Joysticks Are GO!
Do you remember your first joystick? OK, so maybe it wasn't an experience up there with your first kiss or first taste of new smoker's mayonnaise. Think hard— are you sure you can't recall that cuddly, primitive plastic carrot that stuck its little nose-stick out of your very first, freshlyripped-to-shreds game box in the glory days since-the Great Paddle Disavowal?
Joysticks Are GO!
RICK JOHNSON
Do you remember your first joystick? OK, so maybe it wasn't an experience up there with your first kiss or first taste of new smoker's mayonnaise. Think hard— are you sure you can't recall that cuddly, primitive plastic carrot that stuck its little nose-stick out of your very first, freshlyripped-to-shreds game box in the glory days since-the Great Paddle Disavowal?
Well, if you remember it, forget it! Those days are over! Gone! Never happened! Science has#arrivedon planet joystick. Technol«gy even!
How do you improve tfie joystick? Pet us count the ways. But first, let's look at how a joy-cane wo’rks.
Inside the little plastic box (techmcolly speaking) is an itsy-bitsy racetrack. On this racetrack are minute treadmills for five pygmy slugs from the jungles of Montana. These littlecritters*learn early on that, if they don't crawl fast enough, there'll be no slug chow in the tiny dishes tonight.
Worse yet, at the point*vhere the stick connects to the inside of the case, nastylooking slug prods dangle precariously close to tte track. When you move the stick, these prods are Wlpd with electricity, encouragirtythe petite rmffes to move it or else.