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The KeyStik Clip-on Joystick for Keyboards: LGR Oddware

The KeyStik Clip-on Joystick for Keyboards: LGR Oddware

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Checking out this weird little Plawa arrow key joystick add-on for PC keyboards. It's a deceptively complex contraption from the 90s that clips onto your cursor keys and converts it into a mini joystick! Even better if you attach it to a mechanical keyboard, since you get that nice clicky feel. Trusteft: Seeing these products in the 90s I remember having feelings for them. Good or bad I don't remember. I am glad to find out through your video that indeed they worked. Good. I was pretty much set on using keyboard only when these things were released. Which is weird as I was definitely used to joysticks from my years of Atari ST and Amiga before.
Anyway, thanks for sharing!

Date: 2022-04-23

Comments and reviews: 9


I totally had forgotten this! I had one as a juvenile, living in Germany. I remember that I was really keen on this when I saw it in an advertisement, but when I had one, I was a bit disappointed, because it didn t feel like a real joystick, due to the keyboard constraints. And I think I had those magnets glued on my keyboard way longer than I actually used the KeyStik.
Funny to see you playing Sensible Soccer on DOS for the first time. I don t know the Amiga version, but yeah, this game was fast as hell! I had played only Fifa before, and then this madness! Do you know if this was a bug of the DOS version, and Amiga version had a reasonable speed? Funny thing: In youth, you had so much time to play these games, so after a while, the speed madness of Sensible wasn t an issue anymore, and I could score quite well against computer AI and friends. Our brains are so wonderful

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I never understood those. There were tons of them. A Quickshot was barely more expensive and in most games they were supported. And compared to those keyboard strap-ons they were mightier in girth and performance. And they didn't come off in the heat of the moment but stayed with you till you had your fill.
Autoshot as well if you dexterity failed you.

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It's cool, but joysticks go on the left.
I can really see it though as a thing for 3d modeling, providing a more logical directional control for non gamer types.
For console gamers it is on the wrong side, and pc gamers are used to the arrow keys already. Perfect oddware candidate.

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When I first saw this. Sensible Soccer was my first thought. Burned through 2 or 3 joysticks as a child on that game. My dad had to eventually cannibalise 2 broken ones in to 1 that worked. Tried playing it again recently on a keyboard and I just struggle.
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Make sure your nuts are always on your keys.
Maybe it's just the mental difference of having a little joystick to fondle.
This thing may just be the to key to joy in my life.
- LGR
This is getting pretty graphic and erotic.

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Fun to see those things again. I had the LogiStik version, and remember how cool it was to try it on Quake and Wolf 3D. It was never a good solution though, I remember it was horribly prone to just falling off the keybard
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I enjoyed future! Clint ridiculing past! Clint for his goof about the instructions. This thing actually looks cool and I would have definitely gotten one for flight sims back in the day, had I known such things existed!
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22: 12 Wow, I don't think I have ever seen the Big Box for Wild Metal Country before! That game totally needs a simple remaster, its entirely too strange. Maybe a Blerb video on WMC some time down the road?
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I wish I could still find one of these.
Looks like it could be a great accessibility feature for someone like me who has limited mobility in their right hand for things like PC gaming: )

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