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| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: rCadeGaming on February 21, 2013, 12:00:48 pm ---Maybe it is a generational thing. You seem to be talking about the 70's and early to mid 80's from your examples. I won't argue about that time period I guess, but as an example of what I'm talking about, take a look at something later like Street Fighter II. It was designed in Japan, then when it was brought over here they used the controls available here with little regard to the original intentions of the programmers or what controls they had in mind. I doubt they were using Happ controls during development at Capcom in Japan. --- End quote --- Agreed. --- Quote from: rCadeGaming on February 21, 2013, 12:00:48 pm ---Back in the era you were talking about, maybe they had better oversight of this kind of thing. Weren't the rubber grommet joysticks for Donkey Kong cabinets and such actually made or specified by Nintendo? This kind of thing doesn't seem to be case later on. It seems like they kind of shipped over the PCB and some artwork, and the cab and controls were sourced here based on availability. --- End quote --- There are no rubber grommets in a Donkey Kong stick (they're made of Strongtanium) :P And, yep, they were designed by Nintendo for Nintendo. I agree with your point. The "genericifying" of the cabinet and controls that occurred during the first crash actually accelerated in the era that you are talking about and was a BadThing(tm). |
| rCadeGaming:
I think the way things were "genericified" in the 90's was pretty cool the way it was implemented with candy cabs, but we got the short end of the stick in other countries. Come to think of it, all of my favorite dedicated cabs come from way before that era. I'm mostly interested in late 80's and 90's games, but if I got a true dedicated cab instead of a MAME one, it would have to be a Ms. Pac-Man or Donkey Kong. Still have to love the classics sometimes. :cheers: |
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