Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?

[runequester]

Ive had plenty of 2 button sticks, as well as plenty of "two buttons but wired as one" sticks. Quite a few games took advantage of a proper two button stick.
The CD32 had 3 buttons didn't it ?

[runequester]

Name 5

The turrican and alien breed games, a few of the fighting games (fighting spirit and shadow fighter both do, I believe).
There's a few platformers that do it too (the second button would be jump)


On the remainder of the topic.. the amiga was not a console, it was a computer. Consoles beat everything at the time. They were made to play games.

[runequester]

I can't stand using a button to jump

Besides, how did nintendo's do with a game like Civilization ..

[runequester]

Every Amiga joystick/pad I ever bought had AT LEAST two buttons and I made damn sure of it. Now, if UAE would support my 12-button + 2-analogue + D-Pad USB joysticks... Frontier would be AWESOME!

You can kinda get there, if you use software to map keyboard presses to gamepad/joysticks buttons.
When using UAE I usually map things like p and space to the gamepad to avoid having to reach for the keyboard.
 
With a bit of work, I've even gotten Alien breed 3D and Breathless to play as "left stick to move, right stick to aim"

[runequester]

I'm clearly missing some configuration steps...  Details?!  (NB. WinUAE or [E-|P]UAE?)

You'll need an external program for this. Im not sure what there is for windows. On Linux I used rejoystick.


Basically you need an app that lets you map keyboard presses to a gamepad.

[runequester]

You know, this kind of comes back full circle to why aren't we seeing more cart based systems again?  16G on a chip is darn near blu-ray storage.  Is it that everyone wants network distributed everything now, or is it that DVD's and game discs get scratched all up necessitating the purchase of another game later on?  I suppose there is considerable more money tied up in a cart than a DVD, but at 60 bucks a pop isn't there room to profit?  And to think-you can't just stamp out a cart!  DRM wins!

I am hoping we can get the hell rid of cd's soon. I hate the damn things

[runequester]

Yeah-I want to be able to blow on my cartridges again to get them to work :lol:

USB Flash sticks for the win. Tiny little solid state drives

whats wrong with them?

They are big, they get scratched up, the cd drives are noisy, they are slow to load. Basically just an oversized floppy disk with all the resultant drawbacks.

For modern computing, I am well and ready to move on to flash/thumb drives and the interwebs.
I have a hard time thinking of anything a CD actually does better