If you ever owned an Atari........

seamus · 07-06-2003 1:04pm #1

Then you'd be mad not to own one of ......

these

(I'm just waiting for someone to tell me this is old news)

patch · 07-06-2003 4:54pm

I think I remember spotting them in argos.....had to fight the impulse to buy one, cool as fup!

amp · 08-06-2003 9:20pm

I had two of the original sticks for my Atari 2600 and bizarely they also worked with my Amiga 500.

Tough as hell, took a hell of a beating but ergonomic they weren't. I can still feel the blisters.

I'd get one of the ones mentioned above but there's no two player mode, which tbh makes it a pretty short term product.

Sarky · 11-06-2003 1:40pm

Blisters? Lucky you, they wore huge chunks out of my hands where the blisters would have been. To this day the thought of waggling a joystick to make your character move faster sends me into near fatal flashbacks...

But Centipede was the biz.

John2002 · 11-06-2003 2:42pm

Originally posted by amp
I had two of the original sticks for my Atari 2600 and bizarely they also worked with my Amiga 500.

I had an Atari 7800 and was able to use their gammy little joypads with my Amiga 500 too.

http://www.computers-n-robots.de/780029.html

Those little f*ckers used to do awful damage to my thumbs!

theciscokid · 11-06-2003 2:51pm

*pats his jaguar*

dont mind them fools

Sarky · 11-06-2003 4:34pm

The joystics were all the same 9-pin configureation jobbies. Megadrive joypads/joysticks worked flawlessly on ataris and amigas too. That second button came in very handy for games like Flashback or Mortal Kombat 2...

po0k · 13-06-2003 4:40pm

IT REMINDS ME OF THE TIME I SPENT DEVELOPING TETRIS.
Boris Barishnokopf, Russia - Mar '03

de5p0i1er · 17-06-2003 3:34am

i had the orignal Atari with the wood-like outer case found it there a few days ago, a friend told me that there worth quite a bit nowdays as collecters items.

Fetch · 17-06-2003 7:35pm

i had the orignal Atari with the wood-like outer case found it there a few days ago, a friend told me that there worth quite a bit nowdays as collecters items.

Yupp wood panelling they dont make them like that anymore... remember when the only thing you had to do to make something look fancy was to put some faux wood panelling on it?

Spacedog · 25-06-2003 9:14pm

it says it has breakout!

you can't play breakout properly without one of those paddel controllers ("tennis controllers")

centipede rocks though!

If you ever owned an Atari........

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