The part about the load times is real though. Still, since it didn't load *afterwards* (barring a vacation) you could then enjoy visiting your neighbors uninterrupted XD
@@dudemanjones11 It's just the base game. It runs fine on its own. The game lets you disable packs now to make it run better as they are the main culprit. Kind of sad to have to forego some of the experience for it to run decently.
In the start to the duke nukem game, that was him at the end, stalking about the stick. I've been following LGR for years and his Duke impression just keeps getting better.@@mysticmarble94
the mouse memory card makes more sense when you consider how inaccessible many case designs of the time made your ports. Just being able to slam in a memory card without having to have a dedicated peripheral or crawling on your hands and knees every time you wanted to read your card would have been exceptionally cool!
I have a Toshiba Pentium 3 laptop which has one USB port. Even more bizzarely it is the only port with a little cover, as if they weren't expecting many people to use it.
@@MrDuncl The ability to have USB docks and pass-through ports and such may have made manufacturers figure you only needed one. The standardization of USB should have reduced the need for dongles but, especially since the small connector formats kept changing, we ended up in a strange dongle universe.
I love the early 2000s "cool" design of the Sony mouse. I could imagine Nsync using it in a music video, before it morphed into a ball of mercury, or some other noughties nonsense... On a space ship. With Destiny's Child. In the Matrix.
in an office, but it's a massive tunnel, in a futuristic subway station. the colour orange doesn't exist, the desk is stainless steel and frosted glass and the monitor is a sheet of glass
I can visualize this all too well. Especially imagining a highly compressed version of it with interlacing artifacts uploaded to Dailymotion in 360p res
I feel like of the late 90's and 2000's translucent plastic products, Sony's designs were actually pretty cool. I remember how much I wanted a Sony VAIO desktop way back then. Actually, I think this time period for the VAIO line specifically was pretty interesting.
Clicks on the Sims 3 kid, tells him "Go play in the fire." Makes me think of my great-grandfather who always told me and my cousins to go play on the freeway.
Fun video, weird peripherals are always interesting. One thing that slightly irked me, though, was how I feel like the Duke3d test for the Sony mouse was practically begging for putting Duke3d on the memory stick and trying to run it from there.
@@jimsmith9056Card readers are definitely starting to disappear from new laptops. My Acer Nitro, a mid-spec model that is less than a year old, doesn't have one.
There was a mouse (might've been Logitech) that had another USB and a card reader inside (micro SD and SD - i think). Idea being that you could use only one USB for all your stuff. I saw it once and instantly said it was stupid, the USB pass-through was on the right, where your hand usually rests - which might've been a technological limitation, because no sane person would think that's smart.
It’d definitely save a bit of space in your bag. Then again, with MicroSD, I don’t know if it’d be necessary in newer devices, being able to fit a terabyte on your pinky nail is nuts and the slots take up a tiny amount of space along the edges of laptops and tablets.
thats what it was intended for. laptops at the time only had compactflash card ports or usb dongle readers that required your entire 1 single usb port to use them. and some laptops required losing the floppy or cdrom drive to swap in a compactflash port at that. laptops with built in card readers for MS wouldnt come until 2003+ at the earliest.
When I was at university studying product design, one of the lessons we learned was the design fallacy of adding extraneous features into a product with the guise of making something innovative: “its a TOASTER, with a CLOCK in it!” “It’s a LAWNMOWER, with a BATTERY CHARGER” on it” (etc, etc).
the dynamic lighting in Sims 4 is for the plumbob USB, the headset and Razer Chroma compatible peripherals. works on my Razer keyboard, at least it's visible at all times :D but yes it does the exact same thing! it does the mood color instead of the plumbob color though, cuz there's much more of them in sims 4 and modern stuff is fully rgb
and the only reason it has Razer support is because Razer paid to get it implemented in every friggin game for years, because no one could be bothered to do it otherwise
@@JohnZombi88 That's probably because SteelSeries made that Plumbob and also Sims 4 mouse and headset, so, they obviously implemented Sims 4 support in their drivers even for their other products 😉
While multicolor LED lighting was already a thing at the time the Sims mouse came out, note that the lack of blue probably made it significantly cheaper to produce. Blue was the hard part of RGB LED lighting. Red and green LEDs were everywhere even when I was a kid, especially the red ones.
That third mouse is the kind of thing you'd find today on Amazon, with one of those brand names that looks like it was made by someone just smashing their head into their keyboard.
I love the opening jazz tune "drive through dinner"....I actually discovered Magnus Rinblom through this channel. Thanks Clint. You could always do a late night jazz show on Radio when you are as old as some of your PC's.
That "frosted glass" look on the Sony mouse is so nostalgic, I love the way it looks. It doesn't look super comfy but looks can be deceiving sometimes I guess!
Clint talked like Duke so perfectly, I almost didn't know the difference. 7:09 I remember I used to buy and entire CD just for 1 song, back in the old days.
That Sony mouse with a Memory stick with Magic gate reader would have saved me so much time back in the day, i had to use my Sony camera as a reader for those cards.
I just wanted to say... Computers have been my special interest for my entire life. My video games and my computers are what I live and breathe for. Your content has fit that so very nicely all this time, and... Thanks for being a familiar, consistent, entertaining source of calm for my very frazzled autistic brain.
you just messed me up. The macho man song has been my ringtone for about 5 years now. I hear it at 4am, I think something is wrong, run to my phone.. Nothing.. Realize I am listening to LGR. LOL
If it was the apocalypse and I was trapped in a bunker with a old windows machine, I would totally use that mouse and radio to try and stay sane and connected to whatever is left of humanity.
In the days where people were recording songs off of the radio via tape... I mean it is pretty cool honestly to be able to record at the comfort of sitting at your PC. Your timing wouldn't even have to be "as exact" on starting / stopping recording as splitting up wave files via a basic sound file editor would be way easier than trying to find the right place in the tape to record over, etc. It would make "ripping" songs from the radio so much easier, that software is actually very cool. He didn't touch on the scheduling thing, but if you had this going on say a work PC, or someone staying at home, you could listen to your favorite morning talk show, then have it tune to the station of your choice at 9AM or 10AM or whatever for your preferred tunes without needing to think about or stop what you are doing and tune the radio yourself. Pretty cool really.
Mad Catz owned Saitek for a while there, so that's probably why there was that discrepancy in the driver compared to the packaging. No surprise that there weren't drivers on their official site nowadays; it was before they went bankrupt and their brand relaunched under new ownership.
That Sony mouse is actually awesome. I wish I had something like that in my modern mouse! The Sims mouse would be cool in a universe where the Sims would just use the existing RGB standards for modern mice. A shame it didnt work beyond a single game.
They made one that could use Memory Sticks and SD cards around 2011. Don’t know how well it’d work with modern cards, but it’d be USB and probably work with modern OSs
16:29 I was the guy who originally found this "late one night" MP3 Player hunting and showed Clint the Ebay listing because this thing was nuts. It was almost 3 years ago this was, but waited patiently to see what this was about even though the seller had two and I was tempted to buy it. The seller that had two is now sold both and a third one on ebay with Glover as a free gift is gone as of this morning. There were no other listings of this mouse that I know of in these past 3 years so it probably is pretty rare. BTW Clint You didn't disappoint. Great job man!
Regarding the The Sims 3 mouse: I do remember being in awe as a 12 year old with the mouse when The Sims 3 launched, never got it, but have different opinion on it now you actually show it 😅 Also, Sims 4 Dynamic Lighting option works with Razer Chroma-enabled products, possibly some other gaming brand products as well :)
Your weird mouse / oddware vids are always a fav. Keep up the good work brother. And Clint you actually did voice "Duke Nukem" in an alternate universe 😁
Your videos take me right back to the late 90's and early 2000's when life is way more simpler and we were somewhat naïve. I miss the old games on physical CD and big clunky desktops. I miss going into PC World in the UK and looking round at the kit and games. Its all digital and touch screen now.
I am impressed at the radio on the Mouse they put a decent effort into the Radio it looks like. Complete with scheduled tuning and recording. I was recording a radio station for a while this would've been so much better than having to have a dedicated FM radio slaved to only use one channel.
I remember back when i first got not only an FM tuner card but also a TV tuner card for the family PC, it really blew my mind that i was sat at a PC but i was somehow able to watch TV on it or listen to the radio, lol. Crazy looking back on that with what we use pc's for these days.
In Europe Teletext was popular. I had a TV card which cached every page broadcast for instant access which was far better than the TVs which would take 20 seconds for the next page to come around. I still have a Hauppauge TV card with hardware MPEG compression in my media centre PC.
@@MrDuncl I grew up with teletext on the tv, not that i really used it much, but i don't recall ever using it on the pc's tuner card. Can't remember exactly when we got the card, but i'm fairly certain it was before teletext ended. I think it just wasn't something i really thought to do.
@@markc1793 Teletext as we knew it ended in 2012. I got the card in around 1999 fitting it in my Celeron 500PC. Back then my internet package was 56K dial up, limited to a about 8 hours a month so I spent more time looking at Teletext than the internet.
I really dig the Sony memory stick mouse. Such a cool little device, very aesthetically pleasing as well! Also, that little Duke Nukem bit was very nicely edited. Nailed the low quality bitrate too!
I honestly appreciate you. It's so cool to see this kind of weird tech from the 90's/00's. You inspired me to collect these type of things and currently even working on a original hardware DOS and XP machine. Thanks for these videos
I had an FM 2000 Radio mouse in the same packaging and with the same design printed on the mouse itself, but missing all of the FM capabilities. No special circuitry inside, no antenna, nothing coming out but a regular USB cable. It's like they changed manufacturers at some point, forgot to tell them to not just make a regular mouse, then went "screw it whatever" and sold them anyway.
The Sony memory stick was also used with various models of the AIBO (the virtual pet robot dog toy thing). Basically the sony stick held different programs which could change how your AIBO acted/responded, there's also a ton of custom software out there for them
hehe I have the driver for that sims 3 mouse, a friend gave it to me because they don't use it at all! I even did my first soldering job on it, to change the left clicker! It's super neat when playing sims 3 in the dark, and honestly? It caught my attention a couple of times that my sims' moods were dipping! LOVE IT!!
That Sony Memory Stick mouse would’ve been really cool, especially for iMac users in the early to mid 2000s, because I was mostly using the Memory Stick format in high school, and the early 2000s iMacs barely had enough USB ports! Plugging in a memory stick would be very easy than having to plug into bulky SanDisk card reader or digital camera into the back of the iMac!
My mom was a Sony girlie when I was growing up in the early 2000’s. The on,y annoying thing about Sonicstage is that it uses a form of MP4 that made retrieving my moms extensive music collection for playing on modern devices a pain in the butt!
This ACTUALLY make me think about why on PS2 systems they had the text "magic gate" on there. Always wondered about that. I suppose it was just their brand for memory hardware all along.
I believe the PS2 memory cards actually used MagicGate encryption, so it wasn't _completely_ a non-sequitur. It was just a non-sequitur to people who weren't interested in hacking their memory cards or making third-party ones.
Oh yeah this reminds me. Someone has probably already told you but Target got some novelty shaped mice for valentines (of all things?) in the dollar area. They aren't quite as weird as the ones you showcase on the channel but it somehow warms the heart to know someone out there is still making weird computer mice. (and I know it will be crap but. I. I kinda do want the strawberry one its very cute and I'd never use it)
Had no idea that the memory stick mouse existed... reliable readers are getting harder and harder to find so having an unusual alternative for a more traditional reader is actually quite useful for hobbies that still deal with that format (Like aibo for example, the older models used those memory sticks)
I didn't have the weird radio mouse but I would have definitely wanted one of those as a kid. Thanks also for pointing out what kind of chip is in there that makes the radio work. I have a funny feeling you'll get an interesting nostalgic result if you hook in that radio mouse and a couple of those beige tower speakers with the felt like front covers.
The FM Mouse reminds me of the ISA radio card I had many years ago, when I was still listening to the radio, and that used the same interface. Good ol' times...
I think what's most amusing about this vid is is shows just how much room you don't need to stuff all the mouse innards into one, it's just made to fit in your hand.
I like that Sims mouse gimmick. Thank you for testing it with The Sims 4. There is a mouse that is made for The Sims 4 but it doesn't look as fun. I would like to see that gimmick with The Sims 5 when it comes out but it probably won't happen unless we mod it.
I remember my old Logitech G5 mouse took a cartridge on the bottom with weight slots inside so you can change how heavy the mouse was by adding or removing the weights from the cartridge.
@@youmukonpaku3168 And now to get KommanderKarl to reload it lol. Do you remember what mouse it was though? Oh unless you meant my G5 and not the other guy's.
I can see the practicality of the memory stick reader in the mouse. PCs in the late 90s, if they did have USB, probably had no more than 2 ports, and there's a good chance at least one of them was flakey, or each one didn't recognize hardware without reinstalling the drivers if you switched your hardware from one USB port to the other. Then, as you demonstrated, you often got the dreaded blue screen.
Yeah I absolutely hate Sony for fleecing their customers that bought the PSP and later on, the Vita, and were forced (at the time) to use their expensive proprietary storage format just to save their games and install files.
Usually, I'd worry about the mouse and the memory stick fighting over cpu lanes while polling and transferring data, but it looks like the memory stick mouse works just fine. I didn't see you attempting to play a game or something while moving something on or off the memory card, but I'm not 100 percent confident that would be an issue. I don't know if something about older computers would prevent this, but on the other hand it probably wasn't a very high dpi mouse to begin with, as it didn't quite need to be.
I was sorting through my storage cupboard the other day when i discovered my old Sony (or Sonny as my dad calls it) Memory Stick. Not sure what the Dickens is on there though. Something strange/coincidental/oddly satisfying but Mad Catz UK HQ is/was in Milton Keynes, where i live and breathe/survive. I know exactly where they were/are based as i used to work in that very building. How peculiar. Love the beanie Clint.
I remember in the early days of USB it always felt like you didn't have enough ports. So some of these really make sense. Like the card reader or radio(if you're into that). I would test if the mouse's cable works as an antenna.
Duuude, as a kid/ early teen in the late 90's/ early 2000's, I'd have loved that radio mouse. The kind of thing you'd find on discount at Big Lots. That tuner software looks like it'd go well next to WinAmp. I was poor af and had a pretty basic eMachines computer, and a "demo" copy of 'Real Jukebox' that'd I'd use to copy CD's over (92kbps was the max unless you paid up). But man, being able to use this to copy radio stations would have been great! I'd have probably maxed it out trying to record the entire radio stream. Also, I love those WinME backgrounds. That old house one was easily the best.
As a 34 year old millenial, your channel brings me so much nostalgia, laughs with my kids and fun as I get to enjoy all the whacky stuff on the best buy shelf that my dad (rightfully) wouldnt buy at the time 😂 thanks for the content been a fan for years
The thing that strikes me about the FM mouse is that I don't really remember there being much overlap between USB coming into use and mouseballs going out.
I knew I recognized the name from somewhere, and yup - there are still some cheap mice labelled as "E-Tech" being made! One of them a copy of a pretty good mouse that I owned under the name of "Speedlink Decus Gaming Mouse" - I guess this is why I even remember the name, haha. Anyway, I've always listened a lot to the radio, so I would've been beyond enthusiastic as a kid if someone had given me this mouse, especially since one of its functions is recording songs from the radio! The card reader mouse isn't such a bad concept, either, and I really like this milky translucent plastic on the top of the mouse.
TIL that there was actually a peripherals set made by SteelSeries in 2014 that was made specifically to work with The Sims 4's dynamic lighting option (besides the big plumbob mood light). It consisted of a mouse and a headset (with a "plain" mousepad added in for good measure) whose light-up plumbobs would change color, depending on the selected Sim's mood, kinda like the Sims 3 mouse shown in here.
I actually have somewhere, an FM auto scan radio that looks like a computer mouse, you can't use it as a mouse, it just looks like one. Not a very good radio either, the reception isn't too good and the sound is very tinny through the little speaker in the bottom. I should look for it and see if it still works, it's well over 20 years old now.
Anri's 'Remember Summer Days' playing at 25:05?? Didn't expect to hear that! I went to at least 7 different Hard Offs in Japan when I visited and never found one damn copy of her 'Timely' album.
Should have tested the plumbob mouse with Sims 2, and Sims Medieval. The reason is the first is a mainline Sims game before 3 so it could be back-supported... and the other is using the Sims3 engine with heavy modification. Doesn't change that it looks like an awkward uncomfortable mouse... once the gimmick wears off there's no reason to use it versus a better mouse, just like the others.
That FM mouse is actually pretty good. They _could_ have gone for an internal antenna (probably a loop-style magnetic one, like we sometimes used for analog tv), but quality will be better with an external one. That software was a lot better than I'd have expected too.
Also, instead of running the audio & antenna wires back to the mouse separately, they stuck extra wires in the USB cord- a much better design choice than I would have expected!
I think that the radio mouse is the most interesting to me. I have always been interested in having a radio that you can use through a computer interface. That interest never really went beyond that as it was never that interesting to me. I think what I liked the most is the fact that unlike other music that relies on some sort of internet connection at the very least, the fm signal is free.
If you’re interested in trying this quickly/easily check out the RTL-SDR sticks. They repurpose a chip designed for DVB stuff into a receiver that allows listening to any radio signal
@@dwroberts Just to clarify you can use a standard DVB stick costing about £20. It is modified driver software that gives it all the Software Defined Radio capabilities.
I think I remember reading about the memory stick mouse, I think Sony might've sold them as an accessory for their VAIO laptops. In late 2000 I was given a Sony Pulse product catalogue and I may have read about that mouse in that catalogue. I see others have said there should be a modern mouse with an SD card reader in it, I'd buy one of those because it's kind of annoying having to unplug my USB DVD writer to plug in my card reader when I want to transfer files to an SD card.
Sony has always gone hard on the proprietary formats. Remember the ProMavica cameras from the late 80s/early 90s? not to mention Betamax and Minidisc. They always seemed to lose out in the format wars, at least until Blu-Ray.
That memory stick reader is brilliant. It give you memory storage without taking up one of the other limited interface ports of late 90s early 2000's computers.
I have 2 ISA FM radio cards. One connects to your sound card's line-in externally, and the other actually connects internally to the sound card (like you would with an IDE CD-ROM drive).
The funniest part is watching Clint remember that the Sims 3 had a big ol' world to explore.
Honestly forgot how large it was even in the base game
@@LGR - should do a retrospective - seeing how your old memories match up to your modern Sims 4 suffering xD
@@LGR how did you get the sims 3 to run so well?
The part about the load times is real though. Still, since it didn't load *afterwards* (barring a vacation) you could then enjoy visiting your neighbors uninterrupted XD
@@dudemanjones11 It's just the base game. It runs fine on its own. The game lets you disable packs now to make it run better as they are the main culprit. Kind of sad to have to forego some of the experience for it to run decently.
Clint's Duke impression is....epic.
I know, right? It was absolutely seamless!
That was him ??? 😳
In the start to the duke nukem game, that was him at the end, stalking about the stick. I've been following LGR for years and his Duke impression just keeps getting better.@@mysticmarble94
Vocal chords of steel
I thought it was done with AI...
14:10 how it feels to play the sims 3 right after playing the sims 4. Clint sounded so happy man.
That's what I was thinking 😂
Poor Clint was tortured of Sims 4 limited abilities and probably forgot what a breath of fresh air older Sims are
sims 3 literally sucks ass
Only when it comes to the optimisation and it's use of Ram... @@wondertriplover
@@wondertriploveroptimization wise sure but gameplay?? Charm?? Sims 3 is goated
@wondertriplover "Literally"? You mean the game actually sucks on people's asses?
"Feels like it's made of greeting cards" is definitely a new way to describe a piece of hardware...
Such an awesome underhanded description. 😆
Chinesium
Yes sure how much overlap you would have but another YT channel does mice for consoles
It's so nice of you to release them back into the wild at the end. :)
Ha!
the mouse memory card makes more sense when you consider how inaccessible many case designs of the time made your ports. Just being able to slam in a memory card without having to have a dedicated peripheral or crawling on your hands and knees every time you wanted to read your card would have been exceptionally cool!
I have a Toshiba Pentium 3 laptop which has one USB port. Even more bizzarely it is the only port with a little cover, as if they weren't expecting many people to use it.
@@MrDuncl The ability to have USB docks and pass-through ports and such may have made manufacturers figure you only needed one. The standardization of USB should have reduced the need for dongles but, especially since the small connector formats kept changing, we ended up in a strange dongle universe.
I love the early 2000s "cool" design of the Sony mouse. I could imagine Nsync using it in a music video, before it morphed into a ball of mercury, or some other noughties nonsense... On a space ship. With Destiny's Child. In the Matrix.
in an office, but it's a massive tunnel, in a futuristic subway station. the colour orange doesn't exist, the desk is stainless steel and frosted glass and the monitor is a sheet of glass
I can visualize this all too well. Especially imagining a highly compressed version of it with interlacing artifacts uploaded to Dailymotion in 360p res
@@LGR dont forget the two buddies: blue stock background with white letters and "Unregistered HyperCam 2"
I feel like of the late 90's and 2000's translucent plastic products, Sony's designs were actually pretty cool. I remember how much I wanted a Sony VAIO desktop way back then. Actually, I think this time period for the VAIO line specifically was pretty interesting.
@@LGR in Quicktime or RealPlayer? XD
You know you're having a bad day when the solution to your problems is Windows ME.
Clicks on the Sims 3 kid, tells him "Go play in the fire." Makes me think of my great-grandfather who always told me and my cousins to go play on the freeway.
Fun video, weird peripherals are always interesting. One thing that slightly irked me, though, was how I feel like the Duke3d test for the Sony mouse was practically begging for putting Duke3d on the memory stick and trying to run it from there.
A memory card reader in a mouse is pretty ingenious…
Swear i have seen a newer version of this for SD cards.
If I'm honest I'd use it if I didn't have a a built in card reader. But how often do you get laptops without SD card readers these days?
@@jimsmith9056Card readers are definitely starting to disappear from new laptops. My Acer Nitro, a mid-spec model that is less than a year old, doesn't have one.
A fingerprint reader in a mouse would be too. Except the scanning pad should just be build right into the buttons.
There was a mouse (might've been Logitech) that had another USB and a card reader inside (micro SD and SD - i think). Idea being that you could use only one USB for all your stuff. I saw it once and instantly said it was stupid, the USB pass-through was on the right, where your hand usually rests - which might've been a technological limitation, because no sane person would think that's smart.
Honestly that mouse with SD cards could be really useful for limited port computers like notebooks
probably why it is small too
It’d definitely save a bit of space in your bag. Then again, with MicroSD, I don’t know if it’d be necessary in newer devices, being able to fit a terabyte on your pinky nail is nuts and the slots take up a tiny amount of space along the edges of laptops and tablets.
@@joshuahadamsbut for standard pcs its great
@@joshuahadams no not at all but I mean it is likely a travel mouse thus being small.
thats what it was intended for. laptops at the time only had compactflash card ports or usb dongle readers that required your entire 1 single usb port to use them. and some laptops required losing the floppy or cdrom drive to swap in a compactflash port at that. laptops with built in card readers for MS wouldnt come until 2003+ at the earliest.
6:04 That caught me off guard and I love it xD
Me too! I was like "That recording sounds off, is he using a weird version of the game or...ohhhhhhh!"
@@PXAbstractionyep
When I was at university studying product design, one of the lessons we learned was the design fallacy of adding extraneous features into a product with the guise of making something innovative: “its a TOASTER, with a CLOCK in it!” “It’s a LAWNMOWER, with a BATTERY CHARGER” on it” (etc, etc).
Always gotta walk that fine line of delighters vs. feature creep. This on the other hand is a solution to a problem that no one had.
A lawnmower with a battery charger is very nice nowadays, just a power cable needed, no extra charging box to get dusty or lost in the garage😊
YOU will LOVE IT or IT'S FREE!!!!!!!!!!
"Solving a problem that doesn't exist."
@@bennylloyd-willner9667except that they last less than 30 minutes
the dynamic lighting in Sims 4 is for the plumbob USB, the headset and Razer Chroma compatible peripherals.
works on my Razer keyboard, at least it's visible at all times :D
but yes it does the exact same thing! it does the mood color instead of the plumbob color though, cuz there's much more of them in sims 4 and modern stuff is fully rgb
and the only reason it has Razer support is because Razer paid to get it implemented in every friggin game for years, because no one could be bothered to do it otherwise
It also works with the SteelSeries keyboard on my MSI gaming laptop.
my logitech g502 mouse does that by default too
@@JohnZombi88 That's probably because SteelSeries made that Plumbob and also Sims 4 mouse and headset, so, they obviously implemented Sims 4 support in their drivers even for their other products 😉
While multicolor LED lighting was already a thing at the time the Sims mouse came out, note that the lack of blue probably made it significantly cheaper to produce. Blue was the hard part of RGB LED lighting. Red and green LEDs were everywhere even when I was a kid, especially the red ones.
That third mouse is the kind of thing you'd find today on Amazon, with one of those brand names that looks like it was made by someone just smashing their head into their keyboard.
Hey now, Mgvbhyj is a pretty mediocre brand
@@woltahjha I'm partial to XZOHWEA myself.
They actually still make cheap mice, haha.
My daily mouse cost me £10.99 2 years ago.@@Airsaber
Nothing spells quality quite like 6 random letters
I love the opening jazz tune "drive through dinner"....I actually discovered Magnus Rinblom through this channel. Thanks Clint. You could always do a late night jazz show on Radio when you are as old as some of your PC's.
Magnus Rinblom rocks
I did too. Blue Night Bossa has been my go to dinner album for a while now 😄
That "frosted glass" look on the Sony mouse is so nostalgic, I love the way it looks. It doesn't look super comfy but looks can be deceiving sometimes I guess!
Clint talked like Duke so perfectly, I almost didn't know the difference.
7:09 I remember I used to buy and entire CD just for 1 song, back in the old days.
I still do that :D
25:04 What is the FM station, playing those 80's CityPop bangers? For those curious, the song is "Remember sunny days" by Anri
Playing some of my own tunes through an FM transmitter, heh. Same as with the Macho Man song :)
I love that Anri album!
@@LGR I was kinda suspecting that this had to be a local transmission :P. It'd still be awesome if I heard that coming from a local FM station though
That Sony mouse with a Memory stick with Magic gate reader would have saved me so much time back in the day, i had to use my Sony camera as a reader for those cards.
I just wanted to say... Computers have been my special interest for my entire life. My video games and my computers are what I live and breathe for. Your content has fit that so very nicely all this time, and... Thanks for being a familiar, consistent, entertaining source of calm for my very frazzled autistic brain.
you just messed me up. The macho man song has been my ringtone for about 5 years now. I hear it at 4am, I think something is wrong, run to my phone.. Nothing.. Realize I am listening to LGR. LOL
If it was the apocalypse and I was trapped in a bunker with a old windows machine, I would totally use that mouse and radio to try and stay sane and connected to whatever is left of humanity.
In the days where people were recording songs off of the radio via tape... I mean it is pretty cool honestly to be able to record at the comfort of sitting at your PC. Your timing wouldn't even have to be "as exact" on starting / stopping recording as splitting up wave files via a basic sound file editor would be way easier than trying to find the right place in the tape to record over, etc.
It would make "ripping" songs from the radio so much easier, that software is actually very cool. He didn't touch on the scheduling thing, but if you had this going on say a work PC, or someone staying at home, you could listen to your favorite morning talk show, then have it tune to the station of your choice at 9AM or 10AM or whatever for your preferred tunes without needing to think about or stop what you are doing and tune the radio yourself. Pretty cool really.
Mad Catz owned Saitek for a while there, so that's probably why there was that discrepancy in the driver compared to the packaging. No surprise that there weren't drivers on their official site nowadays; it was before they went bankrupt and their brand relaunched under new ownership.
Fellow viewer, if you’re watching this without subtitles you’re missing out. ‘Frequency modulated chuckles’‽ Awesome!
That Sony mouse is actually awesome. I wish I had something like that in my modern mouse!
The Sims mouse would be cool in a universe where the Sims would just use the existing RGB standards for modern mice. A shame it didnt work beyond a single game.
They made one that could use Memory Sticks and SD cards around 2011. Don’t know how well it’d work with modern cards, but it’d be USB and probably work with modern OSs
16:29 I was the guy who originally found this "late one night" MP3 Player hunting and showed Clint the Ebay listing because this thing was nuts. It was almost 3 years ago this was, but waited patiently to see what this was about even though the seller had two and I was tempted to buy it. The seller that had two is now sold both and a third one on ebay with Glover as a free gift is gone as of this morning. There were no other listings of this mouse that I know of in these past 3 years so it probably is pretty rare.
BTW Clint You didn't disappoint. Great job man!
Regarding the The Sims 3 mouse: I do remember being in awe as a 12 year old with the mouse when The Sims 3 launched, never got it, but have different opinion on it now you actually show it 😅
Also, Sims 4 Dynamic Lighting option works with Razer Chroma-enabled products, possibly some other gaming brand products as well :)
Weird mice videos are the comfort food of obsolete tech
Your weird mouse / oddware vids are always a fav.
Keep up the good work brother.
And Clint you actually did voice "Duke Nukem" in an alternate universe 😁
you know its gonna be a good day when LGR uploads!!!
Especially with weird and odd peripherals!
Your videos take me right back to the late 90's and early 2000's when life is way more simpler and we were somewhat naïve. I miss the old games on physical CD and big clunky desktops. I miss going into PC World in the UK and looking round at the kit and games. Its all digital and touch screen now.
Swear to God I thought there was a special line of dialogue in Duke for memory stick mouse owners, it was that good.
I am impressed at the radio on the Mouse they put a decent effort into the Radio it looks like. Complete with scheduled tuning and recording. I was recording a radio station for a while this would've been so much better than having to have a dedicated FM radio slaved to only use one channel.
I love your subtitles.
Thanks, I have fun making them!
The Sims mouse is cool as heck lol and the radio one obvs. I did a double take at Duke, that's a good impersonation!
I remember back when i first got not only an FM tuner card but also a TV tuner card for the family PC, it really blew my mind that i was sat at a PC but i was somehow able to watch TV on it or listen to the radio, lol. Crazy looking back on that with what we use pc's for these days.
In Europe Teletext was popular. I had a TV card which cached every page broadcast for instant access which was far better than the TVs which would take 20 seconds for the next page to come around. I still have a Hauppauge TV card with hardware MPEG compression in my media centre PC.
@@MrDuncl I grew up with teletext on the tv, not that i really used it much, but i don't recall ever using it on the pc's tuner card. Can't remember exactly when we got the card, but i'm fairly certain it was before teletext ended. I think it just wasn't something i really thought to do.
@@markc1793 Teletext as we knew it ended in 2012. I got the card in around 1999 fitting it in my Celeron 500PC. Back then my internet package was 56K dial up, limited to a about 8 hours a month so I spent more time looking at Teletext than the internet.
I really dig the Sony memory stick mouse. Such a cool little device, very aesthetically pleasing as well! Also, that little Duke Nukem bit was very nicely edited. Nailed the low quality bitrate too!
I honestly appreciate you. It's so cool to see this kind of weird tech from the 90's/00's. You inspired me to collect these type of things and currently even working on a original hardware DOS and XP machine. Thanks for these videos
Heck yeah, glad to hear that 👍
I had an FM 2000 Radio mouse in the same packaging and with the same design printed on the mouse itself, but missing all of the FM capabilities. No special circuitry inside, no antenna, nothing coming out but a regular USB cable. It's like they changed manufacturers at some point, forgot to tell them to not just make a regular mouse, then went "screw it whatever" and sold them anyway.
The Sony memory stick was also used with various models of the AIBO (the virtual pet robot dog toy thing). Basically the sony stick held different programs which could change how your AIBO acted/responded, there's also a ton of custom software out there for them
It was just "SD, but different so you have to buy ours instead"
Please never stop making these weird mouse videos! They’re so silly and fun
hehe I have the driver for that sims 3 mouse, a friend gave it to me because they don't use it at all! I even did my first soldering job on it, to change the left clicker!
It's super neat when playing sims 3 in the dark, and honestly? It caught my attention a couple of times that my sims' moods were dipping!
LOVE IT!!
That Sony Memory Stick mouse would’ve been really cool, especially for iMac users in the early to mid 2000s, because I was mostly using the Memory Stick format in high school, and the early 2000s iMacs barely had enough USB ports! Plugging in a memory stick would be very easy than having to plug into bulky SanDisk card reader or digital camera into the back of the iMac!
My mom was a Sony girlie when I was growing up in the early 2000’s. The on,y annoying thing about Sonicstage is that it uses a form of MP4 that made retrieving my moms extensive music collection for playing on modern devices a pain in the butt!
There is one of those Sims mice on eBay for almost 300 dollars, so insane!
This ACTUALLY make me think about why on PS2 systems they had the text "magic gate" on there. Always wondered about that. I suppose it was just their brand for memory hardware all along.
I believe the PS2 memory cards actually used MagicGate encryption, so it wasn't _completely_ a non-sequitur. It was just a non-sequitur to people who weren't interested in hacking their memory cards or making third-party ones.
Ah Memory Stick. How did it ever die? Well maybe an 8GB SD card costing $20 while 8GB of Memory Stick was $65 had something to do with it?
23:03 The fact that ACDC was the first thing to pop up is the most FM radio in 2024 thing ever.
Glad to see that Sonicstage was as prone to crashing systems for everyone and it wasn't just my families laptop which had issues.
Oh yeah this reminds me. Someone has probably already told you but Target got some novelty shaped mice for valentines (of all things?) in the dollar area. They aren't quite as weird as the ones you showcase on the channel but it somehow warms the heart to know someone out there is still making weird computer mice. (and I know it will be crap but. I. I kinda do want the strawberry one its very cute and I'd never use it)
Had no idea that the memory stick mouse existed... reliable readers are getting harder and harder to find so having an unusual alternative for a more traditional reader is actually quite useful for hobbies that still deal with that format (Like aibo for example, the older models used those memory sticks)
7:55 I have heard Hal Lublin recite these lines on so many ads for Tights & Fights and I forgot exactly how close he sounds to the late Mr. Savage.
I didn't have the weird radio mouse but I would have definitely wanted one of those as a kid. Thanks also for pointing out what kind of chip is in there that makes the radio work. I have a funny feeling you'll get an interesting nostalgic result if you hook in that radio mouse and a couple of those beige tower speakers with the felt like front covers.
The FM Mouse reminds me of the ISA radio card I had many years ago, when I was still listening to the radio, and that used the same interface. Good ol' times...
I think what's most amusing about this vid is is shows just how much room you don't need to stuff all the mouse innards into one, it's just made to fit in your hand.
Okay the Duke nukem intro with the Sony mouse was awesome! Was that just part of the game or was that a custom thing?
A custom recording by me that I put in the game for that bit 😁
@@LGR it was very well done.
LGR playing sims 3 wasn't on my 2024 bingo card but he sounds so much happier playing it than he did in his old sims 3 reviews
Immediately clicked on this video when I saw it in my notifications, I wanted that sims 3 mouse SO badly back when it was shown off!
I like that Sims mouse gimmick. Thank you for testing it with The Sims 4. There is a mouse that is made for The Sims 4 but it doesn't look as fun. I would like to see that gimmick with The Sims 5 when it comes out but it probably won't happen unless we mod it.
I remember my old Logitech G5 mouse took a cartridge on the bottom with weight slots inside so you can change how heavy the mouse was by adding or removing the weights from the cartridge.
Lol my old mouse had this round cartridge on the top. And eject button right beside mouse4.
@@old_liquid Did you accidentally press the eject button a lot?
playing with that eject button was more fun than Sims 4!
@@youmukonpaku3168 And now to get KommanderKarl to reload it lol.
Do you remember what mouse it was though? Oh unless you meant my G5 and not the other guy's.
My mmo mouse has that right now! :)
The thoughts racing through my head as I was bamboozled into thinking Duke did a Sony mouse collaboration. :) Great Video as always Clint!
I can see the practicality of the memory stick reader in the mouse. PCs in the late 90s, if they did have USB, probably had no more than 2 ports, and there's a good chance at least one of them was flakey, or each one didn't recognize hardware without reinstalling the drivers if you switched your hardware from one USB port to the other. Then, as you demonstrated, you often got the dreaded blue screen.
7:54 I just about choked to death on my breakfast when that started playing LOL
I'm so glad the only interaction I ever had with MemoryStick was getting a MicroSD to MemoryStick adapter for my PSP
Yeah I absolutely hate Sony for fleecing their customers that bought the PSP and later on, the Vita, and were forced (at the time) to use their expensive proprietary storage format just to save their games and install files.
Usually, I'd worry about the mouse and the memory stick fighting over cpu lanes while polling and transferring data, but it looks like the memory stick mouse works just fine. I didn't see you attempting to play a game or something while moving something on or off the memory card, but I'm not 100 percent confident that would be an issue. I don't know if something about older computers would prevent this, but on the other hand it probably wasn't a very high dpi mouse to begin with, as it didn't quite need to be.
I've never heard someone say "Fascinatingly Okay"...and now i'm going to use that as often as possible. :)
I was sorting through my storage cupboard the other day when i discovered my old Sony (or Sonny as my dad calls it) Memory Stick. Not sure what the Dickens is on there though. Something strange/coincidental/oddly satisfying but Mad Catz UK HQ is/was in Milton Keynes, where i live and breathe/survive. I know exactly where they were/are based as i used to work in that very building. How peculiar. Love the beanie Clint.
I remember in the early days of USB it always felt like you didn't have enough ports. So some of these really make sense. Like the card reader or radio(if you're into that).
I would test if the mouse's cable works as an antenna.
Duuude, as a kid/ early teen in the late 90's/ early 2000's, I'd have loved that radio mouse. The kind of thing you'd find on discount at Big Lots. That tuner software looks like it'd go well next to WinAmp. I was poor af and had a pretty basic eMachines computer, and a "demo" copy of 'Real Jukebox' that'd I'd use to copy CD's over (92kbps was the max unless you paid up). But man, being able to use this to copy radio stations would have been great! I'd have probably maxed it out trying to record the entire radio stream.
Also, I love those WinME backgrounds. That old house one was easily the best.
New viewers may be caught off guard by that spot on Duke impression. 😅
03:20
So when do we get "Hm! So that's what that is!" T-shirts?? lol
As a 34 year old millenial, your channel brings me so much nostalgia, laughs with my kids and fun as I get to enjoy all the whacky stuff on the best buy shelf that my dad (rightfully) wouldnt buy at the time 😂 thanks for the content been a fan for years
The thing that strikes me about the FM mouse is that I don't really remember there being much overlap between USB coming into use and mouseballs going out.
I knew I recognized the name from somewhere, and yup - there are still some cheap mice labelled as "E-Tech" being made! One of them a copy of a pretty good mouse that I owned under the name of "Speedlink Decus Gaming Mouse" - I guess this is why I even remember the name, haha. Anyway, I've always listened a lot to the radio, so I would've been beyond enthusiastic as a kid if someone had given me this mouse, especially since one of its functions is recording songs from the radio!
The card reader mouse isn't such a bad concept, either, and I really like this milky translucent plastic on the top of the mouse.
As an Aibo enthusiast I've heard about the memory card mice before and been curious - it's great to head that they're actually pretty decent!!!
Sims 3 popping up was like seeing an old friend. Man that game was so good.
TIL that there was actually a peripherals set made by SteelSeries in 2014 that was made specifically to work with The Sims 4's dynamic lighting option (besides the big plumbob mood light). It consisted of a mouse and a headset (with a "plain" mousepad added in for good measure) whose light-up plumbobs would change color, depending on the selected Sim's mood, kinda like the Sims 3 mouse shown in here.
These are some of my favorite LGR videos.
I actually have somewhere, an FM auto scan radio that looks like a computer mouse, you can't use it as a mouse, it just looks like one. Not a very good radio either, the reception isn't too good and the sound is very tinny through the little speaker in the bottom. I should look for it and see if it still works, it's well over 20 years old now.
it's oddly funny every time Clint made that mouse skin slap like a latex glove. 🤣
Anri's 'Remember Summer Days' playing at 25:05?? Didn't expect to hear that!
I went to at least 7 different Hard Offs in Japan when I visited and never found one damn copy of her 'Timely' album.
Putting radio components in a mouse seems like such a random and strange thing lol
Should have tested the plumbob mouse with Sims 2, and Sims Medieval. The reason is the first is a mainline Sims game before 3 so it could be back-supported... and the other is using the Sims3 engine with heavy modification.
Doesn't change that it looks like an awkward uncomfortable mouse... once the gimmick wears off there's no reason to use it versus a better mouse, just like the others.
Dude the Sims mouse is kinda iconic, like I'd buy that.
That FM mouse is actually pretty good. They _could_ have gone for an internal antenna (probably a loop-style magnetic one, like we sometimes used for analog tv), but quality will be better with an external one. That software was a lot better than I'd have expected too.
Also, instead of running the audio & antenna wires back to the mouse separately, they stuck extra wires in the USB cord- a much better design choice than I would have expected!
I think that the radio mouse is the most interesting to me. I have always been interested in having a radio that you can use through a computer interface. That interest never really went beyond that as it was never that interesting to me. I think what I liked the most is the fact that unlike other music that relies on some sort of internet connection at the very least, the fm signal is free.
If you’re interested in trying this quickly/easily check out the RTL-SDR sticks. They repurpose a chip designed for DVB stuff into a receiver that allows listening to any radio signal
@@dwroberts Just to clarify you can use a standard DVB stick costing about £20. It is modified driver software that gives it all the Software Defined Radio capabilities.
I think I remember reading about the memory stick mouse, I think Sony might've sold them as an accessory for their VAIO laptops. In late 2000 I was given a Sony Pulse product catalogue and I may have read about that mouse in that catalogue. I see others have said there should be a modern mouse with an SD card reader in it, I'd buy one of those because it's kind of annoying having to unplug my USB DVD writer to plug in my card reader when I want to transfer files to an SD card.
This content always makes me feel old and young at the same time
Sony has always gone hard on the proprietary formats. Remember the ProMavica cameras from the late 80s/early 90s? not to mention Betamax and Minidisc. They always seemed to lose out in the format wars, at least until Blu-Ray.
That moment, when you now want that FM-radio mouse. :D
Same here!
That memory stick reader is brilliant. It give you memory storage without taking up one of the other limited interface ports of late 90s early 2000's computers.
Clint: "It's just not a good mouse".....(turns the box to reveal it's made by MadCatz)...'Nuff said...
Finally, a mouse for player 2!
The home of controllers for your friend.
Do you have another controller?
Yeah, over in the top cabinet! 😳 eyes MadCatz logo
I have 2 ISA FM radio cards. One connects to your sound card's line-in externally, and the other actually connects internally to the sound card (like you would with an IDE CD-ROM drive).
@6:00 that was awesome lol
okay that sony mouse design and what you said - finger print scanner, might just be a great idea for mice
The duke nukem self aware bit had me going 🤣