Freedom Stick Commericial

[SuperGrafx]

Oh, don't get me wrong.  ASCII is a great company and their games and controllers have been consistently great over the years.

I just laugh a little because back in 1988 (or was it 1989?) Nintendo took Camerica to court over the Freedom Stick because it very closely copied the design of their NES Advantage stick.  In actuality, it was more like ASCII's Advantage.  Anyway, such is life with regards to intellectual property I guess.

[wilykat]

 The Freedom stick could be used with NES and Atari/Sega. Is the connector on the receiver easy to exploit allowing just about anything including Turbografx/PCE controllers as well?

[esteban]

The Freedom stick could be used with NES and Atari/Sega. Is the connector on the receiver easy to exploit allowing just about anything including Turbografx/PCE controllers as well?

You can mod the Freedom Stick for TG-16/PCE, but the only games that don't glitch/lag are Ballistix, Falcon, Spin Pair, Hatris, Titan, Dracula X, Revenge of Ninja Spirit.

[DragonmasterDan]

Oh, don't get me wrong.  ASCII is a great company and their games and controllers have been consistently great over the years.

I just laugh a little because back in 1988 (or was it 1989?) Nintendo took Camerica to court over the Freedom Stick because it very closely copied the design of their NES Advantage stick.  In actuality, it was more like ASCII's Advantage.  Anyway, such is life with regards to intellectual property I guess.

Well with the advantage it was probably theirs in the sense that they had licensed it/had exclusive North American distribution rights from ASCII.