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Sega R360

by LaserDiscMan on 12/19/22, 7:51 PM with 3 comments

• by thekombustor on 12/19/22, 8:53 PM

  I always find these footnotes in tech history quite interesting. I'd imagine for many arcades, this was simply too expensive (both up-front and with the seemingly required attendant for operation) alongside being effectively a puke generator.

  I wonder if any are still left operating. With the way Sega tends to handle licensing of their consoles (see: the Sega Nu [1]), I can't imagine any are left that are still operational.

  [1] https://github.com/diva-eng/nu-keychip

• by yupis on 12/19/22, 8:02 PM

  I remember seeing these as a child and afraid to get inside of them. I also remember people talking a lot about VR

• by LargoLasskhyfv on 12/19/22, 10:26 PM

  I've been in something like that at the time, but not sure exactly if this, running G-Loc, or something else called Afterburner. I remember having seen Afterburner several years later in Germany, with similar 360° setup.

  In Zandvoort, NL. Stoned OFC :-)