page_title: Stereoscopic video game
section_title: 1980s
hierarchical_section_title: Stereoscopic video game / History / 1980s
caption_attribution_description: The 3D imaging glasses for the Nintendo Famicom video game system. The device only worked for specially-produced games and functioned via an active shutter system, which gave each eye a separate image to produce stereoscopic 3D.
context_page_description: A stereoscopic video game is a video game which uses stereoscopic technologies to create depth perception for the player by any form of stereo display. Such games should not to be confused with video games that use 3D game graphics on a mono screen, which give the illusion of depth only by monocular cues but not by binocular depth information.
context_section_description: Sega released the world's first commercial stereoscopic video game, SubRoc-3D, in 1982. This arcade game introduced an active shutter 3D system, jointly developed by Sega with Matsushita (now Panasonic). In 1983, the first model of the TomyTronic series of gaming laptop LCD game & watch-type stereoscopic 3D was released by Takara Tomy. A 3D imager for the console Vectrex vector, a pair of 3D glasses using a rotating color wheel synchronized with the display was released by Smith Engineering in 1984.
  In 1987, the shutter-based SegaScope 3D Glasses for the Sega Master System was released, and the Famicom 3D System for Nintendo's Famicom (NES) was launched only in Japan but met with limited success. The Taito Z System arcade game Continental Circus, the first stereoscopic 3D racing video game, also released in 1987. The SegaScope 3D, Famicom 3D System and Continental Circus all used active shutter 3D glasses.  In 1988, the X-Specs 3D glasses including 3D game SpaceSpuds for Amiga were brought out by Haitex.
caption: Famicom 3D System, released in 1987 for Japan only
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