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@aou your post made me think of this.

@aou [your post](https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/698668) made me think of this.

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used to hate those. This was back when blaming the controller was a legitimate defense.

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They were complete pieces of shit. The big money ones (pic8.co) weren't much better.

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Ohh those too...we (well my dad) got one of those with the Tandy 1000, and that piece of shit broke in like 2 days. We got one of those boxy Tandy mouses to replace it, but it just sat there for over a year until he decided it worth tossing.

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I want to say they were like 20 or 30 bucks, which was a lot of money back then.

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Those POS color computer "joysticks"

Whomever thought of those needs to be beaten to death, revived, and beaten to death again. And again. And again.

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Beaten to death with the joystick.

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I was thinking more punctured with a GIME until dead.

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lol, but you can swing the joystick by the cord, that would likely be more fun.

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That thing is probably why people just used mouse and keyboard for basically all of the '90s.

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This was back in the 80s. When the NES came out, I couldn't believe how awesome the controller was. At first I wasn't sure I'd like a D-Pad, but once you used it, it was amazing.

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I used to have one, used it mainly for Sierra games (Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry etc). It was great for parts like driving a car or having to walk diagonally, but then you always had to set it down to type in the keyboard commands, which got annoying.

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Sounds like a Tandy