I had these glasses as a kid and they worked great! Stuff really looked like it was jumping off the screen at you. Missile Defense, Maze Hunter and Zaxxon were a ton of fun. The only problem with them was they were super fragile. There was no give at all to the glasses. They broke constantly and cost a ton of money to buy another pair. After the 3rd set broke, my parents said that was it.
The SMS used active LCD shutter glasses, just like many of today's 3D TVs. The 3d effect worked really well for me. It was certainly far more effective than the red/blue glasses which were normally used for 3D on a standard TV.
The virtual boy had a few good games,it would be better if they just made it like the glasses and you plug it up to a console, and its pretty much like this
Those Sega 3D glasses were probably made/tuned for the older TV's of the time - the timing will be off if you use them with today's televisions (flatscreens/LCD) because of processing delays, which will cause ghosting or double vision due to the shutters not shuttering at the right times
He was using a CRT tv in this video. CRT's didn't change since they were introduced other than color tv in the 50s and the flat outer glass of newer crts
3D has been around since the 1800s, and in film almost as long as film has existed. What you saw in the 50s, 80s, and 2000s (3D actually started becoming popular in 2003 with Ghosts of the Abyss, but in IMAX 3D only) was a major shift in 3D technology that made the film geeks want to play with it again (50s saw "Natural Vision" cameras, 80s saw single projector systems, and 200s saw digital 3D cameras and projectors). The last boom has also lasted longer and with more movies than the others.
Thanks so much for this video. I dreamed so much about these 3-d glasses when I was a kid looking at them on the SEGA catalogue. Never seen them in real life until now.
I think James had the glasses plugged in a bad way, because I have them and there is a huuuuge difference between the regular version of the game and the 3D. It's common to not plugged them properly at the card port.
Poor Mike, James should have let the dude play a litte, he sounded like he really wanted: "How is it like?" "I never played this in my life". Geee James, get a clue, the guy is your friend, let him try it... =/ (Just a joke, of course)
To those asking why he plays on a TV like that: Timing shutter glasses from the console only works with an analog TV with no video processing. Same for lightgun games. Other special effects rely on interlaced scan lines that are processed out in a modern TV. Be authentic!
My mom sells at a farmers market. Its more of a british thing, where in a town or village, many stalls and things. People sell unwanted things as well because they may get the attention of kids that have be bought along. But originally they were called farmers markets because the village farmers would come and sell their produce to the villagers.
@Thatnamenobodytook that game over sends chills for me even to this day, because when this game was made, the Cold War was going on, and the threat of nuclear war was a possibility then as it is now. Back then, Sega didn't fuck around when it came to showing possible realities of nuclear war with Missile Defense 3D and SDI - Strategic Defense Initiative (a.k.a. Global Defense). In a way, it was just as harsh as "You and your friends are dead. Game Over" in Friday the 13th.
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I have these too. Sometimes the game doesn't start the shutters properly, and you have to unplug it from the console and plug it back in. They do work pretty well though, way better than the Virtual Boy.
Me and my older brother had Zaxxon 3d when we were kids in the 80s. I felt the coolest part was when you approach the trench, and with the glasses on it made it look like it popped out of the screen, like a drawer. At the time, it was amazing, but I'm sure if I saw it again, I wouldn't be as awestruck.
I could, but we would be here all day. To put it simple, everything is built up by spacetime - space and time. Like a 3D cube is built up by lenght weith and height, we are built up by this as well, but reality is a linear path also. This is known as duration. So in a way the 4th dimension can easily be seen as dimension similar to for example length. And every dimension builds on all dimensions before it, so I could not possibly begin to explain how the dimensions after are built up, though.
In my neck of the woods, a Farmer's Market is just that, a place where farmers sell produce. A Flea Market is a place where people sell items. It could be a colloquial term or all I know, but as I understand it the two aren't synonymous.
If the market in San Antonio is anything to go by, it hardly has anything to do with farms. It's mostly just a place where people can set up shop on the cheap and there's lots of visitors because the attractions are concentrated.
Ah yes the ole' sega master system 3d glasses my favorite game with the 3d glasses i would have to say us missile defense 3d that game was fun as hell I must say
don`t know how the original sega glasses work but i can see the effect when i watch letsplays of the old 3d games on my 3d mobile phone. not bad for the old days
Having movies in a holodeck might actually b pretty cool. You could actually be in the movie. It could guide you from scene to scene observing everything or even be one of the characters yourself
These glasses if I recall are supposed to work like the active 3D glasses that they use in TVs today. However since the frame rate is essentially halved the effect has some problems, This is why your 3D TVs have to be 120Hz.
I just got these today in a lot together with Outrun 3-D, some other games and the console itself and read some about them. THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT THESE is that a) they don't seem to work properly with a 100 or 120hz CRT and b) sometimes you have to wiggle the plug on the console to get the best possible image (a comon problem with these). I haven't been yet able to test these on my 50hz tv but I got the double vision effect on the 100hz that Jame's describing on the video.
I have to admit, for something that's a part of the 3d video game craze back in the 1990's, this is better than the HUGE ass Virtual Reality Stuntmaster.
All joking aside 3D has been around since the '50s. It seems 3D makes a comeback every 30 years or so, after the '50s 3D came back in the '80s and now it's back in the 2010s
@segamanxero The concept for 3D has been around for a very long time. If memory serves me correctly, from the 1940s and 50s. It may even be before that. However, the problems that people have with it now are pretty much the same. Only about 1 in 3 people can truly appreciate it. The rest get eye strain, headaches or various other health issues. That's why it keeps disappearing and reappearing. Every iteration seems to be better but the problems still persists.
I remember it looking really good. It might just be one of those things where you remember a game looking great for the time. I think it worked by flickering the left and right eyes really fast. It looked blurry as you saw, without the glasses on. With them on it wasn't blurry because you weren't able to see both parts of the screen. I don't know for sure.
That's exactly how they worked. There was a way to play those games in 2D as well. It looked like he had the 3D off on Space Harrier. I remembered them working surprisingly well.
They used to make glasses like these for everything that used games at one point or another. They work by alternating between completely blanking out one eye while exposing the other, and doing something similar with the displayed frame on-screen. It's basically 3-D through optical illusion. They're ALWAYS shitty.
I've had this glasses back on 1990 and they were pretty inovative for the time. The 3D is not awesome, but that was huge leap in terms of what a console can do. SEGA was very forward thinking on their hardware. Unfortunately, not all games go along with that culture.
I had a 3D headset for one system a long time ago when I was a kid and something scary happened that year. FIRST day I used it I put it on my head, it was one of those big whole head units, and the thing started to shoot smoke while it was on my head. My mom got a refund but it scared us something fierce.
To be technical, we can only theorize about dimensions above the 4th because we have no way to perceive them currently. We can somewhat prove them through complicated math but hard proof is not there yet. There is a great book on the theorized (and mathematically observed) 10 dimensions. Google it, great read.
I didn't really read lookatmeanimator's comment, but I get his point from reading your reply, the fourth dimension is the time constant, or duration rather. The different dimensions applying to the five senses is a popular misconception, however, there are eleven dimensions and none of them above dimension 4 can apply to our vision, which is the only sense used to sense dimensional debth.
What a treat it must be to just pick items out of the treasure chest to play. I had space harrier 3D and I gotta say I didn't notice much 3D either, but I still had to play with the glasses on anyway to pretend I guess haha. Fun game for the time too.
Just like FryerFace, as far as I know, and at least here and the places I've been to; a flea market was where generic items would be sold, the kind of things sold at a garage/yard sale. While a Farmer's Market was just that, food from local farmers being sold,
The ironic thing is that this isn't far (it's pretty much exact) from how modern 3d tvs with their glasses work. it alternates to darken one or the other lens and display a different picture for each. So 1980s shutter glasses. Sega was way ahead of time. (or todays 3d gimmic is way late)
To all people who don't know: there's a graphic after 1080p, 2160p, and even though it's still under massive developement it's probably going to be a future graphic, maybe not for consoles like X720 and PS4 but the ones after that most likely. You should Google that.
Rewatching this and then talking about "what could be after 3D movies" is kind of strange. They had no idea that 4K video would eventually be a thing of today.
@segamanxero no only 3d but I think it was Sega that first introduced modems to consoles and this was before the Dreamcast. They sold a 56k modem for Sega Genesis...
I know I can see 3D well, but my pair of 3D glasses for the Master System only seemed well for a few times. They impressed me then, but maybe the shutter flickering is off on them now.
OH WOW!!! :D Dude, I haven't seen these things in YEARS!!! I got those when I was a kid...and I LOVED them! By today's standards, the 3D is a bit dated...but back in the day, they were ABSOLUTELY amazing! My favorites were OutRun 3D, Blade Eagle 3D & my ULTIMATE FAVORITE : Yep...MISSILE DEFENSE 3D!! ;) That game was SO DAMN COOL...and sometimes I'll be driving home late at night & I'll get that freakin theme song stuck in my head! Haha! ;) True Story!
Maybe he had to try that on an older TV. I think the glasses have a mechanism to alternatively shut up/down the vision. However, some TVs have their own post processing units which somehow cause delay & transforms and kill perfect synchronisation between the console and TV in terms of timing. What we need here is just a dummy TV.
I never claimed to have beaten the hardest NES game (Takeshi's Challenge?), but you are right that a sense of accomplishment does in fact come to me when I beat a challenging game, even if it's not necessarily a Bionic Commando quality ending.
I had these glasses as a kid and they worked great! Stuff really looked like it was jumping off the screen at you. Missile Defense, Maze Hunter and Zaxxon were a ton of fun. The only problem with them was they were super fragile. There was no give at all to the glasses. They broke constantly and cost a ton of money to buy another pair. After the 3rd set broke, my parents said that was it.
please do more this. You know you haven't went through everything in your game room with mike on camera. Same found footage style like this.
+Cody Price Its called Mike and James Monday.
The Readers Corner how bout you blow me, and no. I was way more literal, like look around the room checking shit out.
"is this worse or is the other one better?" it's like asking "yes or yes?"
is it tho? is it?
@@GawrGurasBathTubPizza Yes it is not.
Those glasses kind of look like Bret Hitman Hart's glasses
Lmao
サンドヴィッチ HOW CLEVER
James in these glasses looks like Terminator
He has a treasure trove of video games, holy crap! I'd love to go over there and play some retro games.
The SMS used active LCD shutter glasses, just like many of today's 3D TVs. The 3d effect worked really well for me. It was certainly far more effective than the red/blue glasses which were normally used for 3D on a standard TV.
"...Just like many of today's 3D TVs...."
Wow, this comment is old.
@@Robciomixxnfs you can still buy a 3D TV and 3D projectors are common.
At least the glasses look decent unlike that Virtual boy piece of crap
To be fair, anything looks better than the fucking Virtual Boy
Exactly
The virtual boy had a few good games,it would be better if they just made it like the glasses and you plug it up to a console, and its pretty much like this
Barrel Roll yeah like the 6 games that came out were ok.
Noah Hoenigman Mario tennis,mario clash,teleroboxer,that space shootemup,
ive thought about getting these a bunch of times just got shits and giggles to see if they worked or not. hell i'd be down for some space harrier :D
🖤
At least they look cool, they look like doc Brown's except black
Those Sega 3D glasses were probably made/tuned for the older TV's of the time - the timing will be off if you use them with today's televisions (flatscreens/LCD) because of processing delays, which will cause ghosting or double vision due to the shutters not shuttering at the right times
He was using a CRT tv in this video. CRT's didn't change since they were introduced other than color tv in the 50s and the flat outer glass of newer crts
click4dylan2 I was pointing out that if they were used with *today's* TV's they will probably not work
I was raised on this stuff since I was 5. I am currently 14, and I appreciate older games more than I appreciate most newer consoles.
SEGA 4-D Glasses- see beyond human perception.
Zaxon 3D
Zaxoff 2D
***** Justin Beiber No D
Zaxon - Zaxoff, Daniel-san
+DOSRetroGamer lol
Zaxshutdown 1D
I loved seeing The Phantom Menace in 3D, I hate that Disney canceled the rest of em.
+JaredThaJa Me too.
I like seeing the movies that made a Star Wars fan
The Prequels are great, fuck the hate.
I like Episode 1 and Episode 3 the best. In fact I think Episode 3 is my second favorite Star Wars movie.
Man I wanted to see in those glasses so bad!!!
1:21
Pause and then watch through the 3DS's cammeras.
3D has been around since the 1800s, and in film almost as long as film has existed. What you saw in the 50s, 80s, and 2000s (3D actually started becoming popular in 2003 with Ghosts of the Abyss, but in IMAX 3D only) was a major shift in 3D technology that made the film geeks want to play with it again (50s saw "Natural Vision" cameras, 80s saw single projector systems, and 200s saw digital 3D cameras and projectors). The last boom has also lasted longer and with more movies than the others.
No! This Glasses are amazing! You have to play Maze Hunter 3D!!!
Thanks so much for this video. I dreamed so much about these 3-d glasses when I was a kid looking at them on the SEGA catalogue. Never seen them in real life until now.
+theskig the glasses work great, even with new nvidia cards. its the tv that was the problem.
after 3D would be VR :)
I think James had the glasses plugged in a bad way, because I have them and there is a huuuuge difference between the regular version of the game and the 3D. It's common to not plugged them properly at the card port.
Ahh Star Wars 3D that never happened
"That's a Death Star btw."
* Points at a TIE Fighter-esque ship *
Poor Mike, James should have let the dude play a litte, he sounded like he really wanted: "How is it like?" "I never played this in my life". Geee James, get a clue, the guy is your friend, let him try it... =/ (Just a joke, of course)
What id give to just sit in that room and embrace its epic ambiance.
I just mı̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̨ade you wipe your screen.
not really
Oooooooooh.... I was so close to wiping the screen. But then I simply pushed the Up button. The smudge moved with you. Ah HAA! Nice try buddy
That comment is gı̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̨ay.
Okay, that was funny!
Shaun Basham Wrong.
To those asking why he plays on a TV like that: Timing shutter glasses from the console only works with an analog TV with no video processing. Same for lightgun games. Other special effects rely on interlaced scan lines that are processed out in a modern TV. Be authentic!
My mom sells at a farmers market. Its more of a british thing, where in a town or village, many stalls and things. People sell unwanted things as well because they may get the attention of kids that have be bought along. But originally they were called farmers markets because the village farmers would come and sell their produce to the villagers.
You are not alone. I had both versions of the console and all the accessories.
@Thatnamenobodytook that game over sends chills for me even to this day, because when this game was made, the Cold War was going on, and the threat of nuclear war was a possibility then as it is now. Back then, Sega didn't fuck around when it came to showing possible realities of nuclear war with Missile Defense 3D and SDI - Strategic Defense Initiative (a.k.a. Global Defense). In a way, it was just as harsh as "You and your friends are dead. Game Over" in Friday the 13th.
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I have these too. Sometimes the game doesn't start the shutters properly, and you have to unplug it from the console and plug it back in. They do work pretty well though, way better than the Virtual Boy.
Maze Hunter 3D (Maze Walker) is fucking amazing looking in the 3D Classics Collection
"Is this worse, or is the other one better?" lol
Me and my older brother had Zaxxon 3d when we were kids in the 80s. I felt the coolest part was when you approach the trench, and with the glasses on it made it look like it popped out of the screen, like a drawer. At the time, it was amazing, but I'm sure if I saw it again, I wouldn't be as awestruck.
Love your room. So much old school stuff.
I could, but we would be here all day. To put it simple, everything is built up by spacetime - space and time. Like a 3D cube is built up by lenght weith and height, we are built up by this as well, but reality is a linear path also. This is known as duration. So in a way the 4th dimension can easily be seen as dimension similar to for example length. And every dimension builds on all dimensions before it, so I could not possibly begin to explain how the dimensions after are built up, though.
I beleave actualy, I still want them.
Those glasses are one of the things that make me wanna play on my Mastersystem once again.
In my neck of the woods, a Farmer's Market is just that, a place where farmers sell produce. A Flea Market is a place where people sell items. It could be a colloquial term or all I know, but as I understand it the two aren't synonymous.
Pretty advanced for the time. It used LCD shutters like modern 3D tv glasses
If the market in San Antonio is anything to go by, it hardly has anything to do with farms. It's mostly just a place where people can set up shop on the cheap and there's lots of visitors because the attractions are concentrated.
Ah yes the ole' sega master system 3d glasses my favorite game with the 3d glasses i would have to say us missile defense 3d that game was fun as hell I must say
don`t know how the original sega glasses work but i can see the effect when i watch letsplays of the old 3d games on my 3d mobile phone. not bad for the old days
i really would like to spent 2 or maybe 3 weeks in that basement :) his collection is so great
More power to you. I'm rather glad to see someone younger than me (IE, younger than 14 years old) who's into this sort of thing.
Having movies in a holodeck might actually b pretty cool. You could actually be in the movie. It could guide you from scene to scene observing everything or even be one of the characters yourself
I had a set of these BITD, and I remember them working decent. I really enjoyed playing Outrun 3D.
i had those games and those glasses haha this is nostalgia.
"Is this worse or was the other one better?" Haha
These glasses if I recall are supposed to work like the active 3D glasses that they use in TVs today. However since the frame rate is essentially halved the effect has some problems, This is why your 3D TVs have to be 120Hz.
Nice Godzilla action figures near your 'Sega 3-D Glasses' box, I had the mecha king ghidorah too :-D
I just got these today in a lot together with Outrun 3-D, some other games and the console itself and read some about them. THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT THESE is that
a) they don't seem to work properly with a 100 or 120hz CRT and
b) sometimes you have to wiggle the plug on the console to get the best possible image (a comon problem with these). I haven't been yet able to test these on my 50hz tv but I got the double vision effect on the 100hz that Jame's describing on the video.
Don't forget that this is now 30 year old hardware. It worked and worked well when it was new.
tightlypackedcoil I just tested it on a normal 50hz TV and it worked fine. I think James might have a 100/120hz one as well..
I have to admit, for something that's a part of the 3d video game craze back in the 1990's, this is better than the HUGE ass Virtual Reality Stuntmaster.
Space harrier! It's so fun to play within Shemnue. I think that's the best port of it. It's already 3D doesn't need glasses!
"is this worse or was the other one better?" good one, mike
the precurser to james and mike mondays
All joking aside 3D has been around since the '50s. It seems 3D makes a comeback every 30 years or so, after the '50s 3D came back in the '80s and now it's back in the 2010s
@segamanxero The concept for 3D has been around for a very long time. If memory serves me correctly, from the 1940s and 50s. It may even be before that. However, the problems that people have with it now are pretty much the same. Only about 1 in 3 people can truly appreciate it. The rest get eye strain, headaches or various other health issues. That's why it keeps disappearing and reappearing. Every iteration seems to be better but the problems still persists.
I have those glasses still. My favorite games are missle defense 3d and maze hunter 3d. I also have Space Harrier 3d and Zaxxon 3d as well.
I remember it looking really good. It might just be one of those things where you remember a game looking great for the time. I think it worked by flickering the left and right eyes really fast. It looked blurry as you saw, without the glasses on. With them on it wasn't blurry because you weren't able to see both parts of the screen. I don't know for sure.
That's exactly how they worked. There was a way to play those games in 2D as well. It looked like he had the 3D off on Space Harrier. I remembered them working surprisingly well.
They used to make glasses like these for everything that used games at one point or another.
They work by alternating between completely blanking out one eye while exposing the other, and doing something similar with the displayed frame on-screen. It's basically 3-D through optical illusion.
They're ALWAYS shitty.
I've had this glasses back on 1990 and they were pretty inovative for the time. The 3D is not awesome, but that was huge leap in terms of what a console can do. SEGA was very forward thinking on their hardware. Unfortunately, not all games go along with that culture.
from time to time i recheck the videos just to see if i liked them already
that basement is my definition of heaven
Your sense of humour is wonderful.
Exactly, the oldies are original and actually more fun to play because they were "games" not chores haha.
wow I remember buying this and the system at a farmers market when I was a kid!
I had a 3D headset for one system a long time ago when I was a kid and something scary happened that year. FIRST day I used it I put it on my head, it was one of those big whole head units, and the thing started to shoot smoke while it was on my head. My mom got a refund but it scared us something fierce.
Fill my eyes... with that double vision.
To be technical, we can only theorize about dimensions above the 4th because we have no way to perceive them currently. We can somewhat prove them through complicated math but hard proof is not there yet. There is a great book on the theorized (and mathematically observed) 10 dimensions. Google it, great read.
@85AngelShadow Actually, the license was from Tecmo, developers of the original NG arcade and the NES version.
I didn't really read lookatmeanimator's comment, but I get his point from reading your reply, the fourth dimension is the time constant, or duration rather. The different dimensions applying to the five senses is a popular misconception, however, there are eleven dimensions and none of them above dimension 4 can apply to our vision, which is the only sense used to sense dimensional debth.
oh wow i remember seeing this on ebay and recommending it to him for review. What a surprise
What a treat it must be to just pick items out of the treasure chest to play. I had space harrier 3D and I gotta say I didn't notice much 3D either, but I still had to play with the glasses on anyway to pretend I guess haha. Fun game for the time too.
Do you see those quotation marks? Yeah, they're there for more than mere decoration!
Just like FryerFace, as far as I know, and at least here and the places I've been to; a flea market was where generic items would be sold, the kind of things sold at a garage/yard sale. While a Farmer's Market was just that, food from local farmers being sold,
The ironic thing is that this isn't far (it's pretty much exact) from how modern 3d tvs with their glasses work. it alternates to darken one or the other lens and display a different picture for each. So 1980s shutter glasses. Sega was way ahead of time. (or todays 3d gimmic is way late)
consoles in the 80s/90s so many accessories that barely had any use.
My first console was an NES, 2 or 3 years after the n64 came out, then an n64 when the gamecube came out.
his room is like heaven to me....
To all people who don't know: there's a graphic after 1080p, 2160p, and even though it's still under massive developement it's probably going to be a future graphic, maybe not for consoles like X720 and PS4 but the ones after that most likely. You should Google that.
I'm not sure which came first but the Famicom had a 3d attachment. Famicom Dojo did an excellent piece on it.
Rewatching this and then talking about "what could be after 3D movies" is kind of strange. They had no idea that 4K video would eventually be a thing of today.
Wow AVGN you and I have the exact same game rooms. Mine has the EXACT same flooring and walls. Very cool.
@segamanxero no only 3d but I think it was Sega that first introduced modems to consoles and this was before the Dreamcast. They sold a 56k modem for Sega Genesis...
Mike is like an eye doctor, questioning James, who is taking an eye exam.
I know I can see 3D well, but my pair of 3D glasses for the Master System only seemed well for a few times. They impressed me then, but maybe the shutter flickering is off on them now.
Nice icon, fooled me for a second, made me think that I was using my ponyhoof for a second haha.
This is the first time you have featured something I have never seen.
you know whats super cool?! you can play space harrier on nintendo 3ds in 3d today, space harrier will always be one of my all time favorite games
Sega did make a game, was also in the arcade and it was for the Genesis too... That was the first in it's time.. in the early or late 90's
I played Space Harrier 3D until my eyes need real glasses. The 3D effect was cool for the 80s and early 90s.
OH WOW!!! :D
Dude, I haven't seen these things in YEARS!!!
I got those when I was a kid...and I LOVED them! By today's standards, the 3D is a bit dated...but back in the day, they were ABSOLUTELY amazing! My favorites were OutRun 3D, Blade Eagle 3D & my ULTIMATE FAVORITE : Yep...MISSILE DEFENSE 3D!! ;) That game was SO DAMN COOL...and sometimes I'll be driving home late at night & I'll get that freakin theme song stuck in my head! Haha! ;) True Story!
mmm, delicious home-grown Sega Master System 3D Goggles. some of my favorite food as a kid...
Maybe he had to try that on an older TV. I think the glasses have a mechanism to alternatively shut up/down the vision. However, some TVs have their own post processing units which somehow cause delay & transforms and kill perfect synchronisation between the console and TV in terms of timing. What we need here is just a dummy TV.
Space Harrier 3D was SO AWESOME back then. Also Maze Hunter 3-D was pretty cool.
Almost no fucks in that entire video, mike you saved the day
I never claimed to have beaten the hardest NES game (Takeshi's Challenge?), but you are right that a sense of accomplishment does in fact come to me when I beat a challenging game, even if it's not necessarily a Bionic Commando quality ending.
They make him look like Doc Brown in Back to the Future Part II.