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rugby1:
Thought someone might be interested in hacking this hardware into a mame cab...


link to the USAToday article:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/games/2005-09-22-atari-flashback_x.htm
NoOne=NBA=:
The fact that the joysticks are "exactly like the Atari 2600 joysticks of yore" makes me a bit nervous.

25+ years, and they still haven't figured out that brittle plastic hitting chicklet buttons inside a joystick doesn't hold up?
brophog:
No kidding. Has there been a worse joystick than that?
rugby1:
I always liked when the rubber handle would fall off the joystick and you were left with just the hard white plastic that is underneath...  I think I still have callus's on my hands  ;)
rugby1:
Let me clarify, so no one gets confused   :D

I wouldn't incorporate the joysticks into a MAME cabinet, but use/hack the console components containing the ROMS instead of a computer running MAME in a cabinet....   

I totally agree that the old atari console joysticks sucked beyond all belief 

 ;D
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