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TV's Frink said:
I had a little professor.
ditto.
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Davnes007 said:
FanFiltration said:
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Merlin (sometimes known as Merlin, the Electronic Wizard) was a handheld electronic game first made by Parker Brothers in 1978. Merlin is notable as one of the earliest and most popular handheld games, selling over 5 million units during its initial run, as well as one of the most long-lived, remaining popular throughout the 1980s.
That looks very familiar. I think either my brother had that or one our friends did.
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The original etch-a-sketch was my deal back in the 80's. Man the amount of time I used to sit there with that thing! ;)
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CP3S said:
"I sure hope you wouldn't be okay with going into a store and stealing CD's."
that is not really what ripping CDs is. What I would compare it to is:
going into a store, pick a CD, make an exact duplicate of it, then take the duplicate home and leave the original in the store.
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Davnes007 said:
Okay. Time to show another thrift store find.
The only things printed on it are "PRESS", "LOCK", "OPEN", and "MADE IN HONG KONG". The round part on the bottom (The part that says "PRESS") can be turned to lock/open so that the cord can be wrapped around, and tucked away in the base. There's a little black button on top of the handle, and a large rectangular red button on the base.
I have no idea who made it, or what it's called....besides being a 'joystick'.
It appears to be an Atari 2600 compatible joystick. Atari wasn't as strict as Nintentdo about third party products, so there were a lot of companies making all sorts of controllers. The fringe benefit was competitors such as Colecovision could use the same sticks too.
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Cough. Im not gettin involved as i just bring the tone down now.
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TV's Frink said:
I had a little professor.
That's what he said.
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SilverWook said:
Davnes007 said:
Okay. Time to show another thrift store find.
The only things printed on it are "PRESS", "LOCK", "OPEN", and "MADE IN HONG KONG". The round part on the bottom (The part that says "PRESS") can be turned to lock/open so that the cord can be wrapped around, and tucked away in the base. There's a little black button on top of the handle, and a large rectangular red button on the base.
I have no idea who made it, or what it's called....besides being a 'joystick'.
It appears to be an Atari 2600 compatible joystick. Atari wasn't as strict as Nintentdo about third party products, so there were a lot of companies making all sorts of controllers. The fringe benefit was competitors such as Colecovision could use the same sticks too.
Thanks :) ... At least one person responded to my desperate need to put a name to this joystick......which is why I resisted the urge to say "DUH" right away.
Searching for "Atari Joystick" was quite useless, although it was entertaining.
Whoever made it could have at least given it a name, even if they didn't put their company name on it - I don't want to put yet another 'unknown' joystick on my master list. :(
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I'd wager there was a sticker with the name that's been lost to time. There were so many controllers made, it's a real needle in a haystack scenario.
I broke more than a couple flight sticks like that before buying a Wico brand control. They made sticks for the arcades, and their home versions were just as tough.
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My brother had one of these.
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SilverWook said:
It appears to be an Atari 2600 compatible joystick. Atari wasn't as strict as Nintentdo about third party products, so there were a lot of companies making all sorts of controllers. The fringe benefit was competitors such as Colecovision could use the same sticks too.
The 9-pin 'D' connector layout became something of a de-facto standard joystick port in the 8-bit console/home computer era (and carried through to early 16-bit machines too). The same joysticks could be used with Atari (2600 console and 8-bit machine such as 400, 800, XL and XE series), Commodore C64, Amstrad CPC, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Amiga.
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Oh yes, it was great to use my expensive Wico sticks across all the systems I owned. Even my Vectrex had those connectors. Few companies made controllers with four fire buttons though.
And here's some iconic ancient hardware for you...
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/computer-wargames-going-sale-213632908.html
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Today's find is apparently used with the Nintendo GameCube (according to the plug). It has a little button on top that has "FC" on it. My first thought is/was that it is a wireless receiver of some sort....but I could be wrong.
I'm sure somebody must have some idea what this thing is, or what it is used with.
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My first instinct was that it's a Wii peripheral because of the colour (the Wii has Gamecube controller ports under a flap).
The Wii famously has native wireless capability and Gamecube wireless controllers use quite small dongles that fit snug to the connector port.
Superficially it looks a bit like the controller converters that were made to allow PS2 and SNES controllers to be used with a Wii but I doubt it as it doesn't seem to have and hatches for the other ports.
It also looks like a third party variant of the Wii Speak.
Do you know anyone with a Wii to try it out on?