"After three years of development, the Australian designed and manufactured Virtual Reality game Defcon Extreme is now ready for operation in the coin-op market.
Applied VR Pty Ltd principals, Jeff and Keith Kershaw who have operated amusement machines for over 17 years are confident that in Defcon Extreme, they have produced a VR game of enormous earning potential and one that will also serve as a major attraction for arcades and similar type locations.
The game was first shown at Queenslands Convention '94 in November and impressed local operators with it's Operator designed simplicity and player comfort. Those who hadn't previously had any experience of VR games and were expecting visuals in the headset of Daytona like quality were critical of the graphics, but soon came to understand that VR is a very different species of entertainment to a video game.
Defcon Extreme is a basic ‘search and destroy’ war game that provides a good introduction to VR, but with the system now operating as the Kershaw brothers envisaged it, the emphasis is all on software and the company are currently working on several new games that they believe will bring Virtual Reality to the next level.
The game units are quite reasonably priced on both VR and coin-op machine standards and the makers feel sure the price will get even better as they move into larger scale production and further develop their manufacturing facility." ~Cash Box International (January 1995)
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Source: Cash Box International Magazine (January 1995) || Gaming Alexandria; Dustin Hubbard (via the Internet Archive)
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