Sega Mouse
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The Sega Mouse (セガマウス) is a special computer mouse designed to work with the Sega Mega Drive and Mega-CD. It can be seen as the Sega alternative to Nintendo's mouse accessory, designed primarily for Mario Paint for the Super NES. Only a few games were designed with Sega Mouse functionality in mind.
The Sega Mouse was released in Japan and Europe, only the major difference being the colour scheme - Japan opted for blue buttons, Europe for red. Both came packaged with a blue Sega-branded mouse mat. The European packaging actually calls it a Sega Mega Drive Mouse, although games still refer to it as the "Sega Mouse".
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Hardware
The Sega Mouse is a ball mouse, meaning it needs to be cleaned after regular use in order for it to continue to function properly. Despite there being three buttons on a standard Control Pad, there are only two buttons on a Sega Mouse, and , however unusually the unit places its button on the ball itself - flipping the peripheral turns it into a clickable trackball device.
North America did not receive the Sega Mouse, but instead the Mega Mouse, a similar but larger unit which added the missing START button and scrapped the clickable trackball, which made the movements more accurate. The Mega Mouse was distributed with a red/black mouse mat, and its awkwardly placed START button comes at a disadvantage to left-handed users. Body Count is the only known game to have a compatibility issue with the Sega Mouse due to the lack of the START button.[5]
Few games were created to take advantage of the Sega/Mega Mouse, and contrary to popular belief, Art Alive! (seen as the direct rival to Mario Paint) did not have mouse support. There were no Sega 32X games with mouse support.
Compatible games
Mega Drive
- Body Count (1994)
- Cannon Fodder (1995)
- Fun 'n' Games (1993)
- Janou Touryuumon (1993)
- Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (1994)
- Lemmings 2: The Tribes (1994)
- Lord Monarch: Tokoton Sentou Densetsu (1994)
- Marble Madness (1991)
- Nobunaga no Yabou: Haouden (1994)
- Nobunaga's Ambition (1993)
- Richard Scarry's Busytown (1994)
- Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye (1994)
- Wacky Worlds (1994)
Mega CD
- Crime Patrol (1994)
- Dungeon Master II: Skullkeep (1994)
- Eye of the Beholder (1994)
- Links: The Challenge of Golf (1994)
- Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (1994)
- Mad Dog McCree (1993)
- Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra (1993)
- My Paint: The Animated Paint Program (1994)
- Nobunaga no Yabou: Haouden (1994)
- Panic! (1993)
- The Secret of Monkey Island (1993)
- Shadowrun (1996)
- Shin Megami Tensei (1994)
- StarBlade (1994)
- Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends (1994)
- Warau Salesman (1993)
- Who Shot Johnny Rock? (1994)
- Yumemi Mystery Mansion (1993)
Gallery
Magazine articles
- Main article: Sega Mouse/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- GamePro (US) #64: "November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)[6]
- Sega Visions (US) #22: "December/January 1994/1995" (1994-xx-xx)[7]
- Sega Visions (US) #23: "February/March 1995" (199x-xx-xx)[8]
- Sega Visions (US) #24: "May 1995" (1995-xx-xx)[9]
Physical scans
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External links
References
- ↑ http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/md/mouse.html (Wayback Machine: 2013-02-15 06:24)
- ↑ VideoGames, "June 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 90
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-10), page 11
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "August 1994" (DE; 1994-07-13), page 79
- ↑ Mega Mouse: Americano X Japonês - O Teste Definitivo! - Verdade ou Mito - YouTube
- ↑ GamePro, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 133
- ↑ Sega Visions, "December/January 1994/1995" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 3
- ↑ Sega Visions, "February/March 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 81
- ↑ Sega Visions, "May 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 85