Joystick
"Competition-Pro" joystick for a Commodore Vic 20 computer.
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Joysticks like this were very popular in the 1980s for playing video games on home computers and games consoles.
The Competition Pro joystick was launched in about 1983, manufactured by Coin Controls Ltd, an Oldham based company whose main product lines were coin handling equipment for markets that included coin operated arcade machines. Competition Pro joysticks became highly popular, they were simple, robust and compatible with many of the popular home computers of the time. Production eventually shifted overseas and it was manufactured for several years in a number of different models, and copies of the design are still being manufactured in the 21st century for the retro computing market.
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified) and metal (unknown)
- Object Number:
- Y1991.343.1
- type:
- joystick
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