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Player 3 and 4 joysticks: common orientation?
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
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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?)
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Somebody doesn't have kids...
Trip:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on September 14, 2012, 02:30:56 pm ---Somebody doesn't have kids...
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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?
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