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kev posted 21-05-2001 12:39 PM GMT
In reply to Biggest Jim's request for topics, i know it's a bit sad, but i also wondered what the c64 public would consider their fave joysticks (considering i was going through puberty during the mid 80's, my answer is obvious!). Seriously though, Hypersports sent several Quickshot IIs to the knackers yard, and the competition pros were superb...Also had a few konix speedkings. Still have an original Atari joystick that works fine!
iain posted 21-05-2001 05:45 PM GMT
I started off with QuickShots II's and they were pretty shite!! They broke without too much effort at all.
My cousin in the UK had a couple of Tac 5's that when I got my own ones of them, they too broke fairly quickly, I remember in one of them the "right" didn't work anymore and in another the fire button.
After that I got a Competition Pro Extra Glo and never looked back after that, they really were the best joysticks I ever came across, they took a lot of beating with Decatalon and Speedball II on the Amiga, they lasted years and I still have a few in tact.
Got a few Comp 5000's a while ago, unfortuntly the fire button on them isn't microswitched though which lets them down a bit.
Mort posted 21-05-2001 09:22 PM GMT
I still have a couple of Powerplay cruisers I use on my Megadrive! Atari Vcs Joysticks last well as they have lasted 21 years!
Andy posted 21-05-2001 09:38 PM GMT
Definitely the Comp Pro series. If anyone has any they want to sell, please let me know!
Bazza posted 21-05-2001 11:02 PM GMT
I stuck with the atari joysticks in the end. Everything else on the market was either too big too loose or too fragile.
Mind you, had my fair share of cramping up whilst using the old Ataris.
There was one joystick I liked with a red knob handle (no jokes here thanx ) that was a good size for holding but I thought it was a quickshot. It had a clear plastic case so you could see the insides and had those proper switches rather than the common membrane crap.
Bazza posted 21-05-2001 11:03 PM GMT
I stuck with the atari joysticks in the end. Everything else on the market was either too big too loose or too fragile.
Mind you, had my fair share of cramping up whilst using the old Ataris.
There was one joystick I liked with a red knob handle (no jokes here thanx ) that was a good size for holding but I thought it was a quickshot. It had a clear plastic case so you could see the insides and had those proper switches rather than the common membrane crap. I used to use it on my Amiga.
Bazza posted 21-05-2001 11:05 PM GMT
Oops... sory about the double post. Too slow on the stop button, still thats one way to get the number of thread responses up :)
BIGGEST JIM posted 22-05-2001 02:51 PM GMT
Nice one, joysticks!
Lemme think.....
Oh yeah, when my parents bought the c128-d, the salesman talked them in buying two joysticks, (for me and my bro) but they we're the strangest kind I ever saw.
I think they were in the "quickshot"-series, but....they were HUGE, you could put them on either your lap or the table, and the joysticks had in fact no stick, but a huge brown BALL-like-thing, awwright, now I remember, they were called "joyballs" or something. (no jokes, thanx again)
Anyway, you had to put your hand on that ball to manoeuvre it, left,right, up and down, just like a stick, but then there was no stick, it was a ball and err, right, you get the picture!
It had two also HUGE HUGE firebuttons, which you couln't miss hitting them, they had the same dark-brown color as the ball, the "joy-ball's" base was milky white/cream-like, ermm(?)
In the beginning they were great, totally different, and quite cool looking!
But after a couple of months of intense Pitstop II- abusing, they were GONZO, killed to death.
So we bought a couple of "Arcade pro's" maybe those were from a Dutch fabric, but they were the best! Super-slick-joysticks!(although quite standard, compared to our "balls")
I remember buying a "competition pro" or something, which I liked too.
A friend of ours had a small atari joystick (completely black, small base & and short stickie, one small orange button)which worked pretty well for "decathlon", he was so fast with that one!!!
Image playing "decathlon" with those "joyballs"!!! Gruesome torture!!!
My all-time favourite joystick/pad is still the one from the SNES, though! Superp design, and unbreakable.
(maybe that's because they never brought "decathlon" to the SNES)
Cheers, ROb de V.
iain posted 22-05-2001 03:02 PM GMT
The original Atari joysticks were great, my friend had a couple and they lasted many many years as wekk. However the later editions of the joysticks (even although they looked the same) were pretty shite, the one my bro got with his Atari 2600 didn't last much more than a couple of months before the shaft broke!
Akuma posted 22-05-2001 06:12 PM GMT
I think my favorite joystick (well technically a joypad) was the Quickshot Flightgrip. Now that thing was wierd.
kev posted 24-05-2001 10:57 AM GMT
Think my other fave joysticks were the Cruisers, some versions of which had a twistable base that, erm, tightened the shaft..... similar style and shape to the Competition Pros. My old man became quite adept at changing the switches that you had inside them, however everything changed when i got streetfighter with the SNES.........
Mayhem posted 24-05-2001 12:02 PM GMT
Love that joystick... heh.
I've had 3 for over 10 years and all of them are still working fine. Despite being subjected to various waggling sessions for Decathlon (Activision and Daleys), Summer Games etc...
BIGGEST JIM posted 24-05-2001 10:11 PM GMT
hey!
Is no-one familiar with my joyballs??
(see former reply)
Were they so exclusive?
If anybody had them, seen them in shops, or maybe have a scan/copy of adversiments/pictures (on the net?) please reply!
Ciao, ROb de V.
kev posted 25-05-2001 10:52 AM GMT
Nah, you're not the only one to remember them, they were cream coloured with a great big burgundy blob in the middle! Seemed a teensy bit gimmicky for me!
1054462 posted 13-06-2001 11:42 AM GMT
Hi,
I had a really crap 'master shot' joystick. I remember frequently using the soldering iron on it while waiting for the next level of salamander or combat school to load!! Somehow I think todays kids with their dreamcasts might find this a little bit strange!!
lee posted 21-06-2001 12:00 AM GMT
I had one stick that served me well for ages. Can't remember the name but it was black and had two really large, springy red fire buttons on the base.
When it died, I bought another. When that died, I nicked my dad's soldering iron and started swapping out the microswitches!
What was it called??? That'll bug me now :(
nemesite posted 28-06-2001 09:28 AM GMT
I went through Quickshots like nobody's business. I think Quickshot were the Aiwa of the joystick world (ie products break easily).
Only reason we kept on buying them was because I liked the fire buttons on the stick.
genrex posted 07-07-2001 11:57 PM GMT
I remember the original Quickshot that came with my C64. I broke it after about a week i guess on commando :) the darned final screen needed a lot of diagonal turns!!! well.... meanwhile i tried the original atari stick and it worked for a while. But usually i was also screwing and soldering the original quickshot and changing the contact plates with any similar thing from my junk of broken toys :) I still have it... now a PART of those broken toys.
My favourite has to be the 'Custom Job'. I got 5 microswitches and a Ball stick, got them together and put assembled them in a big wooden box. THAT custom job lasted for good and i still have it :) I only had to change a few microswitches in all the time span :)
mazza posted 19-08-2001 02:46 PM GMT
comp pro 'nuff said
Mimir posted 13-09-2001 12:00 PM GMT
Oh, I most certainly remember the "joyball". More like a "joydome" really, as it was only half a ball which worked just like the stick on a joystick rather than the way a trackball or a mouse works. Got mine with as my subscription prize thingy with one of my Zzap subscriptions. I can't say I ever liked using the thing. Much preferred a regular stick. The Competition Pro series to be more exact. Never found a stick its equal. Also went through three or four Tac 2 sticks and some more gimicky ones with "pilot style" stick handles (Decathlon absolutely killed 'em all). The Competition Pro never failed me though.
-Mimir
PaulEMoz posted 13-09-2001 03:35 PM GMT
Unquestionably the Zipstick. You know, the black one with the square yellow buttons? The best joystick of all time for all games, bar none.
smila posted 13-09-2001 03:39 PM GMT
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Author	Topic: Top Joysticks!!!
kev	posted 21-05-2001 12:39 PM GMT In reply to Biggest Jim's request for topics, i know it's a bit sad, but i also wondered what the c64 public would consider their fave joysticks (considering i was going through puberty during the mid 80's, my answer is obvious!). Seriously though, Hypersports sent several Quickshot IIs to the knackers yard, and the competition pros were superb...Also had a few konix speedkings. Still have an original Atari joystick that works fine!
iain	posted 21-05-2001 05:45 PM GMT I started off with QuickShots II's and they were pretty shite!! They broke without too much effort at all. My cousin in the UK had a couple of Tac 5's that when I got my own ones of them, they too broke fairly quickly, I remember in one of them the "right" didn't work anymore and in another the fire button. After that I got a Competition Pro Extra Glo and never looked back after that, they really were the best joysticks I ever came across, they took a lot of beating with Decatalon and Speedball II on the Amiga, they lasted years and I still have a few in tact. Got a few Comp 5000's a while ago, unfortuntly the fire button on them isn't microswitched though which lets them down a bit.
Mort	posted 21-05-2001 09:22 PM GMT I still have a couple of Powerplay cruisers I use on my Megadrive! Atari Vcs Joysticks last well as they have lasted 21 years!
Andy	posted 21-05-2001 09:38 PM GMT Definitely the Comp Pro series. If anyone has any they want to sell, please let me know!
Bazza	posted 21-05-2001 11:02 PM GMT I stuck with the atari joysticks in the end. Everything else on the market was either too big too loose or too fragile. Mind you, had my fair share of cramping up whilst using the old Ataris. There was one joystick I liked with a red knob handle (no jokes here thanx ) that was a good size for holding but I thought it was a quickshot. It had a clear plastic case so you could see the insides and had those proper switches rather than the common membrane crap.
Bazza	posted 21-05-2001 11:03 PM GMT I stuck with the atari joysticks in the end. Everything else on the market was either too big too loose or too fragile. Mind you, had my fair share of cramping up whilst using the old Ataris. There was one joystick I liked with a red knob handle (no jokes here thanx ) that was a good size for holding but I thought it was a quickshot. It had a clear plastic case so you could see the insides and had those proper switches rather than the common membrane crap. I used to use it on my Amiga.
Bazza	posted 21-05-2001 11:05 PM GMT Oops... sory about the double post. Too slow on the stop button, still thats one way to get the number of thread responses up :)
BIGGEST JIM	posted 22-05-2001 02:51 PM GMT Nice one, joysticks! Lemme think..... Oh yeah, when my parents bought the c128-d, the salesman talked them in buying two joysticks, (for me and my bro) but they we're the strangest kind I ever saw. I think they were in the "quickshot"-series, but....they were HUGE, you could put them on either your lap or the table, and the joysticks had in fact no stick, but a huge brown BALL-like-thing, awwright, now I remember, they were called "joyballs" or something. (no jokes, thanx again) Anyway, you had to put your hand on that ball to manoeuvre it, left,right, up and down, just like a stick, but then there was no stick, it was a ball and err, right, you get the picture! It had two also HUGE HUGE firebuttons, which you couln't miss hitting them, they had the same dark-brown color as the ball, the "joy-ball's" base was milky white/cream-like, ermm(?) In the beginning they were great, totally different, and quite cool looking! But after a couple of months of intense Pitstop II- abusing, they were GONZO, killed to death. So we bought a couple of "Arcade pro's" maybe those were from a Dutch fabric, but they were the best! Super-slick-joysticks!(although quite standard, compared to our "balls") I remember buying a "competition pro" or something, which I liked too. A friend of ours had a small atari joystick (completely black, small base & and short stickie, one small orange button)which worked pretty well for "decathlon", he was so fast with that one!!! Image playing "decathlon" with those "joyballs"!!! Gruesome torture!!! My all-time favourite joystick/pad is still the one from the SNES, though! Superp design, and unbreakable. (maybe that's because they never brought "decathlon" to the SNES) Cheers, ROb de V.
iain	posted 22-05-2001 03:02 PM GMT The original Atari joysticks were great, my friend had a couple and they lasted many many years as wekk. However the later editions of the joysticks (even although they looked the same) were pretty shite, the one my bro got with his Atari 2600 didn't last much more than a couple of months before the shaft broke!
Akuma	posted 22-05-2001 06:12 PM GMT I think my favorite joystick (well technically a joypad) was the Quickshot Flightgrip. Now that thing was wierd.
kev	posted 24-05-2001 10:57 AM GMT Think my other fave joysticks were the Cruisers, some versions of which had a twistable base that, erm, tightened the shaft..... similar style and shape to the Competition Pros. My old man became quite adept at changing the switches that you had inside them, however everything changed when i got streetfighter with the SNES.........
Mayhem	posted 24-05-2001 12:02 PM GMT Love that joystick... heh. I've had 3 for over 10 years and all of them are still working fine. Despite being subjected to various waggling sessions for Decathlon (Activision and Daleys), Summer Games etc...
BIGGEST JIM	posted 24-05-2001 10:11 PM GMT hey! Is no-one familiar with my joyballs?? (see former reply) Were they so exclusive? If anybody had them, seen them in shops, or maybe have a scan/copy of adversiments/pictures (on the net?) please reply! Ciao, ROb de V.
kev	posted 25-05-2001 10:52 AM GMT Nah, you're not the only one to remember them, they were cream coloured with a great big burgundy blob in the middle! Seemed a teensy bit gimmicky for me!
1054462	posted 13-06-2001 11:42 AM GMT Hi, I had a really crap 'master shot' joystick. I remember frequently using the soldering iron on it while waiting for the next level of salamander or combat school to load!! Somehow I think todays kids with their dreamcasts might find this a little bit strange!!
lee	posted 21-06-2001 12:00 AM GMT I had one stick that served me well for ages. Can't remember the name but it was black and had two really large, springy red fire buttons on the base. When it died, I bought another. When that died, I nicked my dad's soldering iron and started swapping out the microswitches! What was it called??? That'll bug me now :(
nemesite	posted 28-06-2001 09:28 AM GMT I went through Quickshots like nobody's business. I think Quickshot were the Aiwa of the joystick world (ie products break easily). Only reason we kept on buying them was because I liked the fire buttons on the stick.
genrex	posted 07-07-2001 11:57 PM GMT I remember the original Quickshot that came with my C64. I broke it after about a week i guess on commando :) the darned final screen needed a lot of diagonal turns!!! well.... meanwhile i tried the original atari stick and it worked for a while. But usually i was also screwing and soldering the original quickshot and changing the contact plates with any similar thing from my junk of broken toys :) I still have it... now a PART of those broken toys. My favourite has to be the 'Custom Job'. I got 5 microswitches and a Ball stick, got them together and put assembled them in a big wooden box. THAT custom job lasted for good and i still have it :) I only had to change a few microswitches in all the time span :)
mazza	posted 19-08-2001 02:46 PM GMT comp pro 'nuff said
Mimir	posted 13-09-2001 12:00 PM GMT Oh, I most certainly remember the "joyball". More like a "joydome" really, as it was only half a ball which worked just like the stick on a joystick rather than the way a trackball or a mouse works. Got mine with as my subscription prize thingy with one of my Zzap subscriptions. I can't say I ever liked using the thing. Much preferred a regular stick. The Competition Pro series to be more exact. Never found a stick its equal. Also went through three or four Tac 2 sticks and some more gimicky ones with "pilot style" stick handles (Decathlon absolutely killed 'em all). The Competition Pro never failed me though. -Mimir
PaulEMoz	posted 13-09-2001 03:35 PM GMT Unquestionably the Zipstick. You know, the black one with the square yellow buttons? The best joystick of all time for all games, bar none.
smila	posted 13-09-2001 03:39 PM GMT the saterlite by euramax was top