Huh. 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

Huh. 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.)