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shmupsrocks
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Boutique arcade sticks

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I found a couple nice ones:

https://www.shikaarcades.com

http://www.bxfoundry.com

Any others?
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SCARTicus
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Good God what overpriced garbage!

I sure am glad that I am a man, and as such, have woodworking skills.

But even for you women out there, or those who want a metal enclosure, there is AllFightSticks.

https://allfightsticks.com/

MicroCenter also makes a decent and well priced two-player American-style MDF control panel with a curved button layout. It is available with or without a rather nice Atari-branded/themed overlay graphic.

You don't have to throw your money away at low-quality products masquerading as "boutique" devices. Four-hundred pounds for a sanded wooden box with some holes drilled or two-hundred dollars for a $20 plastic project box like you get from electronics hobby stores. WOW.

This is bad and you should feel bad.
shmupsrocks
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I feel so bad.
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Bratwurst
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I occasionally make Atari 7800 sticks with generic clone hardware and an industrial grade sloped enclosure. I charge $55 but I at least try to make them look nice.

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This isn't an advertisement seeing as I don't expect anyone here plays 7800 games but more to back up SCARTicus that triple digits is a lot to pay for something you could make yourself.
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I've heard good things on twitter about the bxfoundry boxes actually, though at the end of the day they're some Sanwa parts in a plastic box. They're certainly ultra-compact and I don't think the price is actually *that* insane considering what you get.

An AllFightSticks enclosure + buttons/joystick + a Brook Retro board or MC Cthulhu will cost more, but you would get so much more versatility out of it.

In the end it's way more than I'd spend for a single console stick, but then again my Sanwa'd Hori Fighting Edge with a Brook Retro Board comes to like $350 and I've got a lot of DIY work to do...
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