Posted November 22, 2022

Of course the third button wasn't the more or less standard wheel as it is now, but simply a third button.
Anyway, what people seem to forget is that in DOS you needed to load all device drivers, if you wanted use those devices. Simply calling those as an OS function, like in Windows 95 and later versions, wasn't the case.
So if you wanted the play with a mouse, you created a bootdisk that loaded the mouse driver.
If you wanted to play with a three-button mouse, you needed a driver for that three-button mouse, and obviously the game needed to support input from that, which none of the games I know did.
So playing without a mouse was simply more convenient.