what's the favorite? track and field trackball, or buttons?

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what's the favorite? track and field trackball, or buttons?

i see both types from time to time. what's more desirable to own? better to play? rarer? just askin.
 
Personally I prefer the buttons because I can beat them to death vs. a trackball that hurts your hands. I've personally seen more button versions than trackball versions but I don't know what was more produced.
 
Buttons are best by far. I've played both, trackball tears the hell out of your hands using it on this game IMO. I imagine the track ball version is rarer just from the examples I've seen but that might just be because people put buttons on them after realizing those controls are a much better experience for this game.
 
WOW!!!!!! i thought this was a no brainer! next topic: what's the favorite- DISCS OF TRON or KARATE CHAMP?! hehehehehehe... i was under the impession that the trackball version was LEGENDARILY bad!
 
The Stop and Go (mini mart without gas pumps) near me had Track and Field and Timber. The butons on this one had like a half ring around the tops of the bottons like a guard and I cut my hand and bruised my hand playing it, played the trackball version once didn't think it was too bad...couldn't get past the long jump but meh.

Man I was like 7 years old, I miss Timber such a great game.
 
yeah, we started seeing lots of those- i guess people were bangin the crap out of the buttons trying to go faster.... just think- all they needed was a comb!! :)
 
I believe the rings were actually to prevent someone from using a comb, knife, pencil, etc. And yes, buttons are WAY better than the trackball.

DogP
 
I believe the rings were actually to prevent someone from using a comb, knife, pencil, etc. And yes, buttons are WAY better than the trackball.

DogP


...you think?? why would manufacturers or operators care how kids got high scores, or even what their high scores were?
 
Guards

...you think?? why would manufacturers or operators care how kids got high scores, or even what their high scores were?

If you could get higher scores you would advance farther in the game. This would equate to less revenue. Enter the guards to keep the quarters coming.
 
When they put the guards on the buttons at my local arcade, my cousin (manager at the time) told me it was because the buttons would keep breaking from people beating on them hard with their fists. Having seen that happen on numerous occasions those first couple weeks I believed it to this day. The guard forced you to use your fingers.

I only played the trackball version one time as some arcade I visited back then had one. It felt like cheating to me and man the times were so much shorter for the records on that machine.
 
I do remember seeing one T&F back in the day with guards on the buttons, and it was definitely later on. I also remember seeing a trackball version.
 
My local arcade when I lived in FL in the late 80s to early 90s had a trackball version of it. I had no idea there was a button version until I discovered mame in the late 90s. I remember the trackball version used to pinch and bruise my hand, and it was the oldest game in the arcade, but I still loved playing it. Looking back, I wish they had the button version!
 
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