Arcade games that used pots as the paddle/spinner?

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I'm trying to figure out which arcade games used potentiometers as the spinner.
Not games that used a free-rotating spinner such as Tempest.

I found some lists of "spinner" games but does anyone know off the top of their head which ones used potentiometers? (2 obvious ones, Warlords and Star Wars)


--------Used Pots------
Warlords
Star Wars (yoke)
Road Blasters (yoke)
Paper Boy (handle bars)
Lunar Lander (thruster)
Super Sprint (gas pedal)
Stun Runner
Food Fight (stick)
Omega Race
Breakout
Super Breakout
PONG
Red Baron (Gimbal)
Off the Wall
Sea Wolf
Exidy Circus

-----Did not use pots------
Arkanoid
Arkanoid Revenge of Doh
Puchi Carat
Ghox
Major Havoc
Tempest

-------Did any of these use Pots as the paddle/spinner?-----------
- Block Block
- Bomb Bee
- Cutie Q
- Destroyer
- Field Goal
- Fire One
- Free Kick
- Gigas
- Goindol
- Kick
- Riddle of Pythagoras
- Sea Wolf II
- Up Scope
- Wall Crash
BLASTEROIDS
CAMELTRY
Wacko
Tron
Discs of Tron
--Any other games not on the list?
 
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Super Sprint? You counting gas pedals? Pretty much any driver is a no since pots restrict range of motion.

Major Havoc is encoder disc. Omega Race is pots.

Roadblasters yoke. Food Fight count? Paperboy. Stun Runner. Lunar Lander.
 
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Ghox and Arkanoid are a firm no. I have original spinners for both. Ghox spinner is interchangeable with almost all Taito spinner games, but only Ghox's spinner works for Ghox due to the up/down movement.
 
Good entries! Keep em comin' :)
I will update the list at the top.

I'm OK with any titles that would fall under this type of statement, as defined in Advance Mame documentation- http://www.advancemame.it/doc-advmame#8.9
".....reference all the analog controls which report an absolute position. For example stick, [paddle], lightgun, steering wheel, pedal, throttle and rudder controls."

All of which should be manageable by an analog interface such as this one (perceived as 2 "joysticks" with a total of 4 axes for config) - https://www.ultimarc.com/a-pac.html
 
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Not currently on the list, but also using the Arkanoid-type spinner are Puchi Carat, and Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh. Both F3 titles.
 
Sea Wolf uses a large encoder board. Sort of like those
big contact wheels you see inside EM pinball machines.

JD
 
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