Main > Main Forum

Player 3 and 4 joysticks: common orientation?

Pages: << < (11/12) > >>

DarthMarino:

Xiaou,

I'm certainly not trying to raise a point about angled sticks on 2 player cabinets.  You'll get no argument from me about how rare or pointless that is. I'm talking specifically about the outside players on 3 and 4 player games.  The following statements have been made by some of the top posters here regarding this topic:

"On original arcade games, up on the joystick was always parallel with the sides of the cab, even if the player were standing to the side and the buttons were angled. "

"I think that, over all of the years, we have come up with exactly one commercially-produced arcade cabinet with angled sticks ... and that took years to find."

"4 player machines did NOT angle the joysticks for player 3 and 4. The only post 1977 game us researchers could find that did this was Mercs, and playing Mercs on a side position is painful."

I've seen statements like this several times when the topic comes up. That's why when a I noticed a few that were angled I decided to look into it more.  There's about 150 games that qualify for this argument.  Half the games I couldn't even find a reasonable picture to make a conclusion.  I looked at maybe 75-80 games and found 10 machines that appear to have been originally manufactured this way.  We've added Mercs and I will now add Tecmo Bowl. It's not overwhelming but some games were manufactured this way.

Player 3:


--- Quote from: Vigo on September 07, 2012, 12:57:20 pm ---I know what you mean, Trip. Bottom line, Being player 3 or 4 sucks no matter how it is orientated.  :lol

--- End quote ---

As Player 3, I can agree with this.
(Besides, how often would four people even meet up at the same time? Party?)

Nephasth:


--- Quote from: Player 3 on September 14, 2012, 01:31:09 pm ---(Besides, how often would four people even meet up at the same time? Party?)

--- End quote ---

Somebody doesn't have kids...

Trip:


--- Quote from: Nephasth on September 14, 2012, 02:30:56 pm ---Somebody doesn't have kids...

--- End quote ---

or friends. 

Seriously, why do you guys care so much what people do with their own arcades in their own homes?

shponglefan:


--- Quote from: Trip on September 14, 2012, 02:34:01 pm ---Seriously, why do you guys care so much what people do with their own arcades in their own homes?

--- End quote ---



Pages: << < (11/12) > >>

Go to full version