Classic Game Room - ATARI 2600 PADDLE CONTROLLERS review

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @smansell
    @smansell 16 лет назад +2

    The paddle controllers were simple, but brilliant. Much better than the cheap joysticks manufactured by Atari, these were a lot of fun to use, especially with Breakout. There should be a paddle controller made for the Wii that attaches to the Wii remote, like the nunchuck does.

  • @Nunavuter1
    @Nunavuter1 7 лет назад +6

    For those interested in the technical difference, an Atari paddle controller has a 330-degree of motion. It uses an analog potentiometer to detect the position of the wheel from two fixed points on the left and right side of its range of motion. Without moving the wheel, the controller "knows" where it is within its range of motion in an absolute sense (such as being 1/3 of the way from the left-hand side of the screen). Joysticks and driving controllers are digital. Only when the control is touched does the controller send updated information to the game console. This allows a driving controller 360 degrees of motion, and a joystick has unlimited range through repeated motion of the stick. In short, paddles are analog and have an absolute relation to an object position on screen, while joysticks and driving controllers are digital and send only relative positional information. The console treats a driving controller as a joystick with only the ability to move left and right.

  • @jcrowley1985
    @jcrowley1985 12 лет назад +1

    You have an early pair that came with the "heavy sixer" model 2600. Actually those are slightly rarer and might fetch a slightly higher price then the later ones.

  • @Bricklin1990
    @Bricklin1990 16 лет назад +1

    You should do a review of the Atari 2600 wireless joysticks. Those are pretty ahead of their time.

  • @sinistermoon
    @sinistermoon 16 лет назад

    Awesome man. The wheel on my right paddle broke off on one of 2 of my current sets of paddles.

  • @RattyRandnums
    @RattyRandnums 13 лет назад

    @pbloo574 Whoops read your question wrong. No I don't believe the driving controller is compatible with paddle games. So far as I know the only game that uses the driving controller(s) is Indy 500

  • @djdovewhite
    @djdovewhite 14 лет назад +2

    Did anyone notice Jason Voorhees on the cover of video olympics?

  • @atarileaf
    @atarileaf 16 лет назад

    Circus Atari is one of my top 5 favorite 2600 games - the main reason - the paddle controllers. This game is a great example of the precise control needed to play.
    Its easy to see why. Try playing circus atari on the Atari Anthology for the playstation or xbox and controlling the teetertotter with the thumb stick. You don't get that precise control and as a result, the game is just frustrating.
    Paddle games rule the 2600!

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley 12 лет назад

    My paddle controllers have the same sticker on 'em with the tennis rackets and all, except where Mark's say "paddle" mine just have Atari logos instead. Why is that?

  • @werpu12
    @werpu12 2 года назад

    The paddle controllers always have had some kind of friction, they were potentiometers, the others probably are spinners, less friction, due to optical sensors. Paddles are good for games where you have a movement limit, but bad for games where you can have a full 360 degrees rotation (driving games or, tempest for instance)

  • @pbloo574
    @pbloo574 13 лет назад

    Would be able to use the driving controller with a game like Kaboom?

  • @germancastano2241
    @germancastano2241 2 года назад

    has paddle controllers any incompatibility with generic atari 2600 (the plastics ones)? I try to play warlord, but the controllers that I have just don't work. I don't know if there is any incompatibility :(

  • @dogeymon83
    @dogeymon83 15 лет назад

    There's actually a paddle control on the Arcade stick for the XBOX 360 ...... ya know those controllers that collect dust in Gamestop stores and are now less than $10.

  • @maiki60fps
    @maiki60fps 14 лет назад

    so for Indy 500 you have to actually get yourself DRIVING controllers...?

  • @agd29ifi
    @agd29ifi 10 лет назад

    I know two third party games Atari games that used paddles: Activision's KABOOM, and M Networks' (Mattel Electronics) version of ASTRO SMASH called ASTRO BLAST. Interestingly, ASTRO BLAST can also be played with the Joystick, but I used the paddles for better played, until I got bored.

  • @bluehawk2121
    @bluehawk2121 14 лет назад

    got a ? on the atari flashback 2 so u need the paddle controllers??

  • @floridaman3487
    @floridaman3487 4 года назад

    Does anyone know about Canyon bomber for the 2600?

  • @RattyRandnums
    @RattyRandnums 13 лет назад

    @pbloo574 Well, Kaboom! says to use the paddle controllers on the front of the cartridge so yeah. Check out atariguide(.)com to see scans of carts and manuals if you want. Or atariage(.)com for transcriptions of manuals and scans of Atari magazines.

  • @Kittenfox_55
    @Kittenfox_55 10 лет назад +1

    I always thought a controller like this would help in a game of space invaders or something like that because your going left and right only

    • @Alaska1925
      @Alaska1925 8 лет назад

      I guess using paddles in Space Invaders would've made it too easy. It'd be easier to dodge enemy fire, and it'd be easier to move quickly from one side of the screen to the opposite side. You could even be faster than the last invader.

  • @UNBTFFAN
    @UNBTFFAN 16 лет назад

    Have to say that this was a pretty informative video. I've never owned an Atari 2600 and never knew that it had so many specific controllers for each game. They were clever when they designed that paddle controller. 4 people playing together must be fun! Love the dog at the end!

  • @Skriak
    @Skriak 15 лет назад

    @mexamexo8 But he supposedly traded it in for a blender 10 years ago, I'm afraid. And there's been no sign of it since, so...yeah.

  • @raymxslappedyall3660
    @raymxslappedyall3660 5 лет назад

    u reviewed the paddless,but;not in action,why?

  • @Thats_Cool_Jack
    @Thats_Cool_Jack 10 лет назад

    do you know how to adjust the sensitivity of the paddle? mine is all glitchy and moves too fast.

  • @x-crisis
    @x-crisis 16 лет назад

    You'd think the driving controllers would stop to mimic a sterring wheel...
    Tempest just isn't the same without a paddle, not any brick breaking games.

  • @mexamexo8
    @mexamexo8 15 лет назад

    I'm waiting for an atari jaugar review.

  • @mexamexo8
    @mexamexo8 14 лет назад

    @maiki60fps
    yeah, you do, but there isn't no other games for it

  • @kr3m3r
    @kr3m3r 13 лет назад

    ok that answered the problem i had. i bought a controller that had an indy car on it thinking it was a paddle controller. lol it was only $2 so now i know y it didnt play breakout.

  • @LJ3783
    @LJ3783 8 лет назад

    just fixed my paddles, no jitters here! fuck yeah!

  • @FoxBoy1992
    @FoxBoy1992 14 лет назад

    Super Breakout recently came to 360 on Game Room and is entirely unplayable without the superior paddle control interface.

  • @embryon1111
    @embryon1111 14 лет назад

    Love it. . .love your dogg too!! :o)

  • @dogeymon83
    @dogeymon83 15 лет назад

    There are classic Atari games on Xbox Live Arcade, obviously.

  • @garfiduper5822
    @garfiduper5822 11 лет назад +4

    why is it the chicken always wins?

    • @InkNimations
      @InkNimations 7 лет назад

      You do have a point, Garfi. Why IS it the chicken always wins?

  • @plurp7
    @plurp7 16 лет назад

    "why is it the Chicken always wins?" -
    LMFAO!!!!!
    Classic Stella moment!
    Awesome review Mark, keep up the excellent vids!
    and long live Atari 2600.

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley 13 лет назад

    Of course, it should be noted that only 2600 games made by Atari themselves, as seen in this video, consistently tell you what controllers to use right on the cartridge. Not all Atari 2600 games tell you that. Activision games do, I think. Imagic games do not.

  • @Leishmaniasisably
    @Leishmaniasisably 13 лет назад

    I think one of mine was broken because it was WAY to sensitive and overresponsive.

  • @Subhell666
    @Subhell666 11 лет назад

    The Classic Game Room Dog

  • @raymxslappedyall3660
    @raymxslappedyall3660 5 лет назад

    The woodgrain Atari came with paddles,they could have made more cash by selling it by itself

  • @MooseBurrito575
    @MooseBurrito575 16 лет назад

    i was thinking the same thing
    nintendo should bring that back

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley 13 лет назад

    @Leishmaniasisably Paddles are supposed to be pretty responsive, to your ever twitch just about.

  • @Leishmaniasisably
    @Leishmaniasisably 13 лет назад

    @wildsmiley This one, I believe, was excesively so.

  • @CecoBg3
    @CecoBg3 16 лет назад

    hahahaha love the ending "or this peace of chi..... why is it the chicken always wins" xD

  • @Jourei_
    @Jourei_ 15 лет назад

    I wonder what the controllers tastes like. *Bites the sixaxis* Tastes like hard.

  • @d.vaughn8990
    @d.vaughn8990 5 лет назад

    Love the paddles - but wish Atari had used better potentiometers. Nothing worse than your paddles getting “the jitters”!

    • @ferndog1461
      @ferndog1461 2 года назад +1

      On OEM 2600 paddles, a careful cleaning of potentiometer with Contact cleaner /TV tuner cleaner can reduce , " jitters ".
      You can also swap out the old potentiometer with a new one with some tools.
      Part number Potentiometer CO10464 1MEH

    • @d.vaughn8990
      @d.vaughn8990 2 года назад

      @@ferndog1461 thank you kindly for the part number!

  • @Bittergamer1886
    @Bittergamer1886 15 лет назад

    You just GOTTA love the Classic Gameroom Dog!

  • @TheBrainScratcher
    @TheBrainScratcher 9 лет назад +1

    "playing warlords? that's a paddlin."

  • @Copper20
    @Copper20 11 лет назад +1

    Chicken always wins with dogs.

  • @nicktiny787
    @nicktiny787 15 лет назад

    4:27 lol

  • @Matrilwood
    @Matrilwood 12 лет назад +1

    Mark: Or is it the chick...
    Stellar: CHICKEN!!!

  • @Norway2011
    @Norway2011 15 лет назад

    I find it stupid that they had to make customers buy both paddle & racing controllers when they could have made them work the same

  • @xj0462
    @xj0462 11 лет назад

    he should have replaced indy 500 with night driver

  • @thephilchannel
    @thephilchannel 12 лет назад

    that dog didn't fuck around

  • @steviematic
    @steviematic 16 лет назад

    Haha. That's one way to stop the "First! 1st!!!111one" comments!

  • @scenscoff
    @scenscoff 14 лет назад

    pause at 4.29 ish to see a happy dog

  • @SakuraAvalon
    @SakuraAvalon 14 лет назад

    "Paddeling a boat, oh you better believe that's a paddlin'."

  • @mhmrules
    @mhmrules 11 лет назад +1

    But I like chickens Eddy!

  • @ISUKTURDS
    @ISUKTURDS 16 лет назад +1

    Damn chicken :P

  • @MrLangley59
    @MrLangley59 14 лет назад

    4 people missed the like button

  • @yap3346004
    @yap3346004 13 лет назад +1

    hey would you prefer the atari 2600 paddle controller or this piece of chick-------- eats chicken piece lol it makes me crack up

  • @Nytezero
    @Nytezero 16 лет назад

    Most obvious is driving controllers saying "driving", paddle controllers say "paddle" haha =)

  • @freespeech4u2
    @freespeech4u2 16 лет назад

    ditto

  • @Ollie7475
    @Ollie7475 14 лет назад

    4:26
    That's just like the time you wanted Stella to choose between the Sega Genesis controller or a Milk-Bone.

    • @productions4452
      @productions4452 6 лет назад

      4:26

    • @terencehill2320
      @terencehill2320 2 года назад +1

      @@productions4452 you get no kudos for stealing the timestamp from the originator.. -1 for you

  • @SakuraAvalon
    @SakuraAvalon 14 лет назад

    @InecomCompany That's cheating!

  • @BBBQ4
    @BBBQ4 14 лет назад

    BULLETPROOF QUALITY as expected from atari. *nod

  • @Computernotfound
    @Computernotfound 15 лет назад

    great grammar bro

  • @DaisyTheSadboi
    @DaisyTheSadboi 14 лет назад

    paddles are sexy

  • @Dapencilcounseler
    @Dapencilcounseler 12 лет назад

    well, i think so, but puddle controllers are VERY rare. I think it's kind of a stupid concept. stepping in a puddle to control a game? stupid.

  • @aapenjong
    @aapenjong 14 лет назад

    9999th viewer XD

  • @pivotmasterDM1
    @pivotmasterDM1 14 лет назад

    when you said it was bullet proof, where you serious? i just cant think of a situation where someone shot a gun at your atary 2600 controller. not a realistic one, anyway.