GigaDrive wrote:
> http://www.react.gr/Blackbelt.jpg
>
> assuming this is real, *this* is the console designed by Sega of
> America, SegaSoft and 3Dfx that LOST to the Dural/Katana/Dreamcast,
> circa 1997.
>
> found it here
> http://www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=170
>
>
> Keep in mind, the Dural, Katana and Dreamcast are all one in the same,
> they are the same console. The BlackBelt was the *other* console, the
> one that lost when Sega demoed both prototypes internally in mid 1997.
> Sega selected the Dural which was renamed Katana, and finally
> Dreamcast in 1998.
>
> BlackBelt was said to be using a Banshee variant, perhaps Banshee2
> (Voodoo3).
It must have been a very early concept shot, I see a lot of Japanese
Saturn influence in the design. Almost like a flat NEC PC-FX.
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