Hello dear Giantbomb users, 
 
Recently, I went out to a local store and purchased a fightstick in hopes that I could get better at SFIV before the next iteration came out.  But after playing a few matches, unlocking some of the characters, I saw my copy of NCAA Football 10...  I was quite bored at the time, so i though, why the hell not, and i popped in the disc in.  As i sat there with fightstick in hand, I led the Virginia Cavaliers ahead of the Washington State Cougars by a considerable margin.  So my question to you is this my friends and enemies; Have you ever played a game that was not meant for your fightstick with it?

When I play MAME, I use my arcade stick since they were arcade games back in the day.  Final Fight feels so much better with an arcade stick.

Wait 
That stick works on like Football games and other random shit like that ? 
Awesome ! 

The only way to play Pacman CE.

Yeah I've played some other games with it. 
 
I got one kill against my friend in call of duty with it.

I have tried it with megaman 9, pacman, and a few others but a pad gives me better control.

Alot of Xbox Live arcade games work great, as they were originally REAL arcade games.

" Yeah I've played some other games with it.  I got one kill against my friend in call of duty with it. "

i use mine for silent hill 3 on the pc

Yes, I use mine all the time for Mushihime-Sama Futari.
 
Remember, they were called arcade sticks before the term "fight stick" existed. You should use them on arcade-style games :)

If you're a camper in MW2 or something, you can set the mode to right stick, and just aim down the sights and shoot dudes.

I play Twinkle Star Sprites with mine.

" I play Twinkle Star Sprites with mine. "

i feel like i want to get good at guitar hero with it...

" @AniMoney said:

" Yeah I've played some other games with it.  I got one kill against my friend in call of duty with it. "

REALLY!!?  lol.  That's crazy! "

" i feel like i want to get good at guitar hero with it... "

I used it for 1v100 turbo makes that awesome.

GranTurismo 5p, works pretty well actually

man seems like it would be hard to use it with NCAA you would have to flip the switch to juke, hurdle, make hot routes, hit stick people, and pump fake.
But yeah I have used it for arcade games and before it broke I used my fight pad to play games on my PC.

I enjoy my SF4 joystick quite a lot on a lot of arcade or emulated games.  I also like trying out some PC games with simple controls using Xpadder to really get the most out of it.

i play megaman with my fight stick

Playing Sensible Soccer (the original, not the goofy looking remake) sounds like a blast with one of those things.

Yes.
 
Works with 2D games like Odin Sphere quite well actually. 
 
Any compilation with arcade games, I mean how can you not use the joystick?!

No, but I used it for real fighting.  It looked a lot like Roger Daltrey meets UFC.

I exclusively play Culdcept Saga with my arcade stick. Slow turn based strategy is made even more relaxing if you don't have to hold the controller, very satifying to issue commands with a big button too. I tried it out of laziness after playing Soul Calibur IV and forgetting to swap controllers after I sat down- turned out to be an awewsome idea and now I make sure my arcade is connected before I boot up Culdcept.

a little bit unrelated but one night at a house party we decided to try and play tekken 5 with a dance mat - i can guarantee a drunken laugh if you guys get the chance to try that shit out- its insane

puzzle fighter!

" @V: when i worked as a tester at activision, we played street fighter iv every day during our breaks. as such, i would bring my stick to work everyday. one day i got curious and tried out guitar hero with the arcade stick. if i remember correctly, the certain gh i was working on recognized the controller as a non-guitar/non-drum controller and only allowed me to use it in conjunction with the microphone to do vocals. "

" @V: when i worked as a tester at activision, we played street fighter iv every day during our breaks. as such, i would bring my stick to work everyday. one day i got curious and tried out guitar hero with the arcade stick. if i remember correctly, the certain gh i was working on recognized the controller as a non-guitar/non-drum controller and only allowed me to use it in conjunction with the microphone to do vocals. "

Hook it up to your PC and you can play MAME with it.  Shmups, fighters, etc. galore!
 
Also great for rhythm games such as Stepmania, DJ Max, Pop'n Music, etc.

No, but I have chainsawed someone in Gears of War using my driving wheel. It was awesome. Made more so by the car noises I was making as I "drove" Marcus around the map.

" @sxezskoz said:

" @V: when i worked as a tester at activision, we played street fighter iv every day during our breaks. as such, i would bring my stick to work everyday. one day i got curious and tried out guitar hero with the arcade stick. if i remember correctly, the certain gh i was working on recognized the controller as a non-guitar/non-drum controller and only allowed me to use it in conjunction with the microphone to do vocals. "

Dude thats sweet, what game were you testing? "

no but i used the DDR pad for tonyhawk games.

I've used my fightpad for Castle Crashers