Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: gusman on August 28, 2008, 11:42:18 AM
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Hey All,
I'm buying a joystick for my son and Compusa has a brand called Genius which is really cheap. Does anyone have any experience with the brand?
Thanks,
gusman44
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If it is what I think it is, its not really suitable for flight simulation type games, including Aces High. Suitable for arcade type games, as I recall I used one of those when playing X-Wing and Tie Fighter back in the day.
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They have a couple of flight sim joysticks.
I don't have any experience with them though. And at around $12.00 - $20.00 I doubt I will anytime soon. :)
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Never heard of the brand. I am curious though, didn't CompUSA go out of business about a year ago? :confused:
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It's now the "All New CompUSA" :lol. Thanks for reminding me though, I gotta check to see if the store is still there.
My son just got JetFighter 3? from the 5 dollar store and he thought he could run it on my pc. I told him we will have come up with another plan :). He's dying to play AHII but he's still too young (12 yrs). Thanks for the help maybe I will get him a Saitek so he's ready for AHII in a couple of years.
Cheers
gusman44
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Never heard of the brand. I am curious though, didn't CompUSA go out of business about a year ago? :confused:
TigerDirect and CompUSA are now sister companies.
They have 23 stores in 4 states.
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Ah. Thanks for the info.
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Yea tigerdirect name bought them and now they keep up the website. Surprised they didnt try and keep open all the stores though.
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They closed all the stores in New Jersey :cry
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Check wally mart. they have a MS joystick for 18-20$ Lots a buttons, compatible with pc games.
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Just curious as to why 12 is too young. Is it because of the boneheads he might run into, or because you believe the game is too complex for a 12 year old?
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Just curious as to why 12 is too young. Is it because of the boneheads he might run into, or because you believe the game is too complex for a 12 year old?
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Mostly the cost of another account :lol, he's not going to use mine because he would probably start HOing everyone. Then I would have to worry about the boneheads :uhoh
Cheers,
gusman44
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Gus, I saw a picture of one. Walmart sells them on their website. It looked an awful lot like the old Sidewinder. That's all I know.
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It's now the "All New CompUSA" :lol. Thanks for reminding me though, I gotta check to see if the store is still there.
My son just got JetFighter 3? from the 5 dollar store and he thought he could run it on my pc. I told him we will have come up with another plan :). He's dying to play AHII but he's still too young (12 yrs). Thanks for the help maybe I will get him a Saitek so he's ready for AHII in a couple of years.
Cheers
gusman44
My son was playing AW and then AH since he was 9 :)
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They closed all the stores in New Jersey :cry
I know and that sucked.
thing is you had to know what you were buying as they werent always the least expensive store.
BUT they usually had what you wanted