Tired of using crappy worn out joysticks with your favorite 8 and 16 bit computers? Well Monster Joysticks just brought out their Mini Monster Joystick. In this video I dive into this stick and bring you the 411 on this new offering.
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Quickshot Joysticks, 1982 – 1988
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Todd, why go so fast with your speech in this video? Slow it down, bud, and enunciate!
Great review, I’ve been waiting for them to make something like this!
This seems very nice. I have but one question: if the fire button is pressed continuously, will it keep firing? This is a must for me. My hand hurts after a while all because of madly repetitive button pushing. 🙂
Todd this is a top quality A+ video bud! Extremely well made and most importantly I learned a lot. I might have to pick up a Mini Monster. I also need to play with connecting my pro fighting stick (with Sanwa parts) to my Amiga via the RysII. I have also been considering the Edladdin stick as well as the Arcade Evolution stick. Have you ever used either of those and if so, how do they compare to the Mini Monster? Thanks Todd and great video!
Not that I care but no support for the ZX Spectrum seems like the oddest omission, only big thing really missing from that list I’d say. The Spectrum joystick adapters uses a DB-9 connector but I’m not sure if the pinout is any different. There were two different brands of joystick adapters, so most joysticks had two plugs with different pinouts, and games would ask you which adapter you had, Kempston or Sinclair.
Love that modded Neo-Geo stick. Great job on the review. The minuses don’t seem too bad overall, but that flex would annoy me to no end. I’d like to see a 6 button variant that works on the genesis/Snes/TG16/Jaguar through exchangeable cords.
great video man, the best review hands down on this stick
Wow! Todd! Incredible video in every single aspect! Well done!
Thanks for putting this together!
The sound of those microswitches in the stick is so satisfying.
Great review! Anyone knows name of platforme game at 9:34?
These guys really ought to include some spacers with the kit – the JLF isn’t supposed to be mounted flush with the control panel.
Nice joystick nwn
Will this work on Mist FPGA as well ???
THey should make a nes version with start and select. i would so use it with the analogue nt mini with the extra cores.
This looks interesting thou.
What you guys think about the cheeper one? is it atleast almost as good?
There is also the minor ‘issue’ of the joystick being on *the left side* – now I know that arcades have the joystick on the left and I *know* that “we are all used to using our left hand for controlling the characters on-screen by now”. But have you tried any of EPYX -Sports Games series, or Daley Thompson’s Decathlon, or Track & Field, etc? Because once you need to start wiggling that joystick like it’s the 1984 Olympics, then you are going to need to use your *main hand*, which in (most cases) would be your right. This ‘issue’ can of course be alleviated by simply holding the joystick differently, but then it will be difficult to reach the buttons and even more difficult keeping track of left/right. Just something to keep in mind and a good reason to always have a TAC-2 laying around… =)
lol Price is Right @ 9:00
I have the same Dell monitor model. How did you connect your Amiga to it?
I’d like a stick like that for Mame . With USB .
Great review on this joystick!
Dose it only work as a one button controller on the 7800?
What brand and model are your speakers?, they are amazing
Great video – took me by suprise to see you playing my game (Worthy) at the end 🙂
I wonder if this would work with the FM Towns when they add the x68000 support?