/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5397508
>I'm willing to be wrong on this but my recollection is that they aren't the same. I have two of the keypad controllers (came with Basic Programming) and a small stack of Star Raiders pads, and though it's been at least two decades now I think I remember trying one set with the other game and having no luck. Take that with a grain of salt.

I can't find any mention that the Star Raiders pad does work with other software. So maybe you are right. Maybe there was some lockout in the Star Raiders controller that prevented older and third party games from functioning on it? I could imagine that the people at Atari didn't want companies like Activision releasing their own games that use Atari's peripherals.

Also the Basic Programming keypad always looked so neat.