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Global VR is company based in San Jose, California, that makes arcade games.

History[link]

The company was originally founded in 1998 starting in a garage with just four employees. ^[1]

GLOBAL VR® has become widely recognized as one of the coin-operated industry’s most prestigious purveyors of location-based entertainment products. Setting itself apart from competitors by licensing highly recognizable interactive entertainment titles from top-tier publishers, GLOBAL VR is able to leverage development investments made by companies such as Electronic Arts™ and Ubisoft™ . Each licensed title is carefully redesigned specifically for the coin-op market in order to provide a unique and immersive gaming experience.

Recent asset acquisitions have given GLOBAL VR entrée into the booming casino gaming industry where development agreements are in place with the industry’s most prominent gaming companies. In 2007, GLOBAL VR captured Bally Technologies’ award for most innovative product submission for its version of Texas Hold’em Peek-a-Boo Poker 10Play.

Based in Silicon Valley and with a satellite office in Boston, MA., GLOBAL VR boasts one of the most talented development teams in the entertainment industry and an executive staff that is committed to the success of GLOBAL VR and its customers. The team is focused, experienced, but most of all, GLOBAL VR is passionate about gaming!

GLOBAL VR Mobile Application Development provides development services for iPhone/iPad, Android, and other popular mobile platforms.

GLOBAL VR has partnered with Streak Technology Inc. to develop kiosks used in such locations as Albertsons supermarkets and Texas Roadhouse restaurants. ^[2]

Global VR has licensing rights from Electronic Arts, and has developed arcade games based on Madden NFL, Need For Speed, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour.

Global VR used to operate virtual reality stands that it purchased from Ferris Productions in 2003, usually located inside of theme parks, such as Six Flags. Global VR closed these stands in 2004.

Selected games[link]

• Shh..! Welcome to Frightfearland, a rail-shooter sequel of Taito's arcade series Panic Museum.
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, a World War II combat fighter pilot game based on the Ubisoft franchise.
• Twisted: Nitro Stunt Racing, a coin-operated arcade port of Game Seed's PC racing title Nitro Stunt Racing.
• Need for Speed Carbon, a multiplayer arcade driving game based on Electronic Arts Need for Speed franchise.
• Need for Speed Underground, an arcade adaptation of Electronic Arts Need for Speed franchise.
• PGA Tour Golf Team Challenge, an update to Challenge Edition and based upon the Tiger Woods Golf console game made by Electronic Arts.
• Aliens: Extermination, a game loosely based on 1986 film Aliens.
• Madden Season 2, an update to the Madden Football game based on Electronic Arts Madden franchise.
• Paradise Lost (video game), a two-player shooter based on Far Cry Instincts.
• EA Sports NASCAR Racing, a coin-operated version of Electronic Arts' NASCAR franchise.
• EA Sports NASCAR Team Racing, an updated version of NASCAR Racing.
• UltraPin, a video pinball game featuring multiple licensed classic pinball tables.
• Vortek V3, a stand up virtual reality simulation machine.
• Need for Speed GT, a multiplayer arcade driving game based on Electronic Arts' Need for Speed franchise.
• Justice League: Heroes United, an original 3D beat 'em-up coin-operated game similar to games like Die Hard Arcade that features licensed DC Comic book heroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Players Card[link]

Global VR's Players Card allows players to save personal data on a card. The card is also the fastest way to log in for tournaments on connected machines.

Tournament Play—Some games support tournaments which allow players at different physical machines to challenge each others scores, challenge each other or set up ladder type tournaments. Some tournaments have cash and prizes.

External links[link]

• Global VR's official website

References[link]

1. ^ : GLOBAL VR Website
2. ^ : GLOBAL VR Website

Look up global in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Global means of or referring to a globe and may also refer to:

Entertainment[link]

• Global (Paul van Dyk album), 2003
• Global (Bunji Garlin album), 2007
• Global (Humanoid album), 1989
• Global Underground, music label
• Bruno J. Global, human captain of the SDF-1 Macross in the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

Companies and brands[link]

• Global (cutlery), a Japanese brand
• Global Aviation Holdings
• Global Benchmarking Network (GBN)
• Global Crossing, telecommunications company based in Bermuda
• Global Radio, British commercial radio company
• Global Television Network, in Canada
  • Global BC, on-air brand of CHAN-TV, a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Global Okanagan, on-air brand of CHBC-TV, a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
  • Global Toronto, a television station in Toronto
  • Global Edmonton
  • Global Calgary
  • Global Montreal
  • Global Maritimes
  • NTV, a television station in Newfoundland, simlar to the Global network
• Global TV (Indonesia)
• Canwest Global Communications Corp., a Canadian media conglomerate

Math and science[link]

• Global field, in mathematics
• Global serializability, in data management
• Global symmetry, in quantum field theory
• Global variable, a variable in computer programming that is accessible in every scope

Politics[link]

• Global governance, in international relations
• Global Greens, political Green party network
• Global politics, study of political and economical patterns of the world

Other[link]

• Global citizenship
• Global city, an especially important city
• Global war, World war
• Global warming and global dimming, in environmental studies

See also[link]

• Globe (disambiguation)
• Globalization, ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated
• Globalism
• Earth

• Cosmopolitanism, ideology that all kinds of human race belongs to a single community, based on a shared morality
• Worldwide (disambiguation)
• World (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Global"
• All pages with titles containing "Global"

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