On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, kickass wrote:
To my knowledge, the 2800 controllers are selectable paddle or joystick,
not both.
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> On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 crackers@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > It would be neat to see more games made to take advantage of these
> > controllers.
>
> Yes, it would!
>
> > But I realized that there is one very unique but not uncommon controller
> > for the 2600 that really hasn't been exploited at all.
> >
> > The Coleco Gemini controller!
> >
> > It's got a joystick and a paddle all in one controller! Can both be
> > accessed at the same time?
> >
>
> Well, I think the sears 2800 (I think that's what it is,) controllers
> would work even better for this. The 2800 is that sears system that is a
> 2600 that looks like a 7800 w/ 4 joystick ports. The sticks are, to the
> best of my knowledge, the ONLY home sticks like those used in the arcade
> games Ikari Warriors/Heavy Barrel/ etc. (Where you have a joystick, and
> the stick itself rotates for other game control uses (gun pointing,
> etc.)) This would be awesome for the mcp section of the tron game if sum1
> decided to do tron as a multi-load starpath game on the 26... (hint
> hint,) (Yes, I know I'm a strong proponent of originality, but I would
> REALLY love to see the Tron arcade game on an 80s game system (especially
> the king of systems (2600),) So far the only way I know of to play it is
> a pc emulator or the real thing...
>
> Anyway, my 2 cents.
>
> Zilla
> KDK
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