Ultimate simulator to streak into living rooms next month Avid fans of simulators may want to save their wages - and then some - for the TL1 Racing Flight and FPS Simulator, which shoots into (large) living rooms this June. Manufactured in co-operation with fast-car maker Ariel, the TL1 is said to house the world's first 180° spherical projector screen and variable driving position …
If you say your average turn on an arcade driving game is maybe 10 minutes ... and costs you £2 ... thats 5,750 turns on the arcade for the same price as this one to have at home.
So you could play in the arcade for half an hour a day for about 50 years before you spent more than the cost of this thing.
You been in an arcade lately? They are full of fruit machines and crane grab games! Sadly the days of seaside arcades being full of cutting edge gaming hardware are long gone. These days you'll be lucky to find a knackered Daytona machine and a few generic shooters with worse graphics than the Xbox you have at home.
[goes misty eyed at the memory of going into Southsea arcade circa 1986 and seeing Space Harrier hydraulic cab for the first time. Jaw dropping. Let alone the queue to get on it!!!!]
I remember doing something similar using 3 machines linked via IPX and 3 VGA projectors - you could start doom with "right" "left" and "center" - though the buggers took it out of later versions, it was really good fun...
This looks like equal fun, but a tad harder to either afford, or fit into my "compact and bijou" apartment...
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