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Titans Sphere - The Failed 3D Game Controller for PC

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Checking out the odd Titans Sphere by SGRL from 1998! Intended as the ultimate controller for 3D games in the late 90s, the Sphere was a failure on practically every level. "Throw away your joystick?" Ehh not so fast, let's set up this bit of LGR Oddware and see it in action first.

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00:00 An Oddware Introduction
00:40 The Titans Sphere
03:44 Second Generation Research Laboratories
04:58 Late 90s spherical reception
06:27 Unboxing the device
09:07 Setting it up and calibration
11:10 Duke Nukem 3D of course
14:11 Weirdness with Descent 2
16:08 Unreal Tournament GOTY
18:08 Grand Theft Auto III
19:52 Motocross Madness
21:43 Jane's USAF
23:47 This is shockingly bad

#LGR #retro #gaming #controller #oddware

20 Comments

@honeybribees 2 years ago

Clint getting genuinely frustrated with an oddware is a new one. Sometimes they are gimmicks, other times they are actual crap.

@zombiesurf64 2 years ago

“It’s a piece of s***” - Clint is normally so reserved this really cracked me up.

@JayMaverick 2 years ago

"Can almost see the use case for it."
For 90s tech startups, this means all the green lights.

@alexandredevert4935 2 years ago

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

@markfacebook 2 years ago

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.

@bennyfactor 2 years ago

"mountain dew presents extreme [type of sport or game]" is perhaps the most late 1990s title possible

@cujoedaman 2 years ago

When you die to the first mob on the first level of Duke3D, you know you have something special in your hands.

@Galantium 2 years ago

with the alternating caps on the box it looks like it's mocking itself "TiTaNs sPhErE"

@sam08g16 2 years ago

Clint, don't you dare delete any of the old LGR videos. They are pure gold!

@pauld2810 2 years ago

Somewhere in the world, there is a framed award on someone's office wall that reads: "Novelty controller of the month."

@creato938 2 years ago

"Talk to em Goose"
"I can't, i have a Titans sphere"

Oh, that was a good one.

@sutorippuwebmaster8783 2 years ago

You know something sucks when even LGR in his infinitely forgiving sense of humor calls it a piece of shit.

@mrgrumpy888 2 years ago

"The Homer" of game controllers.

@hugovangalen 2 years ago

Company: "It's not a joystick!"
Device: shows up as 4 axis, 4 button joystick

@DOSStorm 2 years ago (edited)

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.

@Shadowmask87 2 years ago

Flat-bottom SGRLs, you make the Oddware go round!

@MrKanjidude 2 years ago

"We re confident in our abilities as innovators to produce products that will challenge gamers' minds at every level" <-- That's not the flex they tried to make it sound like. 😂

@atomsbudgetreviews8713 2 years ago

Hahaha “I keep jumping because it’s a piece of shit” hahaha best statement ever Clint ! 😂

@first__last 2 years ago

The lighting is so bright. It looks like he just descended from oddware heaven.

@ShinoSarna 2 years ago

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.