Joyboard

The Joyboard is a joystick for the feet. A video game player stands on the board and moves his/her entire body for directional control. A standard Atari-type joystick (like Amiga's own Power Stick) plugs into the Joyboard to give the player access to a fire button.

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The guys at Amiga Inc. liked to relax by playing the Zen Meditation game. They would sit as still as possible on a Joyboard so as not to close any switches, which is where the infamous Guru Meditation error in older versions of AmigaOS comes from.

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Picture at http://www.atariage.com/controller_page.html?SystemID=2600&ControllerID=11

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Atari: :For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term)....

Amiga: In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. The original Amiga hardware was designed by Jay Miner; his machine was ahead of its time when it appeared in 1985, having a c...

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