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drventure:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on November 27, 2013, 10:30:19 am ---but after using it once and feeling how authentic it was, I lost interest.

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Yeah, sometimes, older isn't better, it's just older  :)

Now, myself, I don't fit in that category.....  :afro:
yotsuya:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on November 27, 2013, 10:30:19 am ---
--- Quote from: pbj on November 27, 2013, 10:24:32 am ---Looks better than a Weecade.

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Weecade might be a good name for it if it wasn't already taken.


Damn I hated those Atari 2600 joysticks.
I had a $10 off anything coupon for Radio Shaft and used it on one of those tv games 2600 controllers.
The plan was to convert it to a USB controller, but after using it once and feeling how authentic it was, I lost interest.

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What was wrong with the Atari Joysticks?
mgb:
The best way to learn to love the 2600 joystick is use the 7800 joystick (us version)
thatpurplestuff:

--- Quote from: Typefighter01 on November 27, 2013, 06:19:29 am ---
--- Quote from: ChanceKJ on November 27, 2013, 03:31:05 am ---
--- Quote from: mgb on November 26, 2013, 11:22:49 pm ---My wife thought the grand stand was pornographic.

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--- Quote from: yotsuya on November 26, 2013, 11:29:43 pm ---HaRuMaN can make you either one if you ask him to.  >:D

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Why on earth would he WANT to make a pornographic one?!

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Actually, the "Stick Station" looks like an 80's version of the Sybian  >:D

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1880's?  :o
BadMouth:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on November 27, 2013, 10:49:02 am ---
--- Quote from: BadMouth on November 27, 2013, 10:30:19 am ---
--- Quote from: pbj on November 27, 2013, 10:24:32 am ---Looks better than a Weecade.

--- End quote ---

Weecade might be a good name for it if it wasn't already taken.


Damn I hated those Atari 2600 joysticks.
I had a $10 off anything coupon for Radio Shaft and used it on one of those tv games 2600 controllers.
The plan was to convert it to a USB controller, but after using it once and feeling how authentic it was, I lost interest.

--- End quote ---

What was wrong with the Atari Joysticks?

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They are digital, but have no tactile feedback of when you've moved it far enough to engage a direction.  There's no real restrictor to tell you that you've reached the edge either.  It just gets progressively harder to push.  Combine that with great stiffness and the small base that's expected to be held by the same hand that works the action button and it just sucks.  It feels like your hands are straining against each other.
Especially for a small kid who doesn't understand how the joystick works.
I wish I'd had a 2x6 with a square cut in it.  :'(

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