original pac-man joystick - structured or smooth ball top?

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original pac-man joystick - structured or smooth ball top?

i'm in the middle of my pac-man restoration and while i re-assembled the control panel i realized that the ball top of the joystick has a smooth finish. all the other pac-man joysticks i've seen so far have a structured ball top.

so my question: which version is original? or are both original?
 
mine is smooth. however, i have a spare stick i pulled out of a ms. pac and that is the textured/rough version. i would almost wonder if that was a running change during production. my wizard of wor has textured sticks and that is from '81 so who knows.
 
I think Pac was a smooth ball and Ms Pac is textured. Also, the shaft covers are different colors, Pac is black and Ms Pac is red.
 
Nope, all mine have texture on them. I looked at 12 joysticks and they all have it.
If you look at the ones that are smooth on the top you will see that the bottom area where it doesnt get hand rub still has its texture.
 
My Pac has a smooth one and Ms. Pac is rough but that's wierd because the Ms. Pac control panel is a Pac with a Ms. overlay. They should be the same. And no, the Pac is not smooth from wear, it is that way all around.
 
yup, all were textured and became smooth over the years with all that use.

Its the same way for Atari logo sticks.
 
My PAC is HUO and the stick is textured. I heard early production pacs use the smooth joysticks kinda like Galaxian but red. The later pacs were texured.
 
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