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| Tiger-Heli:
You could mount the trackballs on a separate removable panel. I don't know of any dual track ball games requiring more than 2 buttons per player, no single trackball games requiring more than 3 buttons, and no trackball games requiring joysticks. This is all from memory, though. |
| OSCAR:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on May 26, 2004, 06:15:36 am ---... and no trackball games requiring joysticks. --- End quote --- Wacko. I wouldn't have thought so either, but I just played a Wacko cab recently. Takes a little getting used to using both a trackball and joystick at the same time. |
| krick:
--- Quote from: OSCAR on May 26, 2004, 07:17:55 am --- --- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on May 26, 2004, 06:15:36 am ---... and no trackball games requiring joysticks. --- End quote --- Wacko. I wouldn't have thought so either, but I just played a Wacko cab recently. Takes a little getting used to using both a trackball and joystick at the same time. --- End quote --- I completely forgot about that game. I only ever played it one time. Well actually, many, many quarters, but only one "session". As a child, I went to Philly with my aunt to see Return of the Jedi on the 5th day of theatrical release. The lines were insane. We had to buy our tickets about 3 hours before the show. This was back in the days before the internet and ordering tickets with credit cards. Anyway, I had three hours to kill and spent most of it in a nearby arcade. They had one wall with FOUR brand new Wacko machines lined up side-by-side. The cabinet intentionally built crooked and having them side by side accentuates this even more. It was very disorienting. Anyway, I played (or attempted to play) it for about a hour and came to the conclusion that I really didn't like it. I wonder what ever happend to all those machines? I'm fairly certain nobody ever tried to convert them to anything else like Street Fighter 2 because of the odd cabinet shape. I haven't seen one since the early 80s. I bet there's some Wacko wacko (probably in Waco) that has ALL the remaining machines in a giant warehouse waiting for the game to become collectible or something. |
| OSCAR:
Yeah, it's goofy alright... Ed (delta88) has one in his apartment, that's where I played it just a couple weeks ago. It's not really a bad game, almost a bit addictive in an odd way. I almost started to like it by the time I left. :) |
| AndyWarne:
Just to clarify the statement about plastic rollers on our trackballs. This always seems to be mentioned here, I'm not sure why. The shafts which support the trackball are steel and run in five ball-bearing races just like the Happ. The difference is that the two shafts have a nylon sleeve over the steel. This is to prevent steel contact with the ball which is not a good thing either from the level of grip or the longevity of the ball itself. It is definitely not a cost reduction design. Andy |
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