For the past few playoff games at Amalie Arena, the Tampa Bay Lightning have used their now-ubiquitous 3-D ice projection system to display a simulation of the classic Nintendo Blades of Steel game onto the playing surface—using the actual goals and everything. It’s the best usage of the technology we’ve seen so far:


That’s a digital mockup of what it looks like. Here’s a video sent to us by reader Chris of what it looked like in the arena:



The next level of this, of course, is making it actually work with controllers. That’s coming, without question.


[Tampa Bay Lightning]