It's been a long time since I've broke out a joystick. I used to play Jane's flight simulators, X-wing and Tie Fighter Flight Simulators (very cool games... wish they would re-explore this concept), descent, and many other games. Now it seems like controllers have taken away from the joystick experience. Games these days are more developed for a controller... but some still are made for the joystick.
If you still use a joystick, what peripheral do you use (provide links)? What games do you still play with a joystick?
Post it up!
If this comes to fruition the joystick may be getting more love
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/23/atari-vcs-ataribox-hands-on/
Wow. Great find. I've not seen those yet.
So you'll get to play all old and new content made for the system. There's A LOT of old Atari content... both arcade and console. The article can't speak on specifics.. But this is very interesting! Peaks my interest.
I'd love to see a remake of alien versus predator - the Atari Jaguar version.
modern content is what I'm most interested in. Will it be like a steam machine or a home console? 0 games have been announced so who's developing? At this point it seems April is too soon for preorders to start
Quote from: targetrasp on March 25, 2018, 10:50:15 AM
modern content is what I'm most interested in. Will it be like a steam machine or a home console? 0 games have been announced so who's developing? At this point it seems April is too soon for preorders to start
I hear you. Somehow I doubt it'll hit April. I would think by now there would be teasers and trailers. Hopefully it's not just an emulator type thing for Atari and they develop my hat for that as well. For $300... it should be a full on console.
I'm pretty interested ... just depends on what they do. VCS - virtual console? No physical media? Lol hmm...
its supposedly going to run Linux so it'll be an insanely expensive emulation machine >:(
I'm still keeping my hopes up but I refuse to pay 300 for a raspberry pi that looks like a vcs
I still have my SFIV Arcade Sticks that I bust out when playing some Pac-Man or other arcade games. Especially SHMUPs.
Quote from: CreepinDeth on March 27, 2018, 01:15:07 AM
I still have my SFIV Arcade Sticks that I bust out when playing some Pac-Man or other arcade games. Especially SHMUPs.
Those are pretty cool arcade sticks as well. I miss a good arcade stick - I still have my Neo Geo controllers... but I haven't had a good solid Arcade controller / stick in a pretty long time. I think I still have my NES Advantage somewhere as well lol...
X-Arcade sticks were pretty popular back when I had my store... though I didn't buy one for myself... and not many really made it through my shop. Economic down turn really started around 2005-2006.... and people stopped spending money on that stuff... at least from what I saw.
@targetrasp Maybe I need to break out the Atari VCS discussion to it's own topic... Might make a new post and link to this post.