Sega-3Dfx 'BlackBelt' system picture!

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2 total messages Started by GigaDrive Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:35

#112

Author: GigaDrive
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:35

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http://www.react.gr/Blackbelt.jpg

assuming this is real, *this* is the console designed by Sega of
America, SegaSoft and 3Dfx that LOST to the Dural/Katana/Dreamcast,
circa 1997.

found it here
http://www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=170


Keep in mind, the Dural, Katana and Dreamcast are all one in the same,
they are the same console. The BlackBelt was the *other* console, the
one that lost when Sega demoed both prototypes internally in mid 1997.
Sega selected the Dural which was renamed Katana, and finally
Dreamcast in 1998.

BlackBelt was said to be using a Banshee variant, perhaps Banshee2
(Voodoo3).

Re: Sega-3Dfx 'BlackBelt' system picture!

#113

Author: deimos
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:01

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GigaDrive wrote:
> http://www.react.gr/Blackbelt.jpg
> 
> assuming this is real, *this* is the console designed by Sega of
> America, SegaSoft and 3Dfx that LOST to the Dural/Katana/Dreamcast,
> circa 1997.
> 
> found it here
> http://www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=170
> 
> 
> Keep in mind, the Dural, Katana and Dreamcast are all one in the same,
> they are the same console. The BlackBelt was the *other* console, the
> one that lost when Sega demoed both prototypes internally in mid 1997.
> Sega selected the Dural which was renamed Katana, and finally
> Dreamcast in 1998.
> 
> BlackBelt was said to be using a Banshee variant, perhaps Banshee2
> (Voodoo3).

It must have been a very early concept shot, I see a lot of Japanese 
Saturn influence in the design.  Almost like a flat NEC PC-FX.

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