{"id":917,"date":"2012-12-03T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2013-01-07T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:53:57","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-quickshot-the-genuine-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/917\/retro-scan-of-the-week-quickshot-the-genuine-piece","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Quickshot Joysticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/quickshot_piece_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/quickshot_piece_small.jpg\" alt=\"QuickShot Joysticks by Bondwell - Python Maverick Starfighter Flightgrip Apache - 1991\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>INSIST ON QUICKSHOT!  THE GENUINE PIECE!!!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I own a few QuickShot joysticks, but I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve used any of these particular models.  Third-party console controllers weren&#8217;t all that popular in the age of the NES (relative to the 2600 days, at least), likely because the NES&#8217;s own pads (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NES_Advantage\" target=\"_blank\">NES Advantage<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NES_Max\" target=\"_blank\">Max<\/a>) were so good to begin with.  Same with the Genesis and Super NES.  That fact alone probably killed a few third party video game peripheral companies that were hanging on from the Atari 2600 era, although the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickshot.com\/gamecont.html#basic\" target=\"_blank\">QuickShot brand<\/a> lived on until the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, August 1991, p.21 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did\/do you commonly use third-party controllers for your classic video game systems?  Which one is your favorite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSIST ON QUICKSHOT! THE GENUINE PIECE!!! I own a few QuickShot joysticks, but I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve used any of these particular models. Third-party console controllers weren&#8217;t all that popular in the age of the NES (relative to the 2600 days, at least), likely because the NES&#8217;s own pads (and the NES Advantage and Max) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}