![]() ![]() Besides the buttons on the top, flipper buttons on the left and right sides offer pinball controls if you like pinball video games. Xgaming doesn't specific the actual brand of components used, only that it uses "authentic arcade joysticks and buttons." They certainly feel like they're from an arcade cabinet, with the concave buttons and baseball bat-style joystick both sturdy and responsive. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( See how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).) It feels solid in a bludgeon-worthy way, and you could easily use the joystick as a short step-ladder before getting back to playing games on it. Xgaming describes its X-Arcade joysticks as "indestructible," and while that's a claim I always strive to disprove before my colleagues reiterate the PCMag Labs' "no burning lasers, acid, or bees" policy to me, the X-Arcade Solo certainly lives up to its just-shy-of-literal description. It weighs a hefty 5.7 pounds and feels like a chunk of an arcade machine lifted cleanly out of a cabinet. The top surface gently inclines toward the player, and feels a little better on the wrists than completely flat, straight competitive joysticks. The X-Arcade Solo Joystick ( at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) is a big controller, measuring 16.8 inches wide, 10 inches deep, and a towering 4.1 inches tall from base to top of the chassis. The X-Arcade Solo Joystick ($99.99 direct) can work with nearly any game system (with another $30-60 for adapters), is nearly indestructible, and is simply one of the best controllers I've tested it wins our Editors' Choice award as a result. Now Xgaming has a one-player model that's half the size, less expensive, and can now stand among the competitive sticks used by fighting game enthusiasts. Certain design elements may turn off fighting game enthusiasts.Ĭlassic arcade games are available on every platform, and fighting games have become one of the biggest e-sports. Xgaming's X-Arcade Dual Joystick brought two sets of excellent arcade controls to the home in a massive 12-pound slab, and was one of the best controllers you could get to play older games. ![]()
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