Sonic has the eyes of a COLD BLOODED KILLER.

Sega obviously had future plans for this venue. The interior looked like a prototype for a functional Death Egg.

...and a new Internet meme was born.

I didnt realise they had recording devices back in 1999. This guy is a visionary. Or something.

Yeah thats obviously a video of the Piccadilly Trocadero back in the day. Nowadays it's still an arcade, just with no mention of SEGA anywhere, though I've never really tried to find any remenants.

fasllma: someone with a speech impediment trying to tell a llama he's wrong.

Ooh, do I win a prize for recognising the Eggman boss theme from Sonic 3D (32 bit version for Saturn and PC)?

....I should get out more.

Er, well...at least it's some historic footage of the Sega World escalator.

I'm a Sega fan and stuff, but back then they were still trying to charge money to get into Sega World at the Trocadero. Always seemed like a pretty bad deal to me - pay a couple of quid to get into an arcade so you can then spend more money to have fun...

I went in when they made it free, and realised I'd made the right choice by saving my money before :-)

About the only good thing about the Trocadero back then was that Pepsi branded "shoot screaming girls up in the air" ride thingy. If you got the right vantage point on the escalators you could totally see up their skirts as they came back down :-)

About the only good thing about the Trocadero now is the exit...

eiviux - bottled water made in Luxembourg.

I achieved issue at the 25 second mark. Can anybody beat this? (Screenshots required for verification.)

Wow! Thanks for posting this, guys! I'm "Joe" by the way and yes I am a visionary.

I would have recorded more footage but I decided to just play games instead. I made my choice and I stand by it.

I used to go there all the time. The best game was 'try not to get mugged in the dingy pedestrian subway link to the underground station'.

They still do that 'shooting screaming girls into the air on bungy ropes' thing. But these days its better because girls grow big meats at the age of 11 now.

I'm so fucking glad that UK:R exists.

I recall an attraction at Sega World-- which you had to pay for, mind you-- which was called something like DEADLY SCARY ROOM OF HORRORS. At least, that's how I remembered it from the little attraction pamphlet you got.

Anyway, I paid my moneys, went in with a couple of other people, was told to sit down in a chair, put some headphones on, and 'HOLD ON TIGHT' to these little skull things in front of me. They then turned the lights off, played a soundclip of someone saying "lol im gona cut ur hair snip snip", and then turned the lights on and THAT WAS IT.

Even stranger, they seem to have put the exact same damn 'attraction' in the London Dungeon now, except without the skulls and with more tilty chairs.

Another grand memory I have of sega world, was the pamphlet showing this crazy disco lighting futuristic space-cannon-thing, where you get to zoom around and shoot other people in their zoomy things! Turned out it was basically bumper-cars-with-a-cage-on in a dirty corner of the complex, except the bumper cars shot plastic balls. All in all, the expensive attractions really were quite pathetic, even thought I did love Sega at the time...

I went back in 1997 or so, having flown down to London on a business trip (before I came to live here) related to some tedious software system for which I was the primary consultant for in Scotland.

Back then (when they still charged admission) they had a 'no unaccompanied children thing' - no kids under 16 without parents. Presumably as kids had no money back then, and as today just scare off punters who might actually have some to waste.

I remember it all very distinctly as the Eastenders extra on the desk (a girl who must have been no more than 16 herself) said I couldn't go in (despite the fact the whole place was completely dead) as I was 'clearly under 16'.

I produced some cards form my wallet (including my NI card, which I randomly had in there) and went 'look, I couldn't have all this if I was 16', to which she replied "well, yeah you could have got those from anywhere".

I also pointed out I was *in a suit*, not exactly characteristic of your average 14 year old (having just got finished with the business trip in the morning - by now it was mid afternoon on a weekday, the primary reason why the place was particularly quiet I'm sure).

She said thought that was a school uniform. I seem to recall I was offended, but it would have been from Top Man (where I got all my suits back then) so maybe it looked like I was skiving off from a down-market upper class school (that, or she was just a bit thick).

I think I went a bit mental and started abusing her verbally as someone else came over to deal with it and they let me in to avoid (more of) a scene. Not that there was anyone there to watch. I had a good time though (all the better for it not being crowded IMO!) and did pretty much all the big rides. Including the ones obviously meant for little kids, just because they were 3D.

I won't go in to how pants the arcade bits are now. None of the original rides are there (or decoration, stuff like the F1 car, etc). Last time I checked, it's got a Wimpy and a bowling ally (why do you only find Wimpy's in bowling alleys these days?) and dodgem's, which are always closed and some shitty fair ground games.

I loved the Alien Experience (based on the film) thing that was in the aforementioned "scary tunnel" from the underground station. They left all the decoration for that up long after the 'ride' had gone which must have looked weird to visitors (basically, they dressed up the entrance to the Alien look like something that resembled a industrial looking bit of a Red Dwarf set). When it was open, they paid a bunch of Australians (who put on fake American accents for authenticity) to walk around the place dressed as space marines, holding pulse rifles and being 'in character' and drawing people in.