williams 49-ways??

[Hoagie_one]

bumped into these on ebay if anyone is interested

[GGKoul]

did you post those here first?

[Flinkly]

decent price, cept you've got to put up with the funky colors.  whats with the prototype joust reference?

[Hoagie_one]

not my auction...not sure.  thats why i posted it here.

[2600]

From memory, but the prototype Joust reference is because the prototype's of Joust used 49-ways.  At some point they switched to 2-ways.

[nostrebor]

They are missing the spiders.

I would be concerned that they were 8-way bubbles sticks if they were both blue. The pastel yellow one has me believing his description.

It would be cool to have nos 49 ways in Williams colors for a multi williams project. If it were mame powered, with the GGG 49-way boards you could do away with *some* of the quirky-ness of playing joust/defender with 8-ways.

[Flinkly]

good catch on the spiders...i dind't even notice.  after that fact, the price stinks.  you can get a better deal elsewhere, unless you really wanted joust prototype joysticks...

if you wanted, you could always have tom at specialty plastics make you up some balltops in different colors.  i asked him if he could do black and he said that would be fine.  now i just have to decide if i want to keep my williams even though i'll have happs ones...(i've got three, so one will be coming to this board soon)

[Kremmit]

Those weren't just on the prototypes, some Jousts actually shipped with 'em.  I dunno if they're actualy 49-ways, or optical 2-ways.  Still need the spiders, though.

[Kremmit]

Actually, just looked at the pics- there aren't enough pins to be 49-ways, they must be 2-way only.  I wonder if Joust's equipped with these sticks have 3 different speeds of L-R motion?

[Flinkly]

oh man...that would be cool.  yeah, they only go in one direction (optical switches).  so wouldn't that make it a 7 way, or something?

[nostrebor]

My guess is that they are like the Bubbles sticks, except 2-way. The Bubbles stick only has one set of optics per direction. Basically they are on/off 8-ways.

 Of course you can't tell a thing from his pics, and the price is too high to bug him for more pics.

I would guess that these would play much nicer than worn out joust 2-ways.