She says "SEGA" on her somewhere, only we weren't granted high enough access levels to find out where (full-size original here for personal/educational/research use only).
It's Mad Wave Motion Theater! A thing you lie on and get shaken around, like it's still 1987 and those rides you sit in and get shaken from left to right while watching film footage of a rollercaster ride are still cutting-edge.
So anyway. ATEI. It's not all glamorous. There are lots of empty cash-generating machines lying about the place.
About two-thirds of ATEI is relatively dingy booths based around gambling - ie, using a machine to take money from people, often for money-laundering purposes.
Here's SEGA boasting about how much money UFO catchers rake in. Or how much we spent on Mega Drive games in the early 1990s.
"Shoot This, Win This" - some rather damning evidence that the death of all arcades is only about 18 months away.
Bowling game. Small balls. Stupidly shot holding camera sideways, hence worse than usual quality.
Some men dancing. If you're finding all this a bit heavy going, there's an edited highlights version of all the video footage over on Tech Digest with a little story attached to it as well.
AMAZING SEGA FACT: This is the advice sticker on the back of the OutRun2SP DX twin-player cabinet. This sort of thing is why it's worth going to ATEI.
And this is the front of it.
And this is why it's also not really worth going to ATEI.
A machine full of Bob The Builder toys. And there's a Zippy. YouTube is going to go ballistic over this. We may end up getting headhunted by a major US network.
17 seconds of SEGA Race TV, most of those wasted filming a man's ridiculous jacket. Sorry.
SEGA now makes those games where you hit a thing with a stick :(
Wii version in 2009? :(
10 DOES IT SAY "SEGA" ON IT?
20 IF TEN = "YES" TAKE PHOTO
It's OK. We are nearly finished.
This was there!! SEGA's very own wonky-faced Sonic!
It's not so bad from the right angle.
Still looks rather wrong from the front, though.
If you were wondering - £4500.
No idea why this was photographed. Was probably going to despair about how "the kids" go to arcades to win rubbish American merchandise nowadays, rather than to actually play decent games.
The end (full-size original here for personal/educational/research use only).
A site about games and game paraphernalia and how nothing's as good as we remember it, probably because we used to inhabit a FANTASY WORLD.
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What are we half-heartedly skimming RIGHT NOW? RECENTLY...
Each post .02% worse than the last. WE'D LIKE ONE OF THESE T-SHIRTS. PLEASE. ATEI ARCADE SHOW 2008 - VIDEOS AND PHOTOS AND WE E... ELSEWHERE ON "THE NETWORK" #00012 SOMEONE FINALLY MANNED UP AND GOT THEIR CAMERA OUT... GIZMONDO MAKING A COMEBACK - WE WILL FINALLY HAVE ... A BIG PHOTO OF SONIC SELLING BURGERS MICROSOFT PRODUCES GOODS *AGAIN* IN KOREA COMPUTER! MAGNIFY SECTOR A1... SEGA SUPERSTARS TENNIS REWRITES THE LAWS OF MATHEM...
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Use our Play or Amazon Shops to buy those shit Wii games you secretly like, helping the effort. ARCHIVES
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Some updates weren't universally hated by the entire world within seconds of being uploaded.
1. The Animal Crossing Wild World mega-feature and public-service review
2. Sonic CD - screenshot parade
3. Cream The Rabbit sexual diagrams
4. OutRun2 screenshot-taking guide for the benefit of inept journalists
5. The personal UKR SEGA Toys Homestar planetarium review
6. Trying to buy an Xbox 360 in London
7. (STILL) THE MOST AMAZING PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPH OF ALL TIME
8. A trip to GamesMaster (in Peckham)
Links to that blog of yours you started up and were excited about for a whole weekend.
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It came with the template. Maybe in 2014 we'll jump on board the Twitter train and put that in here. Or a radio. That'd be nice.
/Sad guffaw
Good to see the booth girls are still as drunk as ever.
i played sega race tv at a club sega last month and it was pretty crap.
the only thing i liked about it was whacking the boost button at cool moments (e.g. in the middle of a power slide) like i knew what i was doing, or just whenever someone walked past.
oh and also because it was pretty easy, unlike sega driving school which decided, after my giving it countless 100-yen coins spread over no less than two trips to japan, to hit me with a driving theory test.
bloody sega :(
Only I would have given Nozomi a good seeing to by now. And Joy. And Fangmei...(that's legal...right?)
Where do I sign my life savings away?
http://kotaku.com/350968/sega-brings-the-skimpy-maid-outfits