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Written by Philip Jones on Monday, July 24, 2006
Philip Jones explains to today's youngins just what exactly passed for "futuristic" back in the day, and severely dates himself in the process...
...Continued From Page 2 There are other games in the 3D series, more uncommon ones that I myself have not played and only actually seen on the internet. Only the four games I mentioned above seem to have had a general release in the west, the other games appear to be Japan only. Jungle Fighter, Sherman Attack and Dogfight were the games I never saw. There was a limited release of the game Dogfight, renamed to 3D Stereo Skyfighters. The design of the case is markedly different to the original series due to it having stereo sound. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the LCD technologies available at the time there were only so many types of game Tomy could make to take advantage of the 3D system they had created. For now, the games would remain a technological one-off.
Nintendo tried, with the Virtual Boy, to replicate and improve upon the experience delivered by the Tomytronic 3D games, only to largely fail due to a lack of portability, and color - features that the Tomytronic games had over 10 years before the Virtual Boy. The sad fact is that after the failure of the Virtual Boy we appear to be destined to never again have any kind of handheld 3D in your face action. Sniff!
posted September 8, 2006