Remotes? Lego Controlled Arcade Games Are The Future (Update: Videos!)

By Spencer . January 27, 2009 . 5:03pm

Remotes? Lego Controlled Arcade Games Are The Future (Update: Videos!)

Move over joysticks and controllers. Sega is working on a block controlled arcade game called Block Pipo. Players use the blocks to control the on screen characters which makes Block Pipo sound like a Lego stacking game. Block Pipo is a cooperative game, but it can also be a competitive one if two machines are linked together. The final machine won’t be out in Japan until this summer, but we should hear more about Block Pipo next month when it makes its first appearance at AOU 2009.

 

Remotes? Lego Controlled Arcade Games Are The Future (Update: Videos!) Remotes? Lego Controlled Arcade Games Are The Future (Update: Videos!) Remotes? Lego Controlled Arcade Games Are The Future (Update: Videos!)

 

Update: Well, it looks like AOU 2009 won’t be the first place Block Pipo is shown. Thanks to Madebyluke we have an early look at the game and it looks creative, but potentially problematic. What if someone pilfers all the blocks?

 

 

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  • http://www.madebyluke.com Luke

    I played this today, it's a lot of fun. Here is a video of me playing it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnjTYQnKFd8

  • http://www.madebyluke.com Luke

    Here's a longer video of my friend playing,
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1DBGRzT3E

    It gets really challenging as you go on, it's all against the clock and some of the levels have difficult tasks, such as, collecting the numbers 1 to 9 in order.

  • Mazen

    Great videos and seems like a fun arcade its fully in english even, was there anything else noteworthy at ATEI?

  • http://www.madebyluke.com Luke

    Strange, I commented before with links to videos of this being played by me and my friend but they were deleted…

  • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

    It wasn't deleted by me! I saw your comment and those videos looked awesome. I was going to link back to them in the article, but it's gone (?). Strange… sorry about that!

  • madebyluke
  • Tatsu

    Neat concept for sure! But Sega's not worried about punks running away with their brightly colored bricks?

  • Mazen

    Please check if there is anything new specially from Sega,
    if Sega's Rtuned is there check it out if you have time. thanks for the great videos BTW.

  • Haruspex

    The links are exact same video…

  • http://madebyluke.com madebyluke

    ah! sorry about that, I was in a hurry, here is the second video,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1DBGRzT3E

  • http://ninjeff.blogspot.com Ninjeff

    Looks very interesting. Kinda has a Lemmings feel to it. I'm a little sad that I'll never play it though =(

  • Haruspex

    Thank you so much!

  • S.F

    Genius! I love the concept.

  • S.F

    Genius! I love the concept.

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