odd NES controller - the mother ship .

[tonyvortex]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/tonyvortex/mothership.jpg

this came into the store i work at yesterday and im clueless about it.i figured i had seen just about every variation of a NES controller .you slide your controller into it and you use it as a joystick.its made by a company i dont remember also called suncom.does anyone remember this thing at all?

[max 330 mega]

damn.. thats an odd one.., so im guessing it doesnt really have its own control mechanism, thats why you shove the d-pad end of the nes pad into the "mothership" it has a little thing inside that presses on the d-pad??

[joshnickerson]

Oh, man, I've seen that before! Quite a while ago, I might add.
Yeah, it pretty much is just a mechanism that operates the Control Pad making it feel like an "arcade" stick.

[Emily]

I have a very similer stick I found at a radio shack recently. Its called an Archer Joystick Docking Bay for NES. Its Boxed and everything too.

Its the same stick with a different name! It even has that picture of the joystick sitting on the NES on the front of the box too. Hmmmm. :/

[Emily]

Whats the date on that thing?

[christianscott27]

I have a very similer stick I found at a radio shack recently. Its called an Archer Joystick Docking Bay for NES. Its Boxed and everything too.


you found NES era gear still on sale at the shack? my local ones dont even carry RF selectors anymore.

[qbertandernie]

ive got an NIB archer version too...

as emily ssaid, that ones a 'docking bay', not a 'mothership'...probably one company bought the other and repackaged left over stock...

[whoisKeel]

hmmm...not that i'm an expert or anything, but i've never seen that before, wouldn't mind more pics if you can get them.

[Emily]

I have a very similer stick I found at a radio shack recently. Its called an Archer Joystick Docking Bay for NES. Its Boxed and everything too.


you found NES era gear still on sale at the shack? my local ones dont even carry RF selectors anymore.

Five Bucks! And its been five bucks for a very long time, just sitting there for years!Found a Tandy Co-Co disk drive and some cassettes as well.

[NESaholic]

I saw one on Ebay.nl once, incl. ship $15 orso, meh i didn't wanna spend money on it,if i found it at a flea orso for $5 i would but for $15 i'd rather buy a complete game.

[it290]

I remember seeing those things at the shack as well, I wouldn't be surprised if they still had stock somewhere...never looked like it would work worth a crap, though.

[mikeetler]

ive got an NIB archer version too...

as emily ssaid, that ones a 'docking bay', not a 'mothership'...probably one company bought the other and repackaged left over stock...

Actually, Archer is (was?) one of Radio Shack's in house brands. It was not uncommon for RS (or TRU, EB, etc) to buy large quantities of an item from Docs, Mad Catz, etc and have them branded for their strore. It's not done as much now, but it was a huge thing in the accessory market in the mid 80's to late 90's

-Mike

[Speedy]

Got three of those (Suncom, i also have docking bays for the NES from that company to, those one's where you can put 10 or 20 games in ... licensed by NoA to), but they suck as hell. Worthless to me.

[TRM]

ive got an NIB archer version too...

as emily ssaid, that ones a 'docking bay', not a 'mothership'...probably one company bought the other and repackaged left over stock...

Actually, Archer is (was?) one of Radio Shack's in house brands. It was not uncommon for RS (or TRU, EB, etc) to buy large quantities of an item from Docs, Mad Catz, etc and have them branded for their strore. It's not done as much now, but it was a huge thing in the accessory market in the mid 80's to late 90's

-Mike

Amen. I have a Quickshot controller (I think it is QS) and I have a second model, exactly the same, except it is made by Archer (it even says Radio Shack and /or Tandy on it) for the NES. This clearly is what had happened.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Hey Tony, are you hiring at all over there? Jeez, you guys get a lot of good stuff! LOL

Kristine

[charitycasegreg]

thats quite odd, how much did you pay for it? It would be cool to try it out, and if it sucks, you still got the cool box!

[Emily]

Oh, They suck allright!