My new retro purchase

Metalface Mark · 31 Mar 2010 at 10:53

Cant wait to get home to give it a go

£7.99 at play, but they put the price back up to £9.99 now

Prophet · 31 Mar 2010 at 10:54

I had that stick! used it with my Amiga 500.

It's the only stick that's had more abuse than mine over the years lol..

Metalface Mark · 31 Mar 2010 at 10:58

Orange Peel said:
I had that stick! used it with my Amiga 500.

It's the only stick that's had more abuse than mine over the years lol..

Feels just as good as it did back in the day, why did we ever switch to joypads?

DutchSchaeffer · 31 Mar 2010 at 11:35

Brilliant! Do the games work ok?

Does it have Midnight Resistance or CABAL (think thats what it was called)?

I remember playing them both loads as a kid on the C64...

Metalface Mark · 31 Mar 2010 at 11:57

It dosent have either of those, but you can use the joystick as a standard usb joystick, so can play amiga, speccy, c64 whatever with it.

Prophet · 31 Mar 2010 at 12:01

Metalface Mark said:
Feels just as good as it did back in the day, why did we ever switch to joypads?

I'm going to find my old stick over the weekend. Not used it in 15+ years!

m4cc45 · 31 Mar 2010 at 12:25

DutchSchaeffer said:
Brilliant! Do the games work ok?

Does it have Midnight Resistance or CABAL (think thats what it was called)?

I remember playing them both loads as a kid on the C64...

Cabal was the third person shooter where you had a crosshair on screen. Great game and as hard as nails in the arcade! Midnight Resistance, the arcade version, used those spinny joysticks to turn the gun and thus made that absolutely solid to complete!

M.

Tombstone · 31 Mar 2010 at 12:42

Best joystick ever !

Was the staple of much of my 80s gaming

Jotunkaiser · 31 Mar 2010 at 12:42

lol uber, the buttons always go though! from bashing

Malakite · 31 Mar 2010 at 12:43

Awesome, think I will be having one of those. Absolutly classic stick. Totally thrashed my one with my Amiga. Had it for that long it got to the point it would be opened every other week to fix the switches for the stick movement.

Will do nicely, use WinUAE and the keyboard just doesn't feel right.

Metalface Mark · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:19

Played a few games at lunchtime, definetely a big improvement over using a gamepad or the keyboard for old games, felt very nostalgic playing uridium !

mame · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:30

I thought that was the original joystick then. I as just about to say Zipstick is better

Ahh nothing changes does it.

Metalface Mark · 1 Apr 2010 at 10:50

Had a great time last night playing bubble bobble with the stick

mame · 1 Apr 2010 at 10:52

Metalface Mark said:
Had a great time last night playing bubble bobble with the stick

I remember me and my mate playing that back in the day. We tried to finish it. I think there is 100 levels but you get unlimited continues so they only way you can 'die' is if you both die at the same time. We got to about level 87

StevieP · 1 Apr 2010 at 11:20

mame said:
I remember me and my mate playing that back in the day. We tried to finish it. I think there is 100 levels but you get unlimited continues so they only way you can 'die' is if you both die at the same time. We got to about level 87

I dont agree with these unlimited continues - give me a challenge like Manic Miner on the C64 - you got about 5 lives and that was it!!!!!

Oh the memories.......

StevieP

Metalface Mark · 1 Apr 2010 at 11:33

StevieP said:
I dont agree with these unlimited continues - give me a challenge like Manic Miner on the C64 - you got about 5 lives and that was it!!!!!

Oh the memories.......

StevieP

You get unlimited continues, but you can only complete the game if you dont use any continues!

m4cc45 · 1 Apr 2010 at 11:58

mame said:
I remember me and my mate playing that back in the day. We tried to finish it. I think there is 100 levels but you get unlimited continues so they only way you can 'die' is if you both die at the same time. We got to about level 87

There's actually a few ways to complete this - one is doing it as a one player, one as a two player and there are others but they slip my mind. Me and my bro used to play this all the time on the C64 - we did it eventually but damn it was hard! 5 Continues simply was not enough - lol

M.

mame · 1 Apr 2010 at 12:28

If it was only 5 continues then we must have cheated using the Action Replay. People still can't get their head round how you could make your own cheats with that using no outside knowledge, not even a magazine.