I'm a fan of arcade sticks, so when I had the chance to play the latest Mortal Kombat game with a brand new arcade-style accessory I headed over to the St. Regis hotel to see what all the fuss was about. What I saw took my breath away: the stick wasn't tipped with a ball as is popular with Japanese-style arcade games, it was a bat-style top. The buttons were concave. I was told that I was one of the first hardcore fighting stick fans to look at the hardware at the Game Developers Conference, and they wanted to know what I thought of it.
"God bless America," I told them, hugging it. The Japanese arcade machines have their place, but this is a stick that's built for Mortal Kombat and the American audience that grew up playing it. The standard Viewlix button configuration has been completely ignored in favor of a button layout designed specifically for Mortal Kombat. The buttons and stick are Suzo Happ components, and the electronics are easily accessible; there is a single clasp that allows you to open the stick, revealing a game-storage compartment and a view of the components behind the Mortal Kombat logo.
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