Well I used to use flightsticks to do all my gaming back when I was young and the Commodore C64 was the best 8bit gaming out there ! LOL Damn I'm old ! I still perfere it for any kind of scrolling shooter.
Desode

You used flight sticks or joysticks? They aren't necessarily the same thing.

I definitely prefer to use joysticks for games like Raiden Fighters, and many other games from back in the day, as well as with newer ones like N+ and Splosion Man.

The arcade sticks you now find pretty exclusively marketed for fighters on consoles are what were used most back in the day. Raiden Fighters specifically used that exact thing.

I had a couple small flightsticks that I used. I would say a flightstick because the stick was molded so your whole hand could use it and the fire button was on top for your thumb. Its different then a arcade stick.

http://atariace.com/nintendo/joysticks.php

The second one down (Quickshot) is the closest, to what I'm talking about.
I had a different model of that. It was actually called Quickshot II Flight stick.
I had a world record score on Gradius with it and I even had NES magazine post my score in there.

DESODE

Here's the thing though. This game however much we are looking forward to it wont be seen by MS as a huge hit (at this stage at least) so I cant believe they'd be launching an official stick off the back of it. Which leads me to believe it may be some of the current MS PC sticks supported.

Me too.....Well I had a spectrum +2 and a quickshot turbo!!!! woot

like this bad boy :D

http://www.cbmhardware.de/misc/joystick/39.jpg

Yeah, that is definitely a flight stick. :)

Never had one for my Commodore 64. I had a ton of Atari 2600 controllers that I also used on my C64, which were definitely more akin to an arcade stick.

Especially with those simple control games of old though, there are so many options that work equally fine, and I suppose it most comes down to what you first learned on and became comfortable with.


I played most of those games like Gradius first in the arcades, and where I guess my affinity for arcade sticks with those types of games comes from my initial experiences with them, I have friends who first got those experiences on the NES that definitely prefer a d-pad.




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MS did make a standard for flight sticks on 360 though. If a game supports the Ace Edge, then it also supports the Saitek Aviator, and any other new flight stick that a company makes.

Having that standard makes it easy for a developer to support flight stick hardware, without having to depend on the user having a specific one.

Hey Versapak , I have been trying to get one of these
http://www.legacyengineer.com/store.html

Its a Atari usb for pc. They are just always sold out but they keep making new batches. I want one to use with some emulators. It would be great if you could use one on the 360 or the ps3 for arcade games.
DESODE

That's cool.

I wish I still had any of my old Atari stuff.

I lost it all in a cross country move waaaaay back. :(


I bet it wouldn't be all that hard to strip the pcb from a cheap usb pad and stick it into the internals of an atari stick.

Ace Edge Bundle
 

~s~All, Check you bestbuy store's, I got acecombat 6 bundle today with ace-
Edge flight stick, the game, faceplate and movie for $70.00 bucks. For them
that are looking.