Favourite Joysticks
What was your favourite joystick?
I started off with the Quickfire II that came with my Speccy 48k+, but soon found it was not much cop. The contacts started failing, and it would be hard to get the accurate direction on some games, i.e. you would press it diagonal and you would go left!
My dad bought this excellent little joystick, but I have no idea what it was called.
It was a pretty simple little thing, you held it in one hand and it had a little thumbstick that you used the other hand on. It used micro-switches instead of contacts, so less chance of failure.
The best thing was it had two independant fire buttons, so if you had a programable interface you could set them up for different things.
It was great for playing Elite, lasers on fire1 and missles on fire2.
Wish I knew what it was called.
When it finally died after about 8 years of abuse, I went to get a replacement but could not find one as good. I asked the dippy shop assistant for a joystick with micro-switches and two seperate fire buttons. I do't think he knew what I meant because he gave me a Cheetah joystick that had 4 fire buttons, but of course all did the same function.
I started off with the Quickfire II that came with my Speccy 48k+, but soon found it was not much cop. The contacts started failing, and it would be hard to get the accurate direction on some games, i.e. you would press it diagonal and you would go left!
My dad bought this excellent little joystick, but I have no idea what it was called.
It was a pretty simple little thing, you held it in one hand and it had a little thumbstick that you used the other hand on. It used micro-switches instead of contacts, so less chance of failure.
The best thing was it had two independant fire buttons, so if you had a programable interface you could set them up for different things.
It was great for playing Elite, lasers on fire1 and missles on fire2.
Wish I knew what it was called.
When it finally died after about 8 years of abuse, I went to get a replacement but could not find one as good. I asked the dippy shop assistant for a joystick with micro-switches and two seperate fire buttons. I do't think he knew what I meant because he gave me a Cheetah joystick that had 4 fire buttons, but of course all did the same function.
Post edited by MoonMonkey on
Comments
Personally I only ever had one joystick (the SJ11 or something... the grey one with a thumb button that came with my +3), until I recently bought a Quickshot on ebay for about 5 quid.
I had one of those, i liked the thumb stick so much that when the case got damaged i built my own joystick using the stick assembly, and bits from a maxpack vending machine and an old Ford radio :diy joystick
I do remember fixing an old knackered QSII with the, suitably mangled, lid from a tin of beans - worked too!
Necros.
Actually, I've done the same thing on a cheap mp3 player too.
Aah, retro fixes.
Thats the one! Thanks!
It way a great little joystick. Mine had square red fire buttons, guess it must have been a later/earlier one.
looked like a laser gun.
I amen to that.
Powerplay Cruiser
Competition Pro
Quickshot 2
Cheetah 125+
I also had one of those Cheetah rat things as well
hehe, I did that with my Cheetah 125+ Joystick back then :) Retro fixes indeed, when your young you can fix anything with cellotape, string, bluetack and the back of a Cornfalkes packet, haha
Zip Stick,
but best of all:
My RAM joystick. It had an odd shaped base and stick but was excellent. I cannot find an example on the web.
I still have two zip sticks. If I could plug em into my PC and use em I would.
Andrew.
http://www.retrousb.com/
and I liked the competition pro 5000 - excellent sturdy piece of kit.
Speed King
Zip Stick
The Bug
In that order.
Ive got some really awfull and uncomfortable sticks in my collection.
Also remember really wanting that massive stick with the stopwatch in the middle. Was somewhat dissapointed when I finally got one. Really sluggish.
:(
What model was it??
Andrew.
It was a Sinclair SJS1 :lol: