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Amstrad JY-1/JY-2 joysticks

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The original joysticks for the Amstrad CPC computers.
In order to push sales of Amstrad's own joysticks, Amstrad designed the CPC with only one joystick port only which had two different ground levels. The idea was to sell one joystick which forwarded the second ground signal to a built-in joystick port, to which the second joystick could be connected.
This plan didn't fully work out for Amstrad for multiple reasons:
* The original joysticks were plain unusable crapof bad quality, so that most users bought a JY-2 at most and a different one as second joystick.
* There were 3rd party [[Joystick Y-cables]] available, which allowed the use of any joystick on the market, rather than Amstrad's lousy ones
* Many games didn't even support two joysticks (Though for many of them you could just redefine keys to match the keypresses produced by the second joystick)
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