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Arcade games that only use buttons(no joystick)?
Level42:
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--- Quote from: Brad on October 01, 2006, 03:51:55 am ---How did anyone leave out Defender??
Brad
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Yes! Defender - except for the joystick - it used all buttons!
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Uhhhhhmmmm, am I missing the point of this thread or are others. The point was BUTTONS only. So even a two-way joystick is ruled out, because.....it's a joystick.
Defender has a JOYSTICK for up and down. So it's not buttons only.
And don't say it isn't true, I played Defender on the original cab a couple of weeks ago for the very first time in my life, and boy was I puzzled by that weird set-up of controls. I mean, I could have lived with the accelarator button, but freakin' h#ll, for reverse even a button more. Why didn't they simply use a four-way stick ?
RobotronNut:
--- Quote from: Level42 on October 01, 2006, 11:43:04 am ---Uhhhhhmmmm, am I missing the point of this thread or are others. The point was BUTTONS only. So even a two-way joystick is ruled out, because.....it's a joystick.
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i took the liberty of mentioning games that can be played very well with buttons only. imo, this includes many games with horizontal 2-way joysticks. i actually think i can get higher scores using "left" and "right" buttons than i can with a "left/right" joystick.
defender, on the other hand, has a vertical 2-way joystick and is not playable with buttons only.
of course, if the op only wanted to know which games originally used only buttons, then... never mind! :)
NickG:
Pop'n Music
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: NickG on October 02, 2006, 06:49:47 am ---Pop'n Music
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Ahh! Good point.
I suppose all the Dance Dance revolution games qualifies as button only.
leapinlew:
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--- Quote from: leapinlew on October 01, 2006, 04:38:43 am ---Yes! Defender - except for the joystick - it used all buttons!
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Uhhhhhmmmm, am I missing the point of this thread or are others. The point was BUTTONS only.
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And here I thought I was being clever. I was being sarcastic -
"Except for the joystick - it used all buttons!"
... I mean, come on.