SlikStik Bankruptcy

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:12 pm

Do tell.

Also, didn't you say something about wanting a rotary phone? Or did I dream that. Or was it somebody else?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:44 pm

AArdvark wrote:

Remind me to relate the story about how I used my erector set to make a motor driven rapid fire button for that stick.

Who could have guessed those thieves would rip a name off, too??

Audience: laughs

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:15 pm

Very soon I will relate the tale. And yes it was me looking for a white or tan rotary desktop phone.

THE
SHUNK
DIT DIT DIT
SHUUUNK
DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT
AARDVARK

(I'm not posting all seven numbers)

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:30 am

Well, An acquaintance of mine was leaving for the Army and he offloaded a bunch of Commodore stuff, including six or seven carts. One of the titles being Defender. Now I had played Defender in the local pizza joint and the best thing about the game was the unlimited fire amount. In Galaxian and Space Invaders player one could only fire one shot at a time. Galaga was slightly better with the ability to fire two shots at a time. But with defender, a player could fire as many times as they could hammer on the button! And the shots in question travel faster. Now we're talking some video game! My problem was that I couldn't hardly mash on the fire button as much as I wanted. Remember, this is before anyone sold autofire options on their joysticks.
Being of a mechanical turn of mind and with the help of an Erector set that I had kicking around since I was twelve or so, I proceded to construct my own custom joystick. The best one I had was the Slicstick pictured above so I set out to improve it.

Taking the joystick apart revealed that the bottom end of the handle was a metal ball with a wire clipped to it. The ball was then set into a molded plastic square (in the bottom half of the unit) with metal tabs clipped on all four sides. moving the stick brought the metal ball in contact with one of the square sides, thusly moving Jumpman away from any dangers.

The first thing I did was to rip out all the wires. Then I cut away the molded plastic square with my hot knife (and elbow grease) so the ball could move freely. I procured five micro switches from my store of random electrical parts conveniently stored in a shoebox. I arranged the switches so the triggers would just touch the metal ball in the center position and secured them with hot glue. The fire button was mounted on the outside of the housing; not the best looking thing but it was more comfortable, really. I then screwed all the switches down to protect against any aggressive gaming which I have been known to do. A simple rewiring job and the project was complete (somewhat) Now the joystick played like a dream, with instant on/off, you could turn Pac-man on a dime or kick serious ass in Raid On Bungling Bay. ( I rocked on Wizball!) Now there was no more hitting the button but not making contact and losing a life because of it anymore.

One of drawbacks was the inability to fire as fast as I wanted to while playing Defender. To remedy this I took the motor and battery case from my erector set. I made an interesting looking motor harness and screwed that down to the joystick on the left side about halfway down. The batteries went on the bottom. It made it difficult to hold the stick now, but I wanted function over form! I attached four plastic pieces of erector set rails to the motor so that when the motor was on, the plastic ends would slap down on the fire button as they went by. I put the motor button on the front of the stick, just under the regular fire button, sort of like a trigger pull.
Now the stick acted like a machine gun when I pulled the button! It wasn't balanced very well and would shake quite a bit when held on full-auto so I learned to give it short bursts, just like they tell you to in Halo. You had to be careful playing because the flying plastic flaps had a tendency to hit you on the arm or leg, especially when I was trying to hold it steady.

Turns out that rapid fire is not the best way to get really high scores on Defender, it's all about ship control, something that I really never learned, But did I have fun building my own custom frankenstick!

THE
NOW I WISH I HAD
TAKEN PIX
AARDVRK

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:13 am

Ahhhahaha! That was fucking brilliant. !!!!

I appreciate knowing about Defender- that it is ship control. It might help my terrible scores!

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:36 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Do you trust that I always bring the good shit? Some of you have seen this alread, but this is the greatest thread in the world right now:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72444.0

What happens when one complete fucking slimeball decides to run off with twenty thousand dollars, and get an attitude about it? It has IT ALL, this thread. Lies, corruption, the attorney general of New Jersey, The Mouth of the Vampire, everything.

If you make it to the end, you WON'T be disappointed.

I was disappointed, the link apparently has been edited in the two years since you posted it. It has nothing to do with what you said, it's a single posting with a link to a book on Amazon about how to build your own game console.

Unless you were originally kidding and all along it was about the book on building your own game console.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:20 pm

Really? I click on it and I see the link. The first post is from Frizz, and it says this:

Well, since the other Slik Stik thread got sent to hell, I figured I'd ask...

...has ANYONE heard from Christian regarding SS since the last post?

You don't see that? What happens if you copy the link and paste it into a new browser window, instead of clicking on it directly?

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:06 am

Maybe Tdarcos middle clicked and then looked at tab he already had open?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:32 am

Tdarcos thinks ads are websites.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:43 am

Tdarcos wrote: I was disappointed, the link apparently has been edited in the two years since you posted it. It has nothing to do with what you said, it's a single posting with a link to a book on Amazon about how to build your own game console.

PAUL:

This is really unacceptable. Unless you are browsing on a 320x200 monitor, there is literally NO WAY, unless you suffer from some sort of "mental retardation", or as the kids say "are a fucking retard" that you would not have seen that that link was just in the HEADER of the goddamn page, and there was an ENTIRE MULTIPAGE DISCUSSION about the topic only a few inches down.

So again -- and I know we had this problem with another topic just last week -- either you are being intentionally obnoxious, or have some sort of brain malfunction, and we should all be much nicer to you because holy Christ, what a bad deal.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:03 am

AArdvark wrote:Very soon I will relate the tale. And yes it was me looking for a white or tan rotary desktop phone.

THE
SHUNK
DIT DIT DIT
SHUUUNK
DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT
AARDVARK

(I'm not posting all seven numbers)

That wasn't a number; I do know (some) morse code, and right off the top of my head I recognized it as "S5". "DIT" means "Morse Code Short signal". If you meant it to be "35" then it should have been DIT DIT DIT DASH DASH
DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT.

If you were imitating a phone, you should have said "CLICK" not "DIT".

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:39 pm

pinback wrote:
Tdarcos wrote: I was disappointed, the link apparently has been edited in the two years since you posted it. It has nothing to do with what you said, it's a single posting with a link to a book on Amazon about how to build your own game console.
PAUL:

This is really unacceptable. Unless you are browsing on a 320x200 monitor, there is literally NO WAY, unless you suffer from some sort of "mental retardation", or as the kids say "are a fucking retard" that you would not have seen that that link was just in the HEADER of the goddamn page, and there was an ENTIRE MULTIPAGE DISCUSSION about the topic only a few inches down.

So again -- and I know we had this problem with another topic just last week -- either you are being intentionally obnoxious, or have some sort of brain malfunction, and we should all be much nicer to you because holy Christ, what a bad deal.

How about, I didn't see there was a scrollbar, all I saw was the page and the ad. Maybe I should just stop delaying the inevitable and put like 500 sleeping pills in the crepe and do a crepe video and snuff video.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:58 pm

Tdarcos wrote:How about, I didn't see there was a scrollbar, all I saw was the page and the ad. Maybe I should just stop delaying the inevitable and put like 500 sleeping pills in the crepe and do a crepe video and snuff video.

Extra $20 in it for ya.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:34 pm

What....................The........................Fuck.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:23 pm

SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNK
DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT
SHUNK
DIT
SHUNK
DIT

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:34 pm

Was that rotary-speak for rogue fridge by the side of the road?

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:08 pm

AArdvark wrote:Was that rotary-speak for rogue fridge by the side of the road?

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