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Author Topic: Simultaneous 2 player games that use 4 way joysticks  (Read 1432 times)

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Simultaneous 2 player games that use 4 way joysticks
« on: March 19, 2005, 07:38:46 am »
Does anyone know of any simultaneous 2 player games that use 4-way joysticks and if there are any titles, how many buttons are used?

I have found zero! (Uo Poko aside which can be played properly using 8-way.)

Can anyone advise differently?

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Re: Simultaneous 2 player games that use 4 way joysticks
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2005, 08:58:10 am »
Karate Champ.


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Re: Simultaneous 2 player games that use 4 way joysticks
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2005, 09:27:49 am »
Karate Champ.

Specifically KC uses 2-4 way sticks per player.

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Re: Simultaneous 2 player games that use 4 way joysticks
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2005, 01:49:59 pm »
Wizard of Wor. (Technically uses 9-way sticks, but no one has those (4-way sticks with 2 levels of sensitivity on each direction).

The entire Mr. Driller series (not yet in Mame).
Tetris (most versions).
Bloxeed.
A lot of other puzzle games.

And Uo Poko is actually an 8-way game, not 4-way like was previously thought, as you can roll the joystick around the circle back to up in order to let the chain back up again.
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Re: Simultaneous 2 player games that use 4 way joysticks
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2005, 06:26:39 pm »
Thanks guys.

My franken panel has been designed to play Karate Champ with a 4-way joystick then 3 buttons (for other 4-way games) and then another 4-way joystick (players 2) all in a row.

I wanted to know if there was any good reason to give the player 2 joystick a button or two.

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