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

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

[ReadingWithPippa]

Three people founded Colorado Spectrum, and I was one of them. While other yokes were available at the time, they all required a game port and were more expensive. The Mouse Yoke was a great solution for people who didn't want to spend a lot of money and/or people who owned computers that lacked a game port. The fact that the device didn't include buttons was deliberate and often debated.

I'm still friends with our tech support guy if you want help adjusting the sensitivity :)

And if you want a Mouse Wheel, just let me know. I still have a case of them :)

Some context for your younger viewers is that this product came out before the world wide web was a thing.

Thanks for creating a great historical documentary about Colorado Spectrum!

[keyable]

Getting glimpse into the storage room is always a delight.

[seoulpurpose]

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

[johnstogner]

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.

[jonathankleinow]

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

[outsdr]

"Yeah, I know my shaft length."

**spittake**

[zachsilby]

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.

[RyuzakiT]

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

[titan_dust]

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

[Anonymouzor]

"talk about driving the demons back to hell"

i lost it at that comment

[Benjaminamour]

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.

[adamoune]

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.

[nafion]

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.

[Eendeebo]

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

[zispinhoff]

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!

[popvrwg]

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!

[O_Rav]

I love how the crab ended up becoming the LGR mascot

[Mutisin]

Thank you!

There was a DOS racing title that i used to play and i remember it had a track editor that i would spend what felt like hours tweaking and testing insane (for the time) tracks, but i couldn't recall the name. That game was Stunts, and I'm about to go driving down memory lane thanks to this vid.

[TomBudin]

"I know my shaft length"

LMAO i love you LGR

[IRWPD]

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