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arcade spheres for 2600 joysticks


bradhig1

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Yeah, I had a couple of them...but they were called "The Gripper".

 

I've first seen them in an ad in an early 80's gaming magazine but actually came across them in the later 80's at an electronics store that mostly sold NES games.  They had a couple of those Grippers and a Discwasher rapid fire module for Atari controlers and I wanted to get those for my Atari XE joysticks.

 

When I finally got enough money saved from my paper orute I went in to buy them but the guy told me some lady bought them instead.  I was really bummed out walking home that day and when I was about to tell me mom what happen (I'd told her I wanted to buy them), she told me to go straight to my room.

 

I went up and saw the Grippers attacked to my two joysticks and that same rapid fire module.  Now I know who that "lady" was... 😭

 

The Grippers work pretty good for standard Atari joysticks and any 3rd partry ones that used the same design.  I had to stop using them when those sticks eventually broke and I ended up buying a Wilco stick I still have to this day.

 

(Shame I couldn't use the rapid-fire module on my XE because of the literally tight lipped design...)

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