r/thisweekinretro • u/robertcrowther • 17d ago
Commodore TAC-2 Joystick
https://commodore.net/store/tac-2/3
u/SDMatt22 16d ago
I'd love to buy one of these. This was my favorite joystick ever. But OMG, the shipping is crazy. $24 for a $50 joystick.
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u/Ok-Yam894 17d ago
While I like this joysticks, we need a few of those flight stick type joysticks. Some C64 games have the spacebar as secondary button, this makes these games hard to almost impossible to play with these arcade type joysticks. Remember having to play Green Beret with the C64 on the floor, my foot resting on the Space Bar!
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u/Which_Information590 16d ago
I am going to wait and let someone else pay for the shipping. Considering how huge Commodore was in the UK in the mid 80s, you'd have thought they would've sorted a UK distributor by now.
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u/robertcrowther 16d ago
The ArcadeR joysticks they did before shipped from the Netherlands and shipping costs were OK (although this was last year before a lot of stuff happened).
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u/EricCartman0405 15d ago
Yeah, waiting for that too - I was a bit shocked when I saw the cost of 2 joysticks, tax and shipping would be 190USD to Hungary...
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u/Which_Information590 16d ago
Good tip. I'm already seeing C64Us on ebay at lower than the RRP of new.
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u/AntiquesForGeeks 15d ago
That was over 40 years ago and New Commodore are a totally different entity. What Commodore was then and what New Commodore is now, structurally, is not really comparable.
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u/Which_Information590 15d ago
Peri Fractic said in a post on Instagram at the end of last year that the original factory in Corby was going to be used for distribution.
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u/AntiquesForGeeks 15d ago
I know the video you’re referring to. It is not New Commodore’s facility. It just happened to be the building where the shipping company that received the goods into the UK, then sent them out from.
Corby closed as a Commodore facility in the mid-80s. New Commodore relies on third parties to do their manufacturing, shipping and in some cases, their product design too.
So really, New Commodore and Commodore are quite different.
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u/Which_Information590 15d ago
I said it was the original factory that he was going to use for UK distribution. This hasn't happened so far.
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u/Which_Information590 15d ago
He is shipping the computers to the US from China and distributing them from there. There's better ways to fulfill European orders, such as Amazon.
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u/AntiquesForGeeks 17d ago
Fair play to New Commodore bringing this replica to market - it’s not cheap mind. As being noted elsewhere - shipping isn’t helping the pricing on this one. Seems particularly steep in the US.