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Title: A Tron home joystick ??
Post by: Level42 on July 18, 2006, 03:50:27 pm

Never saw this before:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TRON-Controller-Designed-to-be-Like-Arcade-Game_W0QQitemZ270008530528QQihZ017QQcategoryZ41009QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

Probably just a regular joystick in Tron shape. The roll-up cord is a very nice idea !

Title: Re: A Tron home joystick ??
Post by: ahofle on July 18, 2006, 04:03:34 pm

Oh man, haven't seen that Atari 2600 plug in a while!

Title: Re: A Tron home joystick ??
Post by: MinerAl on July 18, 2006, 06:38:51 pm

Yup.  Came with one of the TRON Atari games.  It is a translucent blue TRON topped version of some company's regular trigger stick that also had the retractable cord.

I bought one a while back, and still need to fix it... only the up and left directions worked :(

Title: Re: A Tron home joystick ??
Post by: rohan on July 19, 2006, 06:52:26 pm

Got one NIB a few years back for 10 bucks hoping to hack for MAME CP...
The range of motion is pretty darn limited, so I kept it completely original.  Never had an Atari system before; are all the joysticks this cheap feeling? Used a little NOVUS, and it was nearly as pretty as a real Tron joy(albeit smaller and a darker blue)  I ended up buying and restoring a real Tron anyway soon after. ;D