Thunderstick tsticks GRS Flight Yoke

Back in my wayward youth (early 1980s) I played this game an insane amount and I got very good at it. When I was 17 I put one token into the machine at my local arcade, put on some headphones, and didn't stop playing until they closed the place over four hours later. I had the high score of a little over 65 million on that machine. Fast forward to last year and I was pretty excited to get the Arcade1Up Star Wars machine - I really hadn't played this game since the late 1980s because arcades disappeared and while there are several very good emulators for Star Wars none of them played correctly because the yoke control from the original just wasn't something you can replace with a joystick or normal flight yoke. Believe me, I tried.Anyway, I just replaced the flight yoke that came with the Arcade1Up machine with this one and it is *awesome*. Seriously, this thing plays just like the original did. The Arcade1Up flight yoke is okay but it is too stiff in all directions. It's possible to play the game with the factory yoke (and it's waaaay better than anything else that I had tried in the last 30 years) but this one from GRS is PERFECT. All the muscle memory came back to me with this yoke and suddenly I was able to clear all the towers again without difficulty. Thank you so much for making this yoke - it's a truly wonderful reproduction!

The stock OEM yoke for the Arcade1up Atari Star Wars Arcade cab is serviceable for what it is but if you really want to experience true arcade style control then GRS has you covered with their arcade quality flight yoke. The difference is literally night and day. Made from all machined metal parts it has the heft of the vintage arcade yoke and the button controls are simply more responsive. Since upgrading my game has improved considerably.It’s super easy to install. Just remove the stock yoke and wire harness and attach the GRS flight yoke with the 4 included long screws and secure with the included washers and nuts underneath the plate and simply plug in the wire harnesses into their designated areas on the control board. That’s it. Easy peasy!Shipped much faster than the expected ship date. It arrived in about a week after ordering. Couldn’t be happier with the purchase! Making the upgrade is like making the jump into hyperspace! Yahoo!

Ok Glenn is a genius! This thing is heavy as an ox . Very sturdy piece of hardware. It was quite a challenge to get this thing fastened on my control desk! But still this thing is amazing! I would definitely recommend it. But perhaps invite a friend to help you fasten it to a control deck!Important note! I originally screwed it flat on my control it is impossible to maneuver in some/most games with it flat, so I had to angle it off the control deck by making a mount out of brackets and poplar wood!

This worked as expected and fixed our problem with the game.

It's a well made, solid yoke with a lot of weight. The buttons are much clickier than I remember the arcade being, and the X-axis seems a good deal stiffer than the Y-axis, though I can't remember how this compares to the arcade yoke. Overall, it's a great controller, especially for the price.I'm using it with USB, which is the only cable I use - it's powered from that. At first, there was a dead zone in the X-axis, but I found I could adjust that in the .ini setting for that program, and it was fully responsive.I also like the fact that the internals are digital, rather than analog potentiometers, so it should last a long time.It's made to drop into a Star Wars vector arcade machine, I believe, so I had to custom make a stand and clamp it to the desk, which works well. Highly recommended!

This was such a fantastic addition to my arcade. The yoke is very accurate and feels like it is very well constructed. I am incredibly happy with this purchase.I built a removable mount that hooks on to my control panel and have a USB female socket extension cable in to the control panel to connect it.Be aware that mounting the bolts behind the yoke needs care so you don’t scuff the yoke with the screwdriver.The yoke needs calibration within the game you are playing.I do find that autocentering can make getting the joystick to recognize fine movements near the center go into a dead zone. I haven’t figured out how to fix this yet. I find using a spinner for Pole Position much more accurate (even after a number of attempted adjustments in the game). I have it in game pad mode.

I have contacted everyone, yet no one will help me get it to work. Even asked if I needed the box they have to go with it, still no reply. I was sent a replacement and same issue set back. Company Rep won't contact me.

The media could not be loaded. I purchased the Thunderbolt Star Wars yoke to replace the original after noticing some latency issues on the original and watching Retro Recipes on YouTube where he was experiencing similar issues where is how I discovered Thunderbolt. Since replacing the flight yoke I haven't experienced any latency issues nor drifting and it feels more responsive and is a more solid piece of hardware. I highly recommend this flight yoke