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Posts from June 2010
Atari Star Wars Flight Yoke
Atari Star Wars Flight Controller Yoke
Fancy a nice new reproduction Star Wars Yoke for your original or MAME cab? Look no further.
RAM Controls offer such a goodie. Check it out here at their new Atari Coin Op site.
Steel frame with precision laser cutouts and powder coating, steel shafts with zinc plating, hard anodized black aluminum trigger and thumb button. Upgraded Delrin gears, mil-spec potentiometers, precision springs and upgraded handles. OEM flange bearings and OEM retaining rings. All parts meet or exceed original Atari spec. All components are 100% interchangeable with original yoke controller. Note: Does NOT come with artwork, but RAM Controls can supply that also.
Posts from March 2009
House of the Dead: Overkill
Classic zombie shooting comes to the Wii.
There are three arcade gaming genres that I care for. Arcade platformers, vertical shooters and anything that involves a bloody big gun.
The ‘story’: Take two blaxploitation cops, Special Agent G and Detective Washington, and give them a vocabulary of mainly expletives. Pop up increasingly gory hand cannon fodder every second or so and… and, erm, well that’s it.
This one really isn’t for kids. Although the blood and guts is normal fare for a game like this, the swearing in the game is really over the top.
Utterly brilliant ‘on-rails’ shooting fun.
If you really want the full on arcade effect (minus any meaningful recoil from the Wii remote), then buy a HOTD Hand Cannon. Forget the Wii Zapper it just doesn’t cut it in HOTD land. In gleaming white, the Hand Cannon is immense, really big, you know, Dirty Harry-esque.
It’s quite light without the remote plugged in, but once it is and the nunchuk is cabled down the back of the gun handle, it’s pretty well balanced and weighted. It also brings a smile to your face. You big kid.
A good successor to the Namco G Con 2 Light Gun.
Dreamcast Twin Sticks
Having played Virtual On Oratorio Tangram (VOOT) with a pad on the DC, and finding it almost impossible to control, maybe it’s time for some Twin Sticks.
It’s really that hard. Unplayable.
I only wish that the Sega Dreamcast Twin Sticks weren’t so damn expensive. You could almost buy some used HAPP or Sanwa (for that authentic Japanese feel) 8 way trigger sticks and knock up a control panel yourself for the 80-100 quid that these are going for on ebay.
Another option maybe to graft some hand grip assemblies on to a pair of Ultimarc UltraStic 360s and run with a map via NullDC.
It’s a fantastic looking game, especially when run through the VGA box (well cable in my case).
