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I'm curious why it uses the keyboard instead of joysticks. Did the Apple II only have one joystick port? I don't know much about its hardware.
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
I'm curious why it uses the keyboard instead of joysticks. Did the Apple II only have one joystick port? I don't know much about its hardware.
- pvg 8y agoThe game supports both keyboard and joystick input. It's really a keyboard game, though, it's not Karate Champ or Way of Exploding Fist or games in that vein.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoHuh. I beat Karateka on the C64 with a joystick. I don't think it would have occurred to me to play it with a keyboard, though, even if I was told it was better. At the time I was always baffled when action games had a keyboard option at all, when surely everyone had a perfectly good and superior joystick. (After a little googling, it seems like the Apple II joystick was analog and kinda shitty in the way that early analog joysticks always were for some reason, so that may explain it as well. The C64's Atari-type sticks were not nearly as sturdy as one would wish, but they performed very well while they lasted.)
- pvg 8y agoThey were pricey, compared to your typical C64 Quickshot but also functionally different. It's just not a good fit for a fighting game. Few Apple ][ games absolutely required a joystick. Rescue Raiders is one that comes to mind, off the top of my head.
- jasonkester 8y agoApple joysticks were these terrible analog things that were completely useless for anything other than flight simulator. Anything that needed gamepad-like input just used the keyboard.
- raldi 8y agoDesigned by Jony Ive? http://appletothecore.me/files/pasted-graphic-1232chjoy.jpg http://appletothecore.me/files/pasted-graphic-1232chjoy.jpg