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Offline mepmepmep

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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #59 from previous page: July 21, 2003, 12:13:14 PM »
Oh, I see you all have forgot to mention the ultra ergonomic Wico Ergostick. A hand held, completely made in rubber sporting microswitches. This crappy image of this rare collectable was all I could find. I've played tons on one of these, however the Tac-2 is my favourite, unbeatable! It's true to its name, it's accurate although i agree to the fact that the firebuttons gives in after a while and you need to have a Tac-2 with the steel handle. The later revisions are crap!
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« Reply #60 on: July 22, 2003, 01:43:16 AM »
Hmmm, $US100 for a joystick!? That would be nearly $A200 when exchange rates, delivery etc. is included.

Maybe I should get one of those Competition Pro adapters, they cost only about half as much, and I could use my trusty Multicoin Starcursor which would be a better stick than what they are selling...

Thanks for the link though.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #61 on: July 22, 2003, 02:40:42 AM »
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Hmmm, $US100 for a joystick!? That would be nearly $A200 when exchange rates, delivery etc. is included.

Maybe I should get one of those Competition Pro adapters, they cost only about half as much, and I could use my trusty Multicoin Starcursor which would be a better stick than what they are selling...

Thanks for the link though.
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you get what you pay for... if i had the time to be playing arcade games again, i would probably pay that much or more too!
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Multicoin Starcursor
thats the stick i had... ...and loved! and it certainly wasnt the cheapest!
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #62 on: July 22, 2003, 10:12:28 AM »
A vote for good CD-32 game pad and (if it's possible) another one for good-old Sega Genesis pad.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #63 on: August 07, 2003, 12:48:24 PM »
zipstick?
slickstick?
tac-2?
never heard about them... i think...
:-? :-? :-?

maybe someone could post photos of them, please...

my vote is quickshot phyton and of course good old cd32 pad! nearly so good as the psx one :-D
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #64 on: August 07, 2003, 01:18:35 PM »
Mine was always the old black Atari joystick with the square plastic base, fire button on the top left corner, and the rubber short stick  :-D

You could hold that thing in both hands, and have a good solid grip while still being able to move the stick -- I could never get used to the bigger ones like the TAC or just about every other joystick.

Probably doesn't hurt that before my A500 I had an Atari 600, so we had lots of those sticks around :)
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #65 on: August 07, 2003, 03:00:34 PM »
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The differences between USA and chinese TAC-2's are at least metal vs plastic stick and chinese version has much worse rubber thing that centers the stick, it's first too hard and then it changes it's strength with time. My US version has been just right from the beginning through the years :)


Actually the Chinese made ones are OK although the original U.S.A manufactured one beats it in quality and longlivety. However the last years the TAC-2 where made they where manufactured in U.S.A again, and that version really sucked, no centering at all even straight out of the box.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #66 on: August 07, 2003, 03:23:16 PM »
Hey LP guess you are talking 'bout this one  (just took a quick photo :-) It's a Wico Control Commander.



I have had this since 1988, still in great condition!! UNBREAKABLE...
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Offline Wilse

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« Reply #67 on: August 07, 2003, 03:42:09 PM »
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Zipstick, Throw it at the wall in frustration and it lives!


I'm with you. I still have two of these.
I also have two "bugs".

And for games that needed it, the Quickshot(I think) CD32 controller was far superior to the crap that Commodore supplied.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #68 on: August 07, 2003, 04:04:32 PM »
Hmmmm...

THE Arcade joysticks was
my best joystick and offcourse
my own Joystick in that
early years hehe :lol: :-)
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #69 on: August 07, 2003, 05:20:00 PM »
zipstick for arcade's...

Sega Mega Drive pad for rAcing

Kevin :-)
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #70 on: August 07, 2003, 06:21:19 PM »
No doubt for me:



Bought it about 16 years ago for my Schneider CPC464 and I still use it today with WinUAE on my PC...

 I made a VERY simple adapter (yes, you need an adapter ;-)  ) to connect the 'Favourite Joystick from good old days' to the parallel-port of my PC:

interface: LPT Joystick

drivers: PPJoy

(the PPJoy-site  says the LPT Joystick is not supported, but it works perfecly)  :-D
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #71 on: August 09, 2003, 11:22:37 PM »
 :-D  Hello! I love the Amiga! I hope someday to buy another. My favorite joystick for my Amiga 2000 was the Gravis. I used it on flight simulators, RPG's, almost anything and the Sega Genesis controller for everything else. :-D
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