Against all odds, you need this... The famous Gravis Gamepad! Positioning itself as the gamepad of choice for the DOS and early Windows gamer of 1993.
I never had one of these as sidewinders were my choice when I started PC gaming in '98.
Was this (or still is!) your fave, vintage PC biskies?
I never had one of these as sidewinders were my choice when I started PC gaming in '98.
Was this (or still is!) your fave, vintage PC biskies?
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The Dpad was just awful - so stiff.
But it was what was available to play some games like Commander Keen.
In all honesty I don't remember using it all that much and the better controllers arrived.
D-pad's abominable, but the buttons are too far apart, recessed down so they're flush with the surface, and the travel distance is too far and squishy.
But just speaking generally about controllers as a whole, the classic GGP is a stinker imo.
if a game released before 2005~ I expect the controller support to be zero
Like, that new MechWarrior seems so cool, but playing it without a FF joystick just feels like, what's the point, almost?
Me personally, I had Sidewinder pads. My parents PC came with a nasty beige Quickshot stick. But I bought my own black six-button Sidewinder boomerang and it's is still in rotation 👌
worked well enough but the D-pad was pure suffering
people used to shit on the Xbox 360 D-pad but it was like night and day compared to the one on this thing
But I do remember these showing up on Windows controller icons well into the 2000s
Y'know, Pentium 2 and 3, and whatever I had before that, when I was too young to know
It was okay, but the little screw in stick was balls so didn't use it past day one.
Eventually lost the pad in a house move and replaced with a Sidewinder, which was much better.
The Gravis gamepad was godsend for a kids with a family PC who weren't allowed a game console.
Cant replace all those hours of X-Wing for dos memories.