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Introduction
Slipstream: The Konix Multisystem Archive.
Sifting through the wreckage to discover what went wrong
Microsoft Kinect, Playstation Move, Nintendo Wii, Guitar hero,
Rockband...
These are all thoroughly modern ways of interacting with Consoles that are
fully immersing players in the game. What wonderfully technologically advanced
times we live in.
Not so long ago in video games history there was a real fear that if a
developer had an idea for creating an interesting peripheral, that the
additional cost to the end user of buying that peripheral possibly for the
sake of just one game would be too prohibitive to most players, that they
wouldn't buy the game.
It took a long time to get past this stigma, and the afore mentioned machines
and impending peripherals are proof that revolution (not surprisingly
Nintendo's code name for the Wii) and innovation can be financially viable -
and then some...
Now look back almost 20 years, a machine
arguably as significant as both the Wii for its innovative and revolutionary
controls and peripherals and as powerful as a PS3 or XBOX360 for both sound
and graphics capabilities was being produced by a small Joystick manufacturer
in Wales in Great Britain.
This website details the epic struggle of this manufacturer led by its
charismatic and visionary boss Wyn Holloway to secure funding to take his
concept of revolutionary controls paired with the amazing power of Flare
Technologies 'Flare One' computer concept and their attempt to take on the
might of Sega and Nintendo to try to launch what could have been the best
Games machine in the world.
If they had succeeded, the face of video games could have changed forever.
