Time Traveler Arcade Sega 1991 fake-3d

ime Traveler or Hologram Time Traveler was a stereographic FMV arcade game released in 1991 by Sega. Note: The Camera doesn't pick-up the 3-d illusion.

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• Time
• Traveler
• Arcade
• Sega
• 1991
• fake-3d

[matzanni]

juego conchesumadre nunca podia matar al indio!

[briankdrag]

Los indios son homosexuales. El vaquero es homosexual también. Asustan al vaquero de se. LOL

[esathegreat]

Sega always came out with hot new technologies,but you sons of bitches had to buy Mario games.

[Oderus24]

This is a classic, thanks for posting this, I've been looking for it for years!

[djmuggs187]

Hardest. Game. Ever.

[VideoGameMuseumCom]

Talk about an amazing looking game! This game was so tough as a kid though. I remember the timing of turning and shooting being insanely frustrating.

[dwightrapper]

Um, I remember playing the other Sega 3d game, it was a fighting game. Anyway I wouldn't call it fake. Was like a hologram, way more 3D than the movie Avatar for example, and no need for headache inducing glasses.

[GIRlovesWaffles]

Yeah I worked on Hard Drivin', but not Race Drivin' (where I worked, we neither got the game or kit for Hard Drivin). And if I recall( I might be wrong), Hard Drivin' was the first driving game with force feed-back controls and the first driving game with a clutch pedal. Pretty ambitious for 1989.

[CrustyBiker]

@GIRlovesWaffles Oh right! so as the title suggests, it is really fake-3D... but as I remember, it was quite good at first glance.. Did you work on all arcade machines, my favourite was the "Race Driving" one which sometimes went under the name "Hard Driving" but I think the race driving one had either a seat that moved or it was the fact that you had to use the clutch to change gears (3Pedals) oh and the wheel gave feedback when you crashed or went offroad, a novel idea in its day..lol!

[GIRlovesWaffles]

@CrustyBiker Pretty much so. Your just viewing the same picture tube image from a different section of the half bowl shaped mirror. And if I recall, the video image was slightly stretched out top to bottom to keep the character in somewhat of the right aspect, and not look to thin in the mirror. (Mind you it's been many years since I worked on one, so I'm trying to remember as much about the game as possible.)

[CrustyBiker]

@GIRlovesWaffles So if it's just a reflection of a flat screen, you cant really move left and right to see different angles of the characters, It only appears to move, but guys standing on your left and right will see exactly the same character angles as you?

[GIRlovesWaffles]

@CrustyBiker Close. It's a half of a bowl shaped mirror under a dark glass top. You are actually viewing a mirror image of a 19" Sony T.V. (not an arcade monitor). These games were crap. The glossy white material on the surface of the cabinet kept peeling off the wood., and the controls were a bitch to access when you needed to work on them.

[markawestern]

they had this game at a 7-11 when i was a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Wonder how much it costs for a working machine now?

[Chradnev]

@esathegreat Sony are the ones who really killed Sega.