TRON Arcade Joystick Gear Shift Lever: My Other Car is a Lightcycle

I always thought the old TRON arcade machine had the best joystick. There was something about the fighter-jet like control that helped with the sense of immersion. If you’d like to feel like you’re actually driving a lightcycle every time you get in your car, then you might want to try and replicate this.

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The guys at If Industries took an old TRON arcade joystick and turned it into a manual shift lever or their car. They even went so far to add a black light effect in the car to complete the effect.

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It’s a really neat look, and perfect for those times when you want to make sharp 90-degree turns to cut off other cars and make them crash into themselves.

Now if only we used joysticks to actually steer our cars.

 

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