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Video Games > Joysticks > Item 95
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Super Advantage Joystick
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Super Nintendo
Sales Rank: 19556
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$21.03
At Amazon
on 3-6-2010.
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Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I remember 10 years ago, I bought one of these for my friend as a birthday gift along with Killer Instinct from Funcoland (now called Gamestop, for all you hip youngsters who don't remember). It made KI way more fun than playing with a game pad and about as close to the arcade as you could get back then, but unfortunately this thing has a couple of design flaws. First of all, the buttons are noticeably smaller than the ones you find in the arcades-- especially so if you're used to Japanese setups (I prefer American parts myself, but that's beside the point). This thing is obviously meant to mimick Japanese arcade setups, since it uses a ball top joystick, so it's puzzling that Nintendo used such tiny buttons. I suppose they just didn't want to make the stick any bigger than it already was, which is a shame, because I'm sure it would have been possible if they had a better layout. And that brings me to an even more important problem: this thing's button layout was completely illogical. Most people (like me) bought this thing because an SNES gamepad would not do for a 6 button fighting game like Street Fighter II or Killer Instinct. This thing has 3 buttons all right, but they're definitely not arranged to make playing those games easier. Ideally, the L and R buttons would be to the right of the ABXY buttons, but for some odd reason they didn't do that, and they placed the R button way off to the right. If you're playing a 6 button game that doesn't support custom mapping (and in the SNES days, most didn't), you'll find Street Fighter II to be irritatingly unintuitive to play. If Ascii had been wise in desigining it, they would have had two neat little rows of 3 buttons each, reading YXL on the top and BAR on the bottom. For whatever reason though, Ascii decided that they didn't want to. Overall, this is certainly not a bad stick. It's solidly built and has a nice smooth joystick, and on the SNES it was really your only option for bringing arcade controls home. It's a shame that Ascii had to handicap this thing by giving it such a poor button layout, but it is what it is. Nowadays it doesn't seem like much with incredible home made arcade sticks and pricey high-end ones available from the likes of Hori and such, but back in the day this was where it was at for fighting fans. If you're a video game collector and / or Super Nintendo aficionado, and you can find it for a good price, it's worth the purchase.
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Super Advantage Joystick
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Price: $21.03
Updated on 3-6-2010.
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