PainStation

In the good ole days, we did something similar with ungrounded outlets and metal cases.

For all the rounds of work on "Virtual Reality;" so very few have worked on simulating anything but the pleasant sensations. Its as if people are imagining a world with no negative feedback.

I won a game on that machine at the gamecon in Leipzig, probably 15 years ago.

I got a blister from the heat, went to the first aid area to get something for it and they shut it down after.

Fun times

I played this with a friend at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin.

I felt really bad, they were so bad I kept winning, and their hand’s skin cracked bloodily and got bruised after a session. But they insisted to finish the game.

This reminds me of the ergonomics of the original grizzly-bear sized Xbox controllers. Ah, nostalgia!

The thing is (as amusing as it would be to see a real version, maybe at a James Bond fan convention), the game as a game doesn't seem that interesting. The setup showing the globe and the game picking a country sounds like it would be a strategy game of some sort, but the game play seems to be (minus the shocks) a fairly simple game of hand-eye coordination, despite the hologram, actually less sophisticated than many real video games of the era (1983).