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
Posted by Alec Meer on October 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm.
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World of.. Goo?
Should be playable.
Mirrors edge.
Pong
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.
Try this.
Or try the Atari
Er. . . , I meant to post this link:
http://www.jakkstvgames.com/atari.html
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..
There’s only one game I can think of right now that could do this justice: Sensible Soccer.
Ugh. Bring me a USB Zipstick and I’ll be interested. The Zipstick was king of digital joysticks.
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.
Battlezone 2.
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!
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
Schadenfreude, what about this?
It’s quite nice, has lovely clicky buttons and stick.
@Schadenfreude: Why not try a Competition Pro? http://www.speed-link.com/?p=2&cat=313&pid=18089&paus=1
I think i’d have to dig out my copy of Sensible World of Soccer for some one button football madness.
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.
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.
The Competition Pro is best.
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.
SWOS will kill that joystick in 20 minutes.
@Jim: Amen to that, I just ordered one. Anyone remember the Amiga game Projectyle?
dirty secret: I still play with a joystick :o
Logitech Force 3D Pro that is.
Wasn’t the Bug that funny-looking one with the tiny stick that you wedged between your index and middle fingers?
World of Warcraft.
http://www.syntaxerror.nu/joy007.jpg
I was more of a Kick Off 2 man, myself. Sensible was just too simplistic. Aftertouch for the win. Literally.
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.
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 :(
My only criticism is that there doesn’t appear to be a set of USB paddles available anywhere.
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.
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
Trackmania!
I said genesis.. I forgot that mine was a master system, too much retro media is american.
What? No? Mega drive. Bring back edit!
meh use the keyboard amatures
meh learn to spell stupid AbyssUK
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*
I’d play kinky.
Peggle should work nicely.
“meh use the keyboard amatures”
DOS/PC n00b !
Zipstick. Just… Zipstick.
Doesn’t anyone else have an arcade stick?
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.
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
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?
Easy! Cave Story!
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.
Oh, and I’d play Trials 2 (while humming the Kikstart 2 theme, natch).