Double the Joy(sticks)
As mentioned earlier, I am trying to complete a C64C bundle. It is probably either going to be the Hollywood Collection or Night Moves, I’m unbelievably close to either! I seem to be spending most of my waking hours looking on eBay seeing what I can get.
Normally, I would not be looking for subpar joysticks, but since I have gone down the road of completing a C64C bundle, needs must! I am now the proud owner of not one but TWO Cheetah Annihilator Joysticks. These joysticks were poorly built this website even considered them as ‘awful’! They were made for (yup, this post is going to get worse!) the ill-fated and bizarre C64GS (C64 Games System), which was effectively a trimmed-down C64C shortboard with the cartridge point up rather than horizontally, it technically could play all of the back catalogue cartridges of the C64. But when they bundled the Terminator 2 cartridge, Ocean Software just realised the ROM, forgetting that you need to press ‘T’ to start the game – the C64GS didn’t come with a keyboard – so a LOT of games were simply unplayable.
Unsurprisingly, it only sold 20,000 units. The unsold ones were taken apart and resold as the C64c, as it was normal for Commodore to pick up what was lying around and bundle it up as a ‘bundle’.
Anyhow, back to these ill-fated fated poorly built joysticks. I have used them, and they are not bad, I have had worse back in the day, but at least I can now play Robocop 2 with a C64GS joystick!
