I wasted much of my youth in front of that thing. I was awesome.

The console was amazing for its time but long after it was relegated to peoples garages and cupboards those joysticks lived on as the absolute best you could get for gaming on 8bit machines like the commdore 64. They were indestructable and while at first they were very stiff and awkward, over time you broke them in and they came into their own, allowing to be more aggressive with a joystick than anything else on the market before that or since. Ah the sensible soccer tournaments we had using... Read more →

It tickles me pink to see this appear on gdgt. And it makes me miss it so bad. Sometimes the simplest games were the most fun! Ah, so many good memories.