The 1992 Mouse Yoke! Convert a mouse into a flight yoke, oddly

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Checking out the odd Mouse Yoke from 1992! Colorado Spectrum sold several flight simulator adjacent devices in the 90s but this is the weird one of the bunch. Clamp the base to a desk, strap in a computer mouse, slide in the shaft, and enjoy a realistic aircraft yoke! Possibly, in theory, sort of! A bizarre thing that is prime LGR Oddware indeed.
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● All background music licensed from:
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00:00 An Oddware Introduction
00:32 The Mouse Yoke
02:41 Colorado Spectrum
04:02 Critical response
05:20 Unboxing the weirdness
09:19 Setup and testing
11:16 LHX Attack Chopper
14:54 Flight Simulator 98
16:55 Doom II
17:58 Unreal Tournament
18:59 Stunts
20:43 Optical Descent test
21:25 What it says on the tin!
#LGR #retro #gaming #controller #oddware

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@outsdr Месяц назад

"Yeah, I know my shaft length." **spittake**

@ToxicKlay Месяц назад

hearing clint slip one of those into a video is like watching a kid's cartoon and hearing one of those obviously meant for adult jokes lol

@outsdr Месяц назад

@@ToxicKlay This video was just chock full of innuendo and double entendre!

@rommix0 Месяц назад

@@ToxicKlay Yeah like Animaniacs. "Give me the bird!" "We would but the censors won't allow it."

@artchic528 Месяц назад

Yakko: Good night, Everybody! *blows a kiss*

@slckb0y65 Месяц назад

i miss when youtube was mostly swearing and dick jokes ;) those were the days

@Eendeebo Месяц назад

I am screaming over the quick identification of the “ten-inch shaft” 😳😳😳😳😳

@maximilianmorse9697 Месяц назад

Clint is a size queen

@cannot-handle-handles Месяц назад

I mean it's a plausible guess that it is a round number of inches, but still impressive.

@Eendeebo Месяц назад

@@cannot-handle-handles it was definitely a successful perception check for sure

@mirkwoodlodge Месяц назад

Clint knows his shaft length

@JohnnyBGoode9 Месяц назад

"I know my shaft length."

@seoulpurpose Месяц назад

Not to be confused with the *Mouse YOLK*, the egg-themed mouse that has inevitably been covered in a previous 'weird mouse' video

@JaredConnell Месяц назад

No, that would be the yolk mouse. This is the mouse yoke.

@Oculas2003 Месяц назад

Was that just for the "Dizzy" games?

@mythbustersfan3456 Месяц назад

Homer: Mmmmm egg yolk *starts drewling*

@TechGorilla1987 Месяц назад

I had one called "The Three Minute Mouse" Chefs will get that.

@kruleworld Месяц назад

also not to be confused with the 'Mouse Joke"

@key099able Месяц назад

Getting glimpse into the storage room is always a delight.

@StreetPreacherr Месяц назад

Damn! First time I've seen it. I'll have to see if he's ever done a video tour, all I've seen are his Big Box game shelves.

@the_real_Kurt_Yarish Месяц назад

@@StreetPreacherrIt's occasionally popped up in quick snippets in his regular videos since moving into this house a few years ago, but he's never done a more in-depth tour of this setup as far as I'm aware. I seem to recall a video showcasing select examples of his collection back from around the time he was moving, though.

@michielbrus5632 Месяц назад

We need a tour!

@artchic528 Месяц назад

It’s like delving into a vintage computer wonderland!

@DerekLippold Месяц назад

YES! I want to see the storage room. I love it and it so inspiring to get me to organize my computer room mess lol😅

@JohnneyleeRollins Месяц назад

This has got to be some kind of yoke

@LuminalSpoon Месяц назад

5 seconds is a yoke

@BenDeSwert666 Месяц назад

@@LuminalSpoononly if you don't know how to handle your shaft.

@mp9264 Месяц назад

@@LuminalSpoonhey man, it’s not easy having a 10 Inch Shaft

@bash_maxwell Месяц назад

It's a total yoke, if you ask me.

@plan7a Месяц назад

Egg-cellent!

@RyanMercer Месяц назад

Weird. I love and hate it.

@duckrinium Месяц назад

Odd even

@Tailslol Месяц назад

You imagine? We could have steering wheel with nowday optical mice!

@BananaTruck. Месяц назад

No yoke

@billybollockhead5628 Месяц назад

A 10 inch shaft?

@titan_dust Месяц назад

LGR is one of those channels where you don't expect the innuendos, but when it does, it's executed perfectly 😂

@RT-qd8yl 29 дней назад

_This is not exactly centered down here_

@a1white 21 день назад

8:04 😅

@jonathankleinow2073 Месяц назад

16:15: As Mentour Pilot would say, "This is where things started happening really quickly."

Месяц назад

Haha, I could hear it when I read it, hell, I can even see his face :D

@Anonymouzor Месяц назад

"talk about driving the demons back to hell" i lost it at that comment

@SaifEddineTalbi Месяц назад

I was eating at that exact moment, and I nearly shared my food with the monitor of my pc.

@lamptrent 28 дней назад

17:32 for others' convenience

@dustmighte Месяц назад

6:04 lmao at the reverb

@thegeforce6625 Месяц назад

I lost it when that happened

@compmanio36 Месяц назад

I had to go back and play it again just to make sure I heard right...

@bestthangever117 Месяц назад

@@thegeforce6625I hope you find it again.

@iSuRocAfella Месяц назад

😂 laughed way too much at this bit! 😂😂

@soldiersvejk2053 Месяц назад

Naughty

@johnstogner6397 Месяц назад

This is horribly good. They could have gone even further giving you foot pedals that mashed a keyboard under your desk. And MARVELOUS job on the basement , amazing.

@RJ-wx3fh 27 дней назад

In a similar vein, have a plate on sprung feet with an adjustable limit, set it over the keyboard, maybe have a pattern of holes through which you can add a screw directly over the desired keys

@RyuzakiT4 Месяц назад

7:15 ‘offer good from June, 1 1993 to November 30, 1992’ Nice, using this device you could also get the time flowing backwards!

@davidesums Месяц назад

I had to replay that part a few times, haha

@Gappasaurus 28 дней назад

It’s backwards compatible 😜

@pmcmateus Месяц назад

"I know my shaft length"

@cannot-handle-handles Месяц назад

And a bit later: "Dirty shafts and balls." 8:00

@RavnusLock Месяц назад

I love how the crab ended up becoming the LGR mascot

@basshead. 27 дней назад

LTT too.

@volvo09 26 дней назад

@@basshead. When did they start using that crab? I don't really watch them

@basshead. 26 дней назад

@@volvo09 When they test speakers.

@user-ki9sz5bh6j Месяц назад

You guys know in the Matrix, when neo is like "I need guns" and a vast armory appears filled with shelves of guns? Yea thats what LGR just did when he went to his basement but instead it was filled with old PC equipment.

@cargo_vroom9729 Месяц назад

Sure you can put a yoke on a mouse, but it's not going to be able to pull very much.

@philstephes Месяц назад

A few cheese wedges at most

@billbobbingson673 Месяц назад

Thank you for respecting those with food allergies and using egg-free jazz for the intro.

@ScooterinAB Месяц назад

Vegan jazz is best for inclusiveness.

@CptJistuce 29 дней назад

@@ScooterinABWhat about people that don't eat vegetables?

@zachsilby4569 Месяц назад

I'm gonna preface this by saying that is most definitely a compliment. I often go to sleep watching your videos because it feels like I'm spending the weekend at my uncle's house and he's showing me what he's interested in because I'm also a little into it, and while I wanna learn as much as I can, I can't help but be so comforted by the passion for the interest that I get sleepy.

@nafion112 Месяц назад

2:41 My jaw is on the floor. I grew up in Fort Collins. I lived there for 30 years. Around 1995, I got my braces literally next door to that address on Whalers Way, and my dad lived for years on Sandy Cove Ln, literally 100s of feet away!!! ...I kinda fancy myself a flight sim enthusiast, but haven't heard of Colorado Spectrum until today...feels surreal.

@asoftoday101 Месяц назад

Looked up the address and was shocked to see it was the same building I got teeth pulled at a few years ago. What a small world

@nafion112 Месяц назад

@@asoftoday101 Small world indeed! I get back to foco once or twice a year...still have family and friends there.

@chigginheadD 28 дней назад

I've lived in FC since 2002, even work very near there

@adamoune1 Месяц назад

When I was a 14, 15 in 1991 I had a scout master who was a engineer at HP in Fort Collins and he used to bring us over to his office were they had developed a 3D racing game just to put their workstation processors to the test. We were allowed play this game on their top of the line, for the time, workstations the engineers used. Also unbeknownst to us we were also the beta testers for this product developed by former HP engineers who were getting ready to go to market.

@IRWPD Месяц назад

Those 3D printed Duke busts in the background look awesome.

@user-po9pv7rw1g Месяц назад

hitting pause a few seconds in because i just wanted to say thank you so much for adding captions when you upload--it makes the experience so much better than autocraptions. your effort is appreciated! okay, back to the video!

@user-po9pv7rw1g Месяц назад

"newwww yaaahk cityyy..." are you a jackie daytona fan, clint? 😂

@JoshuaSolanes Месяц назад

Some spacers (and a stop on the far end of the shaft) and some wireless buttons and this seems like a potentially pretty cool solution

@joshuahadams Месяц назад

Something like a bike brake cable connecting the yolk to something that can press your mouse buttons would probably work.

@tuxrug Месяц назад

Maybe foot pedals on string to press the mouse button, and a mousepad-like fabric sleeve on the rod to improve tracking...?

@mechadeka Месяц назад

While we're at it, we could remove the mouse and replace it with some potentiometers.

@MattTester Месяц назад

The end spacer could also limit the rotation, not that it would do anything for the centering.

@benjaminmiddaugh2729 Месяц назад

@@mechadeka Now, now, let's not be hasty with the practical suggestions.

@mrchirp Месяц назад

Those LHX sounds bring back some memories of 486dx greatness

@zispinhoff0011 Месяц назад

What a coincidence! I was just reminiscing about his very thing! It worked like a champ when it worked. Our time with it ended when the turn wheel on the desk clamp broke off. No amount of super glue withstood the torque needed to fix it. I still have the plastic yoke bars. Thanks so much for covering this one, Clint!

@Lauty3590 Месяц назад

15:37 Holy shit, it's Laszlo! I never knew you were a What We Do in the Shadows enjoyer HAHAH

@smcilia Месяц назад

Clint just jamming that shaft into the base of the unit...

@world_still_spins Месяц назад

When the airplane needs extra thrust.

@azraelle6232 28 дней назад

...repeatedly

@MrVexedviper Месяц назад

Isn't that what they use in a Tesla?

@DGFig Месяц назад

Gotta love a dude who knows his shaft length.

@AlphasysNl 28 дней назад

As for the centering problem, I noticed the "recommended setup" tables prominently mentioning setting "Mouse Center". I think they chose Numpad 5 for that. So they definitely were aware of centering problems themselves. But yeah, with this yoke, you'd be slapping that button all the time. Great review as always. Keep it up.

@jansenart0 Месяц назад

I loved the little double-sided-tape-on-the-numpad-joystick thing, I always wanted one but never had one when it would've been relevant. This thing? I would've lost my shit for if I'd known about it back in the day.

@cathrinelord Месяц назад

when you talked about going to see how the mouse infestation in your basement, I was really hoping the one you'd pick would be in a mouse trap, haha.

@trevypoos Месяц назад

I love the Matt Berry reference at about 16 minutes

@MayaPosch Месяц назад

Getting some matte texture on the shaft (har~) might make it work pretty well with an optical mouse, but you'd likely still run into centering issues. Mice in general aren't very good at that, after all.

@zehalmeida Месяц назад

Oh the innuendo and jokes here are killing me, thank you for the laughs!

@vcprado 29 дней назад

don't you mean the yokes?

@Syrinx11 Месяц назад

Your storage space looks amazing! The distinction between a hoarder and a collector must be organization!

@ragedump Месяц назад

Clint you are having way too much fun with the innuendos and suggestive sound effects, lol

@gustiwidyanta5492 Месяц назад

"SSPS" Dont take that out of context lol

@superstarichiban Месяц назад

I love this channel. There is no limit to the odd-ness of 90's PC accessories, so thank you, Clint! So realistic. 😂

@ScooterinAB Месяц назад

I'd love to see some ridiculous PC accessory Tower of Power-type setup. How many weird gimmick accessories can you have on one setup?

@superstarichiban Месяц назад

@ScooterinAB agreed! The true answer is never enough lol

@koffeekage Месяц назад

This reminds me of those “mouse for console” devices that people used for the ps3 to try and play the pc ports like it was on pc.

@bigbeast103 Месяц назад

The Cronus. They never worked right.

@joshuahadams Месяц назад

Now a lot of newer games just come with support for regular mouse & keyboard over USB. Call of Duty & Halo come to mind immediately, and games where you _need_ a good cursor like Cities: Skylines and Jurassic World: Evolution 2 support it, too.

@CHIPCORNFIELD Месяц назад

I love you Clint my man. U made my life so much better the past like 8 years

@retroandgaming Месяц назад

"Mouse infestation in the basement" indeed! Nice collection:)

@xnamkcor Месяц назад

If you're worried about a clamp hurting a surface, just put a piece of wood between the twisty part and the surface you want to protect. The force will be spread across the piece of wood.

@erikt211 16 дней назад

That slap at 6:04 was hilariously unexpected, I died laughing LOL

@ElShotte Месяц назад

11:05 - "That up and down sensitivity is nuts" To be fair, lots of games had separate mouse sensitivity values for X and Y.

@emmabentley7945 Месяц назад

As a flight sim developer I find videos like this fascinating, really interesting to see how things were, compared to now with honeycomb yokes and custom MCPs! ❤ amazing Video Clint!

@gregahitchcock1982 Месяц назад

Your basement shelf / drawer / shelf game is the utopian dream of horder's the world over.

@batterybuilding 26 дней назад

The difference between a hoarder and a collector is organization. 😅

@MrWolfSnack Месяц назад

You should try sliding rubber O-rings over the back and front end of the shaft to stop it from pulling totally out of the holder and that would help keep it centered. Also get some adhesive glue dots that are strong and stick the mouse in place, centered as well, to stop it from sliding around in the cradle.

@floridarolf759 28 дней назад

15:40 is this a what we do in the shadows quote?! My man

@slckb0y65 Месяц назад

6:42 "that's a pretty lenghty shaft ... what is that, 10 inches ??" - LGR 2024

@Ragesauce Месяц назад

Dang that's actually pretty innovative, if only track ball mice worked better this would have been genius back then!

@Idengard 23 дня назад

When you rummaged through your mice drawer, the IBM mouse gave me serious nostalgia. That was my first ever PC mouse

@brandonakey6616 Месяц назад

I don't often laugh out loud while alone watching RU-vid video's but the "I know my shaft length" got me.

@alariciii4963 Месяц назад

This reminds me of an attachment for the ps1 controller that turned the d-pad to a stick. It was held on by rubber bands. Worked surprisingly well.

@Sythemn Месяц назад

Me: "Seems like a good idea" Gets to the part about the centering. "ooooooh.... nvm"

@thecodex0994 29 дней назад

I love the fact you have draws full of old mice. On the hitting your hand on the desk issue. I guess you could add a couple of rubber washer to make a bump stop

@TomBudin Месяц назад

"I know my shaft length" LMAO i love you LGR

@beez1717 Месяц назад

The issue is that with a mouse you're expected to be able to recenter it by lifting it up and placing it back down, and with the yoke you can't do that effectively.

@EvanAdnams 29 дней назад

That would be why the manual had a list of “re-centering” hotkeys for various games.

@Roxor128 Месяц назад

It never ceases to amaze me at the ingenuity in the things that Clint manages to find for Oddware. It's definitely odd, but a lot of the time it's also pretty damn clever, too.

@FranklyPeetoons 26 дней назад

The reverb after the mouse strap FLAP. 6:04. This is the masterful kind of post-production that separates the men from the boys in RU-vid-land (jokes about crowbars are NOT appreciated).

@smugshrug Месяц назад

"I know my shaft length" -LGR

@moonwolfv671 Месяц назад

Stunts will probably always be my favourite driving game. Wish they'd remake it, simply with up to date graphics and sound but nothing more.

@timace1 28 дней назад

This is quite possibly my favourite LGR video. So much ridiculous fun, innuendos AND a venture into the basement. What's not to love?

@ashir555 27 дней назад

This is gotta be one of my favorite episodes so far! All the jokes about balls, rods, and sizes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheMalMeninga Месяц назад

4:38 Holy WordArt, Batman!

@sluxi Месяц назад

Professional driver in a closed circuit indeed

@dinitroacetylen Месяц назад

Behold professionalism in crashing!

@devjock Месяц назад

This was delightfully chaotic. Thanks Clint, i needed this today :D

@TheTonie4 Месяц назад

6:40 onwards is why I love this channel lol Also the thounk of the shaft coming out was so satisfying

@mingohagen Месяц назад

I played MS Flight Simulator 4.0 on a Power Macintosh 6100 using this thing and I really liked it, but using the centering key (I think it was num pad 5) was essential.

@jothain Месяц назад

Oh FS had centering button, I didn't even know. Actually just commented that this solution definitely needs somekind of centering button solution and if there were actual visual reference to how far you're on in ie. X-axis this kind of solution could work quite well tbh.

@mingohagen Месяц назад

@@jothain it has visual indicators on the dashboard as well yeah. I think the centering was only for the roll, but that worked well enough for this device. So well in fact that I landed my cessna on the first try :)

@jothain Месяц назад

@@mingohagen Cool, then I'd assume learning curve and feel to be good enough for the era. Plus to be honest most joysticks back then weren't great either. Well at least ones I could get my hands.

@stevebollinger3463 29 дней назад

Num pad 5 is mentioned prominently in the manual when he is leafing through it. I guess Clint ignored it. It gives the mouse recenter key for each compatible game. Seemed like a big tip off keeping center was going to be iffy.

@JohnKiniston Месяц назад

Maybe you could add some sort of ring to the base of the shaft, to restrict the possible travel.

@LGR Месяц назад

Some kind of… shaft ring, yes. I think I know a store that sells such accessories 🍎

@GlutenEruption 28 дней назад

2:04 - OMG, NOSTALGIA! That grey virtual pilot pro is the yoke I had as a kid! Loved that thing. Had the pedals too

@EkiToji 29 дней назад

Somehow I'd completely forgotten about Stunts but even just the very first scene of you playing it brought back all sorts of memories of playing that game for way too much and designing all sorts of crazy tracks.

@glenncaughey5044 Месяц назад

The epic snapping of the elastic 😂

@jordanhass Месяц назад

Clint doing the lazlow impression of "NEW YORK CITY" is fun

@pacothelama887 Месяц назад

Love that someone else caught that

@georgeoldsterd8994 20 дней назад

He also did a 9/11 reenactment, but that didn't make the cut.

@thetechsavvy01 Месяц назад

That definitely is a nice gadget that I would surely have bought back then. Good find, LGR!

@RaptureWillRiseAgain Месяц назад

I remember having this back in the 90s as a kid! Not perfect, but worked surprisingly well for what it was. This was fun to revisit, thanks Clint

@justinpakarno4346 Месяц назад

LGR has a shelf of 3d printers all making Duke busts 24/7

@danielmarcus420 Месяц назад

Happy Fri yayyyyyyyyy, Clint!!

@AdlerDanEgoe Месяц назад

Very funny episode, and you're looking good. Thanks, Clint.

@TooManyHobbiesJeremy Месяц назад

I'm impressed the optical mouse worked. Neat video.

@fonesrphunny7242 Месяц назад

I could imagine playing FS with this on the Atari, as it didnt have analogue joystick support (iirc). Far from optimal, but more immersive than pushing the mouse around.

@oddgod8005 Месяц назад

6:50 glad to hear clint

@JLabong Месяц назад

The shaft length bit made me lol. Fun video as always Clint!

@CitizenKang 29 дней назад

Got to love the old flight simulators where 60% of the screen is dials.

@TravisWalden Месяц назад

7:13 "Offer good from June 1, 1993 to November 30, 1992"... wait what?

@ladyjaye27 Месяц назад

I noticed that too! Time works backwards in Colorado?

@philstephes Месяц назад

@@ladyjaye27Gotta be lingering effects from the Stargate.

@umbrellacorp. Месяц назад

I love the 80's and 90's. That's a piece of history right there.☺️

@the_kombinator Месяц назад

It's a piece of garbage lol - just because something was sold at that time doesn't make it good. There's a reason there's not a lot of early 90s GM cars running around today - they,like this thing, were crap.

@fus132 Месяц назад

@@the_kombinator Bro it works better that some joysticks sold _today_

@the_kombinator Месяц назад

@@fus132 Which ones? Seriously, I'm not up to snuff, I have retro gear all over my house, and I think the newest controller I have is a Gravis Gamepad from 1997.

@alikos4528 Месяц назад

no need to be oversentimental about something that was a cheap and unreliable junk even when it came out, if it coundn't achieve at least getting centered after a maneuver then it was destined to fail

@volvo09 Месяц назад

@@alikos4528 yeah this is junk, like one of those late 80's "driving simulator" toys you'd get as a present that just rolled a 4" tube around with a light bulb inside to project a road on a "screen"... the fun lasted for 2 minutes because it took 30 seconds to realize it was the 10 seconds loop of road. There was so much worthless trash then, and this is one of them... The problems Clint had today are no different than how bad it would have been back in the day, just unusably bad.

@EliteSmorechannel 28 дней назад

Superbly edited! 🖱

@kfhewui152 29 дней назад

7:12 "Offer good from June 1, 1993 to November 30, 1992"

@jerrylee7898 Месяц назад

10 points to Gryffindor for the Shaft reference.

@benn454 Месяц назад

Ya damn right

@MeanderBot Месяц назад

I keep reading the title as "Mouse Yokai" and I like that product more

@LonelySpaceDetective 26 дней назад

I don't think any computer mouses are old enough to become tsukumogami, unfortunately.

@kylebell1522 Месяц назад

I dont know why i laughed at the strap echo slap lol

@RaposaCadela Месяц назад

this is actually really creative! I love this idea!

@swimmerboy172 Месяц назад

Little did I know how much I needed LGR to talk about rods, shaft, and balls. And now I know how long LGR’s shaft is. Tape measure proven.

@existenceisrelative Месяц назад

I once had a dream where i was hanging out with LGR, but for some reason we were both twelve years old. Pretty sure i'm going to have at least one dream that happens in that glorious retro-pc paradise down the stairs.

@NaoPb Месяц назад

Thanks for showing your basement, it has given me some inspiration for my storage. As for the yoke, maybe you could use a piece of slightly larger pipe as a spacer for the shaft. Or a bunch of washers. And maybe one of those black with metal paper stack keeper together things at the end to stop it from coming out?

@GreyWolfLeaderTW Месяц назад

Not gonna lie, when I realized how this yoke worked (obviously turning and pulling/pushing the yoke rolls it against the mouse's rollerball), I thought, 'That is clever!" Of course, I immediately considered that this is cheap aluminum and plastic we're dealing with here, so the yoke likely won't feel anything like a solidly built joystick or other kinds of controllers.