Steering the MSX: The Panasonic FS-JH1 Joy Handle #retrocomputing

Panasonic FS-JH1 Joy Handle MSX Virtual racing setups are a big thing now, but what about poor MSX owners? And here we are with the Panasonic FS-JH1 Joy Handle, a steering wheel released in Japan for the MSX range of computers. And, it’s huge. I’m having to use a different setup for my camera so I can show it off properly. On the front, we have the steering wheel which has two buttons, it’s kind of a cool half wheel, like futuristic sports cars always had and a fake instrument panel behind the wheel. To the left we have, possibly the more interesting part, this gear stick looking thing actually works as a normal joystick, the two buttons are just duplicates of the two on the steering wheel and these sliders set an auto fire mode on each button. If we spin this around, we can see on the back theres a DIN socket. This, seemingly, was for a set of pedals that were never released. Now, as I mentioned before, this is huge. Originally, you were supposed to put a monitor on top, instead