Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[mspaeth@athena.mit.edu (Mark C Spaeth)]

In article <199710241000333073669@slip129-37-106-92.wa.us.ibm.net>,
B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net> wrote:
>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>since the Sega Genesis & Turbografix-16.  Second, very few of these
>emulators play with joysticks, let along the high quality arcade-style
>joysticks you can buy for home use now.  They make you play with the
>keyboard, which is totally unnatural to me.  If they improve in that
>regard, I may give them a second look--but I'd still prefer the real
>thing, any day.

When I'm playing games like space invaders and asteroids, the keyboard
is quite natural... don't for get that arcades didn't always have
joysticks...

(and how would tempest feel with a joystick?
 centipede with a mouse?)