Hyperkin Trooper Premium Controller for 2600/ RetroN 77
- Premium build with an ambidextrous two-button design
- Compatible with RetroN 77, 2600, and 2600-compatible consoles
- 10 ft. cable
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Package Dimensions : 11.5 x 10.7 x 9.2 cm; 204.12 Grams
- Release date : 28 December 2018
- ASIN : B07M5HYTZL
- Item Model Number : M07344
- Customer Reviews:
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Product description
Hyperkin Trooper Premium Controller for 2600/ RetroN 77
Boogie the night away with the Hyperkin "Trooper" Premium Controller for 2600. This groovy controller allows you to hold the 70s right in your hands, while providing comfort and classic reliability. Its ambidextrous two-button design gives both left and right-handed players the fire button accessibility they need to fight invaders from outer space, avoid falling in pits, and blow up asteroids. The 10 ft. cable allows for comfortable movement around your 2600 and 2600-compatible console. Can. You. Dig. It?
Features
- Premium build with an ambidextrous two-button design
- Compatible with RetroN 77, 2600, and 2600-compatible consoles
- 10 ft. cable
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High quality stick with a nice feel and construction and well priced.
Highly recommended.
Have been using it with various atari 2600 games on my PC via a 2600daptor .
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I’ve been playing Atari games since 1983, having used a lotta lotta different 9-pin joysticks over the years, on three 8-bit Atari platforms. Only to say I’m a veteran of the consoles and their controllers.
Having now used my Trooper joystick for several months, I’m able to provide a fair review.
I highly recommend it, with two caveats:
1) the stick itself can become unscrewed. It requires tightening quite frequently... occasionally mid-game; and
2) there is a lot of play on this stick compared to the original 2600 controllers. Quite simply, the stick needs to move further to make contact. This can hinder gameplay when very quick back and forth movements are required.
If you can tolerate these issues, you will be very happy with this controller. The fire button in particular is quite responsive.
If Trooper could combine its brilliant fire button with tighter movement, it could likely be the best Atari controller yet.
Nevertheless, the fact Trooper is putting this excellent though not perfect joystick out there in this day and age merits five stars.
Big ups, Trooper.

Reviewed in Canada on 12 April 2020
I’ve been playing Atari games since 1983, having used a lotta lotta different 9-pin joysticks over the years, on three 8-bit Atari platforms. Only to say I’m a veteran of the consoles and their controllers.
Having now used my Trooper joystick for several months, I’m able to provide a fair review.
I highly recommend it, with two caveats:
1) the stick itself can become unscrewed. It requires tightening quite frequently... occasionally mid-game; and
2) there is a lot of play on this stick compared to the original 2600 controllers. Quite simply, the stick needs to move further to make contact. This can hinder gameplay when very quick back and forth movements are required.
If you can tolerate these issues, you will be very happy with this controller. The fire button in particular is quite responsive.
If Trooper could combine its brilliant fire button with tighter movement, it could likely be the best Atari controller yet.
Nevertheless, the fact Trooper is putting this excellent though not perfect joystick out there in this day and age merits five stars.
Big ups, Trooper.


My only question is the packaging. They box this thing fully constructed. Why did they make the joystick removable, then choose to package it in a large box with the stick screwed into the base? The whole thing could have been shipped in a box smaller than a hardcover book, but instead you think you got a 1-litre carton of milk in the mail. Not really an issue, but it's oddly frustrating.


Reviewed in Canada on 12 August 2020



Hyperkin has designed some nice looking controllers at a low price point here, but the joystick is also a nice improvement (as is the Ranger game pad). The 4 decade old controllers the Atari came with, though lightly used, really felt worn out (and not to mention the Joystick/paddle Sears II controllers that felt even worse). The Trooper feels much closer to what the original controller should be based on my vague childhood recollections. A great replacement for the originals (and to save the good looking but poor feeling originals)! The stick itself doesn’t feel quite as rubbery, as I think the stick is hard plastic and only the rippled boot is rubbery, unlike the original where it was one piece of rubber overtop of plastic. Overall the Trooper probably isn’t as durable as the vintage Wico ones you can find around, but is probably the best close replacement for the originals, and should last about as long.

Reviewed in Canada on 24 August 2020
Hyperkin has designed some nice looking controllers at a low price point here, but the joystick is also a nice improvement (as is the Ranger game pad). The 4 decade old controllers the Atari came with, though lightly used, really felt worn out (and not to mention the Joystick/paddle Sears II controllers that felt even worse). The Trooper feels much closer to what the original controller should be based on my vague childhood recollections. A great replacement for the originals (and to save the good looking but poor feeling originals)! The stick itself doesn’t feel quite as rubbery, as I think the stick is hard plastic and only the rippled boot is rubbery, unlike the original where it was one piece of rubber overtop of plastic. Overall the Trooper probably isn’t as durable as the vintage Wico ones you can find around, but is probably the best close replacement for the originals, and should last about as long.

