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The Tortoise
From Joystick Directory
The Tortoise, launched in 1991[1], was an unusual controller from Cheetah. The device was kept in place by four suction-cup feet, and you moved the controller by resting your palm on the tortoise shell and shunting it in the direction you wanted to go.
Manufacturer's Description
- Three ultra-sensitive fire buttons
- Ergonomically evolved control shell
- Automatic centering
- Heavy-duty body with strong stabilising suction feet
- 8 directional movement
- Cage sold seperately
- Versions include ZX Spectrum, 16K, 48K, 128K (interface sold seperately), +2, +3, C64, Amstrad, Atari, Sega and Nintendo.
Reviews
"This looks and plays like a joke ... Movement is
engineered by rocking the shell from side-to-side and top to bottom. but after a while. even this proves a cumbersome and ineffective control system which soon becomes tiresome." 1/5
- Atari ST Review
- May 1992
Sources
- ↑ Amiga Power, (Future Publishing, December 1991), 22.
