Genesis Mouse?

So I hit upon an excellent day at the local thrift store, walking away with a NES, Intellivision 2, a Donkey Kong cart for Colecovision, an unfamiliar-looking Frogger cart, and a bag of NES gear including the less common grey Zapper, a normal controller with neon buttons (someone's interesting hack job, I guess) and to my surprise, a Genesis mouse. They seem to be fairly common on eBay, but I've honestly never seen one before. What are they used for - were there specific games, or do they actually function as an odd controller replacement?

 

The only game that I know of that uses the Genesis mouse is Art Alive. Nice find. :smt023

 

Besides Art Alive, you can maybe use use it online. Remember X-Band

 

I remember playing Dune 2 with it.

 

I think Power Monger has support for it too.

I just recently picked one up as well. Mind you, I mostly wanted it for the Sega branded mouse pad, but still.

 

The grey zapper is uncommon? Man, I saw loads of them in a Lansing thrift store, in the "cheap unboxed accessoires" bin :smt009

And about that neon button controller, I remember someone posting an ebay link to it, apparently nintendo released something that allowed you to color your controller :smt017

 

I'll post a pic of the NES controller later, but now that you mention it, I do remember seeing an eBay auction sometime for a controller with similarly colored buttons - I think either you or Paulo showed me. It's really odd, as the buttons fit perfectly, and seem to be the same size and shape as the normal ones, but I can't say I ever remember Nintendo offering anything with the buttons. Anyone have any info on this?

 

NES pad with neon buttons

I vaguely remember that a third party made controller maintainence kits for NESes that had replacements for all the buttons and the rubber things (is there a proper name for those?) behind them. I can't for the life of me remember who made it or what it was called. A friend of mine had one. I'd bet 99% of these were bought because some kid carved out the start and/or select buttons But anyway, being the late 80s/early 90s that it was, the replacement B and A buttons were neon.

 

Yeah my mom gave me a couple of those kits in my stocking one christmas...never even got around to using them...

If I remember correctly mine came from Renovation and with a neoprene gaming glove. :smt043

 

Japanese Mega CD games supported it like Shin Megami tensei.

 

It's possible that Urusei Yatsura (LUM) forever my friend also supports the Mega Drive mouse.

Yakumo

 

Eye of Beholder for the Sega CD supports it too.

 

wackyworlds use it.
its was bundled with the mouse , its a mario paint like , you can paint, play music , ect....

its a must for every sega genesis collector. :smt023

 

Maybe Lemmings works with it ?

Was Populous released on the MD that would probably support it.

 

yes lemming too.

this mouse isn't know like the super nintendo mouse, but is compatible with a lot more games. ( i think only 4 snes games support the mouse )

strange.