Front of a beige Amstrad Mega PC game controller with grey directional pad, A, B and C buttons and a reddish pink Start button.

A lovely beige Mega PC pad. Shame the D-pad wasn’t nearly as good as the colour.

Picked this up on eBay from the UK and gave it a bit of a clean. It has become my favourite Mega Drive controller. Internally it is much the same as another Mega Drive controller I cleaned yesterday, although that one sadly had some tabs snapped off the D-pad. Amstrad’s service documentation identifies this one as the Paddle SP-7, part number 273991.

Moulded underside label identifying the Amstrad controller as Games Paddle SP-7, for use with Amstrad Mega PCs only.

There it is in the plastic: Games Paddle SP-7, for Mega PCs only.

It should go nicely with the Amstrad Mega PC. I still need to track down an Amstrad mouse, keyboard and joystick though. Unfortunately, in my eyes at least, it is also one of the worst Sega controller designs. The D-pad isn’t very responsive at all. At least it is a great beige-cream colour!

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