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Gravis PC Gamepad | 
 enlarge | Brand: Gravis
Category: CE
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $8.80
You Save: $11.19 (56%)
New (1) Used (3) from $8.45
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 27699
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.5
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: 40011-NFR
Model: 40011-NFR
UPC: 062770001106
EAN: 0062770001106
ASIN: B00000JKMB
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Gravis PC GamePad is the turbo-charged solution for action arcade and sports games. The GamePad is a unique combination joystick and multi-directional Nintendo- style controller for IBM PC and compatible based personal computers. Compared to traditional analog joysticks, the PC GamePad actually enhances your game environment. The control pad helps to speed your reaction time and improves coordination. In fact, the PC GamePad practically guarantees significantly higher scores! The PC GamePad also includes free software! GravUtil is a program that calibrates and tests your GamePad and buttons; a bonus CD includes the hottest shareware games to test your reflexes.
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 Durable and Cheap, just overshadowed by new Technology November 20, 2007
After the 1 review below I just had to create my own !!
I had one of these for almost 10 years and it worked fine for all the games that I tried it on.
Here's a rundown of the Pluses:
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- It was superbly compatible with all DOS games at the time and maintained compatibility all the way up to Win98-SE. IF your PC still has a Joystick port (which I doubt) I bet It'll work fine (drivers are included in Win2000/XP).
- Aside from a top-brand console pad (e.g. Nintendo), it's the best D-pad I've played with (IMHO the top 3 are SNES pad, original NES pad and the PS's Dualshock / Dualshock 2 D-pad). It could actually be used for Fighting games (i.e. Street Fighter2, etc.) even though it only has 4 buttons. Anyone who has played Fighting games will know that the D-pad can be MUCH more crucial than not being able to use the weakest attack of your character.
- Also, it has been one of my longest-lasting gaming controllers, withstanding years of abuse with the D-pad and buttons still working fine.
- At this point, the price. You can probably grab it for next to nothing. I've even seen it at flea-markets.
Now the Cons:
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- OOOLLLLLDDD technology !!! (obviously). This thing came out way back when a PC could handle 2 joysticks with 2 buttons each, so the fact that this pad was using 4 buttons was a BIG deal (by taking over the "possible" 2nd joystick's buttons). As mentioned above it requires a 15-pin Joystick port which almost no existing Desktop has let alone any laptop that I've seen since 1997!
- Needless to say, No USB support.
- Lack of buttons (only 4).
Final comment:
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This WAS an awesome pad and if you find it and have the required joystick port could probably provide a pretty decent gaming experience for only a few cents. It was one of the first REAL gamepads for the PC so you'd get a part of gaming history !!
I only stopped using it because I was able to connect my old SNES pad directly to the PC (only ~7 Diodes) and now I have adapters for the N64 pad (only good for N64 emulation really), PS1/PS2 (great for general gaming) and will (probably) end up buying Microsoft's PC hookup for the X360's wireless controllers (not for fighting games though).
BTW, I recently TRIED buying a USB PC controller (PS2 Dualshock2 knock-off) and STILL the BIG headache for these companies is getting the D-Pad juuuussst right... awesome how Gravis had it down in 1991 !
HTH
 Wow... its so... limitted. January 23, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
No Start and Select, no L and R's. Just 4 buttons and a D-pad. And what's that little switch? Oh, it flips it so you can use it upside down (makes the color buttons be directions) I had one of these for a while and I hated it. Nice for two button NES game emulation, but not SNES or anything else. Get a Lik-Sang adapter and use your old Playstation 1 or 2 pads instead. Get Joy2Key and you can do keyboard and mouse mapping like a Saitek pad.
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