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have it both ways: atari 360
technabob.com - 1/13/2009
have it both ways: atari 360
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So maybe you like to play the latest and greatest (arcade) games but you don’t necessarily like the latest and greatest controllers . The answer, clearly, is to build a hybrid monster of controllers to suit your specifications. Alternately, you can wake up as Benjamin Heckendorn, but that ...
3600 Controller
benheck.com - 1/9/2009
3600 Controller
— benheck.com — OK so yesterday I had my Facebook status as saying I was “being frustrated by potentiometers” -... a rather normal day for me, really. For whatever reason this prompted one of my friends to suggest I build an Xbox 360 controller inside of an ... (more) 3600 Controller

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Atari Xbox 360 controller
hackaday.com - 1/12/2009
Atari Xbox 360 controller
— hackaday.com — It’s amazing what [Ben Heckendorn] can manage to crank out in just five hours. This time it’s... a wireless Xbox 360 controller stuffed inside an Atari 2600 controller. The guts are from a Guitar Hero 3 controller. It’s a fairly compact ... (more) Atari Xbox 360 controller

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gamestop.com - 1/19/2009
Buy Guitar Hero: Metallica - Xbox 360
— gamestop.com — Over 20 Superstar Guest Acts - Featuring acts chosen by Metallica ranging from Queen, to Alice in... Chains, Lynrd Skynrd and the Foo Fighters, jam to a wide variety of high-energy rock for Guitar Hero. Go beyond the music of Metallica to bands they ... (more) Buy Guitar Hero: Metallica - Xbox 360

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The UberReview:  Atari 360 Controller Retro Cool but a Little Awkward

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Atari 360 Controller Retro Cool but a Little Awkward
The UberReview — ... maestro Ben Heck, but it is extremely cool. He has taken an old Atari 2600 joystick, gutted it, added some extra buttons, a circuit board and the innards of a Guitar Hero controller, and turned it into a X-360 controller. Unfortunately, it can’t play 360 titles, but it can play a few Xbox Live Arcade titles, which is probably for the best, because I don’t see tiny buttons on the front being all that conducive to good gaming. [Ben Heck via HackADay, Technabob] Related posts SifuF’s portable N64, Semi-portable ...

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