IGN Reviews Mad Catz Arcade Stick
Filed in archive Peripherals by Richard on February 18, 2007

IGN had this to say:
Maybe we've gone soft since the days of the 2600, but awkwardly gripping a square base while still trying to press face buttons, all the while manipulating a direction stick long enough to apply a lot of leverage to the base got uncomfortable relatively quickly. We played a variety of games with the gamestick, including Frogger, Time Pilot, Astro Pop, Paper Boy, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and SF2: Hyper Fighting. The MadCatz GameStick was successful in lending a retro edge to the classic games, but after a brief moment of gaming retrospection, we quickly realized that we were much better at the games when using a gamepadWhile I appreciate the retro-stylings, Mad Catz would have to drop the price of this stick down to about a third of what they want now before I would pick one up. Keep your eyes open for this one in clearance bins around May.. A long stick is inaccurate, and after dying in Frogger because we pushed left and ended up jumping forward one too many times, started missing our modern accuracy.
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