Sega AI Game Computer

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Mon Aug 10 03:02:51 1998

Are you ready for this? Remember the Japanese and their lovable wack-o
Fifth Generation projects? Oh, this is good. From a friend of mine:

<<
Back in the heyday of AI in the early 80's, Sega was just a brand-new,
fledgling game company. They did a stint with AI, and one of their
earliest projects was the Sega "AI Game Computer", a little Prolog
machine. The components are a flat touch screen with a cassette
player/recorder(?) and a slot for inserting the game cards. It also
comes with a small keyboard, where all the keys have both English and
Japanese characters (I suspect this machine was only sold in Japan.) It
also comes with an adaptor to plug it in to your TV, which acts as your
monitor. Finally, it comes with several "game cartridges" which are
completely exposed boards (no casing around them) that you insert into a
slot. Only the first half inch or so goes into the slot - the rest of
the naked board sticks straight up, totally exposed above the touch
screen.
>>

Sounds like a prototype to me (and a *very* cool one). Anybody have more
info?

-- Doug
Received on Mon Aug 10 1998 - 03:02:51 BST