Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?

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I wonder if the fact that natively, the Amiga, having only a single buttoned mindset had anything to do with it. Most of the arcade games at the time utilized 2-3 or more buttons next to their joysticks. Or Overscan. Dedicated consoles have this way of filling up the entire screen. Many of the arcade conversions on the Amiga had you playing with an invisible border .75" thick it seemed. Another attribute that's not very "arcade" like  

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That cartridge/disk relationship was befuddling. The perception of value that is. IMO, gaming companies should have never asked $50+ for their software on diskette. It was just absurd back then. Especially when you knew damn well they saved themselves TONS of money by not purchasing and producing expensive chips, circuit boards and cases. So that scenario did always kind of loom in the back of a lot of peoples minds here.

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MOST Amiga games certainly did NOT take advantage of a dual button joystick. MOST 2-button joys are actually wired to be one button - just in different positions. Usually one on the base and one up top.

Cammy is absolutely right on all counts, especially about lazy programmers.

Out of the boxes and boxes I have of just about every DB9 joystick ever made, only ONE of them is wired to be 2-buttoned. It's an extremely rare Epyx one too.

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(thankx for the list Cammy, I didn't realize there were so many)

Yes, thank you! And yeah, it would be great to have a permanent list maintained. So... these 2-button games, when you choose that feature, is that stupid 'up' to jump function disabled or is it still there? I remember some games, even though they might have taken advantage of a second button, you could still accidentally jump by moving the joystick even up-diagonal