Mad Catz Tried Making the Ultimate FPS Controller: Panther XL from 1997
9,364Checking out the odd Panther XL by Mad Catz! While they largely made goofy third party game console controllers, they also made goofy PC hardware. Like this trackball and flight stick fused together supposedly creating the ultimate FPS input device, backed up by radical 1990s John Romero magazine ads. Prime LGR Oddware indeed!
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β An archive of the Panther XL CD-ROM here:
https://archive.org/details/panther-xl-drivers
β All background music licensed from:
http://www.epidemicsound.com
00:00 An Oddware Introduction
00:38 The Panther XL
02:56 FPgaming 'Assassin 3D' stuff
03:40 Mad Catz sure was a company
04:47 Advertising and John Romero
05:39 The cult following is real
06:38 Unboxing the device
08:41 Plugged in and setting it up
11:01 Jedi Knight Dark Forces II
13:59 Turok Dinosaur Hunter
15:54 Unreal Tournament 1999
18:27 Control Center and Quake II
20:12 Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
21:48 A3D Mouse Emulation mode
22:21 Solitaire and SimCity 2000
23:28 DOS support, Commander Keen 4
24:31 Duke Nukem 3D of course
27:54 Y'know, I almost like it! Almost.
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