>>There's also another issue we haven't touched - how do you do controls for
>>high punch, high kick, low punch, low kick, and block with only one
>>button?! :)
>
>If the 17 possibilities, that a one button joystick offers are
>not enough, we could use Budokan's control scheme. Moving the
>stick to any of the 9 possible positions would start some basic
>movements like stepping or bending to the sides or jumping etc.
>If you press the button during that movement and press the stick
>in a different position, some special attack would be startet.
As one who thus far has only programmed his VCR and a few games in BASIC
and PASCAL waaaay back in high school, my thoughts here may be totally
naive, but I got to thinking. The Atari 2600 has the keypad controllers
available for it, with mutliple buttons available. I know that the
Colecovision controllers can be used on the 2600 as a joystick...I recall
doing so years ago. Would it be possible to use a Colecovision joystick on
an Atari 2600, thus combining the play action of a joystick with the
increased number of possible combinations that the CV keypad allows for?
This could greatly increase the number of moves one could employ in a game
like MK.
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