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LGR Oddware - The Mouse Yoke

🕑 Added 2024-04-29 19:43:27 +0000 UTC

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Chad Armstrong

Thanks for mentioning that Colorado Spectrum was based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. As I expected you encountered when trying to research that company, search results were more about Spectrum (aka Charter Communications) in Colorado.

LGR

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades! And maybe Oddware?

LGR

Glad you enjoyed, Steve! Although you should definitely still give that one on the shelf some attention, too. You know you wanna feel that shaft action for yourself.

Mac84

Haha, yessssss! I've been meaning to cover one of these for a while. I seriously enjoyed your well researched video and product tour. Now I have no regrets being lazy and looking at my Mouse Yoke box on the shelf. Shaft giggles? Check. Unreal Tournament demo? Check. Yep - that covers all the important bases! I love how wacky these accessories were, and how they were built! If you weren't careful you'd squish your thumb off!

Udo Krawallo

I see, the good old MX518 doesn´t like it too rough, rather gentle and slow...hehe

Alyxx the Rat

I mean, it ALMOST works.

Vaggumon

The Uterus Controller.

Erik Granlund

Amusingly useless, perfect oddware fare haha

LGR

More useful than some, still hardly useful. Typical Oddware indeed 😄

LGR

Ha! Been tempted to... Not this time, but it's another one that I reviewed in the first year or so of LGR.

LGR

It's gotten a number of compliments while wearing it, thanks again for sending!

LGR

I'll put an optical mouse section in the final video :) And thanks, I'm glad you're diggin' the birds!

Alex Weiss

Taking another stab at Depth Dwellers?

Vladimir Vyun

A very cool idea on the paper and a very questionable product in practice. Typical oddware! Though, the yoke seems to be somewhat more useful than many, if not most, oddware doohickies we've seen over the years.

Hernando Heilbron

I think it's a neat idea, but clearly ANY actual joystick would work way better.

Udo Krawallo

So much sexual innuendo in the morning...hehehe. Would be interesting to know if this thing also works with optical mice. And a bit OT, but yes, I really love the bird streams! Keep them coming. Hope the hatchlings all make it.

Kyla Smith

Good hat.

Valora Inverse

Now that's some quality shaft jokes, and a surprisingly functional piece of oddware. Good times all around!

Jurassic_Jacob

This product seems pretty indicative of many cheap products where I'd end up hating it and upgrading to a more expensive product anyway and spending 1 and a half times as much because I already bought the cheap one. I've come to learn that I actually save money by buying the more expensive thing in the first place lol. Anyway, nice to see you wearing the vegas goodwill hat I sent you. 😊

Jurassic_Jacob

I would think a 1 or 2 inch piece of pvc pipe would be an ideal way to increase the gap.

LGR

Wow, I just looked it up and that is delightfully odd. Different but similar in concept for sure.

Pietro Gagliardi

The only thing I can think of now is Cameltry for the X68000, which came with this absurd sheet metal contraption that you stuck the typically-puck-shaped X68000 mouse into to get the rotary control of the arcade game it's a port of... (Think Sonic 1's Special Stages and you're halfway there.) I wonder if the Mouse Wheel has all the same parts; just a different handle.

LGR

Stay tuned for the 20th anniversary retrospective though :)

Michael A Berry

Geniune spittake at the shaft section of the video. 🤣 I don't rmember the sticker on mine but I had that "Marvel Yokes" device you pictured and a set of pedals too. As a yoke, it was wonderful for Flight Unlimited. There was a Pitch Lock pin you could insert to turn it into a steering wheel, but that was a total gimmick, as was the throttle.

LGR

Indeed, plus modifying and adding onto these things to fix the problems would surpass the goal of Oddware episodes. I'm all about showing things as they were, warts and all :)

LGR

Very much in the same vein as plastic Wii nonsense! And yet even worse due to the the lack of any buttons. The 3D printed Duke busts got out of hand weeks ago over on the LGR Birds channel, it was only a matter of time till they leaked over here :P

Laura H

I see! It was good while it lasted, thanks for replying.

LGR

Unfortunately not, the savegame files were all lost in a hard disk death 8 years ago.

Adam S

I wonder if an O-ring would space the yoke itself out to give more room for maneuvering, unfortunate though you would need to be making modifications for usability right out of the box though.

Laura H

LGR sir. Sorry for unrelated but will you ever finish your Sims 2 LPs? I’ve seen them about 50 times and really want Free Time & AL!

The Enforcer

I mean... it works? But then again, this feel like the same energy as those million plastic "peripherals" for the Wii. And the fact it lacks trigger buttons doesn't seem to make it ideal for your flight shoot em ups. If I want to use a flight/yoke stick, I'll invest in a decent flight/yoke stick. Not buy some strap on device that makes the mouse feel violated. Also, how many Duke Nukem busts do you have? Do we need to set up an intervention? :P