Oh how soon time has forgotten Time Warner Interactive, publisher of such amazing titles such as "Dick Vitale's Awesome Baby! College Hoops" for Sega Genesis in 1994, and other gems.
Actually, Area 51 (the arcade machine) wasn't half bad.
There was an actual real-time racing game/demo that was completed for the system, but it didn't look anything like that video. It was more of a Formula-1 style racer, not futuristic. It looked pretty good, but not that good.
Actually the M2 was pre-Dreamcast, and that demonstration was indeed pre-rendered lies.
As one of the few people alive who has actually seen and played a real-live M2 (in fact, I have a dev board in a closet somewhere), I can say that it was a pretty impressive piece of hardware, but not anywhere close to the quality of that video. It was greatly superior to N64 but not quite up to the Dreamcast's level. It would have predated the Dreamcast by a couple years had it gone to market.
One of the neatest things about it was the controller--surrounding the d-pad was a little analog wheel that you could steer with your thumbs, for driving games.
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Jan 8th 2009 6:11PM (Joystiq)Actually, Area 51 (the arcade machine) wasn't half bad.
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Jul 12th 2008 10:15PM (Joystiq)There was an actual real-time racing game/demo that was completed for the system, but it didn't look anything like that video. It was more of a Formula-1 style racer, not futuristic. It looked pretty good, but not that good.
WRUP: One million polygons per second edition
Jul 11th 2008 9:02PM (Joystiq)As one of the few people alive who has actually seen and played a real-live M2 (in fact, I have a dev board in a closet somewhere), I can say that it was a pretty impressive piece of hardware, but not anywhere close to the quality of that video. It was greatly superior to N64 but not quite up to the Dreamcast's level. It would have predated the Dreamcast by a couple years had it gone to market.
One of the neatest things about it was the controller--surrounding the d-pad was a little analog wheel that you could steer with your thumbs, for driving games.