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shardian:

--- Quote from: LLUncoolJ on July 27, 2009, 03:52:39 pm ---
I sold mine at a yard sale many moons ago. I don't know how many jpysticks I went through, probably dozens. I remember I just scraped up enough money to buy Pitfall II and a new joystick. That night, after making it quite a distance and then getting killed in a stupid fashion, I threw the joystick down to the ground and the thing expoded into about 10 pieces. I was about 12 and my family didn't have a lot of money, so I had to go out and pick up aluminum cans off the side of the road for about 2 months to round up enough dough for a new joystick. Until then, I had to use my old one with the cracked white plastic circle that contacts the switched.

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I had a friend who pulled that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, and I hated him for it. Here I was a poor kid who could only dream of having a brand new SNES, and here he had one and was pitching a fit repeatedly and slamming/breaking his controllers. I treated my controllers like 24 carat gold.
At least you had to replace your own. He just whined to his mom until she got him a new one...usually same day.

ChadTower:
Or the guys smashing could just not smash the controllers?  I didn't even get a 2600 until someone gave me a beaten one in like 1982.  I played that thing relentlessly and never had a controller problem.  OEM 2600 sticks lasted forever unless someone was dumb enough to smash it on the floor or chew on it.  Now, if you want to talk 5200 or 7800, now you have a gripe, but the 2600 sticks stood up to everything except stupidity.  Mine had 100k miles on it when I got it and I put on at least another 100 without the sticks ever having a problem.

BTW, why the hell does every 2600 stick I have found in the last 8 years have teeth marks all over it?  I'm not talking little ones either.  I'm talking holes chewed through the rubber and the white plastic stick chewed like a dog's toy.

whammoed:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 28, 2009, 09:00:05 am ---
BTW, why the hell does every 2600 stick I have found in the last 8 years have teeth marks all over it?  I'm not talking little ones either.  I'm talking holes chewed through the rubber and the white plastic stick chewed like a dog's toy.

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Reminds me of when my dog ate the entire rubber part of a 2600 stick.  What a mess coming out of both ends.   :angry:

LLUncoolJ:
Now I can't be precise, I would've been about 10 years old, give or take. But my originals wore out from good ole fashion game play. I played that thing every spare minute. I'd estimate at least 2 hours a day. The one I blew up was about 4 or 5 years in...it was an after market Walmart special. I went through several varieties. I once had a Tron looking flight yoke. True that though as far as Atari sucking with that kind of stick. You could play some shooters such as Yar's revenge (one of the 2600's finest games) and the occasional flight game, but Asteroids, Missile Command, Ms Pac...all very awkward.

Don't be clowning me about my 10 year old frustrations with Pitfall II. Very frustrating when I got killed doing something routine and it started me from the beginning. Makes we want to smash a jotstick just thinking about it. :timebomb:

ChadTower:

We're not talking about the third party sticks.  Of course they were of varying quality.  We're talking about the OEM 2600 sticks.  I have never seen one, even now, that doesn't still work pretty well and also doesn't have obvious signs of abuse or storage neglect.

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