Blast from the Past With The Live Arcade Retro Stick (And Now We’re Trying To Look For It)

The Retail Radar over at GameSpot spotted this peripheral that should bring back some good, old-fashioned gaming memories to a rather contemporary, cutting-edge platform. Mad Catz’s Xbox Live Arcade Retro Stick brings together the dual analog stick controls and buttons of the Xbox controller onto a solid base, and throws in a retro-style arcade joystick (okay, so it’s just a long control stick replacing the stubby analog thumb-stick to those of us not old enough to remember the good old days) onto the primary analog to boot.

The peripheral’s bound to be great with retro-arcade games like Pac Man and Galaga, bringing that old-school gaming feel to old-school games. The Gamespot article also reports that the stick is pegged for $69.99 (ouch! The past bites back!) but will include one hundred Microsoft points out of the box, a free month-long Live Gold subscription, and three… well, the article mentions that whatever those three were, they were unreadable, but they’re guessing free Live Arcade games.

This excited our curiosity, so we decided to run over to the hotlinked EBGames page for the product to check it out.

Guess what we got?

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Whoa! That really IS a surprise!

Thank the heavens for Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, and whatever search portal we can get our hands on; we’ve found indicators of this story elsewhere. Joystiq’s reported that EBGames had yanked the Live Arcade Retro Stick page out, probably because it was a leak, and probably because they were still finalizing the details regarding the free games that would be included in the package. And they’ve reported a new (probable) price: $49.99.

Besides the “probables,” they also managed to get an actual screenshot of the product from EB games, before the page got yanked out.

Oh, well. At least that settles the mystery of the disappearing arcade stick.

Via GameSpot

The Retail Radar over at GameSpot spotted this peripheral that should bring back some good, old-fashioned gaming memories to a rather contemporary, cutting-edge platform. Mad Catz’s Xbox Live Arcade Retro Stick brings together the dual analog stick controls and buttons of the Xbox controller onto a solid base, and throws in a retro-style arcade joystick (okay, so it’s just a long control stick replacing the stubby analog thumb-stick to those of us not old enough to remember the good old days) onto the primary analog to boot.

The peripheral’s bound to be great with retro-arcade games like Pac Man and Galaga, bringing that old-school gaming feel to old-school games. The Gamespot article also reports that the stick is pegged for $69.99 (ouch! The past bites back!) but will include one hundred Microsoft points out of the box, a free month-long Live Gold subscription, and three… well, the article mentions that whatever those three were, they were unreadable, but they’re guessing free Live Arcade games.

This excited our curiosity, so we decided to run over to the hotlinked EBGames page for the product to check it out.

Guess what we got?

Sorry!
We tried, but we just couldn’t find the page you were looking for. If you arrived at this page through a link from another website, please contact that site’s administrator to report the dead link. If you were using a bookmark, it’s probably outdated, so please return to our homepage and create a new one.

Whoa! That really IS a surprise!

Thank the heavens for Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, and whatever search portal we can get our hands on; we’ve found indicators of this story elsewhere. Joystiq’s reported that EBGames had yanked the Live Arcade Retro Stick page out, probably because it was a leak, and probably because they were still finalizing the details regarding the free games that would be included in the package. And they’ve reported a new (probable) price: $49.99.

Besides the “probables,” they also managed to get an actual screenshot of the product from EB games, before the page got yanked out.

Oh, well. At least that settles the mystery of the disappearing arcade stick.

Via GameSpot