Retro designs continually poke their ugly but well-missed heads into our lives every so often filling our memories with how we had been happy with the most basic of anything. Gamers would remember how excited they had been as kids, playing with their black joysticks until their thumbs hurt like crazy from punching the fire button so often.

One retro-lover missed his black joystick console and desired to play the old games so badly that he went and thought up a way to play those old games on a new console. The arcade controller has a standard USB joystick fitted with a DB-9 connector and once this is wired up properly you can plug in your old joystick and have fun playing all the new games with the added bonus of having a joystick bending in all eight directions. The arcade controller also has OS X and Windows compatibility and would allow you to play old Atari games with the DB-9 port. It works with most software emulation packages.

You can always go for this or opt to buy a real old gamer on eBay. But the past re-experienced is always better with a touch of the present on it.

Via: ThinkGeek