• A collection of mousepads exist with alive with at odds textured surfaces to fit many-sided at variance types of mouse technologies

• Vinyl board cover, because of its tackiness, was a popular mousepad surface around 1980.

In the blastoff there were only a few such manufacturers: Everglide (arguably the first to Mouse Pads come onto the market), fUnc Industries, Icemat, SteelSeries and Ratpadz (made by [H]ard|OCP). In 2005, considerable farther companies followed suit, including Razer, Qpad, Corepad, Xtracpads, X-Ray, Gamerzstuff, Ideazon, and Allsop. These pads are come-at-able in a distended incongruity of sizes to suit the divers sensitivity settings that gamers choose. The Corepad Deskpad XXXL, alone of the largest pads on the market, measures 90cm x 45cm.