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FM-77

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2007, 11:59:35 PM »
Doesn't the MD pad look different? Either way, that's the world's first controller with an analog stick. Nintendo was definitely not first with that one - Sega was.
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Black Tiger

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2007, 01:11:08 AM »
Quote from: Seldane on March 20, 2007, 11:59:35 PM
Doesn't the MD pad look different? Either way, that's the world's first controller with an analog stick. Nintendo was definitely not first with that one - Sega was.

Yeah, but did the stick actually have 'analog' control or is it just like using modern analog sticks with plain 2D games. And if it really was, did Afterburner II actually support the anolog feature?
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Joe Redifer

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #32 on: March 21, 2007, 04:27:14 AM »
After Burner 2 on the MD advertised that thing in the back of its manual.
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FM-77

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #33 on: March 21, 2007, 04:56:22 AM »
It was an analog control, and not a digital one like all the joysticks at that time.
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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2007, 08:48:05 AM »
« Last Edit: March 21, 2007, 08:55:33 AM by turbo_sage »
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Keranu

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #35 on: March 21, 2007, 09:39:37 AM »
That's a really cool page, turbo_sage.
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grahf

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #36 on: March 21, 2007, 10:04:37 AM »
Guess you were wrong seldane, sega didnt come up with the idea either. We can all thank our lucky stars for the 5200 controller :D
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FM-77

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #37 on: March 21, 2007, 10:41:45 AM »
That's news to me. Interesting. Maybe even that one wasn't the first... Either way, at least Sega's pad took use of it somewhat (in like, one game). :D

Edit: Wrong again! :P

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The joystick, on the other hand is different. The Vectrex was the first home console to feature analog joysticks. Most arcade games and consoles had 8-directional (or fewer) controls. The design decision to go with analog was most likely because of the nature of the console. With vector graphics, 3D games are more common and lines/objects aren't as locked into the cardinal "8 directions" like traditional raster hardware. It wasn't until about a dozen years later that 3D games and analog control really took off in home consoles.
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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #38 on: March 21, 2007, 12:54:22 PM »
Once again, I bow to the Vectrex for being the king.
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grahf

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #39 on: March 21, 2007, 01:01:01 PM »
I swear im gonna buy a vectrex one of these days.
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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #40 on: March 21, 2007, 03:12:50 PM »
I had an analog stick for my Apple II. Analog sticks are about as old as digital ones.

The Vectrix is the living end though. Seriously. Its is just fantastic, IMO, and this is coming from someone who has pretty much zero nostagia for pre-NES consoles. I grew up on Odyssey IIs, and 2600s, and such and I never ever want to go back to that junk. The Vectrex though...just so unique...
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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2007, 05:18:08 PM »
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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2007, 07:35:11 AM »
Glad to see others expressing their Vectrex love.
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Joe Redifer

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2007, 12:42:49 PM »
Look what happened to my NEC Avenue 6 pad and my extension cable:

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Re: What was the best control pad?
« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2007, 12:51:20 PM »
Quote from: Joe Redifer on March 24, 2007, 12:42:49 PM
Look what happened to my NEC Avenue 6 pad and my extension cable:

That happened to one of my Turbo Pads back in the day. Someone tripped over it and yanked the cable out of my Turbo CD combo. Those spikey metal bits were left sticking out of the system.  :P
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