"God that thing was so ergonomic, who thought this was a good idea?" he wrote using his smart phone, a device with a similar form factor except tragically lacking physical buttons, making it arguably worse.
I saw that DA-15 connector and had a brief moment of panic before I realized that that's a female connector so it's not a IBM PC gameport compatible version of that nightmare.
My pops made so much shit out of nothing. He modified the AC adapter on my SNES with connector crimps to output via DC so I could play it on road trips.
Missing him tons thinking about it. He was so damn smart.
We convinced our dad to buy the 5200. We got Pac Man as our dad LOVED Pac Man. But because the joystick DIDN’T RECENTER ITSELF, my Dad hated it and made us return it. I was soooooo sad. We could finally pause games! And we had to return it. 😭😭😭
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I was 20 years old before I found out the joysticks we had were not the official hardware.
The blue box is the numpad replacement that could be a passthru for the stick!
Missing him tons thinking about it. He was so damn smart.