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The Most Iconic Game Controller Ever.
- The iconic 80s joystick now plugs into your PC.
- Plays old games. Plays new games.
- Press "FIRE" to start!
- Read more...
The Most Iconic Game Controller Ever.
We at ThinkGeek are skeptical of product claims. We pour all our experience with technology, actual and science-fictional, into analyzing the specs, and we generally make the right choices: we bought classic Macs and Sidekicks and loved them, yet deftly avoided PC Juniors and Windows Mobile phones. Okay, well, there was NGAGE...
Anyway, when this guy we know showed us a slick glossy ad ripped from the inside cover of the September 2010 issue of "Compute!" advertising a new console with 80M-polysprite-per-second HVIA graphics and integrated Arcadiaworld Uplink, well, we thought it over seriously. For a millisecond. Then we entrusted our money order to the alternate universe of its origin. Four-to-six weeks later, a brand-new rainbow-striped box with the classic Fuji logo appeared on our desk.
The system is beautiful, with its gleaming black finish with real wood inlay and a glowing touch-sensitive control panel (we think it's some sort of EL e-ink), but our HD monitors, 10 gigabit Ethernet, and THX-certified surround system are useless in the face of its 9 RCA "hypervideo" connectors, three-cup acoustic coupler, and something called an "audio overthruster."
So we're tabling the inter-dimensional graymarket plans for the most part -- with one exception! In a twist of fate, just like modern consoles from our universe, the controllers -- still proudly labeled "joysticks" -- connect to USB! We've tested these joysticks thoroughly with classic Atari 2600 games from our universe via our Macs and PCs using the terrific Stella emulator, but it also works as a standard USB joystick!
We'll post our reviews of Combat XIII and Outlaw 3D as soon as we reverse-engineer the rest of the interfaces.
Warning: These USB joysticks do not connect to classic Atari hardware. They're USB. USB wasn't even invented until 1996!
How to Play Halo on a Virtual Atari 2600
Former Halo team lead Ed Fries started tinkering with Atari 2600 programming in late 2009. A year later, he'd hacked his way to a nice 2-D version of Halo -- he even had a limited run of cartridges made! How to play:
Product Specifications
- Classic black 8-direction, one-button controller.
- No drivers needed on Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux.
- Game with up to four joysticks at once (two recommended for Atari 2600 titles).
- Works with classic console and arcade emulators including Stella*, VICE and MAME
- Visit AtariAge to check out classic Atari games or join the homebrew scene in the forums
- Hackable! Want more buttons? Open the case -- the circuit board supports several more!
- Made in the USA
* Our friend from Planet Ten almost cried when he saw the analog video simulation effects in Stella. Choose "TV Effects" from the "Video Options" menu. A "Staggered" TV Color Texture setting with medium bleed and low noise looks just like our old Zenith-brand X-Ray-and-picture tube.
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