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Your favorite Joystick (fnar!)

DirtyHaggerDirtyHagger
edited May 2011 in Games
Following on from another thread....

What was your favorite Joystick?
Was it cheap and nasty or almost indestrcuatable?
Did it have autofire?

Your thoughts please

My personal favorite was I think called a Cheetah, a big old school joystick with Autofire and a trigger and thumb button. It came in a manly black with red buttons. Also with suctions cups on the bottom. Class.....:D
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  • milemile
    edited June 2008
    i had a kempston for my speccy, and a couple for my amiga. must say though i did like the design of the atari 2600 joystick the best. other than that i have never owned a joystick since. i always wanted a 'bug' joystick.
  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited June 2008
    Black Powerplay Cruiser, cost me ?9.99 back in 1991 and still works (I never use it for 'wagglers though), no autofire, but nice rubber suckers and microswitches. Feels very 'arcade-like' to play with too. :)
  • jpjp
    edited June 2008
    DirtyHagger wrote: »
    ...My personal favorite was I think called a Cheetah, a big old school joystick with Autofire and a trigger and thumb button. It came in a manly black with red buttons. Also with suctions cups on the bottom. Class.....:D

    Thou should not covet thy neighbours manly black [Spectravideo] joystick ;) ...
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  • PopoCopPopoCop
    edited June 2008
    Good old Quickshot II Plus, better version of Quickshot II. It has 2 fire buttons and autofire.
    Still have one and it still works fine.
    ZX Spectrum +2 & PicoDiv SD,
    Timex 2048 & divIDE 57c
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    My fave was definately the Quickshot II Turbo I recently mentioned in another post. It lasted ages, until I lent it to a mate who was hooked on Kick Off 2 on the Amiga.
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited June 2008
    I'll go with the Quickshot II Turbo as well. Trigger and top buttons, suction-cups for single-handed use, auto-fire, rugged responsive switches and a moulded grip. It lasted me from Spectrum to CPC (where you could use the buttons separately) to Atari ST as well
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    QII2 all the way babycheeks!
  • sparkessparkes
    edited June 2008
    Competition Pro was my all time favourite, I have one of the later red stick and microswitch ones under my desk now (oo-er). No autofire.

    The QSII Turbo was cool for games that felt better with a flight style stick. Autofire.

    For wagglers I had a modified Konix Speedking with the end of the stick broken I filed it down and created probably the best waggler ever produced. I can't remember if that exact stick had autofire but some speedkings did.
  • chop983chop983
    edited June 2008
    I continued using my Atari 2600 joysticks until they could no longer be repaired, then I had a competition Pro although this was for my Amiga. On the speccy I preferred to use the more responsive keyboard
  • Lee_dCLee_dC
    edited June 2008
    i liked the quickshot python? until it broke and i got a new one, which wasn't half as good.
  • Lee_dCLee_dC
    edited June 2008
    btw, how crap was the sinclair joystick that came with the +2? worst joystick evarrrr
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2008
    The Zipstick is the king of all joysticks. It's virtually unbreakable and can stand up to the toughest session of playing Hypersports. I've had one for almost 20 years now and it's still in perfect condition. :)
  • gcallardgcallard
    edited June 2008
    I have to agree with Toxie on this - Power Play Cruiser all the way. Nigh on indestructible (even with wagglers)! The only other 'stick I ever had to last as well was the original QuickShot 1 that came with my Speccy! (Though that's mostly because I only ever used it when my current one was broken).

    I think I went through three QuickShot 2's, 2 QuickShot 2 Turbo's and one other thing I can't recall the make of. And none of those were lost to tantrums!
  • beanzbeanz
    edited June 2008
    I also stuck with the Atari 2600 stick. Still do today..on my Amiga/c64/speccy err and Atari.

    Never liked any of the others..I guess I had adapted my style to the Atari stick and never got 'used' to another one.

    I have around 20ish Atari sticks now in various states of repair/operation.
  • hillelrhillelr
    edited June 2008
    kempston was my favorite
    the best joystick ever
  • muldermulder
    edited June 2008
    I had a Tac 5 which is around here somewhere and probably still works. It was a grey thing with a crap fire button on the top and two thumb buttons on the base. It was used a lot for Combat School, but mostly I used the keyboard anyway.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i always wanted a 'bug' joystick.

    Cool, I've still got one somewhere. I really liked the look of it, but couldn't quite get used to it once I got one.
  • milemile
    edited June 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Cool, I've still got one somewhere. I really liked the look of it, but couldn't quite get used to it once I got one.

    i liked the little stick on top, but i had a different type so couldn't justify the money to spend on one.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i liked the little stick on top, but i had a different type so couldn't justify the money to spend on one.
    Is that the little blue one that you hold in your hand and the fire button is right at your index finger? I have one of them here somewhere and it's really good. Haven't used it very often though.

    EDIT: Never mind, I just did a quick search on Yahoo and it's not the one I'm thinking of.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    Necros wrote: »
    Is that the little blue one that you hold in your hand and the fire button is right at your index finger? I have one of them here somewhere and it's really good. Haven't used it very often though.

    EDIT: Never mind, I just did a quick search on Yahoo and it's not the one I'm thinking of.

    It did have a button at your index finger, and another at your thumb. The one I've got looks like the 7th one down on this page (but mine's dark blue):

    http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=12637&start=0
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited June 2008
    This one :)
    OR maybe this one :D
    This is pretty damn cool.
    Or this one
    Or this one?
    Or any one of whatever the fuck is going on over here

    ANYWAY...

    My personal favourite that I actually had was (finally found it!) The Power Play Cruiser. In those colours :D Very good microswitched stick that died when it came across Final Fight.

    Kinox Speedking, stand in the corner.
  • FrankieFrankie
    edited June 2008
    The two best Joysticks in my believe is Kempston Competition Pro and The Arcade.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    Or any one of whatever the fuck is going on over here
    They look like birthday cakes. :lol:

    Anyway, does anyone know the name of my mystery joystick. I'd dig it out but it's buried in a box in my wardrobe somewhere (I think) and it would be too much hassle to go searching. It was blue and it fitted in your hand like a gun. The fire button (which was red) was underneath like a trigger and there was a tiny stick for movement (which was also red) on the very top. There were two plugs, one for Kempston and one for the Sinclair connector (as found on the 128K models.

    Any ideas?
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    Necros wrote: »
    Any ideas?

    Sounds like it may be a Speed King joystick of some kind.
  • PyjamaramaPyjamarama
    edited June 2008
    pacmanyz0.jpg

    Aneroussis PacMan/StarFighter/Tomahawk.

    Made of steel,indestructable,steady and accurate.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2008
    Nope, not a Speed King.
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited June 2008
    Anyone else wish that all the sticks that had 2 fire buttons allowed them to work independently?

    Oh and later on in my Speccy's life after the Cruiser (fnar!) died, I ended up borrowing a joypad from an Amstrad GX4000 :D
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited June 2008
    This page shows a lot of the joysticks used on 8-bit systems:-

    http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/other/o_joystick.htm

    The first one I ever used was the "Commodore 1311" (on the VIC-20), with the helpful "TOP" marking! It wasn't a very responsive joystick. (It hardly moved, and was silent to use).

    The classic Atari joystick was much better.

    I've also used the konix speedking & navigator sticks.

    I remember the zipstick super pro too.

    The one I use nowadays with emulators is the "Competition pro deluxe". The joystick is identical to the classic version, but the modern versions have a USB connector on them.

    Of course the "Quickshot II" joysticks were always popular, as already mentioned.
  • zx1zx1
    edited June 2008
    Used to use the Cheetah+ (i think it was called). I still use that joystick to this day. Most games had this in the main menu. Although i think Kempston was the most popular.
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited June 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    Anyone else wish that all the sticks that had 2 fire buttons allowed them to work independently?

    Absolutely. This is why I like using the modern day USB version of the "Competition pro deluxe" joysticks.

    These have the two big round buttons, and the small triangular "corner" buttons each individually mappable, giving 4 available buttons, but still it otherwise feels like using the original joystick.
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