Spinners and Trackballs

[archagon]

Are there any 2+ player spinner/trackball games out there?

[Thenasty]

Blasteroids
Marble Madness
Arcade Classics
Pong
Sonic Hedgehog
and more.....

[archagon]

Aw nuts. Now I gotta spend even more money

[Minwah]

Blasteroids
Marble Madness
Arcade Classics
Pong
Sonic Hedgehog
and more.....

Pong used paddles (pots) IIRC...

Also not spinner exactly, but there are many simultaneous 2-player driving games which you could use 2 spinners for

[Howard_Casto]

As far as spinners are concerned.... the only good games that come to mind are arkanoid and it's copy-cat clones.   Tempest is also a good spinner game.  Other than that there aren't any.  The other games either use a specialized spinner, or are paired with a speciality control (like d.o.t)  deeming gameplay with just a spinner useless.  There are hardly any two player spinner games.  (Actually I can't think of one, but I'm sure there is.)

There are, however, a ton of trackball games.  

My theory on adding a spinner is if you have to ask about what games use it then you don't need one.  The games that do use a spinner are very nostalgic, meaning if you play them new in this day and age you might not be impressed.

[mahuti]

There is a1 very fun 2 player spinner game that comes to mind.

'Off the Wall' It looks pretty dumb, but in practice, I've had a lot of fun with it.

I think the original used a paddle, but using a spinner works just fine (imho)

My business partner and I play that game about 5-10 times a day.

[crashwg]

There's also a 4 player spinner game, can't remember what it's called, but the 4 corners are the things that the players try to protect from a flaming ball and you can push a button to hold the flaming ball and it speeds up... anyways, it's pretty fun.

[Minwah]

There's also a 4 player spinner game, can't remember what it's called, but the 4 corners are the things that the players try to protect from a flaming ball and you can push a button to hold the flaming ball and it speeds up... anyways, it's pretty fun.

Atari's Warlords

I don't plan on making a 2 player spinner panel in the near future, although Blasteroids is reason enough for me to make one some day...

mahuti: Yes I like Sente's Off the Wall too, I think you need a joystick + spinner per player.

[mahuti]

yeah, forgot about the joystick.


It's a fun game with just one person too.

Blasteroids is quite fun, too.