Shut Up and MindDrive

[@Wayde-VA3NCA]

Technically... Typing on your keyboard is also a MindDrive 😂

[@joshhiner729]

I enjoyed how the game says use the keyboard to speed up and slow down but arent we supposed to be using mind control? No. Only for left and right. Great video. It cracked me up.

[@MikeStavola]

I played with one of these a *lot* back in the day. I managed to get it to do something if I was super animated to go one way, and relaxed to make it go the other way. Like, shaking my hand around would make it go right, and not would make it go left. But I also think it might have been in my head. I think, after thinking about it as an adult with an electronics background, the sensor is just a millivolt meter. If it detected more mVs than baseline across it, it would register it as a 1, and those would add up to make the bar move. Then, the system would stop adding 1s, and slowly lower that number when it detected less mV across the sensor, meaning the bar would go the other way. In short, I think it was stupid.

[@miked4377]

i just gave you a thumbs up!! with my MIND!

[@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman]

I wrote an article about "adaptive brain interfaces" in the late '90s. I'm pretty sure that no fingerprint sensors were involved in the setup.

[@8antipode9]

I do remember when these first came out, and my reaction then, my reaction now, and your (apparent) reaction is the same. The most they could do on this thing is to read the resistance of the finger sensor and use that as input. It would be interesting to see if you could control it by increasing or decreasing pressure on the sensor (thus changing the resistance).

[@adamrandall2996]

yes, moving your finger on the sensor and increasing/decreasing the pressure does affect the "input". The MindDrive is a fascinating device, it is, to my knowledge, the worst, most counter-intuitive, non-user-friendly game controller ever conceived. I'm currently trying to archive everything about it, if you're interested to see more, I've made a playlist of the games I own: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX6QgoyJia-Lfsk

[@cpm1003]

This seems almost like a gag-gift.

[@lasskinn474]

just sell a dvd of gameplay and a doohickey to strap on your hand. it'll work as long as the player is thinking about the right thing. edit: teardown please

[@horusfalcon]

Try playing Choplifter with it.... or Airwolf. 😆

[@rivards1]

Put hot dog into the sensor, it should detect. Then see how well it controls the games!

[@Dirty_Bits]

I remember when that thing came out. Thought it was so cool until I read the objective reviews.

[@BustaHymen]

What did I just watch 🤣

[@krad2520]

It's funny, I was just watching a video on MindFlight, which looked like the best game that was actually available for the peripheral. Kind of a shame that what looks like a semi-serviceable rail shooter / Terminal Velocity hybrid is locked behind such an obscure and incomprehensible control "solution".

[@adamrandall2996]

That's probably my gameplay video? Indeed MindFlight is probably the only "real" game for the MindDrive. That said, I'm currently trying to archive everything about this device before it all becomes lost media and I actually found what seems like 2 SDKs (one for DOS, another for Windows). My programming days are way behind me, but if someone's able to "reverse-engineer" the signal from the MindDrive, that means we could 1) play those games without the MindDrive and 2) Use the MindDrive to play other games.

[@krad2520]

@@adamrandall2996 It was indeed your video, cheers!

[@dlrpgmsvc]

@@adamrandall2996 I'm trying to catch the serial data stream from MindDrive, with a FTDI rs232-usb cable and w11, but all I get is a HEX "00" when the MindDrive is turned on...

[@erichollar5503]

As Jerry Seinfeld would say: "Good luck with all that!"

[@davidverbeek4849]

you were a lot kinder in your review then LGR was, you forgot to try you toe, toung and a tomato in that order

[@TheReimecker]

Thats so funny. You need to think more lefter :-)