that mouse wasnt made in the 1980s.. it's from 1996. Huuuuuuge difference in mice from the 80s compared to the late 90s, this mouse was actually groundbreaking compared to was on the market at that point of time
Correct....I don't recall any of my mice having a scroll wheel in the 80s. My first mouse was a Commodore Tank mouse, and it was a brick compared to that Microsoft mouse. The USB more is also a clue as they did not have USB in the 80s. Before that was PS2 and then before that, serial. I would love to see what they could do with a Tank mouse! I do a wireless remake of the Tank mouse and gaming with it is rough and hurt my hand. Of course when I was using that mouse in the 80s I was not using for FPS games as they did not exist. Games that used mice were often very slow paced.....for a fast paced game you would use a joy stick.
This absolute madlad literally destroyed people online by using a 1980s mouse that literally runs on BALL, a god damn BALL. Imagine getting such an old piece of mouse antiquity, reverse engineering it to understand how the hell it works, then hop on games and pop heads like it's nothing. This guy cooks up every single time some amazing ideas and puts them all togethering in insanely detailed and well crafted videos, this is so underrated.
Oh the days of Unreal Tournament, Quake and Counter Strike on a ball mouse. I do actually miss those days tbh. Competitive gaming felt more fun to me back then, guess I'm getting old.
I also experienced all of that. Trainings and competitves games weren't "fun" too. It was work ! Mindsets and global level changed when ranked games appeared directly ingames.
You just cleaning the ball, but not the roller thingies made me sad. That's also where most of the noise came from. Great video! Cheers, an old person who is glad ball mice are a thing of the past.
Yeah the amount of times I removed the piled up dirt from the rollers as it was causing them to slip when I was young. I could even see the very memorable dust ring on them and really really wanted to reach through my screen to pull that off. They get quite hard and retain that ring shape after you remove them. Absolutely plays a part in tracking not changing direction when you physically do.
you clean the rollers, not the ball. gunk quickly forms a crust around the point of contact in the rollers and it builds up into a gross ring that ultimately prevents the rollers from rolling smoothly (or at all if you never clean it). unless you cleaned it, i would assume the mouse "loosing it" with fast movements was because of gunky rollers. that's exactly what it does.
It seems like you have to be smooth at all times with this mouse otherwise you just get screwed over. It was fun watching this vid and I hope you get more recognition Keeah!
This is a late 1990's/early 2000's Microsoft Intellimouse ball mouse. Microsoft didn't release any scroll wheel mice until 1996, so it's definitely not from the 1980's.
Great video. I actually am old enough to remember playing CS 1.6 with a dell ball mouse. I actually preferred it to a laser mouse for a long time because the feel was so different.
Not only did you have to take the ball out to clean, you had to clean the x and z wheels as well, removing any stuck gunk that the ball picked up... it was such a hassle.
eh quake pros used these for awhile, technically not so bad since its close to 1:1 tracking everybody just switched to optical because the intellimouse optical was so cracked
bro played with the ball mouse in competetive shooters video game. i literally played ball mouse football in my backyard irl when I was 5 years old. 'breaking the mouse and extracte the ball.'
Legit your game clips were goat, lol i grew up with those ball mice. There is a charm with using analog equipment, its not always the fastest or best looking. But it will always feel more natural
it's just like no matter how expensive your car if you'r driving method still bad then you are bad. its not because the mouse made you good its the aim, practice, and timing consequence that make you better.
Nice 👌 Btw we didn't have to clean the ball. What got dirty (honestly super gross sometimes) are the two rollers that the ball moves for x and y axis. Those could collect all kinds of crud and even hair. Good times. 😆
i happen to have recently started a project related to ball mice, and use an old 1992 Logitech M-S34 in competitive gaming as well! ive discovered all the same quirks and issues as with your intellimouse, and its really difficult to get a ''good'' performance going. my end goal is to custom design a new mouse using a ball, purpose tailored to high performance competitive gaming either by inventing a new ball system or upgrading the hell out of the existing system.
i remember playing aim map in cs source with my drunk friend and he absolutely mangled me. he was on a ball mouse while i was on my mx518 optical mouse on one of the first glass mousepads from corepad. your scores are very impressive. i have a hard time reaching GM scores, but i chalked that up to age. i guess i should retire from competitive shooters soon. i have 2 seasons of masters complete, faceit lvl 9 and almost immortal complete, but anything above that feels almost impossible. 2500h overall in aimtrainers and some days are better than others. i don't feel it as much ingame, but locking in is much harder now than it was when i was 20.
yeah! well done on all your achievements and accomplishments! I can't really talk about your experience in aim-trainers... however, I really want to say just put in the hours, but you already have... so my next thought would be how mindful you are of your practice and technique (with vod reviews etc.), and how much content of people who are better you consume. Matty has some great tips and insights regarding aim in his "aim secrets" series, so does voltaic
This mouse was used back in 1996-1999 in competitive gaming by alot of Quake players. Myself included but i always liked Logitech Pilot better. Wasent until late 99 we got the first optical mices for the broad market and they all spun out by fast motions.Back then most mousepads including gamingpads where very small(everglide giganta anyone)Took atleast another year until we saw the intelli mouse hit version 3.0 where it could coupe with higher speeds. Razer's first optical mouse was so bad they never made a push marketing wise until they got a better sensor in it and released it as Diamondback. The fun thing with a ball mouse was that when you where used to it, you could spinn the ball by fast swipes and lift it and then stop it perfectly dead on the enemy. Which made you do muscle memory perfect flick shots. I've been a beta tester for mices since this exacly mouse was released 😅
80s we ahere still using them in the 90s beginning 2000s,edit and i rember that the first optical mouses where not that good they would jump will small movement of the mouse the ball mouses where better but after some time the optical ones got a lot better
How the **** do your only have 1250 subs? this video has more effort and better quality than many videos that get millions of views and serves as a reality check for people chasing the lightest mice in the world
Can u make a similar video with a very bad monitor vs best of the best 480hz oled ect, to see if there is a big difference in performance. Would be a cool vid
big love to your idea for video and the advices at the end. nowadays normal fps gamers (non e-sport players) going crazy for 4khz 8khz polling rates and latest gen sensors. actually doesnt makes any sense for them. they are spending much more dollars than they should pay. find urself a mouse that fitting ur budget and ur hand. thats it. and stop being ''latency'' and ''latest tech'' sick.
PS2 mouses had a polling rate of 200-250 but usb 1.0 had max 125. so ps2 mouses have been the better option until usb 1.1 or special mouses that could do more.
its still crazy to me how a mouse made in the 80s has almost 400 dpi and 200 pulling rate when no matter what mice u use xbox caps it at 125hz lol. w vid btw
To me sensor and polling rate is analogous to something like video resolution. 1080p looks better than 720p but it's not going to make a bad film good. The same with mouse specs, they can make playing the game feel nicer/worse, but alone are not going to fundamentally make you better or worse at aiming.
Of course they do. If your mouse can't handle certain accelerations, the cursor will spin out. Needless to say, you're getting nowhere with that type of mouse.
Hey, i know it's not an 80s mouse (as a collector of these things), but i recommend you to buy Genius GM-6 with AT/XT switch. You will need an serial connector converter to usb, but it is a true 80s mouse, without scrollwheel :D
Found this to see if anyone else still used ball mouse’s i just ordered and new compaq mouse 2 button style because my old one started acting up prefer the ball mouse’s not sure why new ones are just too touchy for me haha
Just a correction: this is a 90's mouse. How do I know? I was there and scroll wheels were only invented in 1995. BTW some ball mice were great back in the days. I played Quake and first CS Beta with a ball mouse and it was awesome. Great video!
we used them to play unreal tournament and quake and halo and plenty of pinpoint accurate shooters back then it actually took me until like 2005 to switch to a optical mouse i still run 600dpi with a 500hz polling rate to this day to keep that slower feel . that is a newer mouse tho from late 90s i loved them microsoft ball mouses but that is not one from the 80s wouldn't have a scroll wheel if so lol.
When I first started playing quake2, this mouse was the standard, and it felt good to use. Uphill both ways kids, ... I'm just kidding but I assure you we all fragged.
huh since i had seen and used one as a kid, i didnt think it was that old. whats crazy is that that mouse is probably older than a lot of the ppl u are killing with it.
Mouse definitely from the late 90s. Ball mice were still common around 2000. No need to exaggerate, that’s still old. They work fine, just need cleaning. Not really a huge disadvantage.
You are wrong. The Computer Mouse was developed between 1965 and 1968 by German Engineer Rainer Mallebrein from Telefunken who basically took the trackball out if their Telefunken mainframe computer and put it in an external box. Yes, Trackballs were invented more than a decade before the mouse, as a controller for British Airforce radar screens. Not everything was invented first in the USA.
rly fun vid, love the music choices!!
:o !!!
@@Keeahh youre trying to be him so hard
What my ranked teammates play with:
LOL
🤣🤣
Wait does that means they're actually good?
pls change ur profile pic i dont like it
that mouse wasnt made in the 1980s.. it's from 1996. Huuuuuuge difference in mice from the 80s compared to the late 90s, this mouse was actually groundbreaking compared to was on the market at that point of time
Bro I remember when I got the very first Microsoft optical sensor mouse at Costco. It was insane
Correct....I don't recall any of my mice having a scroll wheel in the 80s. My first mouse was a Commodore Tank mouse, and it was a brick compared to that Microsoft mouse. The USB more is also a clue as they did not have USB in the 80s. Before that was PS2 and then before that, serial. I would love to see what they could do with a Tank mouse! I do a wireless remake of the Tank mouse and gaming with it is rough and hurt my hand. Of course when I was using that mouse in the 80s I was not using for FPS games as they did not exist. Games that used mice were often very slow paced.....for a fast paced game you would use a joy stick.
@@Gen3DTechNot before that, PS2 coexisted with serial in my country😂
I remember how 80s mice was, my mother had one and shit, the 90s was waaay better.
@@Gen3DTech ps2 was also a 90's thing, 80's only had serial
This absolute madlad literally destroyed people online by using a 1980s mouse that literally runs on BALL, a god damn BALL. Imagine getting such an old piece of mouse antiquity, reverse engineering it to understand how the hell it works, then hop on games and pop heads like it's nothing. This guy cooks up every single time some amazing ideas and puts them all togethering in insanely detailed and well crafted videos, this is so underrated.
crazy! ^^
literally
Really makes you think, if you have aim, you have aim. While having good peripheral helps, raw skill aren't set by what we have.
“They all fall to ball" a quote about colt 45 ammo lol but works for the mouse also lol
Less glaze, please.
Oh the days of Unreal Tournament, Quake and Counter Strike on a ball mouse. I do actually miss those days tbh. Competitive gaming felt more fun to me back then, guess I'm getting old.
I also experienced all of that.
Trainings and competitves games weren't "fun" too. It was work !
Mindsets and global level changed when ranked games appeared directly ingames.
im thankful that ur video got recommended to me on my youtube homepage. keep it up dude!
tysm!!
@Keeahh alright now we kiss😌
@ **shocked pikachu face**
This exact mouse and Call of Duty 4 were my childhood and teenage years. The thing weighed as much as an actual gun
You just cleaning the ball, but not the roller thingies made me sad. That's also where most of the noise came from.
Great video! Cheers, an old person who is glad ball mice are a thing of the past.
yes! sorry about that... I realized it during the final stages of the video. MY BAD! (I still should have mentioned it somehow)
@@Keeahh you could edit your videotitle
Yeah the amount of times I removed the piled up dirt from the rollers as it was causing them to slip when I was young. I could even see the very memorable dust ring on them and really really wanted to reach through my screen to pull that off. They get quite hard and retain that ring shape after you remove them.
Absolutely plays a part in tracking not changing direction when you physically do.
You've got some balls out there, ngl.
you clean the rollers, not the ball. gunk quickly forms a crust around the point of contact in the rollers and it builds up into a gross ring that ultimately prevents the rollers from rolling smoothly (or at all if you never clean it). unless you cleaned it, i would assume the mouse "loosing it" with fast movements was because of gunky rollers. that's exactly what it does.
It seems like you have to be smooth at all times with this mouse otherwise you just get screwed over. It was fun watching this vid and I hope you get more recognition Keeah!
yes! you really need to be careful with it, haha. tysm antuca!
Wyd big bro
@@troubledin1742 watching a banger
Very good video man, I love it
This is a late 1990's/early 2000's Microsoft Intellimouse ball mouse. Microsoft didn't release any scroll wheel mice until 1996, so it's definitely not from the 1980's.
This video is also not in 2025...
Great video. I actually am old enough to remember playing CS 1.6 with a dell ball mouse. I actually preferred it to a laser mouse for a long time because the feel was so different.
wait, you deserve thousands of views and subs man. the quality of ur vid is great. keep it up :D
miss those days when we played quake, unreal tournament and halo with my dad and older brother with mouse like this.
again a masterpiece video from u, love watching u, btw i also bought the op18k and the zero mid xxl cause of u thx
woah... tysm!! I appreciate the support so much!
This is a quality video my friend. Keep it up and you will go far.
someone took "shape is king" too seriously. nice video!
Not only did you have to take the ball out to clean, you had to clean the x and z wheels as well, removing any stuck gunk that the ball picked up... it was such a hassle.
Awesome, keep it up brother
Awesome work and video, great stuff 🔥
ty!!
Okay, there is so much effort put into this video, you better get 100k views in a month
eh quake pros used these for awhile, technically not so bad since its close to 1:1 tracking everybody just switched to optical because the intellimouse optical was so cracked
W video it gives me the same vibe as those one from pingue and viscose
bro played with the ball mouse in competetive shooters video game.
i literally played ball mouse football in my backyard irl when I was 5 years old.
'breaking the mouse and extracte the ball.'
Legit your game clips were goat, lol i grew up with those ball mice. There is a charm with using analog equipment, its not always the fastest or best looking. But it will always feel more natural
I used that mouse back in 2000 when first counterstrike was released and also quake arena
it's just like no matter how expensive your car if you'r driving method still bad then you are bad. its not because the mouse made you good its the aim, practice, and timing consequence that make you better.
lubricating the rollers with graphite could help a lot.
Nice 👌
Btw we didn't have to clean the ball. What got dirty (honestly super gross sometimes) are the two rollers that the ball moves for x and y axis. Those could collect all kinds of crud and even hair. Good times. 😆
Next touchpad on laptop?
haha, I'm afraid I'm not cut out for it... (maybe though lol)
I did that for a long time as a kid lol counter strike is hell on a touch pad
i happen to have recently started a project related to ball mice, and use an old 1992 Logitech M-S34 in competitive gaming as well!
ive discovered all the same quirks and issues as with your intellimouse, and its really difficult to get a ''good'' performance going.
my end goal is to custom design a new mouse using a ball, purpose tailored to high performance competitive gaming either by inventing a new ball system or upgrading the hell out of the existing system.
i remember playing aim map in cs source with my drunk friend and he absolutely mangled me. he was on a ball mouse while i was on my mx518 optical mouse on one of the first glass mousepads from corepad.
your scores are very impressive. i have a hard time reaching GM scores, but i chalked that up to age. i guess i should retire from competitive shooters soon. i have 2 seasons of masters complete, faceit lvl 9 and almost immortal complete, but anything above that feels almost impossible. 2500h overall in aimtrainers and some days are better than others. i don't feel it as much ingame, but locking in is much harder now than it was when i was 20.
yeah! well done on all your achievements and accomplishments! I can't really talk about your experience in aim-trainers... however, I really want to say just put in the hours, but you already have... so my next thought would be how mindful you are of your practice and technique (with vod reviews etc.), and how much content of people who are better you consume. Matty has some great tips and insights regarding aim in his "aim secrets" series, so does voltaic
thank you for the clip. I miss the good old days when i use this mouse to play cs 1.6
Bro between games: "Guys hang on I just need to clean my mouse's ball real quick."
still a good player :D impressive
microsoft intellimouse 3.0 , one of the best mouse I ever used . it was with a laser but the shape was very similar.
Love your videos mate ❤️ keep it up
tysm!
This mouse was used back in 1996-1999 in competitive gaming by alot of Quake players. Myself included but i always liked Logitech Pilot better. Wasent until late 99 we got the first optical mices for the broad market and they all spun out by fast motions.Back then most mousepads including gamingpads where very small(everglide giganta anyone)Took atleast another year until we saw the intelli mouse hit version 3.0 where it could coupe with higher speeds. Razer's first optical mouse was so bad they never made a push marketing wise until they got a better sensor in it and released it as Diamondback. The fun thing with a ball mouse was that when you where used to it, you could spinn the ball by fast swipes and lift it and then stop it perfectly dead on the enemy. Which made you do muscle memory perfect flick shots.
I've been a beta tester for mices since this exacly mouse was released 😅
80s we ahere still using them in the 90s beginning 2000s,edit and i rember that the first optical mouses where not that good they would jump will small movement of the mouse the ball mouses where better but after some time the optical ones got a lot better
How the **** do your only have 1250 subs? this video has more effort and better quality than many videos that get millions of views and serves as a reality check for people chasing the lightest mice in the world
ty! appreciate it lots!
This video is so good
So you discovered the inverted trackball!!!
What the enemy team looks like when i play ranked
When this bro tries out the intelliexplorer 1.1a mind blown
i was not expected this guy to be an arsenal player, let alone a good one
It's Not the Plane, It's the Pilot!
using a ball is wild
Can u make a similar video with a very bad monitor vs best of the best 480hz oled ect, to see if there is a big difference in performance. Would be a cool vid
most players have to reload their weapon Keeah has to reload his mouse
Great video!
back to 2000 CS 1.3/1.6
:D
if its usb you can overclock the polling rate, you could even do it on a ps2 mouse
big love to your idea for video and the advices at the end. nowadays normal fps gamers (non e-sport players) going crazy for 4khz 8khz polling rates and latest gen sensors. actually doesnt makes any sense for them. they are spending much more dollars than they should pay. find urself a mouse that fitting ur budget and ur hand. thats it. and stop being ''latency'' and ''latest tech'' sick.
PS2 mouses had a polling rate of 200-250 but usb 1.0 had max 125. so ps2 mouses have been the better option until usb 1.1 or special mouses that could do more.
if it makes nois when moving you need to clean the rollers there is some hair in the sernsor of the rollers
now time to play on crt tv
great video
ngl i see using that mouse in a good way, like being on that restriction can improve your aim big time MAYBE.
Fun fact is that these PS2 devices had less input lag than USB devices due to the CPU requires.
its still crazy to me how a mouse made in the 80s has almost 400 dpi and 200 pulling rate when no matter what mice u use xbox caps it at 125hz lol. w vid btw
To me sensor and polling rate is analogous to something like video resolution. 1080p looks better than 720p but it's not going to make a bad film good. The same with mouse specs, they can make playing the game feel nicer/worse, but alone are not going to fundamentally make you better or worse at aiming.
Of course they do. If your mouse can't handle certain accelerations, the cursor will spin out. Needless to say, you're getting nowhere with that type of mouse.
1000th subscriber here :3
People: my nice is shit I can't aim!
This guy:💀💀💀
after some time you need to clean the wheels in the mouse
Hey, i know it's not an 80s mouse (as a collector of these things), but i recommend you to buy Genius GM-6 with AT/XT switch. You will need an serial connector converter to usb, but it is a true 80s mouse, without scrollwheel :D
bro got better aim with this mouse than i got with my superlight 2 💀
Found this to see if anyone else still used ball mouse’s i just ordered and new compaq mouse 2 button style because my old one started acting up prefer the ball mouse’s not sure why new ones are just too touchy for me haha
Just a correction: this is a 90's mouse. How do I know? I was there and scroll wheels were only invented in 1995. BTW some ball mice were great back in the days. I played Quake and first CS Beta with a ball mouse and it was awesome. Great video!
we used them to play unreal tournament and quake and halo and plenty of pinpoint accurate shooters back then it actually took me until like 2005 to switch to a optical mouse i still run 600dpi with a 500hz polling rate to this day to keep that slower feel . that is a newer mouse tho from late 90s i loved them microsoft ball mouses but that is not one from the 80s wouldn't have a scroll wheel if so lol.
My childhood at school had dos box and I would throw the ball from the mouse at other kids fun times
When I first started playing quake2, this mouse was the standard, and it felt good to use.
Uphill both ways kids, ... I'm just kidding but I assure you we all fragged.
Now I wonder.. How can I played OG CS at that era with this kind of mouse and still could do AWP kill no scope lol
used to get dirty so fast, those damn rollers
huh since i had seen and used one as a kid, i didnt think it was that old. whats crazy is that that mouse is probably older than a lot of the ppl u are killing with it.
I met lan cs beasts playing with this type of mouse.
cool video
Extra ball indeed helps.
i have one of them, well 2, they are fun
This mouse got ball(s)!
good vid
i also have a mouse with polling rate of 125hz but it has a sensor unlike urs cuz mine is not from 1980s lol but ye
this is crazy :D
Best mouse
You will get a lot of motion blur from using a mouse that has a low polling rate.
It is not normal that a ball mouse is that loud when moving it.
Sure its been 20 or 30 yeare since I Used one but i dont rememer it like that..
What my team8s use when im in my rank up game
amazing video bro. i would marry your voice
:O
cod players be abusing the controller aim assist and then there's this guy playing bo6 on a ball mouse
the omori ost caught me so off guard wtf based
ahhhh cs 1.6 days are back for 10minutes
Before I won enough money from competing in small val tourney’s I used to play with an old IBM mouse 😂 definitely doable
Tldr my teammates have no excuse
Those "documentary" style videos are getting hilarious. It's a computer mouse....
This mouse literally forces you to aim calmly lmao
Mouse definitely from the late 90s. Ball mice were still common around 2000. No need to exaggerate, that’s still old. They work fine, just need cleaning. Not really a huge disadvantage.
I still think mouse sensor performance reached diminishing returns after the 3360/3366
You are wrong. The Computer Mouse was developed between 1965 and 1968 by German Engineer Rainer Mallebrein from Telefunken who basically took the trackball out if their Telefunken mainframe computer and put it in an external box.
Yes, Trackballs were invented more than a decade before the mouse, as a controller for British Airforce radar screens.
Not everything was invented first in the USA.
Bro has built in aimbot