/vr/ - Retro Games

Many other companies used joysticks in various eras, including Capcom during the development of Street Fighter II (1991), NMK during the production of one of its two Macross games (~1992-1993), Toaplan, Data East, Seta and Technos.
Hiroyuki Maeda (Chip-Chan Kick!, Elemental Tale), used a keyboard coupled with a joystick when he developed games on X1 in the 80s.

If hearing the rattling sound of a joystick during long days of work doesn’t frighten you, you’ll be glad to read that many Taito employees mentioned rumors of people from an unnamed company using twin sticks to design graphics. It turns out that there’s a picture taken in 1990 at Toaplan in which two graphic designers -Yuko Tataka and Sanae Nito- use a device equipped with 2 joysticks each. The function assigned to the second joystick remains unknown.