Sega "PODS"

[congobongo]

Anyone played this funny looking contraption?
http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/Misc/SegaPods.htm
I had no idea SEGA made such a thing. Saw one today in a thrift. It was $20 CAN. If anyone is interested in one of these let me know. Doubt it's worth that much but I have no idea if there is demand for this thing.

[omnedon]

Doesn't it drive you nuts when you barely know what it is, and you KNOW the thrift has no flipping CLUE what it is, and then it's $20bux?!?

Argh!

You are probably among the 2 people in a 500 square mile radius who would give a crap about that pod, and they've priced well beyond what you'd consider a decent thrift price.

This stuff drives me nuts, as it happens to me all the time.

[Keir]

I have one of those. If I thought I could get $20 for it, well... I'd have $20.

[rolenta]

Pods is mentioned in Phoenix on page 202. Here's what's wriiten:

"Sega then followed the games with Pods, a $50 machine that recorded player's movements and sent out sounds and flashing lights. Sega referred to Pods as "futuristic Simons". Sega also released 21st-century walkie-talkies in the form of Beamers. These palm-sized units that allowed two people to transmit up to 16 seconds worth of messages to each other from a distance of up to thirty feet. The sound memorandums were transmitted over an infrared beam and the person receiving the communication could decide to hear it immediately or to save it and listen to it later. The unit also had a light that displayed if a message was saved to remind the person that there was indeed an item waiting."

By the way, I paid $1 for Pods at Electronics Boutique