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  • Suncom Technologies tried to create a compelling alternative for the ordinary computer mouse with its ICONtroller joystick. Problem is, it wasn't really any good.
    Sources:
    IBM PC photo: www.flickr.com/photos/phreaki...
    "Windows 3.0", The Computer Chronicles, 1990.
    Microsoft mouse photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    Kensington trackball next to keyboard photo: www.flickr.com/photos/o_o/825...
    Kensington trackball photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    "Of mice and mobile computers: pointing devices for close quarters," InfoWorld, April 20, 1992.
    Siemens 486 laptop photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    "Portable pointing devices," PC Magazine, October 15, 1991.
    Suncom ICONtroller Laptop photos: www.ebay.com/itm/393790301499
    "That's Entertainment!", Popular Science, November 1987.
    "Traveling Trackballs," PC Magazine, March 30, 1993.
    "Controller Provides Mouse and Trackball Functions to Laptops," InfoWorld, December 17, 1990.
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  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad 5 місяців тому +25

    0:34 That's not Windows; that's Digital Research's GEM, specifically the two-pane version they were forced to create after losing a lawsuit from Apple. The original version still carried on on Atari's TOS (which is effectively CP/M-68K with GEM 1.0).

    • @compaqdeskpro5770
      @compaqdeskpro5770 4 місяці тому

      No wonder he offed himself, the whole industry pillaged what he created.

    • @Desmaad
      @Desmaad 3 місяці тому

      @@compaqdeskpro5770 He was actually beaten to death outside a biker bar.

  • @Markimark151
    @Markimark151 5 місяців тому +2

    The Zoolander joke title, also don’t these ants go crawl in that joystick! I had ants crawled in the Wii controller!

  • @hololightful
    @hololightful 5 місяців тому +104

    Wish the video was a bit longer (I like your longer format content), but great as always. Yeah, $100 kinda seems outrageous, especially at $ buying power then...

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 5 місяців тому +6

      They tried to push these as graphic design tools at one point towards the end of the 90s, and I always assumed that was why they had such a high price point. To see that they actually always had that price point even when they were aiming for everyday users. I can't imagine development costs were high enough to force that price??

    • @waterup380
      @waterup380 5 місяців тому +5

      Just has you enjoying the video it's over just like that

    • @mybigfatpolishlife
      @mybigfatpolishlife 5 місяців тому

      How much can you really talk about a pointing device

    • @Boogie_the_cat
      @Boogie_the_cat 5 місяців тому +4

      Everyone likes longer format content, but the algorithm keeps pushing creators to keep videos under 8 minutes. It's stupid. UA-cam just wishes it was TikTok and TikTok makes me want to vomit acid all over my screen.

    • @Kyharra
      @Kyharra 5 місяців тому

      @@Boogie_the_cat yea TikTok is a plague

  • @faenethlorhalien
    @faenethlorhalien 5 місяців тому +17

    Well, not for ants. As you showed, it was the precursor to the clit thumbstick that ibm laptops would have in the 90s, before trackpads were a thing.

    • @gelbespikmin3175
      @gelbespikmin3175 5 місяців тому +2

      true

    • @Synthematix
      @Synthematix 5 місяців тому +7

      Clit thumbstick, wow bet that was fiddly

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 5 місяців тому +4

      Hahaha, I laughed the first time I heard that! You just reminded me of it again! 😂

    • @juanignacioaschura9437
      @juanignacioaschura9437 5 місяців тому +1

      Obligatory reference to strip 243 of the venerable webcomic "xkcd" ;)

  • @digitalshackonthelane
    @digitalshackonthelane 5 місяців тому +9

    I like this - was surprised you did not point out the logical progression of their demise with the adoption of the min KB integrated pointer by IBM and Toshiba at the time (for laptops) - Great video anyhow!

  • @rager1969
    @rager1969 5 місяців тому +9

    It's insane that they were charging that much, given that the tech was less sophisticated/costly than mouse/trackball (pots vs optical encoder wheels) and they were selling joysticks that cost a fraction of that. Had they priced it better, maybe it would've been more compelling.

    • @thedave7760
      @thedave7760 5 місяців тому

      Optical encoders didn't turn up in mice till the mid 90's.

  • @slembcke
    @slembcke 5 місяців тому +28

    Moly! Maybe I'm forgetting what comparable peripherals were back in the day, but $100 seems awfully steep. As an aside people always say "Ah I remember those giant Kensignton Trackballs..." Good news! They still make that same model today, and I own several of them! (They are also ~$100 though, hehe) They are great if you have wrist issues with regular mice. Worth every delicious penny when I can make it through a whole day of work without my wrists screaming. :)

    • @Boogie_the_cat
      @Boogie_the_cat 5 місяців тому +3

      Back in the day you could get a Gravis gamepad for $50 max.
      $100 for this troglodyte is absurd.
      $100 for a trackball? Geez, I've been thinking about more ergonomic mouse like options (after hitting 40+), but daaaaamn. Good lawdy that's some munny. I once paid $70 for a mouse, but it had a million buttons and a Hero sensor and was wireless and rechargeable and has programmable macro buttons. You'd think a trackball would cost less. My wrist doesn't hurt that much. Yet.

    • @jcfawerd
      @jcfawerd 5 місяців тому

      @@Boogie_the_catthere are cheap ones made by Logitech, check out m575

    • @maighstir3003
      @maighstir3003 5 місяців тому

      The Kensington Expert Mouse is great, but it is a personal preference. I switched from a normal mouse a few years ago when I got issues with my arm, though I decided to get a used one on Ebay rather than pay full price for a new one. I'm no worse gaming with the trackball than I was with a mouse, though I was never very good at reacting both quickly and accurately.

    • @handlesarefeckinstupid
      @handlesarefeckinstupid 5 місяців тому

      Yeah I use a trackball for cad/cam. Although the thing I use cost about 300 quid and has a million shortcut buttons.

  • @CommodoreFan64
    @CommodoreFan64 5 місяців тому +19

    As someone who owned the commodore mouse for my C128 to use wtih GEOS, when I saw this hanging on the shelf at my local computer store as a kid I always gave it a good laugh because of the price, and how tiny it was 😅

    • @SlyPearTree
      @SlyPearTree 5 місяців тому +1

      My Commodore mouse stopped working after it was not sold anymore so I got that Joystick thing to replace it for when I used GEOS.

  • @Minty1337
    @Minty1337 5 місяців тому +6

    reminds me of the IBM trackpoint, but bigger, with better ergonomics, this would have a chance

  • @-DeScruff
    @-DeScruff 5 місяців тому +6

    I have one of these for the C64!
    Its kinda handy for navigating menus of things like the SD2IEC since the C64 doesn't have typical cursor keys, and a handful of software (specially anything modern) uses the joystick as cursor keys.

  • @vjcodec
    @vjcodec 5 місяців тому +4

    I love watching the old computer chronicles episode. The one about midi is amazing.

  • @AaronOfMpls
    @AaronOfMpls 5 місяців тому +7

    I remember this from LGR's Oddware video about it. _Definitely_ a niche device at best. And once laptops started including their own trackballs and (eventually) trackpads... 🙂
    Nicely done as ever -- even if a bit short.

  • @laughingvampire7555
    @laughingvampire7555 2 місяці тому

    trackballs are amazing, I tried them out of curiosity and became a collector.

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi 5 місяців тому +1

    4:26 I obtained a couple of those Appoint Thumbelina units (under a different name). I forced myself to push through about 2 minutes of using one, then told myself it was okay to dislike it since I had given it a chance. Being a Star Trek fan, I love touchscreens, and even on most days, I prefer a mouse over a touchscreen.

  • @stevenmusante4681
    @stevenmusante4681 4 місяці тому +1

    I burst out laughing when you said it cost $99

  • @lauram5905
    @lauram5905 5 місяців тому +1

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on something like it (but probably better quality) that was used in the medical or science fields, or perhaps video composition, there's all kinds of odd analog interactive devices that were invented before ergonomics were really nailed down

  • @12Mantis
    @12Mantis 5 місяців тому +2

    Huh, I think I have one of their products (look at the 4:30 mark), that Appoint Thumbellna. Used it on my first laptop, a Thinkpad 365e (I think), wasn't too bad actually......the small size wasn't that much of a problem once you got it situated just right and got used to the controls. If I remember correctly that square button with the green LED next to it was like a right-click mouse button that stayed "on" until you clicked it again, it was for those situations when you needed to move something across the screen or highlight some text or such.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 5 місяців тому

      I believe Appoint was a competitor to Suncom, they also made that pen-mouse thing

  • @kFY514
    @kFY514 5 місяців тому +1

    It's a bit ironic that you showed it working with a ThinkPad that have a TrackPoint, which is an even smaller mouse replacement joystick ;) although probably a better one - missed opportunity for a comparison perhaps?

  • @EhrenLoudermilk
    @EhrenLoudermilk 5 місяців тому

    What a time capsule. People were stoked when they bought this. Thank about that. Also, youre channel is awesome. Niche as all get out.

  • @SatoshiMatrix1
    @SatoshiMatrix1 5 місяців тому +1

    Suncom made a lot of janky peripherals. Outside the PC market, one notably silly thing they made was the Suncom **Mother Ship Control Enhancer Joystick** for the NES.
    This was a joystick controller with a hollow innard where the player would place inside an actual Nintendo made NES controller, and then the joystick parts would make physical contact with the existing NES dpad and buttons. It meant pressing a button to press another button to finaly get your input. It was also stiff and unresponsive. You would always be better off taking the stock controller out of the thing and using it as-is. Like the ICONtroller in this video, the Mother Ship Control Enhancer Joystick was a solution in search of a problem. That could have been Suncom's slogan.

    • @RocketboyX
      @RocketboyX 5 місяців тому

      Suncom did make some top tier C64 joysticks.

  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad 5 місяців тому +1

    0:51 That's probably PC-GEOS, made by the same company that made GEOS for the Commodore 64 and Apple II. It was later branded as Geoworks.

  • @thatzaliasguy
    @thatzaliasguy 2 місяці тому +1

    I still game on a fingertip trackball today! (Gameball)

  • @caseyrevoir
    @caseyrevoir 5 місяців тому

    0:53 That's a very charming... Beer box?

  • @xcruckx
    @xcruckx 5 місяців тому +1

    0:50 that lady is using a computer where the monitor is held up by a St Paulie's girl 12 pack.. 😆

  • @GuyManley
    @GuyManley 5 місяців тому

    2:27 just described why every PC handheld without a track pad is a no go.

  • @auroraparadox5235
    @auroraparadox5235 5 місяців тому

    It's baffeling some of the products that made it to market back then.
    Good quality video as always.

  • @user-mz1nl1vk4t
    @user-mz1nl1vk4t 5 місяців тому

    Been a fan for 7 years of this channel

  • @youdontknowme5969
    @youdontknowme5969 5 місяців тому +12

    But I remember using a joystick in C64 GEOS 🤣
    And I had a college roommate who swore by his trackball (Win 3.1 days)
    Yeah, traveling businessmen came to mind who still had laptops with no built-in pointing device.
    If they could somehow could've done even rudimentary variable speed/acceleration within the joystick (like how a pointing stick works in later laptops) (even just maybe 3 levels: slow, med & fast, the further to an edge it's pushed), likely would've been more tolerable to use (but that costs even more money 🤪). And made the buttons plastic over tactile keyswitches _like most mice_ LOL

    • @AddieDirectsTV
      @AddieDirectsTV 5 місяців тому +4

      I still swear by a trackball

    • @lasskinn474
      @lasskinn474 5 місяців тому

      this is like a thing to sell to people who think the integrated joysticks in some 80s micros were cool and understandable.

    • @RocketboyX
      @RocketboyX 5 місяців тому +1

      @@AddieDirectsTV Trackballs are best.

    • @tonecapone8021
      @tonecapone8021 5 місяців тому

      @@AddieDirectsTV Me too. I have one at home and at work.
      The IT guy at work came back to my computer to do something one day. He reached for the mouse, and when he realized it was a trackball he pulled his hand back like it was a turd or something. 🤣 He had me work the computer and told me what to do.

  • @burrfoottopknot
    @burrfoottopknot 5 місяців тому

    Starfighter controller was a huge personal leap for me from the default C= 64 joystick. Tactile and could take punishment without snapping

  • @truectl
    @truectl 5 місяців тому

    I had one of these that I used on a Compaq SLT 386. The mouse could be stored under the keyboard when not in use. I remember it working really bad. Over the years I've thought of this device but couldn't remember what it was... thanks for the video and providing a name for it.

  • @mdzura117
    @mdzura117 5 місяців тому +2

    Wow, this would be a great accessibility device for people with disabilities who have limited or no hand use. I've seen other obscure, but actually innovative, input devices from he late 80s and 90s that people laughed at for just being a total flop. Although these devices might not have worked well for the general population back then, a person with a disability would appreciate it today. It's unfortunate everything is so standardized in our modern world. We're stifling innovation. Companies should bring back tech like this

    • @TommyAgramonSeth
      @TommyAgramonSeth 5 місяців тому

      That was my first thought, as an accessibility device it could help someone who's otherwise unable to use a regular mouse. But I just can't see it as a good mouse replacement for capable individuals. Even the IBM nub seems like a weird solution to me and I can only imagine using it with gloves when a regular trackpad wouldn't work.

    • @Otokichi786
      @Otokichi786 5 місяців тому

      I saw a photo of a handicapped computer user who was "getting it on" with the ICONtroller, according to his father.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 5 місяців тому

      @@TommyAgramonSethI know lots of people preferred the TrackPoint because it let them avoid moving their fingers from the home row. I could never get the hang of the acceleration though

  • @padawanmage71
    @padawanmage71 5 місяців тому

    Reminds me of the presentation pointers that a tiny joustick and directional pad with stuff like Powerpoint slides.

  • @starsINSPACE
    @starsINSPACE 3 місяці тому

    When things are small and cute, why does my brain think yummy? It's not a candy bar!

  • @whitestarlinegoodnight
    @whitestarlinegoodnight 5 місяців тому

    It really does have to be at least... three times bigger than that.

  • @janchristianursuaaguilar7434
    @janchristianursuaaguilar7434 5 місяців тому +36

    1 grit that cursed mouse joystick yikes

  • @SquishySenpai
    @SquishySenpai 5 місяців тому

    I had one of these. Strapped it to my index finger and held it like you would a tiny phone and it worked really well that way. It broke after only a couple months though.

  • @chrismckay3868
    @chrismckay3868 5 місяців тому

    0:01 Hey i have one of those, have had it for decades. I used I t with a 386 laptop lol.
    I seemed to remember liking it as i could cradle it in my fingers and use my thumb to move the stick, no desk required.

  • @HRJustinPlays
    @HRJustinPlays 5 місяців тому

    They should have called it ICON Troller since it was so easy to overshoot the Icons. lol

  • @AddieDirectsTV
    @AddieDirectsTV 5 місяців тому +1

    This reminds me of the Thinkpad....uh.....well you know what I'm talking about lol. Just...bigger.

  • @Swenglish
    @Swenglish 5 місяців тому +1

    This screams of accessibility tool marketed for general use in order to mass produce. Much like many seemingly useless home shopping products. Not so useless if you happen to need it. I could very easily picture one of these firmly attached to a wheelchair or hospital bed.

  • @KayoMichiels
    @KayoMichiels 5 місяців тому +1

    I wonder if you're interested in this piece of equipment: Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse You can see it in the 1990 Excel commercial in the elevator as that trackball on the side of the laptop.

  • @adamyeager
    @adamyeager 5 місяців тому

    Awesome video... are we not going to talk about the case of St Paulie's Girl beer being used as monitor stand?

  • @IrisGalaxis
    @IrisGalaxis 5 місяців тому

    I'd hold it in the palm of my hand and use my thumb to move the joystick

  • @MK-of7qw
    @MK-of7qw 5 місяців тому

    5 year warranty? dang!

  • @baconberries8097
    @baconberries8097 5 місяців тому

    I kinda wish those clip on trackballs were still a thing lol

  • @johnsparozich6839
    @johnsparozich6839 5 місяців тому

    I never used one but remember seeing it in stores

  • @DarkFiber23
    @DarkFiber23 5 місяців тому

    It kind of reminds me of a larger IBM Trackpoint.

  • @liamcinq
    @liamcinq 5 місяців тому

    Best.
    Video.
    Title.
    Ever.

  • @dhpbear2
    @dhpbear2 5 місяців тому

    2:14 - That looks worse that the 'Puck' mice that Apple shipped with the first iMacs! That thing gave me *cramps* , itwassosmallll...!

  • @UltimatePerfection
    @UltimatePerfection 5 місяців тому +1

    I would love to have a joystick-like mouse, no /s here. But it would have to be more convenient to handle. And before you say it, yes I know I can just buy a regular joystick and map it to a mouse via joy2key or whatnot, but 1) I've was once banned from an online game because it detected joy2key running, thinking it was cheats, fortunately after explaining the situation I got unbanned, and 2) most joysticks don't have a rotary encoder, a.k.a. mouse wheel.

  • @Cee64E
    @Cee64E 5 місяців тому

    I actually had one of these for my GEOS use on a Commodore 64. I thought it worked pretty good and it was super small and out of the way stuck to the C=64 case.

  • @gkcadadr
    @gkcadadr Місяць тому

    “icon troller” indeed

  • @OldMan_PJ
    @OldMan_PJ 5 місяців тому +1

    There was a controller for the Atari 2600 that fit in the palm of your hand and could be controlled with your thumb, worked great for any game that didn't require precision.

    • @tonecapone8021
      @tonecapone8021 5 місяців тому

      I had one of those, if we're thinking of the same one.
      Mine was an Amiga. (Not made by the computer company Amiga). It was black with little red stick. Red buttons on each side.
      That was THE controller to use on the game Decathlon. You had to move the stick left and right as fast as you can to run in the game. It was a tough little stick so flicking it back and forth quickly didn't break it. The stock Atari joysticks would get destroyed by that game.

  • @TheFishamster
    @TheFishamster 5 місяців тому

    Love the title of the video.

  • @CaryGordon3k
    @CaryGordon3k 5 місяців тому

    I am pretty sure Suncom also made these controllers for other platforms, as I recall my father had a very similar joystick controller velcro'd to the side of his Commodore 64 back in the day to control GeOS. I seem to remember it working pretty well, but, to be fair, I was young and never used a mouse or a trackball before to control a computer. Later on, when we migrated to out first IBM Compatible we ended up with a series of trackballs, as the desk we used was just too small to use a mouse.

  • @DCFatCat
    @DCFatCat 5 місяців тому

    Long live John c. Dvorak. The mouse is dead, it only took a few decades we got there

  • @Shrek_Has_Covid19
    @Shrek_Has_Covid19 5 місяців тому

    it needs to be at least three times bigger

  • @azmifarhan1257
    @azmifarhan1257 5 місяців тому

    Well guess which pointing device still available to this day that is a spiritual (and technical) successor to the ICONtroller..
    ..ThinkPad's TrackPoints 😅

  • @mysticaxolotl8215
    @mysticaxolotl8215 5 місяців тому

    I find it really really odd that you chose to showcase the Toshiba T1200XE at 3:52, when I literally just got one of those yesterday

  • @CharlesOttman
    @CharlesOttman 5 місяців тому +1

    Trackpoint version 0.1

  • @kevinmckenna5682
    @kevinmckenna5682 5 місяців тому

    I owned that ICONtrolller for C64. It was worthless for GEOS, which was better with a mouse, but after I cut off the adhesive tab and used it as a gaming joystick, it was great. Regular joysticks were too large and clicky, but the ICONtroller was small and quiet.

  • @MotownBatman
    @MotownBatman 5 місяців тому

    I want one!
    That would have been sweet on my 286

  • @CaptainFabulous84
    @CaptainFabulous84 5 місяців тому

    Wow, I had a Slik Stik back in the day, it was pretty great. And GEOS??? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a LONG time!

  • @aubreypwd
    @aubreypwd 5 місяців тому

    The title is steel!

  • @Pedro8k
    @Pedro8k 5 місяців тому

    Thinkpad used a trackpoint on there laptops it was tiny red joystick like device on the keyboard and you had two buttons below the trackpad it worked ok

  • @sirrebral
    @sirrebral 5 місяців тому

    @4:42 TDNC, I see what you did there...

  • @zagnut48219
    @zagnut48219 5 місяців тому

    The Commodore 128 had a similar accessory.

  • @dotapark
    @dotapark 5 місяців тому

    Honestly though, I want to move mouse cursor like remote controller in my bed if it’s possible.

  • @Ilix42
    @Ilix42 5 місяців тому

    As a proud owner of a hive of honey pot ants, I approve of gaming peripherals for them.

  • @lerkzor
    @lerkzor 5 місяців тому

    Did you ever repair that LS-120 drive from the new-old-stock PC you assembled a year ago?

  • @PipBoy3k
    @PipBoy3k 5 місяців тому

    I bought one a month ago looking for a joystick for my Book 8088. Imagine my surprise when I found out it's actually a mouse. It's not bad but the click and hold functionality doesn't quite work. Click and drag is unusable.

  • @volvo09
    @volvo09 5 місяців тому

    Is the input proportional? (Like point stick in a laptop?) Or is it just an on off switch? I couldn't really tell from the footage.

  • @Plexsusmax
    @Plexsusmax 5 місяців тому

    It has to be at least 3 Times bigger than this!

  •  5 місяців тому

    Nice to see GEM and GeoWorks.

  • @edgarwalk5637
    @edgarwalk5637 5 місяців тому

    If you made the stick shorter, removed the top button, and put the mouse buttons at the top, it would have been easier to use; more like the "nub" on IBM Lap Tops. Congratulations of 386K subsribers!

  • @----.__
    @----.__ 5 місяців тому

    Suncom only made one legendary level joystick.
    The Tac-2
    Everything else was inferior by every measurable metric.

  • @AlexJacksonSmith
    @AlexJacksonSmith 5 місяців тому

    Same as the IBM red nipple in behaviour and bigger...

  • @Calm_of_Anubus
    @Calm_of_Anubus 3 місяці тому

    I had that thing for PC. It was cheap when I got one in around 1993ish. It was pretty crap for sure.

  • @Mizai
    @Mizai 5 місяців тому

    im happy a mouse just costs €4 these days

  • @wilsonj4705
    @wilsonj4705 5 місяців тому

    To put that $100 price in perspective $100 in 1987 is equal to $275 in Dec 2023 dollars. Yeah, that thing was wildly overpriced. But to be fair a lot of similar devices at the time were as well.

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT 5 місяців тому

    Ironical, I think if they’d shrunk it further, it might have been more successful - make it TrackPoint size, operable by one finger, rather than like a joystick.

  • @williamkennedy8133
    @williamkennedy8133 5 місяців тому

    I loved mine🤷‍♀

  • @bland9876
    @bland9876 5 місяців тому

    Anyone with a gaming handheld running windows knows joysticks are a bad way to controll a mouse most of the time.

  • @aleksandrbmelnikov
    @aleksandrbmelnikov 5 місяців тому

    About as worthless as IBM ThinkPad's little eraser button called the TrackPoint. Only thing that could do right was play DooM.😁 Odd as it may seem, i like my large TouchPad mouse.

    • @lasskinn474
      @lasskinn474 5 місяців тому

      lots of people still buy certain new lenovos with it for the nipple mouse.
      also it sucks for doom. it's great for space flight sims tho. hp had them for a while on elitebooks.

  • @shiftto
    @shiftto 5 місяців тому

    maynot relate to the video, please man do a video about the Nokia N800, there are videos out there on internet but vid made by you more quality...

  • @Skyspace187
    @Skyspace187 5 місяців тому

    I knew a teacher at a school I went to that had one... I was a young avid techie, but I never understood why they used it because they had all the desk space for an appropriate mouse, I guess they were just trying to win the funs from students or something... Maybe to irritate the IT guys when they had troubles using it... 😂

  • @eformance
    @eformance 5 місяців тому +1

    I find it amusing that you paired this up with a Thinkpad, which had the nubbin that behaved exactly the same 😁

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 3 місяці тому

      No, the IBM nub stayed in place and was forced sensitive... You didn't move it farther to get the mouse to move faster.

  • @ralphmcmahan2139
    @ralphmcmahan2139 5 місяців тому

    videos like this just remind me how much useless junk I've bought over the years

  • @wiwingmargahayu6831
    @wiwingmargahayu6831 5 місяців тому

    thosiba and super nintendo

  • @revand8011
    @revand8011 4 місяці тому

    Zoolander reference

  • @gmcnewlook
    @gmcnewlook 5 місяців тому +2

    “Can you believe no one bought this?!”

  • @s980845
    @s980845 5 місяців тому

    I hate these short videos.
    Please make longer ones on a "This Definitely Does Not Compute" 2nd channel if you dont want to mess up youtubes algorithm on the main channel.

  • @VazDraeStudios
    @VazDraeStudios 5 місяців тому

    I would have thought the product would have been pronounced like "Icon-troller" but also i dunno. Its a kinda dumb name for a dumb product either way.

  • @grumpywolfgaming
    @grumpywolfgaming 5 місяців тому

    "it would only stop if you let go"
    Um, that's how a mouse works, you stop moving it and it stops. bad wording?

  • @lucasrem
    @lucasrem 5 місяців тому

    Why review crab, less video's please

  • @koolioperson5534
    @koolioperson5534 5 місяців тому

    7th

  • @realbuckwell
    @realbuckwell 5 місяців тому

    I cant stand this guys pacing it like he adds pauses between each word to pad out the video length..... Hi....... This..... Is....... Col..... In..... In.... To....Days..... Episode........

  • @andr27
    @andr27 5 місяців тому +2

    wow, such stupid, useless thing were on the market :D

  • @andresbravo2003
    @andresbravo2003 5 місяців тому +1

    A tiny Joystick is cancer.

  • @JoenelDragos
    @JoenelDragos 5 місяців тому +1

    Why your videos are every time the same day/ hour published like LGR channel- Annoying

    • @ThisDoesNotCompute
      @ThisDoesNotCompute  5 місяців тому +3

      Why is it annoying?

    • @CommodoreFan64
      @CommodoreFan64 5 місяців тому +1

      O my someone else uploads a video around the same time as another UA-camr, you really do have no life if this is what annoys you. 😂

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 5 місяців тому +1

      Why is it annoying? You don't HAVE to watch it when it's released...
      Sorry got to get back to driving, this dumb video came out at the worst time!!