jim Rossignol says:
The Competition Pro is best.
17/10/2008 at 14:49 Manwe says:
I was going to put down New Zealand Story, as this was one of my fav games back in my Amiga 500 days (My neighbours were Atari fanboys with their 520 st), but then I saw Graham’s post above mentioning Sensible World of Soccer, and it would have to be this. Furious two player of course.
Also, Speedball 2. Man, those two games had so much playability, not least because of the satisfaction of beating your mates, but the style in which you could beat them.
17/10/2008 at 14:59 Mulayim says:
SWOS will kill that joystick in 20 minutes.
17/10/2008 at 15:05 Khargan says:
@Jim: Amen to that, I just ordered one. Anyone remember the Amiga game Projectyle?
17/10/2008 at 15:08 mashakos says:
dirty secret: I still play with a joystick :o
Logitech Force 3D Pro that is.
17/10/2008 at 15:17 Bobsy says:
Wasn’t the Bug that funny-looking one with the tiny stick that you wedged between your index and middle fingers?
17/10/2008 at 15:19 Downloads_Plz says:
World of Warcraft.
17/10/2008 at 15:25 theleif says:
http://www.syntaxerror.nu/joy007.jpg
17/10/2008 at 15:29 Richard Beer says:
I was more of a Kick Off 2 man, myself. Sensible was just too simplistic. Aftertouch for the win. Literally.
17/10/2008 at 15:40 Optimaximal says:
I had a Bug… It was usable for all of 2 of the games I had on my Sega Master System – as that syntaxerror link pointed out, most of the older game controls were heavily targetted towards pads.
17/10/2008 at 15:42 phuzz says:
Gah! I am internet man and I am angry!
Clearly the joystick of kings is the Cruiser.
Still got mine, the ring at the bottom of the stick let you change the tension, although it’s pretty loose on every setting now :(
17/10/2008 at 15:49 Jason Moyer says:
My only criticism is that there doesn’t appear to be a set of USB paddles available anywhere.
17/10/2008 at 15:50 Heliocentric says:
I played on my a600 with a genesis pad. It just worked. I had a mouse for games that suited it obviously. But best of all was access to autofire pads for those times.
17/10/2008 at 15:50 Schadenfreude says:
Re: Competition Pro.
The world is a wonderful place. I didn’t know they existed but now I must have one.
I intend to spend many a happy hour playing Chaos Engine with it. :D
17/10/2008 at 15:51 kf76 says:
Trackmania!
17/10/2008 at 15:53 Heliocentric says:
I said genesis.. I forgot that mine was a master system, too much retro media is american.
17/10/2008 at 15:54 Heliocentric says:
What? No? Mega drive. Bring back edit!
17/10/2008 at 15:55 AbyssUK says:
meh use the keyboard amatures
17/10/2008 at 15:55 AbyssUK says:
meh learn to spell stupid AbyssUK
17/10/2008 at 16:08 Novotny says:
http://play.tm/hardware/5150/competition-pro-joystick/image/3/
I went through i don’t know how many joysticks in the 80s. You could break a Quickshot just by looking at them quickly. The Competition Pro was another matter though, proper switches and everything. *sigh*
17/10/2008 at 16:11 Fumarole says:
Peggle should work nicely.
17/10/2008 at 16:11 mashakos says:
“meh use the keyboard amatures”
DOS/PC n00b !
17/10/2008 at 16:19 terry says:
Zipstick. Just… Zipstick.
17/10/2008 at 16:29 notlimahc says:
Doesn’t anyone else have an arcade stick?
17/10/2008 at 16:58 Nero says:
Give me this as an USB stick and I will be happy. Wonderful stick to play C64 games with. Even Decathlon 1500m couldn’t brake it. Gimme gimme.
17/10/2008 at 17:21 roryok says:
that’s so weird because i’ve spent the last two days researching how to turn old Console controllers into all in one emulators / controllers.
The plan is to shove a USB pen drive and USB Keyboard controller inside a megadrive pad, joined together with a USB hub. Once connected, it’ll auto-launch a megadrive emulator from the pendrive and auto-detect the usb keyboard, to which the pad buttons will be carefully mapped.
I’m sure it would work for the atari stick too
17/10/2008 at 17:54 gnome says:
The ideal controller for the brand new retro remake of the hopelessly dirty and imperialist Custer’s Revenge! What would we do without you oh RPS?
17/10/2008 at 18:10 LST4R says:
Easy! Cave Story!
17/10/2008 at 18:33 cheeba says:
Seriously Alec, I had two fo those atari sticks back in the day, and they were bloody rubbish. As has been mentioned here by a few peeps, the Comp Pro and Cruiser were truly the Sticks of Champions.
17/10/2008 at 18:44 cheeba says:
Oh, and I’d play Trials 2 (while humming the Kikstart 2 theme, natch).
17/10/2008 at 19:06 chesh says:
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.
17/10/2008 at 19:16 Scandalon says:
The original MS Flight Sim in CGA.
What?
17/10/2008 at 20:25 rei says:
Some fine old sticks in this thread, but is still the best!
17/10/2008 at 20:26 rei says:
^TAC 2, that is. Let me edit my embarrassing html-breakdowns :(
17/10/2008 at 20:40 Pus Filled Sac says:
I’d play Tank Pong, the greatest of all Pongs.
17/10/2008 at 23:54 dhex says:
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.
18/10/2008 at 12:36 Donald Duck says:
rei – finally some sense. Give me a TAC-2 or give me death!Or The Bug, that joystick was made for Gravity Force.
18/10/2008 at 17:15 noom says:
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.
18/10/2008 at 23:12 scout says:
Steel Battalion.
19/10/2008 at 04:44 groglvr says:
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.
19/10/2008 at 07:52 mister slim says:
The Zipstick looks like it’s from some alternate timeline where Microsoft designed the Atari 2600.
19/10/2008 at 21:34 Kavika says:
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!*
20/10/2008 at 18:17 Lars BR says:
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?
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