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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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 18 дней назад

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

@ToxicKlay 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@rommix0 18 дней назад

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

@artchic528 18 дней назад

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

@slckb0y65 18 дней назад

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

@Eendeebo 18 дней назад

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

@maximilianmorse9697 18 дней назад

Clint is a size queen

@cannot-handle-handles 18 дней назад

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

@Eendeebo 18 дней назад

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

@mirkwoodlodge 18 дней назад

Clint knows his shaft length

@JohnnyBGoode9 18 дней назад

"I know my shaft length."

@seoulpurpose 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@Oculas2003 18 дней назад

Was that just for the "Dizzy" games?

@mythbustersfan3456 18 дней назад

Homer: Mmmmm egg yolk *starts drewling*

@TechGorilla1987 18 дней назад

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

@kruleworld 18 дней назад

also not to be confused with the 'Mouse Joke"

@key099able 18 дней назад

Getting glimpse into the storage room is always a delight.

@StreetPreacherr 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

We need a tour!

@artchic528 18 дней назад

It’s like delving into a vintage computer wonderland!

@DerekLippold 18 дней 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😅

@Anonymouzor 18 дней назад

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

@SaifEddineTalbi 18 дней назад

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

@lamptrent 15 дней назад

17:32 for others' convenience

@JohnneyleeRollins 18 дней назад

This has got to be some kind of yoke

@LuminalSpoon 18 дней назад

5 seconds is a yoke

@BenDeSwert666 18 дней назад

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

@mp9264 18 дней назад

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

@bash_maxwell 18 дней назад

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

@plan7a 18 дней назад

Egg-cellent!

@jonathankleinow2073 18 дней назад

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

17 дней назад

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

@titan_dust 18 дней назад

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

@RT-qd8yl 17 дней назад

_This is not exactly centered down here_

@a1white 9 дней назад

8:04 😅

@dustmighte 18 дней назад

6:04 lmao at the reverb

@thegeforce6625 18 дней назад

I lost it when that happened

@compmanio36 18 дней назад

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

@bestthangever117 18 дней назад

@@thegeforce6625I hope you find it again.

@iSuRocAfella 18 дней назад

😂 laughed way too much at this bit! 😂😂

@soldiersvejk2053 18 дней назад

Naughty

@johnstogner6397 18 дней 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 14 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 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

I had to replay that part a few times, haha

@Gappasaurus 16 дней назад

It’s backwards compatible 😜

@pmcmateus 18 дней назад

"I know my shaft length"

@cannot-handle-handles 18 дней назад

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

@RavnusLock 18 дней назад

I love how the crab ended up becoming the LGR mascot

@basshead. 14 дней назад

LTT too.

@volvo09 13 дней назад

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

@basshead. 13 дней назад

@@volvo09 When they test speakers.

@user-ki9sz5bh6j 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@philstephes 18 дней назад

A few cheese wedges at most

@billbobbingson673 18 дней назад

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

@ScooterinAB 18 дней назад

Vegan jazz is best for inclusiveness.

@CptJistuce 17 дней назад

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

@zachsilby4569 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@chigginheadD 16 дней назад

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

@adamoune1 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@JoshuaSolanes 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@tuxrug 18 дней назад

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

@mechadeka 18 дней назад

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

@MattTester 18 дней назад

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

@benjaminmiddaugh2729 17 дней назад

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

@user-po9pv7rw1g 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@zispinhoff0011 18 дней 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!

@HendoAU 18 дней назад

Please do a video tour of your basement, it looks real interesting from what you showed in this vid.

@Lauty3590 17 дней назад

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

@mrchirp 18 дней назад

Those LHX sounds bring back some memories of 486dx greatness

@DGFig 18 дней назад

Gotta love a dude who knows his shaft length.

@AlphasysNl 16 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.

@smcilia 18 дней назад

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

@world_still_spins 18 дней назад

When the airplane needs extra thrust.

@azraelle6232 16 дней назад

...repeatedly

@cathrinelord 18 дней 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.

@jansenart0 18 дней 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.

@FranklyPeetoons 14 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).

@trevypoos 18 дней назад

I love the Matt Berry reference at about 16 minutes

@superstarichiban 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

@ScooterinAB agreed! The true answer is never enough lol

@koffeekage 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

The Cronus. They never worked right.

@joshuahadams 18 дней 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.

@ElShotte 18 дней 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.

@Syrinx11 18 дней назад

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

@MayaPosch 18 дней 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.

@MrVexedviper 18 дней назад

Isn't that what they use in a Tesla?

@xnamkcor 18 дней 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.

@retroandgaming 18 дней назад

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

@zehalmeida 18 дней назад

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

@vcprado 17 дней назад

don't you mean the yokes?

@CHIPCORNFIELD 18 дней назад

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

@ragedump 18 дней назад

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

@gustiwidyanta5492 18 дней назад

"SSPS" Dont take that out of context lol

@emmabentley7945 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@batterybuilding 14 дней назад

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

@erikt211 4 дня назад

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

@MrWolfSnack 18 дней 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.

@Ragesauce 18 дней назад

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

@Sythemn 18 дней назад

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

@smugshrug 18 дней назад

"I know my shaft length" -LGR

@alariciii4963 18 дней 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.

@slckb0y65 18 дней назад

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

@Idengard 10 дней назад

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

@TheMalMeninga 18 дней назад

4:38 Holy WordArt, Batman!

@moonwolfv671 18 дней 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.

@beez1717 18 дней 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 17 дней назад

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

@brandonakey6616 18 дней назад

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

@ashir555 15 дней назад

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

@TomBudin 18 дней назад

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

@jordanhass 18 дней назад

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

@pacothelama887 18 дней назад

Love that someone else caught that

@georgeoldsterd8994 8 дней назад

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

@RaptureWillRiseAgain 18 дней 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

@DMTayag 12 дней назад

This video is 90% shaft and ball jokes, 10% LGR flexing his old mouse collection. Well played.

@mingohagen 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 17 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.

@sluxi 18 дней назад

Professional driver in a closed circuit indeed

@dinitroacetylen 18 дней назад

Behold professionalism in crashing!

@thecodex0994 17 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

@Roxor128 17 дней 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.

@JohnKiniston 18 дней назад

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

@LGR 18 дней назад

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

@fonesrphunny7242 18 дней 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.

@devjock 17 дней назад

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

@GlutenEruption 16 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

@glenncaughey5044 18 дней назад

The epic snapping of the elastic 😂

@oddgod8005 18 дней назад

6:50 glad to hear clint

@EkiToji 17 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.

@TheTonie4 18 дней назад

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

@danielmarcus420 18 дней назад

Happy Fri yayyyyyyyyy, Clint!!

@TravisWalden 18 дней назад

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

@ladyjaye27 18 дней назад

I noticed that too! Time works backwards in Colorado?

@philstephes 18 дней назад

@@ladyjaye27Gotta be lingering effects from the Stargate.

@timace1 15 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?

@floridarolf759 15 дней назад

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

@umbrellacorp. 18 дней назад

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

@the_kombinator 18 дней 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 18 дней назад

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

@the_kombinator 18 дней 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 18 дней 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 18 дней 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.

@jerrylee7898 18 дней назад

10 points to Gryffindor for the Shaft reference.

@benn454 18 дней назад

Ya damn right

@CitizenKang 17 дней назад

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

@JLabong 18 дней назад

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

@MeanderBot 18 дней назад

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

@LonelySpaceDetective 14 дней назад

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

@swimmerboy172 18 дней 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.

@AdlerDanEgoe 18 дней назад

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

@kfhewui152 16 дней назад

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

@existenceisrelative 18 дней 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.

@theoldar 18 дней назад

New Yawk Citeee? I sense a "What We Do in the Shadows" fan.

@Audiobungalow 18 дней назад

Also could be a Pace Picante fan

@DM01710 17 дней назад

RC equipment and controllers so cool brings back memories of using my cousins Futaba and trying out the RC sim he had for RC Helicopter practice , thanks lgr another cool episode. 🙂

@airborneace 2 дня назад

Can I just say that i freaking love 1990s software box art? Seriously, I should start an online gallery

@mirceamitch 18 дней назад

'It's a pretty lengthy shaft' - Clint, 2024

@philstephes 18 дней назад

Clint, RU-vid is doing it again, I didn't get notified of your video :| I can't be the only one either.

@Swisshost 7 дней назад

I started to make browser tabs for my fav YT channels.

@NaoPb 18 дней 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?

@EliteSmorechannel 16 дней назад

Superbly edited! 🖱

@TooManyHobbiesJeremy 17 дней назад

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

@disgruntledfaerie 18 дней назад

I saw these advertised heavily in Mac magazines of the early 90s. There weren't a whole lot of Apple Desktop Bus yokes, if any. And if there were any, I'm sure they'd be eye-wateringly expensive cuz that's how things went in the 68k days. I had a Mouse Yoke. It sucked.

@GreyWolfLeaderTW 18 дней 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.

@ludditzthrell2061 18 дней назад

I was gonna suggest trying an optical mouse.. glad to see we think alike in that respect! Still.. yeah.. I get the feeling an optical mouse and the driving wheel, maybe with a band of matte tape on it directly where the laser hits might work? Still though, rather enjoy the absurdity and clever idea of it. Anyway, Clint, please keep finding weird stuff, it's always a treat when your oddware videos pop up in my sub box.