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[Tom]

I have just bought this for a fiver from Ebay:

I do believe its the most awesome thing I've ever owned. 30 Commodore 64 games in a Quickshot joystick.

 

[Jimmy]

rofl looks cool iv been looking at spectrem ones

 

[taB]

Massively awesome, requesting pics of some games for pixellated goodness

 

[TdC]

zomg that brings back memories of how many hours I gave to the beautiful C64

 

[Tom]

ok heres a video. Note that the joystick is MASSIVELY more awesome than my crappy phone camera.

YouTube - Commodore 64 in a joystick
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There are loads of hacks for it as well:

DTV Version 2/3

btw when it boots up (not shown in the video), theres a little bit that says "Chickenhead logo copyright...." which I thought was hysterical.

 

[cHodAX]

Oh man that brings back some memorys!

 

[Tom]

BTW its actually a competition pro joystick

*slaps*

 

[Trem]

Oh god that Impossible Mission was so fucking hard, remember that like it was yesterday watching the video.

I can't buy it because it doesn't have the obvious greats on there, Head over Heels, Wizzball, Last Ninja, Sanxion. I would also want an option to hear the loading music.

Very cool though either way, I used to pay fortunes for Comp Pro joysticks, I had a see through one

 

[Tom]

You can hack them Trem and stick your own games on there I think I'll shove some Llamasoft stuff on like Sheep in Space

 

[taB]

Oh god that Impossible Mission was so fucking hard, remember that like it was yesterday watching the video.

God, I had that IM game on some amstrad computer, it had 3" hard floppy disks Oh and I sucked major balls at it.

 

[ford prefect]

BTW its actually a competition pro joystick

I rewired two of my original C64 joysticks to USB last year and got the cables to connect my old c64 1541 disk drive to make disk images of all my old games and various things I wrote in my miss spent youth for the c64. WinVICE plays them brilliantly, it brought back a lot of memories.

 

[Tom]

heh, in a night of memories I found myself a copy of Workbench 1.3 (PM me if you want it) and downloaded a load of Amiga games, running them on Winuae.

I shall therefore be spending tomorrow night being a defender of the crown. Annoyingly, I can't remember even half the games I enjoyed on the Amiga

 

[Trem]

Defender of the Crown was great, also the Psygnosis Barbarian not the chopping head off Barbarian.

 

[bob269]

Wasn't that part of your electricians exam Trem?

 

[Trem]

Wasn't that part of your electricians exam Trem?

Looks just like the bloody electronics program we had to use actually, I kept blowing the resistors up on it

 

[TdC]

Defender of the Crown was great, also the Psygnosis Barbarian not the chopping head off Barbarian.

Psygnosis? Hurk! Shadow of the Beast!

 

[SawTooTH]

heh, in a night of memories I found myself a copy of Workbench 1.3 (PM me if you want it) and downloaded a load of Amiga games, running them on Winuae.

I shall therefore be spending tomorrow night being a defender of the crown. Annoyingly, I can't remember even half the games I enjoyed on the Amiga

I had an Amiga 1200 played A10 tank killer and an RTS game called K240.

The same computers that were used for Babylon 5 apparently

 

[old.user4556]

I remember that Barbarian Tom, is that the one where he goes "huh huh huh huh ha ha huh" when swinging the sword around like a prize fag?

 

[Draylor]

Quickshot joystick.

Sorry but I cant help myself, Ill have to be a pedantic bastard.

That is blatantly a clone of the old Competition Pro stick, not a Quickshot

 

[Trem]

BTW its actually a competition pro joystick

*slaps*

Tom corrected himself Draylor.

 

[TdC]

Sorry but I cant help myself, Ill have to be a pedantic bastard.

gogo magic quotes database!

 

[Draylor]

Tom corrected himself Draylor.

Bleh, fair enough.

Having destroyed large numbers of both back in the day I couldnt resist commenting

 

[old.user4556]

did anyone else put a competition pro in their crotch as a kid and pretend it was a willy with the red buttons as balls? .... no?

 

[Draylor]

No.

But for some reason I had a transparent pink one, which is rather troubling ...

 

[Tom]

did anyone else put a competition pro up their arse as a kid and pretend it was a willy with the red buttons as balls? .... no?

fixed

This was my weapon of choice:

 

[old.user4556]

had one of them too !

 

[Draylor]

This was my weapon of choice:

Nod, went through dozens of those.

Used to buy one, pop an old broken one in its box and take it back for a replacement

 

[Tom]

The fire button was always going, stupid little cracked bubble switches

 

[cHodAX]

The fire button was always going, stupid little cracked bubble switches

lol yeah, I must have gone through 20 joysticks in 3 years, those bubble microswitches were the pits.

 

[old.user4556]

My dad used to order and replace the microswitches from maplin for me; they were very simple to fix.

Edit: except my competition pro was leaf springs and was the most resilient of my joysticks.