Retro Gamer Issue 42

[NE146]

Wow I need to get that issue in the first post. I just recently bought what I think is issue 41, simply because while perusing it at Barnes and Noble, I spied a picture inside it of my nearly 10 year old 2600 Space Invader hack!

[thomasholzer]

BTW, the recent Vectrex article was excellent.

 

Thanks

 

(one of my favourite consoles which is why I wanted to do the feature on it)

 

 

Good article, but to say the Vectrex was the first console to have an analogue control as standard? Try Interton VC 4000, from 1978: Analogue, two fire buttons and a numerical keypad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC_4000

Also Atari 5200 joystick was analogue (1982).

Edited October 25, 2007 by thomasholzer

[Mayhem]

Fair enough, I know of the VC4000 but I didn't know it had an analog joystick. I don't think anywhere has ever mentioned it regarding it being the first as such. As for the 5200, it came out about a month after the Vectrex.

[Pixelboy]

Opcode's Space Invaders Collection appears in the 'Definitive Space Invaders' article! Cool!

[Zonie]

The apple ][ (yeah not a console, but...) had analog joysticks, I think trash-80's did too. And what about PONG? Is not a paddle an analog device?

[thomasholzer]

Well, true many Pong consoles sported analogue sticks in the 70s, even the Teleng Colourstars had them.

 

Still RG is fun to read, I wonder if JS in issue 35 knew he didn't even spell Microprose right, he called them Micropose (Before they were famous). I bet he thought they were called Micropose (Nah, probably a typesetting error).

Edited October 27, 2007 by thomasholzer

[thomasholzer]

Fair enough, I know of the VC4000 but I didn't know it had an analog joystick. I don't think anywhere has ever mentioned it regarding it being the first as such.

 

The Encyclopedia of Game Machines book (reviewed in RG 32)

Edited October 27, 2007 by thomasholzer