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Atari ProLine Joystick
Manufacturer: Atari
Model: CX-10, CX-40
Type: Controller
This controller sure takes the "joy" out of joystick. The Atari ProLine Joystick must have been
designed by goblins or extradimensional horrors with non-Euclidean appendages. It is in essence,
a narrow rod with a stick protruding out of it at a right angle, with buttons on the left and
right sides. This controller was apparently tested by nobody, if not the fantastic monsters that
designed it, because wrist and finger pain sets in within minutes of playing Xevious, Choplifter,
or Ball Blazer. It is an utter abomination.
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Atari 7800 Controller?
Manufacturer: Unknown
Model: X-78?
Type: Controller
I received a strange box in the mail, and it contained some baggies full of resistors, some plastic
NES controller pieces, an amazing bright blue circuit board, a weird plastic sheet that looked like
it was made from a strand of plastic, and a DE-9 cable. The instructions said that this assemblage
of parts could be used to make a Sega Master System controller, or an Atari 7800 controller. Given
that the ProLine controller is absolute garbage, I elected to follow the Atari instructions. After
I epoxied the plastic label onto the controller shell, I tested it out. It worked perfectly! I tried
going to the website in the instructions, but I got a 404 error. I think I shouldn't dig too far
into this, as if this is some sort of alternate reality stuff, I'll just consider it to be good
fortune and leave it at that.
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