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Do you recognize this joystick?
« on: April 01, 2003, 02:11:34 am »
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3216485152&category=13718

If you do, I am curious to know what its from.

I thought I'd ask here instead of the seller in case someone would be interested in bidding for it.

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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2003, 02:25:07 am »
i would guess it's from Xenophobe. It had 3 joysticks like that (Tron style)....they were red, yellow, and blue colored.

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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2003, 02:32:03 am »
The encoder boards on the bottom threw me off.  I had never seen that before.  Thanks

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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2003, 11:15:06 am »
Those aren't xenophobe sticks....

Xenophobe had two buttons where that red sticker is.... (one for crouch, the other for bomb toss if I recall)

Also that stick looks more like an analog stick than a regular 8 way/4way and IIRC xenophobe didn't need an analog flightstick (despite how the stick looked)

*shrug*  still doesn't help you with what it is... but i'm sure of what it's not =P

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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2003, 11:34:06 am »
Maybe Gorf?  

Gorf, Tron, and Xenophobe are the only games I know that had that shape of joy.

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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2003, 11:24:30 pm »
That is the oddest/coolest joy I have ever seen! I think I may buy it just to expirement with. I love how it has those metal bars attached to potentiometers in place of an actuator! This is really, really cool!
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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2003, 12:59:51 am »
That is odd.. it looks just like a Gorf joy from the top, but it's obviously an analog..

No idea :P
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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2003, 03:57:33 pm »
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Re:Do you recognize this joystick?
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2003, 10:36:13 pm »
That Is an analog stick from a "Space Encounters"  cabaret cabinet by Midway 1980. The full size upright version used a full sized flight yoke. The stick does have the typical tron style handles that were used on many Bally/Midway games throughout the 80s' but other then the handles it is nothing like a Tron stick as it uses 5k pots and would have to be hacked to an analog pc stick to work with Mame or switch the pots to pc compatable 100k pots. Because of the black handle and red insert this stick is often mistaken for a Gorf stick but once you see the underside, its clearly an analog stick.
Hope this clears things up :)
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