Game Stuff - Joystick Extension Cord 12ft

A third-party joystick extension cable sold by Questar Controls, Inc. under its Game Stuff™ accessory brand during the early 1980s.

The extension allowed players to sit farther from the television or game console while using compatible nine-pin controllers. Original packaging identifies the cable specifically as compatible with the ColecoVision, along with the Atari VCS/400/800, VIC-20, Astrocade and Sears Tele-Games systems.

Versions

Questar offered the extension cord in two lengths:

• EXT-6 — 6-foot extension
• EXT-12 — 12-foot extension

Period Questar advertising listed the six-foot version for $3.95 and the twelve-foot version for $4.95.

Game Stuff

Game Stuff™ was a line of video-game accessories marketed by Questar Controls, Inc. Questar was based in Chehalis, Washington, and was active during the early-1980s home video-game boom.

The company offered more than simple extension cables. Questar also produced large arcade-style joystick control consoles and the Blaster, an adjustable rapid-fire accessory that connected between a joystick and the game system.

Questar displayed new videogame control products at the 1983 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, placing the company firmly within the rapidly expanding third-party videogame accessory market of the period.

ColecoVision significance

Although nine-pin extension cables could be used with several contemporary systems, the surviving Game Stuff package is notable because ColecoVision compatibility is explicitly advertised on the original packaging.

This makes the Game Stuff extension cord a documented period third-party ColecoVision accessory rather than simply a generic cable that happens to be electrically compatible with the system.