Space Age Joystick

[Toucan]

Here's some interesting info I never knew of before! Over on Atari HQ they have an ad for a Milton Bradley HD2000 Joystick that was to be put out and marketed by Milton Bradley.

 

http://www.atarihq.com/museum/2678/hardware/hd2000.jpg

 

This joystick eventually became the Space Age Joystick as seen on Atariage:

 

http://www.atariage.com/controller_page.ht...ControllerID=18

 

Now the really neat thing is that this joystick is pretty much identical to the Milton Bradley TI-99/4A MBX sticks. I never knew about the Space Age sticks until now. A picture of the MBX joystick is provided below (the black/red ones are from 1982). Just thought this was pretty interesting and would pass the info along.

[kemsted]

cool, thats pretty interesting.

[SteveW]

I never knew that the MBX System ever came in black and red! Cool!

 

I used to have a pistol-grip joystick like that, but it was by Epyx, not Milton Bradley. It was a good joystick until it got accidentally smashed.