In the 80s my dad got sick of Atari 5200 controllers breaking so he
decided to make controllers out of the highest quality arcade components
he could find. He advertised but they didn’t really take off. Decades
later he found out Atari collectors revered his Starcon controllers and
quickly bought up all his left over stock and asked him to sign them. I
grew up with all these parts kicking around and I recently dug out the
last remaining pieces from a closet to make my own controller. As you
can see these buttons came from an era when you weren't going to have
more than a couple in an enclosure so they are ungainly and absurdly
large. But I got a generic xbox controller board and crammed them as
tightly as I could. I just made it to make it, but I’m surprised how
much I like this controller. I just played through the entirety of
Alisa, an old school tank-controls survival horror, and it was the most
ease I’ve had playing a tank control game. I made a wrist rest and am
just waiting for a sheet of plastic to arrive so I can finish the bottom
panel.
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