'94 Tokyo Toy Show

'94 Tokyo Toy Show
Outside Inside
Date: 1994-06-02^[1] – 1994-06-05^[1]
Location: Makuhari Messe, 2-1, Nakase, Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, 261-8550, Japan
Attendance: 147,427^[2]
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The Tokyo Toy Show 1994 (東京おもちゃショー 1994).

This was the event in which the Sega Saturn was first demonstrated, albeit in a very rough form. The console itself was not playable - only a hacked together build of Virtua Fighter could be played on prototype Saturn hardware - a PCB not yet simplified to fit in the console's shell. Everything else was shown as little more than tech demos, or pre-rendered footage. Likewise the Sega 32X was also on show, in a more finalised, but still early state.

Sega was not alone in displaying very early hardware - the PlayStation, in slightly better shape, was also there with a range of barely-playable software, but unlike Sega was in a position to boast about the large number of Japanese third-party developers on its side. Also at the show were prototype versions of NEC's PC-FX, Bandai's Playdia (at the time known as the BA-X) and SNK's Neo Geo CD.

Sega were planning to release Sega Game Gear consoles with coloured shells (in addition to the regular black), and asked visitors to select their favourite out of 16 potential candidates (labled A-M). The presumed "winners", blue, yellow and "smoke" went on sale in November 1994^[3] (with a red variant appearing shortly afterwards).

Products featured

Saturn

Sega Saturn console
Blue Seed: Kushinada Hirokuden
Clockwork Knight
Daytona USA (arcade footage; basic Saturn demo with a hornet driving around a Sega logo)
Gale Racer
Kanzen Chuukei Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine
Mahou Kishi Rayearth
Panzer Dragoon
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Rampo
Shinobi EX
Shinsetsu Yumemi Yakata: Tobira no Oku ni Dareka ga...
SimCity 2000 (PC screenshots)
Victory Goal
Virtua Cop
Virtua Fighter ("30-40% finished")
WanChai Connection

32X

Sega 32X add-on
After Burner Complete
Doom
Ecco the Dolphin
Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples
Metal Head
Shadow of Atlantis
Star Wars Arcade
Virtua Racing Deluxe

Mega Drive

Game Gear

Magazine articles

Main article: '94 Tokyo Toy Show/Magazine articles.

References

Trade events attended by Sega in Japan
"Arcade"
Amusement Machine Show (JAA Show, JAMMA, AM Show)	67 \| 68 \| 69 \| 70 \| 71 \| 72 \| 73 \| 74 \| 75 \| 76 \| 77 \| 78 \| 79 \| 80 \| 81 \| 82 \| 83 \| 84 \| 85 \| 86 \| 87 \| 88 \| 89 \| 90 \| 91 \| 92 \| 93 \| 94 \| 95 \| 96 \| 97 \| 98 \| 99 \| 00 \| 01 \| 02 \| 03 \| 04 \| 05 \| 06 \| 07 \| 08 \| 09 \| 10 \| 11
AOU Show	86 \| 87 \| 88 \| 89 \| 90 \| 91 \| 92 \| 93 \| 94 \| 95 \| 96 \| 97 \| 98 \| 99 \| 00 \| 01 \| 02 \| 03 \| 04 \| 05 \| 06 \| 07 \| 08 \| 09 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12
Japan Amusement Expo (JAEPO)	13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 23
"Home"
Jisedai World Hobby Fair (WHF)	8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 \| 25 \| 26 \| '08 Winter \| '08 Summer \| '09 Winter \| '09 Summer \| '10 Winter \| '10 Summer \| '11 Winter \| '11 Summer \| '12 Winter \| '12 Summer \| '13 Winter \| '13 Summer \| '14 Winter \| '14 Summer \| '15 Winter \| '15 Summer \| '16 Winter \| '16 Summer \| '17 Winter \| '17 Summer \| '18 Winter \| '18 Summer \| '19 Winter \| '19 Summer \| '20 Winter
Tokyo Game Show (TGS)	96 \| 97 Spring \| 97 Autumn \| 98 Spring \| 98 Autumn \| 99 Spring \| 99 Autumn \| 00 Spring \| 00 Autumn \| 01 Spring \| 01 Autumn \| 02 \| 03 \| 04 \| 05 \| 06 \| 07 \| 08 \| 09 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 22 \| 23
Tokyo Toy Show	84 ... 88 \| 89 \| 90 \| 91 \| 92 \| 93 \| 94 \| 95 \| 96 \| 97

[:File:Harmony_JP_129.pdf_p5-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Harmony, "1994 7" (JP; 1994-07-01), page 5

[:File:Harmony_JP_129.pdf_p4-2] Harmony, "1994 7" (JP; 1994-07-01), page 4

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1994-12.pdf_p33-3] Beep! MegaDrive, "December 1994" (JP; 1994-11-08), page 33

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