> > Tempest really needs a spinner.
I bought a Wingman Warrior back in the day for a cheap spinner to use with Tron and Tempest (I think Tempest was emulated by then). Unfortunately as is typical with cheaper options, they tend not to last. In this case, I still have the controller and it is presumably fine, but it required a serial port (yes, old 9-pin serial port) and special driver for the spinner. It quickly became dated when a new driver was not released for whatever the OS upgrade was (been too long, don't remember the specifics). The joystick used a standard (at the time) game port and could be used for a long time after as long as computers included the port, but without the spinner it was just another flight stick.
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