Joystick Jolter Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 (edited) I see that eBay is literaly dry of the Joyboard. I was just wondering if there is any interest out there in it. When it came out I found it quite interesting. With Mogul Maniac I thought it worked well. At the time I tried it with a couple of other games and didn't like it's response. Anyone else have any thoughts on it. Part of the reason I'm asking is that I have one of the first one's every touched by anyone other than an Amiga employee and probably before some of them(and I don't think there were too many of them). Not only do I still have it, but I even have the Fed Ex box it came in and all the paperwork including(I hope) the letter saying that it is one of the first ones they had and that I was getting it. I had become pretty close with (and without going back and checking on this it's a bit of a guess) their VP Don Reisinger(?) and that's how I happened to get one early on. I had even gotten a sneak peek at the computer they were working on at the time which they sold to a larger company. I'm not sure if my memory serves me right on this but I think it's what finally became the ADAM computer. That doesn't ring right with me but that's all that I can think of right now. I have a feeling that could be wrong though. Now I've let myself open for a couple of the critics who have been jumping on my back here but I do enjoy discussing some of the stuff that went on back in the early '80s surrounding the videogame industry. I hope they can just relax and let everyone hear some of the stories of what little I can say about the infancy of the videogame industry. Thanks, Anthony Edited April 27, 2006 by Joystick Jolter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 well, amiga, the joystick company went on to make, Amiga the computer. so that computer u r talking about is proto-amiga :-) Which i think is awesome :-) its part of the reason I find amiga so fascinating and why I have 2 joyboards and any of the mini amiga sticks I've ever ran across (a few of the regular tiny ones and I believe I have one coleco controller they made,) Interesetingly enough, one of those proto amigas (in a big black metal case,) made it to a flea market here in florida and by the time I made it back from the atm with my $20 in hand, someone else had already bought it (yes, it was real, even had docs with it, and disks etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I honestly don't think there's going to be much interest in this beyond the general value of this item which is $30-40 tops. If it were something like the first heavy sixer you'd have yourself a huge amount of interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Joyboard was not much fun for me either .. so I dumped it on eBay some years ago. Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trade-N-Games Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I just got one from Ebay boxed in fairly nice shape but it did not have the game or instructions for under $50 shipped. What you have sounds cool. Did you ever have the games they made but never made it to the market? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joystick Jolter Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 I just got one from Ebay boxed in fairly nice shape but it did not have the game or instructions for under $50 shipped. What you have sounds cool. Did you ever have the games they made but never made it to the market? No and I honestly don't remember if I ever knew how far along the others were. I know that if they ever were available for a reviewer to see I would have seen them. What happened was that they got so involved in the computer they were developing that the games were just forgotten. The VP I got close to went on to work for a game company out on Long Island. Can't remember the name of the company but I believe they were developing Playstation games when the Playstation first came out. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Do you have anything related to the Power Module by chance: http://www.atarihq.com/museum/2678/amiga.html It seemed like a decent add-on for the 2600, but unfortunately never saw a release. I'd love to know if any of these games ever went into development. Ah, Amiga...a company with great ideas but no drive to create them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Forget Air Raid. This is true Holy Grail stuff you're talking about. I've never seen a Power Play Arcade game in my entire life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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