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Originally Posted by Tube Radio
I liked the 5200 because it used an analog joystick even though it was poorly implemented mechanically
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The Wico aftermarket joysticks for the Atari 5200 were an amazing improvement on the Atari originals. They have mechanical devices in them to switch between self-centering spring-return mode, and fully relaxed analog mode, not the half-return, easily broken rubber membranes on the Atari-built ones.
One 5200 cartridge that took good advantage of the analog joysticks was RealSports Baseball, in which you could "swing" your bat different ways (including bunting) by choosing the motion of the joystick. That cartridge was also very cool for including voice sounds in about the same era as when the Mattel Intellivision required an outboard adapter to achieve that.