# Commodore 64 Nostalgia Extravaganza **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844 "2005-08-20T03:02:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844/61 "2005-08-22T22:00:49Z")
C64 remixes for Winamp: [http://www.slayradio.org/home.php](http://www.slayradio.org/home.php) ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844/62 "2005-08-23T01:31:03Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Black with red racing stripes. The ads featured a close up of the joystick in the hands of somebody wearing expensive black leather racing gloves. > > I still have a few, and they are superior joysticks. Most joysticks of the time had plastic shafts, and metal bubble switches. After a while, the shaft would snap at a vital moment, unless one of the bubbles became permanently depressed first. The Epyx stick had a metal shaft and toggle switches with plates and springs. > > And it looked really cool. > > The only cooler looking C-64 joysticks were the Alien and Terminator. I don’t know what year they were made. I don’t know if they were ever released in this country. I just know I want them. The best joystick I ever used with the C64 was probably the most un-ergonomic one ever. It had a black square base with a big red button on the top left corner, a thin metal neck, and a big red ball on top that had a white button in the centre. Your hands always smelled like coins after using it, but it had great accuracy. Damned if I can remember the manufacturer. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844/63 "2005-08-23T12:56:08Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > The best joystick I ever used with the C64 was probably the most un-ergonomic one ever. It had a black square base with a big red button on the top left corner, a thin metal neck, and a big red ball on top that had a white button in the centre. Your hands always smelled like coins after using it, but it had great accuracy. Damned if I can remember the manufacturer. Was the base topped with a big silver sticker with black and orange arrows pointing in eight directions? Re Yie Ar Kung Fu Did anybody ever beat this game? I could never beat Blue, the final opponent who had all the same moves you did. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844/64 "2005-08-23T13:17:55Z")
The best joystick I ever used for Atari, Commodore, and my Amiga was the Suncom Tac-2 joystick. Solid as a rock, I think it’s still in good shape, just packed away somewhere. Here’s a [link](http://www.q-link.cc/joystick-pictures.html) to some pics of different sticks. Bottom right corner. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844/65 "2005-08-23T13:58:19Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Re Yie Ar Kung Fu > > Did anybody ever beat this game? I could never beat Blue, the final opponent who had all the same moves you did. I’m pretty sure I did, although I guess I can’t remember for sure. My strategy was always the cheap-ass jump kick, bouncing from one end of the screen to the other. It was tough to score a hit on someone doing that, and IIRC Blue usually played a little more fairly after one or two jumps. I thought Pole was the toughest to beat, because of the aforementioned one-hit rule. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844/66 "2005-08-23T15:52:18Z")
**Cliffy** Thanks for the link. The Epyxx 500XJ is the stick **Smack Fu** and I were talking about. If memory serves, the stick **Amazon Floozy Goddess** is thinking of was made by the same company that made the TAC-2 and with many of the same parts. The official Commodore joystick wasn’t a quality piece of equipment. But it had a unique look. The shaft was triangular in cross section. The base was rectangular instead of square. Instead of a small, round button, it had a very long eliptical one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commodore-64-nostalgia-extravaganza/317844.md?page=3)