Do all (or at least most) games work with a single joystick and 10 buttons? (arcade cabinet)

[Haywire]

I have an arcade machine cabinet that runs on a steam deck and I was wondering if I could realistically run the games in this game? Especially the coops games? This question has probably asked a ton, sorry if it is the case.

[benjymlewis]

All games use just joystick and two buttons. Plus the Esc key for the main menu.
So for singleplayer, you absolutely can control everything with just a joystick and 2 buttons, plus a menu button.

For two-player games, you can either use two separate controllers, or if you're using keyboard, you can set player 1 and player 2 controls to different keys on the same keyboard if you want. So player 1 can use wasd and player 2 can use the numpad, without the need to plug something else in. It's very versatile. So depending on how your custom setup works, I'm sure there's a way to get everything working nicely.