When Street Fighter IV rolled along, it sparked a lot of interest in arcade sticks.
It might come as a shock to some, but there once was a time when online purchasing was the oddity and not the norm. There were a few retail options, but they were just as pricey and pretty hard to come across you’d almost always have to order them online instead of shopping for it retail. Heck, the stick that I used for the first half of the 2000s was a custom-built stick by a hobbyist I came into contact with on the forums.
In the past, it was rather difficult to get a quality stick. and have been for some time due to the PC multiplayer gaming boom in the late 90s and earlier 2000s. That’s … kind of a lie arcades are dead in the U.S. Two of my favorite video game genres are fighting games and shmups. As a long time fan of both, having an arcade stick was a necessary investment to get that genuine arcade feel without having to waltz over to the local arcade and have my elbows rocked by the huge guy on the other side of the cabinet.
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