Sega Lock-On
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Originally known at VR-SHOOTER, the Sega Lock-On was a little known laser tag game developed by Sega and originally released in 1992. There were three versions of this system made, unofficially called Mark I, Mark II and Voice Command Lock-On. The Mark I and Mark II versions operated the same and differed in their overall appearance. Each system comprised of a headset and a gun for each player, the aim being to shoot the opponent's headset. The headset required one 9-Volt battery while the gun required 2 C batteries. The Mark II headset used 4 AAA batteries instead of the single 9V one. Each gun and headset was able to select between two teams, A and B. A gun set to team A could only hit a headset set to team B and vice versa. This way 'friendly fire' was not possible.
The guns have a primary trigger which can be pressed once for a single shot or held for continuous fire, with an unlimited number of shots. A second trigger called the high power button is located on the left hand side of the gun and when pressed gives a quick tone indicating that a high powered shot is ready. If the main trigger is then pressed a high power shot would be fired. This hih power shot would take of three hitpoints from a headset, anormal shot would take off one. When turned on each headset would start at 9 hitpoints and when shot would count down and display the remaining hitpoints. When they reach 0 the headset sounds a death tone and the player is tagged out.
 Mark I and Mark II guns |
 Mark I and Mark II headsets |
 Closeup of the Mark I triggers |
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