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"Kershek" <m...@here.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3FA63BA9...@ns.sympatico.ca>,
> rodger...@ns.sympatico.ca says...
> > My favorite 2600 gaming was having friends over for a game of
> > 'Decathlon'. Man, that game was a joystick killer.
>
> I found that using the Epyx joystick got me to and sometimes above the
> medal leaders.  That was a great joystick.
A long time ago someone lent me WWF Wrestling for the Atari ST. That game
was impossible to complete over a certain level. Except for the fact that
the joystick and mouse fit in the same port, and that the mouse signal for
"Moved a fraction of a millimetre" corresponds to a single joystick movement
in that direction. This meant that when the supreme wrestlers got a hold on
you and you had to do the
Joystick-waggle-to-win-the-grapple-and-do-your-special-move action (I'm sure
they gave it a more concise name), you could pause the game, disconnect the
joystick, connect the mouse, unpause the game and run the mouse in circles
to do the equivalent of hundreds of joystick waggles per second. This would
enable you to win half of the matches towards the end of the game.

What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second? :-)