PC Peripherals - Joysticks

BLUEVOODU · March 15, 2018, 10:54:02 PM

It's been a long time since I've broke out a joystick. I used to play Jane's flight simulators, X-wing and Tie Fighter Flight Simulators (very cool games... wish they would re-explore this concept), descent, and many other games. Now it seems like controllers have taken away from the joystick experience. Games these days are more developed for a controller... but some still are made for the joystick.

If you still use a joystick, what peripheral do you use (provide links)? What games do you still play with a joystick?

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targetrasp · March 24, 2018, 10:10:46 AM

If this comes to fruition the joystick may be getting more love

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/23/atari-vcs-ataribox-hands-on/

BLUEVOODU · March 24, 2018, 09:14:19 PM

Wow. Great find. I've not seen those yet.

So you'll get to play all old and new content made for the system. There's A LOT of old Atari content... both arcade and console. The article can't speak on specifics.. But this is very interesting! Peaks my interest.

I'd love to see a remake of alien versus predator - the Atari Jaguar version.

targetrasp · March 25, 2018, 10:50:15 AM

modern content is what I'm most interested in. Will it be like a steam machine or a home console? 0 games have been announced so who's developing? At this point it seems April is too soon for preorders to start

BLUEVOODU · March 26, 2018, 04:41:38 PM

Quote from: targetrasp on March 25, 2018, 10:50:15 AM
modern content is what I'm most interested in. Will it be like a steam machine or a home console? 0 games have been announced so who's developing? At this point it seems April is too soon for preorders to start

I hear you. Somehow I doubt it'll hit April. I would think by now there would be teasers and trailers. Hopefully it's not just an emulator type thing for Atari and they develop my hat for that as well. For $300... it should be a full on console.

I'm pretty interested ... just depends on what they do. VCS - virtual console? No physical media? Lol hmm...

targetrasp · March 26, 2018, 08:31:28 PM

its supposedly going to run Linux so it'll be an insanely expensive emulation machine

I'm still keeping my hopes up but I refuse to pay 300 for a raspberry pi that looks like a vcs

CreepinDeth · March 27, 2018, 01:15:07 AM

I still have my SFIV Arcade Sticks that I bust out when playing some Pac-Man or other arcade games. Especially SHMUPs.

BLUEVOODU · March 27, 2018, 09:37:36 PM

Quote from: CreepinDeth on March 27, 2018, 01:15:07 AM
I still have my SFIV Arcade Sticks that I bust out when playing some Pac-Man or other arcade games. Especially SHMUPs.

Those are pretty cool arcade sticks as well. I miss a good arcade stick - I still have my Neo Geo controllers... but I haven't had a good solid Arcade controller / stick in a pretty long time. I think I still have my NES Advantage somewhere as well lol...

X-Arcade sticks were pretty popular back when I had my store... though I didn't buy one for myself... and not many really made it through my shop. Economic down turn really started around 2005-2006.... and people stopped spending money on that stuff... at least from what I saw.

@targetrasp Maybe I need to break out the Atari VCS discussion to it's own topic... Might make a new post and link to this post.