The original "black beauty" joysticks (and there were multiple versions of those with different thicknesses of handles, and the handles could be aluminum (early versions) or plastic (later ones). By the mid-1980's Tandy also offered the Deluxe joystick, which was a re-branded Kraft joystick that allowed choosing between free floating and…
The original "black beauty" joysticks (and there were multiple versions of those with different thicknesses of handles, and the handles could be aluminum (early versions) or plastic (later ones). By the mid-1980's Tandy also offered the Deluxe joystick, which was a re-branded Kraft joystick that allowed choosing between free floating and springback individually on each axis. (The later Coco 3 Deluxe joysticks added the second button as well, although they were originally planned for the fall of 1984 with the Deluxe Color Computer which was cancelled). As for the cassette based text adventure - it might have been Pyramid 2000 (which had both Coco and TRS-80 Model 1/3 versions)?
The original "black beauty" joysticks (and there were multiple versions of those with different thicknesses of handles, and the handles could be aluminum (early versions) or plastic (later ones). By the mid-1980's Tandy also offered the Deluxe joystick, which was a re-branded Kraft joystick that allowed choosing between free floating and springback individually on each axis. (The later Coco 3 Deluxe joysticks added the second button as well, although they were originally planned for the fall of 1984 with the Deluxe Color Computer which was cancelled). As for the cassette based text adventure - it might have been Pyramid 2000 (which had both Coco and TRS-80 Model 1/3 versions)?