GoldLeader

OMG!!! I have been searching for this joystick from my past and my vague memory! QUESTAR!!!!! I had one of these a long time ago....Thanks for the pic and jarring my memory!!!

I think I'll do a quick search too...I'm pretty sure I tried this in the past and failed...But maybe today's my day... (When I do post a meme, it's usually the wrong one

Haha! Awesome! Also it could have been 1983...I mean, my memory is not the best. I'm pretty sure I paid $40 for that controller, which at the time, seemed like a ton of money! I also remember the review talking about how durable it was or wasn't, and saying something to the effect of it might wear out or break if it were impacted from the top, or something like that. I seem to remember it had a very good warranty, on paper at least...But I'm sure the company had gone out of business by the time mine wore out... Be sure to post or PM me if you ever see something similar OK? To me,...Well, this is one of my Holy Grails of memory... from times long past ...Umm.. Is that a thing? (Well, You know what I mean...You get it!)...

Thanks! I had him build it in a similar design to the one I had as a kid for my ColecoVision (Which I'd ordered out of a magazine). That one did not have a keypad, but had 2 buttons next to each other on each side, and an aracde style ball-top stick in the middle. The buttons on my old one were arcade parts, the stick was plastic (not arcade parts) and went to leaf switches, not Awesome MicroSwitches (which I quite prefer). It was black plastic with I want to say red, white, and blue striping and when it wore out...Like a retarded idiot, I did the unthinkable and threw it out!! God! I could kick myself (OK I am Kicking myself...HARD! LOL)...Especially, when I consider how cool the sloping case was and that I could probably (Now) retro-fit it with Sanwa parts...TBH, I get almost sick thinking about it...The real kicker is I've absolutely Never seen another one like my old one on eBay or anywhere else...and I have no idea which magazine from 1982 had that joystick in the back...There was even a review of it in the magazine! Someday I'll figure out what it was or at least find an old picture of it...(*sigh*)

I also had a Great thought on the controller...I have a very cool PS2 controller that has 2 sticks....(Like so...It's exactly this one).... And with an adapter, I'm pretty sure it will control an Atari 7800...I need to double check this, as the adapter is technically for a Sega Mega Drive, but I seem to recall it working in the past...But at the moment, I only have 1 adapter and I'll need 2...They've gone up in price (of course) to $22 each, but the company has some other stuff I might want so maybe after I save up some dough (which is extremely tight as of late) I'll place an order and then I can enjoy the veritable masterpiece that is Robotron!

Hi xucaen! I got the game already (Either yesterday or the day before)!! Just finally plugged it in (awesome!!) and set up a user feedback for you. I can't believe how fast it shipped!!!! You did a great job! No idea how it got here in ...Was it 1 day??? Damn!

I had a wonderful experience buying a 7800 game from xucaen! It was absolutely beyond perfect!! It was cheap, looks like he cleaned it, and he spent half the money on shipping! It was well packaged and it arrived so fast, we were still in the middle of talking about it in the forums when it showed up! I saw a package in my mailbox and thought that can't be it, I mean, he just sent it...How did it get here so fast?? Very Highly Recommended!

But...Now that you know...And perhaps in reference to nutari (filled with lawyers and not being the same as the real "Atari"), Maybe it could be.

How META right Dude? (Like a Hipster character might say...not me haha)

Cool! And it works on my Harmony cart!!

For the record, I'm Amazed at how sharp and clean everything looks! It feels HD to me...I haven't even tried hooking it up to my CRT yet, but I'll have to try that too...Anyway the Phoenix looks great to me!

Is this your auction? just wondered...

Hell Yeah Mr. Ramirez!! I probably won't be going that Crazy though...But my Favorite Joystick Ever is my custom Edladdin CV Super Arcade + ! It might not be ideal for Robotron, but works well for about 90% of my games I also found one on eBay once, but I'm not seeing it now,...That was a 3D printed dual gamepad type of stick...like an NES pad but wired for 7800 that had a D-Pad on each side...That would be neat, but it was around $50 and I'd probably only use it on one game so...

Thanks onlyinajeep! But if I'm being honest, I Barely have a 2D printer LOL !

Thanks sixersfan105! Yeah, I've seen those and probably need one when money permits

I'll take it!! I'm a bit embarrassed I don't already have this haha...Just hadn't gotten around to it yet... PM incoming!

Personally I think bringing up specs when deciding what's retro doesn't really make sense...The earlier systems are less powerful and yes, they are "retro", but they're not retro because they're less powerful. At any rate (again just my opinion), a lot of us associate a certain style with the word retro. Does a game have Polygons in a realistic 3D space? Is it running off an optical or digital media? Is there a memory card for the system? Do the controllers rumble or have a wireless option? Is the Internet somehow involved (even if it's just how people learned about the game or system)? These are all modern features. To me games that don't look photorealistic, run off of cartridges, Generally don't have polygons or don't have realistic polygons or a high polygon count, and are in 2D or 2.5D (or one could argue a pseudo 3D) are probably retro, though there are also modern games going for a retro look...Not to go nuts with words, but I guess those are "Neo Retro" or "Retro-Styled" games... In the end, I don't think of PS2 games (as an example) as "Retro" just because they are old. But to each his own. The point of the question was to debate the topic and I figure I've thrown in my 2 cents...

I probably should have explained this better. But Hindsight is 20/20 ...and it's 2020 haaaa! OK Where was I?...Oh Right...I meant here in my hometown of Cheyenne, WY, not here in this post or here in this thread or whatever. GameStop for us came way too late to ever have anything retro Ever...They now act like they've always been on the Retro Train to Big CollectionLand (mostly with their online presence, which they even push at the stores), but for me they've Never had anything Retro Here...

Yeah but, I'd rather play Centipede on a VCS then Centipede on a VCS...Oh Jesus! See what they've done? I'm blathering like an idiot now...Ummm, I'd rather play Centipede (pictured above) on an Atari VCS (2600) then atari vault on an ataribox... PS I don't mind jackfruit from time to time....It's different, but good...Though I could see non-vegetarians not liking it.

There was a big store in town called Grand Central, where I bought my Atari, that used to have a few arcade games up front...At first it was Combat (or whatever the actual arcade game was called...I was a kid and called it Tanks) and of course Stunt Cycle! Later they had a separate area for games and it was basically a small arcade at that point...Mainly I remember games like Super Bug, Asteroids, Star Hawk, Football, Sprint 2, and eventually Defender.

I'm not disagreeing with this. Of course I personally don't think most of the nation knew about it. When the PS2 released, there were extreme shortages of consoles...It took an all nighter for me to get one, but it was the national release. It made news headlines; Everybody had geared up for it. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting somebody who was talking about the PS2. Most system releases also had pre-release systems that went out to journalists who reviewed them, sometimes 2-3 months before the national release...Print media used to have quite a lag time. But I certainly wouldn't count those systems as part of the "Release" either, yet there were systems out there ahead of time.

Unless I'm mistaken the NES had a Holiday release in 1986. It was "Test Marketed" in '85. I'm not denying any of those things. I'm simply saying when you talk about the NES release, the time frame is "Holiday Season 1986", maybe with an asterix or a footnote explaining a Test Market (Not General, National release) was done in 1985. Tell you what, since perhaps we're just arguing semantics at this point...I believe the NES was released "Holiday Season 1986", and if someone else wants to count the Test Market in 1985, that's fine.

Nope, just a "Test Market". I couldn't buy one in '85 and neither could you. And did you know about it in '85? If it really was "released" in '85, show me a single movie from 1986 that featured a Nintendo in a scene...Someone does that and I'll agree it was "released". These kinds of things muddy the waters when people talk about a release. IMO, a release needs no "*", a "Test Market" generally needs more explanation.

^This!!!! I don't even feel like thinking about any other responses. Though I will say (Here, just here) I don't remember GameStop ever having NES stuff. Around here there was Kaybee Toys that disappeared,...The space in the mall becoming E.B. then Babbages in there somewhere, eventually landing on "Hey, Now we're Game Stop" (By far the most annoying of any of them)...Anyhow NES was almost disappearing when SNES became the big thing ... Then again around here only small or local (mom & pop, if you will) stores ever carried "Used" stuff...until GameStop with their PlayStation Trade Ins..."What'd ya pay for that? $30? Wouldn't you rather have $2 off a New game?"...