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Extreme8:
Does anyone have a control panel that incorporates the left / right direction buttons like the ones used on the Midway Space Invaders & Asteroids, or is the joystick the modern replacement.
If you do have the buttons, are they used or do you find the joystick is a better input device for these classics.

I've decided to give the GP-Wiz49 a shot so if they work out the way I hope I'll have a bunch of panel real estate left open after I remove my reunion stick and thought this might be an interesting option.


markrvp:
Asteroids feels better with buttons because that's what I was used to.
MikeQ:
Same here.  I don't like the joystick.

My panel looks like this:


     J1   OOO       J2  OOO
           OOO             OOO

  2 Joysticks with 6 buttons each
 (+ spinner and trackball but that isn't important).


I use the lower left two buttons for rotate left/right and the lower right three buttons for thrust, fire, hyperspace.  Works out well for me.


SteveJ34:
I'll chime in with the same opinion of Mark and Mike.

Asteroids is better with buttons.....we could play a long time on a single quarter hunting ships during my younger days.

I, too, use a combination of P1/P2 buttons mapped to Asteroid controls.

tivogre:
I have an authentic asteroids lay-out on my panel.  Ateroids / Space Invaders with a joystick is just wrong...
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