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[gamerz]

I have a Sears Telegames Video Arcade II system, and the controllers have the joystick and paddles combined. The joysticks work great but the paddles are jittery. Are the paddles cleaned similar to 2600 ones. I havent dared to open them to look.

[Inky]

Funny you should bring this up, as I just saw one of these this weekend, and noted the console had 4 ports on it! Plus, the guy at the used game store swears that it plays 7800 games! Is this so? Seems far-fetched to me.

[CPUWIZ]

Inky said:

Plus, the guy at the used game  store swears that it plays 7800 games!  Is this so?  Seems far-fetched to me.

No, it doesn't.

[gamerz]

I like the idea of having the 4 ports, there isnt any 4 players joystick games are there. Just need the paddles to work now.

[Inky]

gamerz said:

I like the idea of having the 4 ports, there isnt any 4 players joystick games are there.  Just need the paddles to work now.

I'm just wondering if the reason there's 4 posrt, is to connect additional of the joystick/paddle controllers to plaay some of hte 4-player paddle games.

[gamerz]

Im not sure. It came with four controllers too. Is decathalon a 4 player joystick game?

[gamerz]

Does anyone know how to get the jitters out of these paddles

[Lord-Chaos]

I also have lots of these Sears Arcade II sticks, but none of the Paddle games work.It´s possible to move the bat in Super Breakout, the guy in Circus ATARI etc. , but the "fire" button is not accepted.

Anyone knows which games are compatible with these joysticks?

[Albert]

Lord-Chaos said:

I also have lots of these Sears Arcade II sticks, but none of the Paddle games work.It´s possible to move the bat in Super Breakout, the guy in Circus ATARI etc. , but the "fire" button is not accepted.

Anyone knows which games are compatible with these joysticks?

Huh, I just assumed normal paddles games worked with these. I have an entire box of these controllers, but I've never tired one of them. I'd also like to know the answer to this question.

..Al

[Eckhard Stolberg]

I don't have a Sears Arcade II stick. But since there are two controllers on the Atari paddles, you also need two buttons. Atari used the left and right lines for those. If there isn't a mode switch on the Sears sticks, I suppose pushing the stick left or right should work as the trigger for the paddle.


Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg

[gamerz]

There isnt a mode switch on the sticks...its on the video adcadeII console.

[Mitch]

Eckhard Stolberg said:

I don't have a Sears Arcade II stick. But since there are two controllers on the Atari paddles, you also need two buttons. Atari used the left and right lines for those. If there isn't a mode switch on the Sears sticks, I suppose pushing the stick left or right should work as the trigger for the paddle.


Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg

Exactly, you just need to push the joystick either left or right to simulate pressing the paddle button.

Mitch