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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

Sources

  1. Amiga Power, (Future Publishing, December 1991), 22.