Spector #1 Posted July 24, 2020 Someone on a Facebook Colecovision page was talking about Spy Hunter and how he enjoyed it, but when asked he said he had never tried to play it on a regular controller. I know it can be played using the standard stick, but is it rubbish? Is it a waste of time playing it without a Super Action Controller? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pixelboy #2 Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) I've practically never played Spy Hunter with the SAC, and I played a lot of Spy Hunter BITD, so I had little trouble with the stock controller. The only "problem" was positioning the car properly with the enemy chopper while pressing the keypad key to launch a missile. That always gave me a little bit of trouble. Edited July 24, 2020 by Pixelboy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loafer #3 Posted July 24, 2020 It’s a tough game with the controller but a lot of other games were tough with that controller! LOL. Even though I had the SAC, I think I played SH more with the standard controller, it played fine, just needed to reach for the keypad a bit Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doubledown #4 Posted July 24, 2020 I don't have any problem playing Spy Hunter: Seriously though...most of my BITD Spy Hunter playing was done on an C-64...that only has a 1 button joystick. If I'm not mistaken, the <space bar> was used for secondary weapons. Obviously Spy Hunter is 100% playable with the standard hand controllers, but as mentioned, fumbling to find a "keypad button" when you want it, can be a little clunky. Obviously the SACs were much better suited for Spy Hunter due to the 4 necessary buttons being right at your fingertips. In all honesty, I don't know if I've ever tried to play Spy Hunter with a standard hand controller. Before I built the controller pictured above, I would just use my Jaguar ProPad to CV/SA controller, and before I built that, I would just use a SAC. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zinister #5 Posted July 24, 2020 2 hours ago, doubledown said: I don't have any problem playing Spy Hunter: Seriously though...most of my BITD Spy Hunter playing was done on an C-64...that only has a 1 button joystick. If I'm not mistaken, the <space bar> was used for secondary weapons. Obviously Spy Hunter is 100% playable with the standard hand controllers, but as mentioned, fumbling to find a "keypad button" when you want it, can be a little clunky. Obviously the SACs were much better suited for Spy Hunter due to the 4 necessary buttons being right at your fingertips. In all honesty, I don't know if I've ever tried to play Spy Hunter with a standard hand controller. Before I built the controller pictured above, I would just use my Jaguar ProPad to CV/SA controller, and before I built that, I would just use a SAC. On the C64 Spy Hunter you could use the button on controller 2 for secondary weapons. That was the version I played the most. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doubledown #6 Posted July 24, 2020 32 minutes ago, Zinister said: On the C64 Spy Hunter you could use the button on controller 2 for secondary weapons. That was the version I played the most. I definitely don't remember playing it that way...but I know you're right, and that's also how the 2600 & 8-bits were programmed too. I also made a Spy Hunter controller for those: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zinister #7 Posted July 24, 2020 17 minutes ago, doubledown said: I definitely don't remember playing it that way...but I know you're right, and that's also how the 2600 & 8-bits were programmed too. I also made a Spy Hunter controller for those: What a neat idea to make a controller like that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites