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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

The ball thing was basically on a set of hinges and could move on all three axises and could be used in place of a mouse in a traditional mouse and keyboard setup. There are plenty of videos to watch it in motion, just search for Sidewinder Dual Strike. The controller itself was… just okay. It was an interesting idea but it was not a substitute for m&k. Maybe I’ll dig mine out and give it a try, as it hasn’t been used in 20 years now. It would be interesting to see how it feels in a post-dual stick world.

Both of these controllers were under the “Sidewinder” branding. There was another model called the Sidewinder Freestyle that contained some early motion detection too I don’t think I had one of those, but I do recall having one of these: