ROTT Arcade Game

[Flaose]

I posted about this years ago, but I figured that I'd bring it up again.

Back in the mid-90's, a company called Cybermind Canada released a VR version of Rise of the Triad (and aparently Terminal Velocity as well) to arcades. I remember seeing it once at an arcade in my city back when I was fairly young, but I didn't realize how incredible rare and obscure it was and didn't think much more than "I've got that game at home!"

The only real reference to its existence I could find was http://web.archive.org/web/200610160..._guide/80.html, which is almost as good as nothing, and I have a feeling that the machine never made it into the United States, but I was wondering if anyone else had ever seen/played(!) one of these machines?

[GrimWoman]

This sounds interesting, do you have any pictures of the actual machine?

[jbailey]

I never heard of a arcade version of rott....

[Flaose]

Originally Posted by ReaperMan

This sounds interesting, do you have any pictures of the actual machine?

Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture. It was at a mall far from my house and I was way too young to go there myself. However, from what I remember it was just the VR unit (shown in the attached picture) with a joystick and a large-screened TV that showed what was playing on the head unit. Also, I think it was pricey for the time (4 quarters instead of 2?).

Anyways, it was cool, too bad nobody else seems to know anything about it.

[moron]

I saw the PC VR version of that back in the day it was like 150$ and it was a pair of 3D glasses that hooked up to your computer very rare now I guess

[Malvineous]

IIRC some of those games (maybe only BUILD ones) came with documentation about how to write your own "driver" to control the game from any input device you want. If you can find a modern VR headset you could always hook it up yourself :-)

I think the BUILD games also have some support for 3D glasses - I wonder whether you could use that to output onto a 3D TV...?

[Joeb]

there was a Wolfenstein VR game
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=wol...etail&id=12612

[MrBlackCat]

Not to get too far off topic, but I think there was a stand up DooM game in the movie Gross Point Blank in the scene where a villain blows up the convenience store. I have not seen the movie since it came out and only that once, but I am almost sure it was... the point being I never heard of or saw anything like that in person.

Just related trivia...

MrBlackCat