stackyFACTSTrapping people in a pressurized metal tube at thirty thousand feet is supposedly the perfect captive demographic for aggressive video gaming.
Trapping people in a pressurized metal tube at thirty thousand feet is supposedly the perfect captive demographic for aggressive video gaming. In the mid-90s, Sega partnered with airlines to integrate a specialized Mega Drive into passenger armrests, assuming business travelers wanted to play Sonic the Hedgehog mid-flight. It failed spectacularly because nobody wanted to pay steep hourly fees just to drop their rings over the Atlantic.
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