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Big ups to Nintendo
saint:
Those are what gave out on my original 2600 sticks as well.
Level42:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 28, 2009, 11:53:29 am ---You can tell, once you've seen a lot of them, which sticks were used reasonably and which were used like you're trying to winch up a kid from an abandoned well.
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Like the DS, the 2600 controllers were mainly used and aimed at kids. They should have been built sturdier. BUT that would have increased cost of course.
I don't remember exactly, but I think I payed something like 75 Dutch Guilders (ahhhh, the days LONG before the Euro) for the Suzo stick. I think a regular Atari controller was less than half that price RETAIL.
If there was one company in the business in those days who knew how to build sturdy controllers it was Atari.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 28, 2009, 12:35:43 pm ---Like the DS, the 2600 controllers were mainly used and aimed at kids.
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That's not true at all here. The commercials were aimed straight at the "for all ages" message and they went to extremes to show it was for the whole family. Here's a good example and there are tons more all over Youtube.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kWqjDUu7o[/youtube]
LLUncoolJ:
If the commercial said it, it must be true. Just like this IS the most interesting man in the world:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCT8x3YoT2s[/youtube]
Slightly different from the version I saw on ESPN last night..that version didn't have the piano, but him with a babe in one arm and a trophy in the other.
Well, if that cheap plastic ring made the 2600 affordable enough for my family, then kudos. I was still jelous as hell of the kids next door that had Intelivision and Collecovision.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: LLUncoolJ on July 28, 2009, 01:13:15 pm ---If the commercial said it, it must be true.
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Erm, yeah, if the commercial said it, then yes it must be true that the system was not aimed strictly at kids. Seeing as how the commercial is how the thing is marketed and all, yes? :)
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