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Ten-in-1 Atari Joystick Available
Dave21212 writes "My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married) to this interesting little retro-toy. It's a self-contained Atari game unit. The joystick *is* the console, battery operated with 10 preprogrammed titles and RCA out to your television. Includes Adventure, Real Sports Volleyball, Gravitar, Video Olympics, Circus Atari, Yar's Revenge, Asteroids, Centipede, Breakout, and Missile Command. She found it here on Avon and after a bit of Googling for this, I turned up no other sellers. The silly season is just around the corner, what a cool stocking stuffer! (Batteries not included)." Looks pretty authentic to the original... We mentioned this earlier but hadn't seen it for sale anywhere.
They have these in lots of truckstops. They have them with nes games, and I hear even snes/genesis ones are available.
If it only contained Pitfall....although Yar's Revenge was a very good game.
can you put linux on it?... sorry, had to ask the obvious :P
My Wife will ask "What were you doing on Avon.com?" when she sees the credit card charge. ;)
You know... I gotta say though that the site seems pretty well designed!
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I used to see something REALLY similar to this for sale at flea markets and stuff... It was obviously a bootleg product. Is this official/legit, or just another bootleg? The picture on the site looks authentic, but that doesn't mean anything, I guess.
All they need to do is add the ability to plug another Atari joystick (real, or one of these new game-full units) into the unit to allow multi-player.
That, and add a lot more games to it.
What, buy a video game and hand cream at the same site? That's just TOO WEIRD.
sulli
RTFJ.
I just sawand ad for an Activision one too. It had 10 games, some of which were Freeway, Pitfall, Spider Fighter, and River Raid.
It was only like $40
before we get a modchip for this thing?
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and just in time for Christmas shopping. I can cover a lot of teenagers on my list with this one, plus one for me of course.
That sounds great, but how heavy is it? The product page says it takes four batteries.
I mean, if you're going to have a five-pound joystick, you might as well just get an Xbox.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I've seen these in another form factor, but it wasn't compatible with my TV. Make sure it supports NTSC on this side of the lake.
I wonder if they could make this even better by allowing another joystick to plug into the first joystick in order to have a multiuser game. The other joystick could be much cheaper, because only the first one would have to have actual computer in it.
You can't handle the truth.
yes Geeks can get married
Dude, she's looking at 'joy sticks' online.
BTW, the 'stocking stuffer' joke was uncalled for...
These are for sale elswhere, they just have a different design. I actually prefer this design to the one mentioned in the article.
-Kaos
Is there a two player version available?
Where do you get that this costs $200? The site selling them says $20 and says that it includes 10 games.
Blaze a trail to the New World
yay!!! joystick on the right, button on the left!!!
do you have any idea how hard it was to go from that configuration to the nintendo-led joystick on the left, buttons on the right?
bring back the joystick on the right!!! Screw with the nintendo generation!
... hi bingo
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I know I've missed seeing TVs with burned-in images of the pacman maze. Hopefully this great phosphor zapping joystick will bring some of that back.
Do you know who Avon is? They are a very large cosmetics company. I very much doubt that they would be selling bootleg items of any kind.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Saw a game pad like device last Christmas season and it had 10 Activision games including River Raid and I even think Pitfall was on it. It looked like a Genesis or maybe like one of those nifty PS/2 controllers with the fan ins thme for cooling your hands. It was pretty cool.
Gorkman
I know I blew out more than my share back in the day, it would be a shame if you would have to ditch the whole SYSTEM because one of those crappy little plastic nubs that touch the sensors snapped (as they often did).
;)
I won't even mention how many joysticks I blew out on my c64 playing Summer Games
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Totally. Not only do we have the ultimate in comfort and reliability, but 10 of the most action-packed, jaw dropping titles ever released for home entertainment computer machine devices!
I just wish it came with ET and Custer's Revenge...
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Having to blow on the cartridges to get the games to work sometimes. This is a bonus, no cartridge to blow on. Plus you get the excellent games of yesteryear. I wonder if I will get this for Christmas...
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Exagerating a bit aren't we? And as I was playing my Xbox last night, I don't remember having to lift the entire unit to play it either.
Trying to be funny? Try again.
I got your five pound joystick right here.
can't resist saying this but.. :)
"ding dong slashdot calling"
I picked up two...
Too bad there isn't a survey or something on their site, thousands of geeks in one day would sure confuse their marketing department.
Octavian
"In the end, we all fall back on fiction." -- Lonely Planet
No, really. I will.
Are you kidding, as the first generation of gammers grows older, there will be an increasing demand for nostalgia. Jesus, I still play ZORK every once and a while.
Why, o why must the sky fall when I've learned to fly?
It is a Joystick... I am pretty sure Circus atari, breakout and video olympics all used the paddles.
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Our security team is really going to be confused by the hits Avon is getting from our general IS department... funny thing is that it's not porn, but the result is the same:
A bunch of guys sitting in front of computers with a dazed but happy look on their faces.
Someone link the Activision one. I must have Pitfall!
Grimwell - old, cranky, mean, obsessive
I think the basic signifigance of this is that the controller actually looks like the original Atari controller. More of these compilation devices -should- follow suit, but probably won't.
Now the real question: When is someone going to hack one of these to include more games? Surely it would be possible.
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I still recommend you try this before buying it, or at least verify return policies. It'd be a shame to give these out as gifts only to find the games aren't playable.
according to this it looks like it's made by Jakks Pacific.
I bought a bunch of 80-in-1 Super Mega Joy (or somthing like that) systems in Taiwan last year and gave them as Christmas presents. Tetris and Super Mario Bros went over big with everybody. I think that only releasing 10 games might be a mistake, plus you need to have two-players for Combat to be fun.
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I dont remember what it was called, but there's this joystick console that contained 10000+ games. It had games in the nature of DigDug, Pacman, and other Namco (i think) games. My uncle had gotten one a few months ago. It was a red joystick console device. Pretty neat.
$cat
.. why?
For $20 you can go to a pawnshop and pick up a used Sega Dreamcast machine. You can then go to DC Emulation and download StellaDC (an Atari 2600 emulator for the Dreamcast) along with a ROM pack of almost 300 public domain (read: legal) games, including Adventure, Pitfall, and most of the classics. Then you can sit back and kill a rainy/snowy day by playing all of the games that used to consume you as a kid.
The Dreamcast is perfect for something like this.
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
I was recently on a visit to a caribean country and ran into a device the exact same size as a Nintendo controller, and the controller WAS the whole Nintendo system, with 100 built-in games (I remember Super Mario Bros being one of the games). I actually opened the unit and the whole thing was basically *one* chip!!!
The unit was manufactured in some asian country (could tell because of the labels outside the box where it came), and it sold for the equivalent of $35 U.S. dollars (yes, 35).
The only drawback was that the unit did not use batteries, and instead came with a small external power supply, but other than that the games were 100% the exact same ones I used to play in the NES.
I was wondering, does anyone know of a place where I can buy such a device again??? The same guy that was selling the unit on the street was alse selling similar units for Sega Genesis as well.
Wow, there's 59 comments already and I can still access their page!! :-)
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The specs are a little thin. I see an RCA cable for video, but what about audio? I mean, things still need to go *boom*, don't they?
This was either posted by a troll or a teenager...
Dude, you're posting on a forum in which a countless number of us have built our own arcade machines (myself included) just so we could play pac-man and galaga again. If there's one thing that sells remarkably well, it's computer nostalgia.
--trb
if you like the all-in-one, you might as well get yourself a working system...this guy even sells the game cartridges.
http://www.atariguide.com/store/products.htm#26
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While walking down 14th Street [Manhattan] the other day, I ran across one of those 'happy cry lucky' style imported crap tourist trap shops that had, among all the garbage, several different kinds of 'N in 1' games-in-the-game-controller products.
One stood out because it had 180 different games in a SNES style controller. For $40.
I'm sure Canal street has a similar assortment of gaming trivia, as well.
So, if you happen to be in NYC... take a stroll down either and have a close look. You'll want the western part of Canal street (where most of the electronic vendors are) or 14th between 5th ave and about 7th ave.
see the end of the review here
-jon
I mean, who would have thought! Linux! On that joystick thing! What a delicious reversal! Needless to say, I soiled my trousers. I WONDER IF I COULD RUN LINUX IN MY LARGE INTESTINE!?
EB has both the Atari 10-in-1 and the Activision 10-in-1 for $20-$25 each.
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They'll have joysticks and lotion.
I've seen these @ Radio Shack for quite a few months now, at least here in New England. These were the fun old days, hope more get released.
Why no, I haven't heard of "Glazewear Liquid Lip Color" or "the Moisture Therapy Hand Cream".
Oh, everybody come over to my place for Defender and make-overs!!
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This one 76 *real* arcade games inside of it.
Just rotate the joystick 90 degrees, and now the button is on the right. Sure, you have to adjust to moving the joystick 90 degrees clockwise from where you want to move... but what do you lefties want exactly? Perfection?
alright, can everyone be strong and not use the obvious "blew out my joystick" jokes here...
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I can't say I remember the last time Avon got Slashdotted.
Peace. Sway
activision version
-jon
Circus Atari on a joystick is a friggin crime. BOYCOTT!
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I know that at least Circus Atari and Breakout require the "paddle" controllers (you spin the knob to move something left and right). Did they reformulate these games to work with the standard joystick? Certainly can't be as playable this way...
And come on, no Combat???
see here
-jon
sorry had to be done :)
No it didn't.
http://www.langleycreations.com/pitfall/
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Unfortunately, this means that when the controller is inevitably tossed in anger, I break the entire console, not just a cheap controller. There was a Penny Arcade about this awhile ago..."breaking controllers since 1985" or something like that.
"I may be quite wrong." - Socrates
for $20, it's the Activision one with one of my all time favorites - River Raid.
You can't take the sky from me
It mentions activision. I'm pretty sure Yar's Revenge et. al. weren't from Activision.
My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married)
Wait a minute... She emailed you. Is it virtual marriage we're talking about?
This guy has 200 some on eBay, the Activision version, for $7.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i
--trb
I just want one to build an adapter so I can play my old games on a PC emulator! :-)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
it would be cool if you could connect two controllers together so that you can play two player games like Combat...
it would be even cooler if these things took flash memory...
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I'm not buying one untill it supports the OGG format.
My
Limekiller
Anyone know where I can get these things in the UK, or in Europe? Avon don't seem to post over the Atlantic.
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never sell? hell i just bought one. i'm sure a number of other ppl here did too. just seeing that pic of someone playing asteriods sold me.
I ate my sig.
Coolest toy ever. Ever.
-Valiss
a Beowulf cluster of these!
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
I noticed the same thing with the original sticks. They'd last about a year before crapping out. If it wasn't the nubs, it was the springiness of the switch wearing out. I wouldn't even call it a switch, it was a bubble of metal on top of a contacts on the circuit board. Suncom made better quality and more ergonomic joysticks.
IABCOT
The Sims are entertaining the way watching network TV is entertaining: Mindless stupidity for the masses.
As far as Doom 3. Hey, nothing more fun than playing a 12 year old game that's been done to death by other games and is now itself in the 3rd copy of itself.
I mean, to each their own, but it would be more accurate for you to say:
"I only love stupid, me-too games, I don't actually appreciate anything original, and I certainly can't appreciate anything that doesn't have 3-d textured graphics, because I'm a stupid fucking monkey who likes shiny graphics"
You're welcome.
I beg to differ. The game I play the most is Galaga.
Did you state that The Sims is a fun and appealing game? What exactly is fun about it (other than the millions it has made the developers since its release)?
Also, last time I checked, Doom 3 hasn't been released (offically). Getting ~7 fps on a leeked game (that was built to be a noninterative demo) makes a fun and appealing game?
This is what is wrong with todays gamers. They buy into what they are told is a good game. Oh, John Carmack is working on Doom 3, so it must be a great game because a lot of my friends played other games in the Doom and Quake series. Media tells me that The Sims is a good game, so in order to hold up a conversation about games, I must mention it being a good game. Speaking of The Sims, what makes this a good game? The fact that it is life? Go to work, come home and read books that will help you the next day for work, make dinner, clean, buy a painting you don't need but you think it will make you happier, go to bed. Then wake up and its all the same. Is this game teaching anything? While playing it (for the brief amount of time that I did), I noticed that you can miss every other day of work without any issues. Ok, I want to get a job at EA because that must be their policy.
You actually have a link in your sig so that people can mark you as a friend? No offense, but what a loser. Maybe you ought to tear yourself away from Slashdot long enough to learn how to make some real friends.
anyone know where I can get joysticks / paddles for an existing 2600? I'm down to a single joystick, no paddles. No, I won't shop at ebay. I've got an itch for Warlords that I can't scratch.
The reason this one is so special is because the design, the very joystick itself, is so faithful to the design of the -original- Atari 2600 CX40 joystick.
:)
No silly Fluro casing, just something that is truely classic. It might be a bit obscure if you arn't familiar with the 2600, of course.. but it counts, and shows this was obviously designed by someone with a clue about retro gaming, not just a marketing drone.
I should know, I have one sitting right next to me, plugged into my Amiga
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The normally useful lameness filter seems to require a bunch of random input to circumvent.
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this one is better - a bit more expensive, but has 64 games with capability to buy more cartridges.
What I'm concerned about is that many atari/c64/amiga games wear-and-tear on joysticks, i.e. they're jerked around with constantly.
When the joystick gets worn out, how useful are the games then? =)
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
" It's a self-contained Atari game unit. The joystick *is* the console, battery operated with 10 preprogrammed titles and RCA out to your television"
I found another pic of the unit here. Enjoy.
The activision unit was not VCS2600 compatible - some of the games were changed and the graphics/gameplay were a little bit off. Oh yes, and it had two huge reset buttons you couldn't help pressing by accident and a d-pad instead of a single fire button (?)
Oh, and is it really the exact same design as an Atari joystick, or does the Avon site show an "Artist's conception"? It's slashdotted so I can't check.
If it really is a VCS2600 clone inside, what would it take to modify it to run -ahem- other 2600 games?
Circus Atari used the paddles - how does this work?
I swear by MacOS X. Although I use to swear *at* MacOS 9...
Oh, wait a minute, did you mean the gaming joystick, and not the, uhh, other kind?
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Activision games include River Raid, Pitfall, Tennis, Freeway, Spider Fighter, Atlantis, Crackpots, Boxing, Ice Hockey and Grand Prix.
Plus, it's got a better form factor, though you give up the coolness of it looking like a 2600 pad.
Check it out, same price
For the link weary...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
put the what in the where?
http://x.mame.net/
http://www.classicgaming.com/vault/
All the games you could possibly want. Why limit yourself to 10?
It's not a video RCA cable. It's composite audio/video. It plugs into those hateful TV/game switchboxes that we all had hanging off of the antenna screws on the backs of our TV sets throughout the 1980's.
I had several of them chained together at one point. One for the 2600, one for the NES, one for the TRS-80...
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1. Create MLM scheme
2. Sell your friends
3. ????
4. Profit
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(sorry, used to work there.... RadioShack!!)
Ginny's joystick is a different style (not classic).
However, they are not shippable for a few weeks.
gamestop classic style
Ginny's kiddie style
Jesus saves....And takes 1/2 damage.
**Sarcasm**
What is with this the Joystick only has one button. For a real gaming experence we need at least 2. We cant have a game with 1 button I always need two. Although when ever I play a game I end up only useing one button most of the time. But there is that situation where I need the second button.
**Sarcasm**
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I bought a bunch of those as Christmas gifts last year, I think I payed like $18 each or something.
They're cool... its a cloned NES with 30 or so games (plus the ability to start on higher levels, which they count towards that 180). Illegal, but fun for the price. Good gift for gen-x'ers who played those when they were kids.
I can't seem to find it anywhere on their web site, but I saw those at my local radio shack (for $19.99 also) in august. I'm not sure if they're still there or not, nearly bought my kid brother one for a birthday present, but sided on yu-gi-oh action figures instead. Never thought those things would make slashdot! I would've got him one if I'd known.
Hehehe... she's real, at least the picture she sent me in IRC looks real (and a lot like Alissa Milano?)
...just kidding
;)
Really though, how cool is it that she emails me links to Atari games
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
You got a year out of your Atari joysticks? I measured the life expectency of mine in weeks. Even less if a cool game came out that month :) How I've made it to 33 with no CTS is beyond me. But then I never managed to kill my original Pong game. Too bad it got lost in a move.
I wouldn't say I'm a bad gambler but the last time I went to Vegas I even lost a buck on the soda machine.
I was very much hoping to find a few more locations where these could be purchased - maybe someone will find a seller that I don't have to *wait* for the 4-6 weeks shipping ;)
Thanks !
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Sounds like every truck on the road around here anyway...
I have it and the emulation isn't perfect especially in the sound department.
Now NESTER for NES games is a different story. I'ts almost perfect save a few obscure mappers missing such as bowling when you get strikes you get garbage.
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I happened to see something like this in a catalog I found in the mail(you think spam is bad? wait and see what happens to your mailbox when you have kids). It's a similar deal, but it's made by Activision.r es/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1& catalogId=10001&categoryId=10099&productId=32281&c atTree=10088,10099&clearance=0">Here's a link</a>.
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What timing, I actually came across these at a local Radio Shack when I went to buy a Micro R/C car(aka ZipZaps). I believe the cost was also at $20. The temptation wasn't very much, as the z26 emulator and a full collection of roms is on the handy-dandy laptop.
Maybe you ought to tear yourself away from Slashdot
bite your tounge! we don't need any talk like that around here. we get it from our managers/sysadmins enough as it is.
I prefer my wife - she's the best stocking stuffer around :-)
Search on activision or atari
http://www.ebgames.com/
And I am quite sure they broke from normal use, and not from being thrown.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Electronic Boutique
Yes, it's got a different set of games. That's why I included the list with the link. IMHO, the set of games is better than the Atari version. Portable Pitfall for $20 makes it worth it, to me. Grand Prix is pretty good too, though I'm not too sure I remember the others. On the other hand, how did Atari forget about Space Invaders? I used to have the stand alone version in my basement, along with the original Asteroids stand-up. I couldn't even tell you how many hours (years?) i spent in front of those.
put the what in the where?
Eat my nuts.
This device is advertised as having "128 Classic 70's & 80's Arcade Games" built in, and it's $50, and has dual controllers.
http://www.hobbytron.net/video-game-system.html
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I remember walking into computer stores in the early to mid eighties and seeing replacements for the plastic shaft of those joysticks on sale. I got a new Wico baseball bat style joystick with a metal shaft just to play Summer Games before too long.
At Avon you can use the discount code FIRSTORDER to get 15% off...
Seriously.
My wife ended up with one last year sometime. Looks like a little controller with all the games burned in on a chip. It's got a little select screen you can choose btween different games.
Hooks up to a tv via RCA, video and audio.
What's it like? In a word.. Shit.
Prone to graphics glitches, controller is cheaply made, and it's interesting for all of 18 seconds and you're done with your blast from the past. There's better things to throw money at.
[o]_O
"My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married)..."
We just call the ceremony, "My Big Fat Geek Wedding".
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
check the gaming section of your local radioshack, they have a version of this as well with a bunch of games. i forget what it goes for, but its around 20 bucks
The CPU is from the 6502 family so the actual gameplay code is running. The graphics are emulated though, and I guess the sprite/missile collision.
Most likely are pirate versions. These are official, but the 120 games in one jobbies are pirated 2600 cartridges (easier to make, but no front end).
You suck, Erik Krout.
has to be Somario... which is sonic the hedgehog running on a NES (bootleg 1) with Mario sprites (bootleg 2). Someone must have spent a while writing that...
Gamestop will have this joystick in stores Nov 22. Made by Jakks Pacific, who most notably made WWF toys
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http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fi
You'll need a reasonably modern TV. PAL televisions five years old or more will probably display it in black and white. Modern ones are more forgiving of NTSC.
If the console is completely contained in the controller, how am I supposed to destroy my friends in Missile Command?
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you people - this has been on the market for at ..
.. it sucks
least 3 years
screw slashdot
My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married)...
Thanks for the clarification. I thought for a moment geeks cannot get married.
Tat Tvam Asi
So, how do you play with another player?
There are probably easier things to do in this world.
Yes, of course. But is she hot? Cause my fiancé is and I still don't understand the logic behind it. I'm not rich and no, it's not 11 inches.
It sometimes makes my doubt if I'm a true nerd. It's awfull when you're behind your computer writing brilliant code and some hotty is calling you from the shower. I feel like I'm torn between 2 completly different worlds!
The glass is half-full. With poison. And there are cracks in the glass. The dirty, dirty glass.
Are these games ported, or emulated? I assume there isn't a real 6502 in there. (Can you even buy them anymore?) I'd be interested in knowing how (if) they are emulating the 6502.
WTF? We're almost the 51st state already!!! (joking!)
My nephew has something similar that my sister bought on Home Shopping Network. It is a little bigger than a PS2 controller, and it has 10 classic Activision games on it. (Pitfall, Freeway, Grand Prix, etc.)
move along, nothing to
...of play Breakout with a JOYSTICK?
OMG... Summer Games was total joystick killer. My sister walked into my room once while I was doing one of the races (shake shake shake that stick!), and yelled, What the heck are you doing?!
I repaired a few of them. Many of the problems I had was due to the metal switches creeping out of alignment on the circuit board. I found you could peel back the adhesive film over the switches, re-align them and put the adhesive back to correct responsiveness problems. It wasn't long-lasting, but it worked for a while.
I'm going to take a wild guess that most of us have not ordered from Avon before, right?
Use the coupon code "FIRSTORDER" to save 15% ($3) this fine cosmetic product.
An awesome geek stocking stuffer. I'm sure I'll pay for it in Avon spam and catalogs..
Drat! I was looking forward to blowing my own joystick!
A friend of mine said (ages ago) that he received an original-style NES controller with an embedded system and some games. The cord from the controller was the video cable that you plugged into your TV. How neat is that? :> (Now if there's just a way to upload ROMs...)
Alari
I use Windows... like a two dollar wh.. why don't I just go ahead and not finish that sentence.
Imagine if they made a beowulf console out of these! ...using the ethernet port... ...and replacing the OS on its hard drive... ...and it'd still be slow...
Nevermind.
I'm sure you can find them everywhere...
I have found lots of them in that arab "electronic bazaars", from spectrum 1001-in-1, to SuperNES 10+1...
My sister got one of these last year. I'm sooooo jealous!
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My wife recieves the SWISS COLONY catalog of sweets and meats as well as lots of usless junk.
In thier catalog they sell this Atari Joystic thing.
BLAH,blah so forth and so on.....
OT... that link in your signature had me rolling dude...
many RadioShack stores still have the ones with 20 some odd Activision games built into a PS1 style controller..
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I remember when I had the Atari 2600 and how much better the stick was when you yanked off the rubber grip. Bought about half a dozen in a junk shop and used the stick through my Sinclair Spectrum days, Sega Megadrive and during my Commodore Amiga. As I say, best stick ever!!! Made a fabulous plunger that left marks on skin if you decided to stick it on another person :)
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10 Activision games in a different controller. I saw them at Wal-Mart, of all places. Sucks about the batteries, though. And they are mostly or all one player games, I would expect.
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I don't see how video olympics is going to be any fun at all if you can only play 1 player. Volleyball probably wouldn't be much fun eigther. What we need is a 2 controler set with combat, vid olympics, baseball, frog pond, etc. Then I'd definitly buy it.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! if BSD wasn't dying I imagine there'd be a port shortly.
Now I just need to work in a ???...PROFIT joke also.
Despite the fact these are just now hitting the market, the manufacturer sent me one three weeks ago for evaluation. I wrote a review (with screen captures) of the unit, and I encourage my fellow Slashdotters to check it out. I am afraid that people looking to recreate the Atari 2600 experience are going to be let down by this product.
Please cruise by my site and check out the review.
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Yeah, but try to get one by Christmas now...
How are you really going to play Video Olympics, Breakout and Circus Atari with a joystick?
They need a 10 in 1 paddle controller version of this for these games that should also include Warlords and Demons to Diamonds, among others...
Chris
At least two of those games(Circus Atari and Breakout) need paddles to be played well; using a joystick for games like that is frustrating at best. Ever try playing something like Kaboom using a joystick? You can't do it.
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I knew I should have ordered a bunch before posting this item, oh well. ! It seems that the link is dead and even a site search (look at the bottom right, bass-ackards place to put that) on "Atari" or "Games" doesn't find it any more...
Thank goodness for the alternative locations to find these posted by a few people... Thanks !
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I used to live where we couldn't get new games or parts until we took took vacations back to visit family in the States. We quickly determined that the plastic white piece would eventually break after weeks of playing Alien Invaders, it never seemed to go fast enough left and right, and rolling the scores. We would stock of on the spare plastic pieces that broke thereby avoiding to buy whole new joysticks.
I also broke many on Pacman.
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