Don't worry, this is not the start of a massive number of threads on each type of control for my modular concept, but the issue of steering wheels and racing games looks like it can become quite complex, from the poking around I have done here so far ... so I am giving this one topic it's own thread, apart from my overall early planning thread.
I see from a bit of poking around that different kinds of driving games require different kinds of wheels, more extensive controls, and so on and so forth. I don't want to get that involved. I am not a huge driving game fanatic, I would just like to be able to enjoy three or four semi-early arcade driving games ... and possibly a couple of specific later ones that are chosen because they would work with the equipment already decided upon.
So I come to the experts to see if the specific earlier games I am interested in can be handled well with a single, simple control set-up.
I would like to be able to play Turbo, Pole Position (I & II), and Outrun. Possibly Spy Hunter. Any others on top of those would be kind of nice, but not really important to me.
Are the original steering wheels for those games of a basic enough type to be able to cover them all with a simple set-up that could work quite decently for all of them without getting into some of the more advanced headaches? Or even in that small subset, does it get complicated?