Find me an original Colecovision controller that works. I'd love to see it. Their circuits were shit, and so was the polymer used in the overlay. Both of mine needed refurbishing with aftermarket boards.
Find me an original Colecovision controller that works. I'd love to see it. Their circuits were shit. Both of mine need refurbishing with aftermarket boards.
I'm pretty sure I have several of them in storage at my childhood home. I bought a bunch of them cheap on the surplus market back in the early 80s and used them on both the Colecovision and the Commodore 64. I know that me and my friends put at least a thousand hours on those controllers playing C-64 games and they never failed on us. They did destroy our palms with that stubby joystick they had but I never had to replace or repair any of them. The Intellivision controllers, on the other hand, were total shit out of the box and I didn't bother to replace them because they sucked so bad. Same with the Atari 2600 VCS joysticks.
Maybe it's the heat that accelerates their wear, like in attics or storage units. The overlay goes brittle and the contacts on the board go bad. They're fixable with patience, but it's easier to refurbish with new parts.
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