Great video. I think the way you interact with the game can dramatically improve the experience. I'm a big fan of joysticks, steering wheels, fight sticks and various types of retro style control pads.
Maybe the Wing Commander games 3-4 where the last we played with a joystick. After that first person shooters took over everything and you soon learned mouse aim and keyboard controls insted. But I did miss the feeling of a stick with Flight Simulator and was reminded of them again.
I too have a green/yellow & pink cruiser joystick, sturdy device which has three settings for stiffness on the collar (unfortunately no auto fire). Some classic games IMO don't translate well into joypad, IK+ on the PlayStation with pad didn't play as well as the Amiga version with stick 🕹️.
I was slightly after the joystick as mainstream- the NES and Game&Watch were my inauguration, and soon after that mouse and keyboard. I've been a D-pad boy since before I can remember, but even back then there was some flight / space sim games for the PC that I played... and yes. It was something special, getting to blast through space with it. But unfortunately the joystick I had had drift that had me constantly pull to the left, so I have never really had an optimal joystick experience. Just the stories and memories of others- I'll try to consider them in that light in the future, rather than my own very peculiar ones.
I used to have the microsoft sidewinder and it kicked so much ass we tossed it cause it stopped recognizing inputs but for 2 dollars at a garage sale it lasted us years. Now I just have a saitek cyborg that my brother had bought after the sidewinder died. Its the stupid cyborg with the folding legs but it still makes flight games a thousand times more immersive.
Apologies - I must stop watching videos at double speed whilst playing Football Manager on half the screen 😁 I will rewatch and pay proper attention as contrition. Big fan of the waggly joystick sequence, is particularly evocative for some reason.
Analog sticks were on the original Apple 2. Because it was kind of a kludge of the paddles. Thus 2 button 2 axis. Also the Vectrex and Atari 5200 were analog sticks for good and ill respectively. Know your history kids. Even if its pointless trivia.
I really love using my girlfriends stick, there something about it, different quality to most sticks even my own, strange sense of feel is tell tale sign its built differently and fits well into my hand, its neither too bulky or too small, its a good size with quite the liberal movement no matter how hard or soft I am in using it.
Surely he really loves his stick... 💙
Great video. I think the way you interact with the game can dramatically improve the experience. I'm a big fan of joysticks, steering wheels, fight sticks and various types of retro style control pads.
Maybe the Wing Commander games 3-4 where the last we played with a joystick. After that first person shooters took over everything and you soon learned mouse aim and keyboard controls insted. But I did miss the feeling of a stick with Flight Simulator and was reminded of them again.
I too have a green/yellow & pink cruiser joystick, sturdy device which has three settings for stiffness on the collar (unfortunately no auto fire).
Some classic games IMO don't translate well into joypad, IK+ on the PlayStation with pad didn't play as well as the Amiga version with stick 🕹️.
I was slightly after the joystick as mainstream- the NES and Game&Watch were my inauguration, and soon after that mouse and keyboard. I've been a D-pad boy since before I can remember, but even back then there was some flight / space sim games for the PC that I played... and yes. It was something special, getting to blast through space with it. But unfortunately the joystick I had had drift that had me constantly pull to the left, so I have never really had an optimal joystick experience. Just the stories and memories of others- I'll try to consider them in that light in the future, rather than my own very peculiar ones.
I liked all of this. Despite never playing a single joystick game, I think.
I used to have the microsoft sidewinder and it kicked so much ass we tossed it cause it stopped recognizing inputs but for 2 dollars at a garage sale it lasted us years. Now I just have a saitek cyborg that my brother had bought after the sidewinder died. Its the stupid cyborg with the folding legs but it still makes flight games a thousand times more immersive.
I was surprised there wasn't a mention of fighting games, they're the reason I still have one (largely untouched!) in the living room footstool :D
They got a mention, but not really the focus of it. More flightstick focused.
Apologies - I must stop watching videos at double speed whilst playing Football Manager on half the screen 😁 I will rewatch and pay proper attention as contrition.
Big fan of the waggly joystick sequence, is particularly evocative for some reason.
@@reynoldio Please don't ever apologise for playing Football Manager
Analog sticks were on the original Apple 2. Because it was kind of a kludge of the paddles. Thus 2 button 2 axis. Also the Vectrex and Atari 5200 were analog sticks for good and ill respectively. Know your history kids. Even if its pointless trivia.
Don't forget the Intertron 4000 or whatever it was called; first home console with an analogue joystick.
@@Bransfiiiield have never heard of it. I recall the first cartridge console was the Fairchild though. Its got some odd controller stuff.
Love your videos mate
I wish I could get one here without breaking a bank
I really love using my girlfriends stick, there something about it, different quality to most sticks even my own, strange sense of feel is tell tale sign its built differently and fits well into my hand, its neither too bulky or too small, its a good size with quite the liberal movement no matter how hard or soft I am in using it.
hehehe
It brought a level of Joy :3c