{"id":248337,"date":"2010-01-29T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5459659"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:59:14","slug":"retro-things-transparent-usb-joystick-is-hackable-and-cheap-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248337","title":{"rendered":"Retro Thing&#8217;s Transparent USB Joystick Is Hackable and Cheap [Gaming]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_joystick.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>This isn&#8217;t just the Atari joystick equivalent of the transparent Gameboy, which had no added features except for special see-throughness. This joystick is actually hackable, and can connect up to eight other controllers through the labeled solder points.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #retrothing\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/retrothing\/\">Retro Thing<\/a>&#8216;s joystick lights up blue when plugged into a USB port, and is compatible with Atari, Amiga and Commodore emulators. Bundled with the joystick is a CD with over 80 suitably-retro games, and the Stella Atari 2600 emulator. It&#8217;s only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reflexaudio.com\/products_joystick.htm\">$29.95<\/a> too&mdash;or $44.95 with a retro t-shirt thrown in for good measure. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reflexaudio.com\/products_joystick.htm\">Reflex Audio<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrothing.com\/2010\/01\/limited-edition-clear-usb-joystick.html\">Retro Thing<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/01\/retro_things_hackable_usb_joystick.html\">Make<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e4a110b1137ae5c87386a2b135768a0c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e4a110b1137ae5c87386a2b135768a0c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=nxfIjJSKtuo:RbPFhwJDjEc:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=nxfIjJSKtuo:RbPFhwJDjEc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=nxfIjJSKtuo:RbPFhwJDjEc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=nxfIjJSKtuo:RbPFhwJDjEc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=nxfIjJSKtuo:RbPFhwJDjEc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=nxfIjJSKtuo:RbPFhwJDjEc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/nxfIjJSKtuo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t just the Atari joystick equivalent of the transparent Gameboy, which had no added features except for special see-throughness. This joystick is actually hackable, and can connect up to eight other controllers through the labeled solder points. Retro Thing&#8216;s joystick lights up blue when plugged into a USB port, and is compatible with Atari, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}