Sega Activator: Full Body Motion Controller
This little gem by Sega was
one their unsuccessful products in the 90’s. It came onto the market in 1993 as
Sega’s first attempt at a peripheral based. The Activator was marketed as a new
type of simulator for martial arts. They way you used it was you would stand in
side of the octagon that would lay on the floor and the infrared beams from the
specific point on the outside of the octagon would translate into input for the
game as you moved around.
What was cool about this was
you could use this with not just games designed for the product, such as Mortal
Kombat and Street Fighter, but you could use it with your regular Sega Games as
well like sonic and others…
The Activator cost $80. And
in the 90’s that was a lot more money then what it seems now. So with high cost
for the controller and having it be so inaccurate when using it, It soon died
out like many other bad technical products be it.
Below is informative video
on the Sega Activator and a Picture of what it looked like.
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