If i had a shredder,i definitely would,ve shredded this controller,if i had a crusher, i definitely would,ve crushed it,what a huge waste of plastic🥲🥲🤣
This is probably the most expressive I've seen LGR be. We hear him become gradually disappointed every Sims 4 expansion pack. We hear him get jokey and witty in similar retrospectives like this. We hear him become educational and step by step in restoration and building. This one is just raw and to the point.
I feel like he was extra disappointed because the idea behind this great, and it could actually work really well for some games, but the execution was atrocious.
It's such a perfect sample of mid-90's consumer PC stuff : box art rendered with 3DS Max, grand premises with WTF execution, ends up gathering dust after a month of frustration
Wow, so I assumed on the surface that the gimmick of the wheel design was that you could use the wheel center as some sort of early accelerometer, and roll/pivot the controller itself to mimic degrees of motion. This isnt even that. This is just two joysticks bolted to an obnoxious hunk of plastic.
I won't be surprised that it supposed to have gyro and some kind of forced feedback, but the cost of production made it unfeasible, they cut all that down and that's what left
I thought it would be some kind of specialist joystick for some kind of airplane simulation or maybe a space game. But it's not calibrated for anything. It's crazy.
I love you LGR, seriously. In this complex life, simple videos like yours really just put a smile on my face. No algorithim, no explosions, no 100,000 dollars. just pure grade, and relaxing retro stuff. My favorite ❤
This is why I love the late 90s era of electronics. They were trying all sorts of interesting things before set standards existed, and most didn't stick but its cool to look at in retrospect.
Love the raw honesty at 13:00. Yeah I remember these 90's gadgets, they seemed to be everywhere, always cheap quality, and confusingly unnecessary. The mouse and keyboard generally did wonderfully.
Ha, looks like an ergonomics nightmare - reminded of that Simpsons line when the kids are in the arcade: "My doctor says I have the wrists of an 80 year old". That USAF segment was hilarious.
That's what I thought, there can't be a single person who tested this and thought "woahh this is sooo good, we got a hit on our hands here" It's just mind boggling to think of the whole process of coming up with the idea, producing it, marketing it, and actually putting this somewhat out on the market
Clearly a lesson in ergonomic design... (one in how NOT to design and "3D" controller) On another note, it was so cool to see Loyd Case's review of this contraption at CGW Magazine (he would go on to write for Ziff Davis, PCWorld and MaximumPC later on)! He basically nailed (as he usually did) the few Pros and many Cons of this product perfectly.
The moment I look at the thumbnail, I immediately remember 'The Orb 360' controller you reviewed a looooooooooooong time age that I happen to watch just last night.
My partner is from Ohio and I had to ask where Barberton was. Even he had to ask where it was. As soon as I read this comment, the lightbulb went on. “Ahhh that explains everything.” 😂
I did not expect to hear Barberton, Ohio mentioned in a LGR video. I was a teenager there in the 90s do not recall ever hearing about SGRL (Second Generation Research Laboratories, Ltd.) or the Titans Sphere.
It would absolutely benefit from a central deadzone to remove those centering issues. Also, a method of rebinding the axis for steering in racing games would honestly make this potentially usable.
The UT segment reminded me of the period I played that game using my old Wacom tablet because my mouse had broken 😂 You should give that a go too, Clint 😅
This looks like the kind of thing I would have bought on clearance as a kid, and I would have been so enamored with the idea of it I would have tried my absolute hardest to convince myself that it was the best thing ever, no matter how terrible it actually was.
my favorite part of these kinds of is the ways Clint finds the ways to hold the controller that isn't anymore comfortable but works better, I swear that chin method makes me think whoever made this watched the Light Cycle scene from Tron, looked at how the actors sat to steer them and said "THAT!!! I'M MAKING A CONTROLLER LIKE THAT!!!"
As soon as I saw the CE sign, I thought: Oh, it was sold in Europe! Then I saw "Der Grüne Punkt" and thought: Oh, it was sold in Germany :D This piece of oddness sure took some trips around the world. Like your video. Greetings from Germany :)
@@frool76 Yes one seems to have said this, but this peripheral is yes only spherical, but it looks very much like a human head with large ears! Talk about pulling ones ear.
I had one of these as a kid! It didn't work well but we used it for Whacky Wheels and Descent!!! It just didn't roll easily at all and, if memory serves me right, it split down the middle and that was that. It was cool though.
I would love to see the guts of this thing, and see if the axes can be properly independently mapped, and if the buttons are separate, or just all bundled together. I know the sidewinder was analogue, until you used a driver to kick it into digital mode, so maybe this thing could do the same with a driver (maybe). Or even get it to talk to an Arduino and map to usb and make a silly "functional" (well, non-functional) thing for modern PCs from it
I think the intended way of using this was really to rest it on your lap, or put a small mat underneath it if you're using on a table, but it feels like the only way for this to be ergonomic and functional is to use it on your lap or between your legs.
What I find especially strange is that the dead zone is so large - the primary advantage (if deliberate) being that it would center more easily. Yet it doesn't center at all.
They probably couldn't get the manufacturing tolerances close enough so they made the dead zone real wide. It's so plasticy I can't imagine anything else 😂 a big dead zone sucks.
Wow, first time hearing about and seeing this one! So many wild peripherals in the late 90's and it's cool to see yet another zany creation. Would love to see you cover more crazy pc peripherals like the Sidewinder Strategic Commander, lol. Someone even made drivers for that to work on modern windows OS'
Honestly, the idea if it had a proper weighted flat base without the sphere portion could've been interesting to see. And of course, you'd need to re-set where those buttons are as well. Basically, if the controller was completely different and , infact, a different product it could've been good. Something like that Playstation analog controller with the two joysticks.
@@eamoncournaneI remember that being part of editions of Windows ME with all the extra themes, as part of the "Inside Your Computer" theme pack, if that helps. Or maybe it was the Win95 machine we had? Not sure. We never used Win98 at that point, but the machine in the video is apparently running it, so it was probably in multiple editions of Windows around that time, if that helps. I KNOW I used that background for a while.
I have nothing to add other than the usual awesome friggin' job... but how about that Pharmor shirt? That's a pleasant blast from the past. Rented many an NES game from one in Charlotte for the weekends, on the cheap. Good times.
Watching this hurts my hands and my brain in equal measure. If it wasn't for you being equally frustrated I would not have been able to finish this video. The smooth Jazz calms me down, thanks for that.
For two days I've been laid up on the couch with a stomach bug, and watching LGR videos is the only thing I've felt up to doing. The subject matter is nostalgic and the tone is so soothing.
Dude. Phar-Mor! I had not thought about that store for ages until I saw your shirt. I think my parents still have some toiletries with Phar-Mor price tags on them 😂
Phar-Mor went out of business after the company president embezzled millions to prop up his professional basketball league for shorter players. No, really.
When you were verbally stumbling around near the start, I wanted to remind you that 'spheroidal' is a perfectly acceptable word. I admit, I'm weird like that. But, it's a perfectly good word. This is one of those weird (odd, if you prefer) devices that look like it'd be great if it worked properly and you took the time to get used to it. Great video as always. I see a new LGR video? I click it.
LOL when you were playing Duke I was tempted to start commenting 'hey why no try decent" but then I realized I watch WAY too many of your videos multiple times, so I knew you'd get to it. Hahaha. Love seeing you trying to find SOMETHING out of old tech like this.
Holy crap, a Phar-Mor T-Shirt? That takes me back. I think I remember going to a big one regularly that even had a video rental section (because everyone had video rental at some point back in the day) and renting games with the instructions condensed into a label stuck to the back of the case.
Why would you boast that your controller is "challenging"? That's the last thing you want in a controller. You want it to be directly controlling the game
I love how looking at it for 5 seconds you realize how useless the ball part is. Like, I am pretty sure if it was just two analog joysticks strapped to a surface without the ball part they'd be onto something, in 1998 dual-analog controls were still pretty new.
I think we need another LGR channel: "LGR Unfiltered" where Clint just goes off on bad products like this one. I remember seeing this thing and it always looked so bad.
I gotta thank you. oddware has been an amazing help, giving me hindsight on how i truly wanted to game on pc. I will soon be picking up a brand new joystick, alongside a trackball. this, i hope, will not just future proof me, but allow me to revisit old games without pondering how to make the steam controller work with them. so from the bottom of my heart, bless you.
I've actually managed to get this thing to work before using remapping software that was meant for a wii controller. It was an absolute pain tricking it into thinking it was a motion controller/nun-chuck but with a little finess I was able to map what it thought was motion inputs for the grips twisting motions and set them to whatever keys I wanted. Had to tweak intensity because they are basically overly complicated analog sticks but it works albeit with a little lag with the 2 remapping programs it has to run through.
Dang, I bought an InterAct Cyclone 3D at a junk store a few years back and I never knew there was an official USB adapter for it. Gonna have to add that to the list of things to hunt down...
What a strange contraption, though I imagine if young me saw that in a store I would have bought it just because it looked cool. Man, the Sidewinder, we had a couple of those because I believe Mechwarrior 3 came with them, absolutely loved how that game worked with that joystick, really made you feel like a mech pilot.
Honestly it *seems* like something that should be a hit with a niche of 6-degree movement / Simulator fan type gamer. It *seems* like a great idea when you look at it. I could imagine something very similar to this being great for contemporary VR where you sort of need 30 buttons on a controller that can take motion control - with that big drum in the middle being used as a haptic/speaker delivering kinetic and sound feedback.
This video reminds me of why I spent a lot on the Sidewinder Precision Pro around the same time. I was tired of calibrating joysticks and wonky dead zones. Being digital meant that those weren't an issue any more. This Titans Sphere would've driven me nuts (even more than the missing apostrophe).
I liked the plane flight part the best! TALK TO ME GOOSE! XD I definitely like mine for the fact that it's a nice conversation piece. Making my video required doing some mapping adjustments to the analog axes with my Cronus Max Plus. What a crazy controller! Thanks for the shoutout, btw :)
That Pharmor shirt! I used to rent my games and movies from there in the 90s! That’s how I played such classics as Primal Rage, Clayfighter 63 1/3, and MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero.
"it had to be better back in the day" I didn't own this but I owned a few third party controllers growing up back then and I can assure you that some of them shipping out in this condition.
Ah, phar-mor, a store of my youth! I miss that store with its wall of candy dispensers and video game rental corner. I know it has nothing to do with this episode, but it brought back memories and I thank you for that!
Clint getting genuinely frustrated with an oddware is a new one. Sometimes they are gimmicks, other times they are actual crap.
Hearing him swear is so funny. I've been watching him for a decade now and I swear to God he has cursed like, 3 times.
@@novelezrayou swear he’s sweared 😂
I laughed so hard at that. He was so visibly frustrated.
I mean, I was getting frustrated with him as well.
Never seen Clint angry and that made me angry as well 😂
CHUCKLE OF FAILURE
“It’s a piece of s***” - Clint is normally so reserved this really cracked me up.
Me too, lol. I remember seeing ads for this or maybe in the stores and it looked like an abomination.
first time seeing this and it's two years older then me @@davidc1878
"This thing is definitely not based - it is baseless"
If i had a shredder,i definitely would,ve shredded this controller,if i had a crusher, i definitely would,ve crushed it,what a huge waste of plastic🥲🥲🤣
Bro you know he is mad when he starts swearing
"Can almost see the use case for it."
For 90s tech startups, this means all the green lights.
Nowadays you don't even need a use case for any new tech! Just look at crypto and nft startups
Clint, don't you dare delete any of the old LGR videos. They are pure gold!
"Clint hates himself "
This is probably the most expressive I've seen LGR be. We hear him become gradually disappointed every Sims 4 expansion pack. We hear him get jokey and witty in similar retrospectives like this. We hear him become educational and step by step in restoration and building.
This one is just raw and to the point.
I feel like he was extra disappointed because the idea behind this great, and it could actually work really well for some games, but the execution was atrocious.
I hope that he starts calling Sims 4 expansion packs "pieces of shit", because maybe (just maybe) Maxis and EA would stop making them!
It's such a perfect sample of mid-90's consumer PC stuff : box art rendered with 3DS Max, grand premises with WTF execution, ends up gathering dust after a month of frustration
So true, although a month seems optimistic! 😅
So a new industry standard indeed.
Wow, so I assumed on the surface that the gimmick of the wheel design was that you could use the wheel center as some sort of early accelerometer, and roll/pivot the controller itself to mimic degrees of motion.
This isnt even that. This is just two joysticks bolted to an obnoxious hunk of plastic.
I won't be surprised that it supposed to have gyro and some kind of forced feedback, but the cost of production made it unfeasible, they cut all that down and that's what left
Indeed, my first thought too, gyroscope! 😁@@ilya_ash
I thought it would be some kind of specialist joystick for some kind of airplane simulation or maybe a space game. But it's not calibrated for anything. It's crazy.
Yes i also thought on that, its really dumb to put this controller on this uselles "sphere"
if you flick your nail on the plastic it you can hear how cheap this thing is lol
I love you LGR, seriously. In this complex life, simple videos like yours really just put a smile on my face. No algorithim, no explosions, no 100,000 dollars. just pure grade, and relaxing retro stuff. My favorite ❤
Thank you, I’m glad to hear 😊
@@LGR 😉❤️
This is why I love the late 90s era of electronics. They were trying all sorts of interesting things before set standards existed, and most didn't stick but its cool to look at in retrospect.
risktaking created the best economic time in history. even if you failed, bankruptcy was a lot easier.
It’s like interwar aircraft or pre dreadnought battleships. Nobody knows what the fuck works well yet 😂
When you die to the first mob on the first level of Duke3D, you know you have something special in your hands.
The lighting is so bright. It looks like he just descended from oddware heaven.
And he did. He brings salvation
I love it
It's Oddware Jesus! 😂
Our oddware Lord returns!
The one true god.
"mountain dew presents extreme [type of sport or game]" is perhaps the most late 1990s title possible
Boards and Blades was the first game I had for my first non-used/outdated computer and I tried so hard to enjoy it.
I literally played it on a DELL 2350 with integrated graphics at 30fps LOL desperate times those @@carlklitzke9455
ITS SPHERICAL!
Yeah, I'd rather use a regular controller while using one of those under the desk cycle machines.
and TOTALLY practical!!
OKAMA GAMESPHERE!
Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda!
@@TheBathrobeWizard came here to say this, and lo, you beat me to it lol
Make it two
"We re confident in our abilities as innovators to produce products that will challenge gamers' minds at every level"
They technically achieved what they set out to do then...
They weren’t wrong though! It is a mind fuck how this ever made it to market! 😂😂😂
"Talk to em Goose"
"I can't, i have a Titans sphere"
Oh, that was a good one.
Love the raw honesty at 13:00. Yeah I remember these 90's gadgets, they seemed to be everywhere, always cheap quality, and confusingly unnecessary. The mouse and keyboard generally did wonderfully.
Ha, looks like an ergonomics nightmare - reminded of that Simpsons line when the kids are in the arcade: "My doctor says I have the wrists of an 80 year old".
That USAF segment was hilarious.
Company: "It's not a joystick!"
Device: *shows up as 4 axis, 4 button joystick*
When something is this bad you have to wonder if they skipped the prototype stage and just went straight to manufacturing without ever testing it
Kinda like the Virtual Boy?
The difference was that the VB was long term the sacrifice of a bishop to secure a knight
Literally the concept behind children's toys for the first 50 odd years of the concept
Wouldn’t doubt it 😂
That's what I thought, there can't be a single person who tested this and thought "woahh this is sooo good, we got a hit on our hands here"
It's just mind boggling to think of the whole process of coming up with the idea, producing it, marketing it, and actually putting this somewhat out on the market
Somewhere in the world, there is a framed award on someone's office wall that reads: "Novelty controller of the month."
Clearly a lesson in ergonomic design... (one in how NOT to design and "3D" controller)
On another note, it was so cool to see Loyd Case's review of this contraption at CGW Magazine (he would go on to write for Ziff Davis, PCWorld and MaximumPC later on)! He basically nailed (as he usually did) the few Pros and many Cons of this product perfectly.
The moment I look at the thumbnail, I immediately remember 'The Orb 360' controller you reviewed a looooooooooooong time age that I happen to watch just last night.
with the alternating caps on the box it looks like it's mocking itself "TiTaNs sPhErE"
Graphic desing is my passion meme twenty years before it was cool
Was that late 90s EdGe that was all the rage.
Booty p0rn
Ah yes, what we call "TorgoType". ThE MaStEr WoUlD ApPrOvE.
that explains it. when they made this thing, they were just being sarcastic.
My mom was a manager at Phar-Mor in the 90s. Your channel always surprises me with the waves of nostalgia that hit me while watching.
I grew up in the Akron area, this controller is the most Barberton thing I've ever seen.
My partner is from Ohio and I had to ask where Barberton was. Even he had to ask where it was. As soon as I read this comment, the lightbulb went on.
“Ahhh that explains everything.” 😂
Word, I was surprised to find it was based there, but it fits perfectly. Like _magic,_ you could say.
Straight outta babertucky
[Spherical Jazz Music] is absolutely the best music to have for this piece of oddware.
I did not expect to hear Barberton, Ohio mentioned in a LGR video. I was a teenager there in the 90s do not recall ever hearing about SGRL (Second Generation Research Laboratories, Ltd.) or the Titans Sphere.
Hahaha “I keep jumping because it’s a piece of shit” hahaha best statement ever Clint ! 😂
It would absolutely benefit from a central deadzone to remove those centering issues. Also, a method of rebinding the axis for steering in racing games would honestly make this potentially usable.
The UT segment reminded me of the period I played that game using my old Wacom tablet because my mouse had broken 😂
You should give that a go too, Clint 😅
This looks like the kind of thing I would have bought on clearance as a kid, and I would have been so enamored with the idea of it I would have tried my absolute hardest to convince myself that it was the best thing ever, no matter how terrible it actually was.
Are you the kid from our street I knew.
@@Zodroo_Tint I might be. Though I think every street had that kid.
my favorite part of these kinds of is the ways Clint finds the ways to hold the controller that isn't anymore comfortable but works better, I swear that chin method makes me think whoever made this watched the Light Cycle scene from Tron, looked at how the actors sat to steer them and said "THAT!!! I'M MAKING A CONTROLLER LIKE THAT!!!"
The Tron theory was my family's consensus as well.
As soon as I saw the CE sign, I thought: Oh, it was sold in Europe! Then I saw "Der Grüne Punkt" and thought: Oh, it was sold in Germany :D This piece of oddness sure took some trips around the world. Like your video. Greetings from Germany :)
yes so fast, let's set up this bit
I was thinking it might come from Germany based on the name. Titanssphere without the Apostrophe sounds like a very German translation.
@@frool76 Yes one seems to have said this, but this peripheral is yes only spherical, but it looks very much like a human head with large ears! Talk about pulling ones ear.
Wow didn't expect to hear barberton OH mentioned. Had no idea they existed or were there and I grew up running around that small town.
Flat-bottom SGRLs, you make the Oddware go round!
Very rare! Clint normally never uses expletives. This device did made him do it. Classic!
I had one of these as a kid! It didn't work well but we used it for Whacky Wheels and Descent!!! It just didn't roll easily at all and, if memory serves me right, it split down the middle and that was that. It was cool though.
23:22 XD omg - "talk to me Goose" had me dying.
It's like they designed this thing just for YOU.
$129 for a controller in 1998? that’s crazy expensive for back then
In what universe would this be better than the Sidewinder Force Feedback?!
Universe 616
“If it didn’t suck, it could be good.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would love to see the guts of this thing, and see if the axes can be properly independently mapped, and if the buttons are separate, or just all bundled together.
I know the sidewinder was analogue, until you used a driver to kick it into digital mode, so maybe this thing could do the same with a driver (maybe).
Or even get it to talk to an Arduino and map to usb and make a silly "functional" (well, non-functional) thing for modern PCs from it
I think the intended way of using this was really to rest it on your lap, or put a small mat underneath it if you're using on a table, but it feels like the only way for this to be ergonomic and functional is to use it on your lap or between your legs.
“Oh really?! Got knocked out of the way of the rocket and now I’m still alive. How unfortunate!” lol awesome! Sums it up quite well I think.
What I find especially strange is that the dead zone is so large - the primary advantage (if deliberate) being that it would center more easily. Yet it doesn't center at all.
They probably couldn't get the manufacturing tolerances close enough so they made the dead zone real wide.
It's so plasticy I can't imagine anything else 😂 a big dead zone sucks.
Wow, first time hearing about and seeing this one! So many wild peripherals in the late 90's and it's cool to see yet another zany creation. Would love to see you cover more crazy pc peripherals like the Sidewinder Strategic Commander, lol. Someone even made drivers for that to work on modern windows OS'
Honestly, the idea if it had a proper weighted flat base without the sphere portion could've been interesting to see. And of course, you'd need to re-set where those buttons are as well. Basically, if the controller was completely different and , infact, a different product it could've been good.
Something like that Playstation analog controller with the two joysticks.
The PCs wallpaper just unlocked a core memory for me. Thank you
Me too, just looked for a while and couldn't find it!
@@eamoncournane search "Windows 98 Inside Your Computer"
@@eamoncournaneI remember that being part of editions of Windows ME with all the extra themes, as part of the "Inside Your Computer" theme pack, if that helps. Or maybe it was the Win95 machine we had? Not sure. We never used Win98 at that point, but the machine in the video is apparently running it, so it was probably in multiple editions of Windows around that time, if that helps. I KNOW I used that background for a while.
@05Matz yes that does help! I'm going looking again!
"It's not based!" had me cackling. Loving this episode so far.
I have nothing to add other than the usual awesome friggin' job... but how about that Pharmor shirt? That's a pleasant blast from the past. Rented many an NES game from one in Charlotte for the weekends, on the cheap. Good times.
Heck yeah, the one we had in Winston-Salem was a childhood staple
Didn’t think Phar-Mor existed that far south.
@brianfix4404 we had them in Pennsylvania in the early 80s and it came eventually to Florida in the late 80s/early 90s.
OMG THAT PHAR MOR SHIRT MADE MY BRAIN TRAVEL BACK IN TIME I NEED IT
"We're more than just a drug store.......... We're super....
We're phar more........."
Watching this hurts my hands and my brain in equal measure. If it wasn't for you being equally frustrated I would not have been able to finish this video. The smooth Jazz calms me down, thanks for that.
Clint becomes Duke Nukem for one second at exactly the right moment 7:16
Whenever I see an LGR video I feel like I'm home. Relaxed. 😌👍💯
.... wait a minute, I am home!. 😅
Clint videos are always relaxing to watch, you know.😂
You know something sucks when even LGR in his infinitely forgiving sense of humor calls it a piece of shit.
I love seeing a new LGR episode so much. Thanks man. 😊
Filming directly against a sunny window and making it look good? Clint is truly a master at his craft.
For two days I've been laid up on the couch with a stomach bug, and watching LGR videos is the only thing I've felt up to doing. The subject matter is nostalgic and the tone is so soothing.
Dude. Phar-Mor! I had not thought about that store for ages until I saw your shirt. I think my parents still have some toiletries with Phar-Mor price tags on them 😂
Phar-Mor went out of business after the company president embezzled millions to prop up his professional basketball league for shorter players. No, really.
When you were verbally stumbling around near the start, I wanted to remind you that 'spheroidal' is a perfectly acceptable word. I admit, I'm weird like that. But, it's a perfectly good word.
This is one of those weird (odd, if you prefer) devices that look like it'd be great if it worked properly and you took the time to get used to it.
Great video as always. I see a new LGR video? I click it.
"Talk to me goose!" had me crackin xD
I can't I have a Titans Sphere
LOL when you were playing Duke I was tempted to start commenting 'hey why no try decent" but then I realized I watch WAY too many of your videos multiple times, so I knew you'd get to it. Hahaha. Love seeing you trying to find SOMETHING out of old tech like this.
"talk to me, Goose"
"I can't I have a titans sphere!"
rofl best review ever
Your Phar-Mor shirt... dang that brings back some very early memories.
This controller looks wheely bad.
I didn't want to remember this atrocity, so thank you for reviving the horror.
Evil corporations harvesting titans for their spheres...
Holy crap, a Phar-Mor T-Shirt? That takes me back.
I think I remember going to a big one regularly that even had a video rental section (because everyone had video rental at some point back in the day) and renting games with the instructions condensed into a label stuck to the back of the case.
Why would you boast that your controller is "challenging"? That's the last thing you want in a controller. You want it to be directly controlling the game
Well, I was certainly not expecting a Phar-Mor shirt when clicking this episode! That certainly takes me back lol.
IT'S SPHERICAL
*_SPHERICAL_*
Oh my titans!
I love how looking at it for 5 seconds you realize how useless the ball part is. Like, I am pretty sure if it was just two analog joysticks strapped to a surface without the ball part they'd be onto something, in 1998 dual-analog controls were still pretty new.
What if you made an oversize controller based entirely around JoyCon drift
I think we need another LGR channel: "LGR Unfiltered" where Clint just goes off on bad products like this one.
I remember seeing this thing and it always looked so bad.
All your Baseless are belong to us.
LOL man, the apostrophe was the first thing I noticed when you showed the box!
Another certified product from Ohio😆
As soon as I saw as the thumbnail I knew what it was since I had a friend who owned one of those. How's like oh crap, I remember that!
I gotta thank you. oddware has been an amazing help, giving me hindsight on how i truly wanted to game on pc.
I will soon be picking up a brand new joystick, alongside a trackball. this, i hope, will not just future proof me, but allow me to revisit old games without pondering how to make the steam controller work with them.
so from the bottom of my heart, bless you.
I've actually managed to get this thing to work before using remapping software that was meant for a wii controller. It was an absolute pain tricking it into thinking it was a motion controller/nun-chuck but with a little finess I was able to map what it thought was motion inputs for the grips twisting motions and set them to whatever keys I wanted. Had to tweak intensity because they are basically overly complicated analog sticks but it works albeit with a little lag with the 2 remapping programs it has to run through.
Didn’t expect to hear Barberton called out in an LGR video. 😄
Dang, I bought an InterAct Cyclone 3D at a junk store a few years back and I never knew there was an official USB adapter for it. Gonna have to add that to the list of things to hunt down...
The Descent 2 game took me back in time 🥰.
Duke Nukem 3D is my favorite FPS game of all time.
What a strange contraption, though I imagine if young me saw that in a store I would have bought it just because it looked cool.
Man, the Sidewinder, we had a couple of those because I believe Mechwarrior 3 came with them, absolutely loved how that game worked with that joystick, really made you feel like a mech pilot.
Honestly it *seems* like something that should be a hit with a niche of 6-degree movement / Simulator fan type gamer. It *seems* like a great idea when you look at it. I could imagine something very similar to this being great for contemporary VR where you sort of need 30 buttons on a controller that can take motion control - with that big drum in the middle being used as a haptic/speaker delivering kinetic and sound feedback.
I've been watching LGR since the DR Pepper intro's from back in the day.
Damn man, gray hair looks good on you.
This video reminds me of why I spent a lot on the Sidewinder Precision Pro around the same time. I was tired of calibrating joysticks and wonky dead zones. Being digital meant that those weren't an issue any more. This Titans Sphere would've driven me nuts (even more than the missing apostrophe).
Enjoyed the video. Love the PharMor T-shirt! I remember that place! I think we used to rent video games from there. Oh the memories...
I liked the plane flight part the best! TALK TO ME GOOSE! XD I definitely like mine for the fact that it's a nice conversation piece. Making my video required doing some mapping adjustments to the analog axes with my Cronus Max Plus. What a crazy controller! Thanks for the shoutout, btw :)
It was sold in CompUSA... 1000%. I would go there whenever possible and "hang out" because I was a dork and I absolutely saw it there for years.
Great content as always ✊🚩
Thanks Clint ☀️
That Pharmor shirt! I used to rent my games and movies from there in the 90s! That’s how I played such classics as Primal Rage, Clayfighter 63 1/3, and MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero.
Damn! That Apple IIe setup sure brings back awesome memories!
"it had to be better back in the day" I didn't own this but I owned a few third party controllers growing up back then and I can assure you that some of them shipping out in this condition.
Ah, phar-mor, a store of my youth! I miss that store with its wall of candy dispensers and video game rental corner. I know it has nothing to do with this episode, but it brought back memories and I thank you for that!
The Fallout poster in the back made me smile. Such an awesome franchise, especially the classics
Love the shirt, that takes me back to their going out of business sale where we had loose leaf paper and various toiletries for years
Always nice to see an Oddware episode about late 90's tech junk in action that would've otherwise been left in obscurity.
I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for the meetings on this thing. Gotta wonder who came up with such a weird design.
I had to laugh at the reference to the old 'Bop-It Extreme' handheld game...