Browse the current lineup of NBC TV shows. Watch full episodes, video clips and exclusives, read cast bios and browse photos on NBC. That Time Nintendo and Sega Introduced 3. D Gaming, In 1. 98. Years before Sega did what Nintendont the two gaming giants briefly went head to head in the newly discovered market of 3. D gaming. It didnt go very well for either of them. Off Their Rockers Season 2 Episode 7' title='Off Their Rockers Season 2 Episode 7' />In the late. Nintendos Famicom had become the Nintendo Entrainment System NES and Segas Mark III was rebranded the Master System, both of which launched stateside in 1. By the end of that first year the NES had sold over a million units, an astonishing feat. The Master System had fared far worse with an underwhelming 1. Both companies were adamant to find the next big craze in gaming and beat their competitors to market. Sega took a chance and launched the the stylish 3D spectacles in all three of their major markets Japan, North America, and Europe. The glasses retailed for roughly. Heres an image of Kevin Durant signing autographs at an Oakland As game, because restrictions on NBA wire images are no joke Photo Thearon W. HendersonGetty. The second season of the American comedy series New Girl premiered on September 25, 2012 on Fox and concluded on May 14, 2013. Season two consists of 25 episodes. Back in the ancient days of 2012, pundits and analysts across the world put on their soothsayer hats and predicted that iPhones and iPads would kill console gaming. Ask This Old House Season 15 Episode 24 Episode 24 16 hours ago American Grit Season 1 Episode 9 Tired Out Over the Falls 16 hours ago This Old House. Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly. Nintendos Famicom was already a big hit in Japan when 1. The home console had seen the introduction of the Disk System, an add on that allowed games to be played via custom floppy disks. Though a modest success in Japan, Nintendo never brought the system to any foreign markets. This was a common practice amongst the company. Test a product in Japan and act accordingly once sales numbers had been properly calculated. Peripherals like the Famicom Light Gun eventually known as the NES Zapper and R. O. B. With only six compatible games and players complaining about the uncomfortable headset, the 3. D System soon fell into obscurity, even in Japan. Its greatest claim to fame was working alongside the very first Mario racing title, dubbed Famicom Grand Prix II 3. D Hot Rally. It would be 2. Mario and friends would try their hand at 3. D racing again in Mario Kart 7. While Nintendo tested the waters and assessed the tastes of their newest customers, Sega scrambled to gain the upper hand. Nintendo had made things exceedingly hard for the up and coming gaming company by requiring software developers to commit solely to the Famicom. Sega fought back by producing their own games, but their Mark III just couldnt compete with the game selection and quality of the Famicom. Almost exactly a month after the release of the Famicom 3. D System, Sega launched their own attempt at 3. D gaming the Sega. Watch Smother Online Forbes. Scope 3. D Glasses. Sega took a chance and launched the the stylish 3. D spectacles in all three of their major markets Japan, North America, and Europe. The glasses retailed for roughly 5. Master System games. Many of the titles that Sega produced to work along side the Sega. Scope were simply 3. D versions of already popular games, hoping to promote their newest gadget with fan favorites like Out Run, Missile Defense, and Zaxxon. As you may have already guessed, the Sega. Scope was a massive flop as well. But it did produce this amazing cheesy commercial. Radical. Its interesting to think that both Nintendo and Sega managed to launch visual peripherals with such seemingly advanced technology thirty years ago. To understand the 3. D effects present in both the Famicom 3. D System and the Sega. Scope one must grasp the concept of alternate frame sequencing. Unlike the 3. D used today in movies and game systems like the 3. DS, alternate frame sequencing is a type of active 3. D that can only be achieved through shutter glasses. By switching from eye to eye in rapid succession shutter glasses force a users brain to combine the images seen on the left and right sides of the screen, therefore creating the illusion of depth. Its a technique that has fallen by the way side with the introduction of passive 3. D, which simply relies on a display and non electric polarized glasses. The appeal of 3. D gaming seems to flair up every few years, but it always falls by the wayside. In 1. 99. 5 Nintendo decided to promote a different kind of 3. D with the release of the Virtual Boy, and we all know how that turned out. In recent times Nintendo has begun to slowly downplay the 3. D abilities of their popular 3. DS handheld, going so far as to release a non 3. D variant known as the 2. DS. Given its sordid history and the advancements in virtual reality, 3. D gaming may be a gimmick that less and less consoles developers are willing to attempt in the future. Even so, its always fun to look back on the failures that brought us to this point in gaming technology. The Famicom 3. D System and Sega. Scope 3. D Glasses may have been quickly forgotten by the pubic, but theyll live on in gaming infamy for years to come.