What is this, a PC joystick for ANTS?

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Published on January 12, 2024 4:16:21 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSbLmdyK3ao

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Suncom Technologies tried to create a compelling alternative for the ordinary computer mouse with its ICONtroller joystick. Problem is, it wasn't really any good.

Sources:
IBM PC photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/phreakindee/13322878365
"Windows 3.0", The Computer Chronicles, 1990.
Microsoft mouse photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Mouse_2.1.jpg
Kensington trackball next to keyboard photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/o_o/8253121
Kensington trackball photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trackball-Kensington-ExpertMouse5.jpg
"Of mice and mobile computers: pointing devices for close quarters," InfoWorld, April 20, 1992.
Siemens 486 laptop photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siemens-Nixdorf_PCD-4NCsx.JPG
"Portable pointing devices," PC Magazine, October 15, 1991.
Suncom ICONtroller Laptop photos: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393790301499
"That's Entertainment!", Popular Science, November 1987.
"Traveling Trackballs," PC Magazine, March 30, 1993.
"Controller Provides Mouse and Trackball Functions to Laptops," InfoWorld, December 17, 1990.

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Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).