Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Malon Romani Cremia

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:39:39 +0000

@walmartcartpusher: what's your beef with the Cube's controller?

Anyway, I'll go with the ColecoVision Super Action Controller, the Jaguar pad, and the NES Max.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: walmartcartpusher

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:47:13 +0000

The Nintendo Gamecube Controller, The Atari Jaguar pad, and for a slightly less vintage touch the Wii Classic controller (the wire goes toward you to attach to the Wii'mote).

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Matt

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:04:58 +0000

For the NES, I had a controller called "NES Max." The buttons were fine, but the directional pad was replaced by the control pad was terrible. Instead of cross, you had to move around a little circle inside of a bigger circle, and then push down on the circle. In addition to turning moving into a 2-step process, it was terribly unresponsive.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Layne

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:39:07 +0000

No update on the joystick you refer to, but I did find this: http://www.chromesphere.com/coleco/index.html

and this:
http://gamesmuseum.pixesthesia.com/history/gen3/col5200.txt

Both of which are probably interesting.

Layne

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Chris

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:18:26 +0000

The Colecovision controller, hands down. It equalled pain if you played any more than 2 hours.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Bob

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:53:07 +0000

I know the 5200 controller gets a bad rap but I thought it was okay as long as you cleaned it every week. Pain in the butt. I think the worst is the o.g. Gameboy advance. It always made my hands numb.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Jim Ulrich

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:37:37 +0000

Couldn't find out too much about this company, but I did find out that they made joysticks and games for the 2600 and joysticks and trackballs for Apple computers. They probably went out of business during the videogame crash of '83.

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v2n9/Anticpixcontrollers.html
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v2n10/ROMFUN.html
http://www.txbobsc.com/aal/1983/aal8306.html
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1998-March/096910.html

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Craig A. Betts

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:58:22 +0000

I think that is a tie for me between the Atari 5200 and ColecoVision controllers. I would always have some serious hand cramps after fifteen minutes of play. I finally broke down and built a custom controller for the ColecoVision I saw in a magazine (sorry, don't remember what magazine it was) that used a Wico arcade stick mounted on an old push button desk phone. As far as the 5200, never found a good replacement. I think Wico had something out there, but by the time it did, the 5200 was pretty much dead and buried.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Layne

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:43:56 +0000

BTW, as an ambidextrous person, even *I* don't get that joystick…..it looks like the fire button piece was detatchable (in other words: lost easily) and you could flip it over so that the fire button moved from one side to the other……why not just put a fire button on each side….had to have cost less to make that way, cheaper to engineer, etc. But I guess then, no one would have bought the ugly thing.

Layne

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Flippin' Enjoystick by: Layne

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:40:15 +0000

The Atari 2600 keypad was pretty bad…..at least for me….I didn't have the best of luck with the overlays, so had to memorize the button positions if I wanted to use them….wound up only learning a few of the more crucial ones and eventually didn't even play the game much (too many other games were much better — Yar's Revenge, anyone?)

Layne