{"id":308,"date":"2007-04-16T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-04-18T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T15:00:22","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-wico-computer-command-joystick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/308\/retro-scan-of-the-week-wico-computer-command-joystick","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Wico Computer Command Joystick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/computer_command_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/computer_command_small.jpg\" alt=\"Wico Computer Command Joystick Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Back in the day, Wico was &#8220;king&#8221; of all joysticks.  At least, they wanted to be.  They had quite a variety of different models, this &#8220;Computer Command&#8221; stick being only one of them.  I&#8217;ve never used this particular analog computer model, but I&#8217;ve definitely laid my hands on more than a few gangly Wico &#8220;Command Control&#8221; joysticks in my time.  My brother loved using his Command Control joystick for <em>Asteroids<\/em> on the Atari 800, but I never could get used to it.  He probably just thought it looked cool.<\/p>\n<p>Did\/does anybody have one of these and wish to share their thoughts on it?<\/p>\n<p><em>[ From Personal Computing magazine, December, 1983. ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Wico was &#8220;king&#8221; of all joysticks. At least, they wanted to be. They had quite a variety of different models, this &#8220;Computer Command&#8221; stick being only one of them. I&#8217;ve never used this particular analog computer model, but I&#8217;ve definitely laid my hands on more than a few gangly Wico &#8220;Command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-design","category-video-game-design","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}