What's been popular in Japan for a while are these third-person Mobile-Suit Gundam shooters. I think they're god-awful myself. Horribly unbalanced, terrible controls. But the kids here love 'em, and the newest fashion is the Gundam Pod. These bubbles of plastic, metal and wires are person booths, encase you in total Gundamness. Each one is linked to the other so you've got a-plenty of a-people trying to shoot and bash each other in the comfort of confinement. Onlookers can't watch through the booths, so they get to watch on am LCD screen outside (see below).I personally had an idea similar to this many years ago. Instead of Gundam, however, it would be Macross (or Robotech to us westerners). I thought it would be cool to dogfight in these things, but apparently, like so many times before, I was beaten to the punch.
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