Complete list of Arcade Games and Controls?

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Does anyone know if there is a list arcade games with their minimum and maximum control layout?

For example,
what games use joystick 1 button,
what games use joystick 2 buttons
what games use joystick 3 buttons

what games use trackball 1 button, etc?

Thanks!
Chris
 
MAWS is probably the best way. You have to do a "deluxe search" to get the control type. Number of buttons is separate. It's not always 100% accurate, but it works.
 
Does anyone know if there is a list arcade games with their minimum and maximum control layout?

We definitely need something like this. A large list of all video games, with information about each one. It would be a lot of work, and would be quite massive. It would be one Killer List Of Videogames.


All jokes aside though, the KLOV list needs some work. You can't even sort/search by year, unless you want to do it on only one page of results. Also, it would be nice to have an easy way to get a (good) list of games by manufacturer. You kinda can, by clicking on a manufacturer when already viewing a game, but it's buggy as all hell. For example, I'm pretty sure Atari made more than 67 games:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuf_detail.php?manuf_id=1278

And I don't remember playing the Atari game 'delete'. Doesn't sound like much of a game. Similarly, E.T. wasn't an arcade game, it was a console game, and not even a very good one. Hmm, now 'delete' sounds like it might be a fun game... I mean, if you're going to expand to including 2600 cartridges, at least include Yar's Revenge.

So, yeah, I'd search the MAWS database. And maybe someone can put some work into KLOV to clean it up. There's an amazing amount of cruft in there, and a lot of missing/miscategorized information.

-Ian
 
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