Oh my god, Steve, would you please read before replying. I'm starting to think you are doing this on purpose now. I was referring to the new sticks with hard leaf SPRING and microswitch. Please, for the sake of my sanity, try to keep up.
Are Happs Leafs any harder than the originals? If so, its news to me. I assumed
that due to cost, there would be no such change made.
Some have learned to do well with micros for nearly everything. You admit to picking and choosing the ones you use to do certain things, which proves my assumption to be correct.
You assumed that I only had preference from a one sided perspective... with no
experience with the other.
Ive used Micros for Years. In fact, much much longer than Leafs. In the arcade, I
Hated them due to them getting out of whack too often, and needing cleaning. Didnt understand their value.. and sadly, I chucked boxes of them in the trash.
Sure, I CAN play Asteroids Deluxe with a Micro. But considering how much more
it Fatigues my hands... and how its fire rate is slower and more awkward.. Ive
now chosen to use leafs. Just because I CAN be good with Micros does not mean
a thing... when I can be BETTER with Leafs. Most especially on a game like Robotron.
Uh huh...you got a funny way of trying to get that done...
There are quite a few vendors who make things here without actually consulting
with the masses. They believe that just because something is how They think it
should be done... or how They like things... that everyone should be the same.
You can post all your fan mails from those same people and it wont change a
thing. There are a lot of people that may prefer a different method. In fact
probably a much wider audience... such as to include actual classic game owners too.
I merely point out what I have discovered with my own experiences and
realizations. Offense should not be taken over such a thing... especially when we
are talking about classic gaming. Never once did I RIP apart the product. I simply said
that it was not everyones cup of tea, which is in fact true.
Just to see what in heck you were talking about, I just played Satan's Hollow up to level 16. I remain unimpressed. It takes 3 seconds for the missiles to get to the top of the screen.....
Up to 16 means little. You have to build the bridge to get to the right side of the off-screen then fight the small Pitch-Fork tossing satan. After you
defeat him, you get a 2nd gun. If you do not die... and can repeat this all over again,
you get yet a 3rd gun. You can lay down a good stream of bullets in about less than
1" apart... not counting if you actually hit a target which probably gets you faster reload.
It matters little that the bullets are slow to exit the screen. What matters is how many
you can lay down in such a short time.
In fact, in asteriods, you can only get about 4 or 5 bullets on screen, and the
distance between bullets is about the same as satans hallow when you have
2 or 3 guns working.
Have you also played Trons level 5? Use a cheat to get there if you must... and then
try to beat the mcp without the cheat on. Even the spider stage is pretty darn hard
up there.