History

The company was originally founded in 1998 starting in a garage with just four employees. On July 11, 2003 the company moved into its current 50000 square feet (4,645.2 m²) facility. As of the move the company employed about 100 employees.

Global VR has licensing rights from Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

 to make games based on Madden NFL

Madden NFL

Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. The game series is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Oakland Raiders and color commentator...

, Need For Speed

Need for Speed

Need for Speed is a series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts and developed by several studios including Canadian-based company EA Black Box and British-based Criterion Games...

, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR is a series of video games developed and published by Electronic Arts featuring professional golfer Tiger Woods, among other pros on the PGA Tour....

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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

• Madden Season 2
  Madden Season 2
  Madden Season 2 is an update to the arcade version of Madden Football by Global VR. The game engine is based on the Madden NFL console game produced by EA.Depending on the machine the game can support 2 or 4 players....
  
  , an update to the Madden Arcade game based on Electronic Arts
  Electronic Arts
  Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
  
   Madden franchise.
• Need for Speed Underground, an arcade adaptation of Electronic Arts Need for Speed franchise.
• PGA Tour Golf Team Challenge
  PGA Tour Golf Team Challenge
  PGA Tour Golf Team Challenge is a trackball based golf arcade game series manufactured by Global VR of San Jose, California.The game is based on the EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf Golf game....
  
  , 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
  Aliens (film)
  Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...
  
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• Paradise Lost (video game), a two player sit down game which is based on Far Cry Instincts
  Far Cry Instincts
  Far Cry Instincts is a video game developed and published by Ubisoft for Xbox that was released on September 27, 2005. A remake of the original PC version, Instincts is less open-ended and more linear, due to the console's reduced processing power which prevents the full rendering of the PC...
  
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• EA Sports NASCAR Racing
  EA SPORTS NASCAR Racing
  EA Sports NASCAR Team Racing is an arcade racing game manufactured by Global VR of San Jose, California.The game is based on the EA Sports NASCAR Franchise. The game was released on 8-3-07 at the AAMA Gala. Up to four racers race against each other and the CPU in one of the major NASCAR tracks EA...
  
  , a coin-operated version of Electronic Arts' NASCAR franchise.
• EA Sports NASCAR Team Racing, an updated version of NASCAR Racing that adds online play.
• UltraPin
  UltraPin
  UltraPin is a Multi-Game pinball arcade game that holds 12 digital recreations of Williams Electronics real pinball games in a single pinball cabinet. David R. Foley had the original idea for UltraPin and began research on the idea in the beginning of 2000...
  
   Arcade, the pinball version of UltraCade.
• 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
  Need for Speed
  Need for Speed is a series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts and developed by several studios including Canadian-based company EA Black Box and British-based Criterion Games...
  
   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
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
  book heroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonderman.
• Twisted: Nitro Stunt Racing, a coin-operated arcade port of Seed Game's PC racing title Nitro Stunt Racing.
• Shh..! Welcome to Fringhtmareland, a rail-shooter sequel of Taito
  Taito Corporation
  The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
  
  's arcade series Panic Museum.

Players Card

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.