Forgot about these, I remember playing my dad's Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night disc in my Mega CD when I was a kid. It had picture's scrolling on screen for each song if I remember correctly.
4:24 The standard versions of consoles didn't have microphone inputs for the most part. However, some consoles had special editions that did have a microphone input. The Sega Saturn had a model made by Hitachi (HiSaturn) that had a karaoke unit called the MKU-1 and it had microphone inputs. The Dreamcast had an official karaoke add-on (Japan only release) and there was also a Dreamcast model that had a built in CRT screen with microphone inputs (can't remember the name of that one). Karaoke was (is?) big in Japan, so there's all sorts of karaoke stuff for consoles too, most of it was never released in the USA. As @kimm61804 mentioned: "The JVC X'Eye has microphone input" And as @james8173 mentioned: "Japan got the Mega-CD Karaoke add-on"
As Mr Knightrider said last year, there were a limited number of cd's released by Warner back in 1988 and 1989 with CD+G images and lyrics. They included some major artists on the Warner label like Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat and Anita Baker, among others. I have about a dozen of them, sometimes found in resale shops. Many people owned them without ever knowing about the included graphics.
I remember my dad renting a dedicated CD+G player, the advantage was that two microphones could be connected. The thing is, I already had a Sega Saturn and wasn’t aware that it could play this format. I found out about a year later. I was so happy 😊
Another great video something a little different but always informative and entertaining I used to run a record shop in the 90s so I definitely remember this format like you said mostly for karaoke but I like odd audio and video formats I have a nice selection of movies on VCD video compact disc format that really wasn't used here in the states I have a bunch of classic Kung Fu movies on this format a lot of Shaw Brothers movies keep the content flowin
3:10 Have you came across any CD that has extended graphics? I want to see what the graphics look like with 256 colors instead of just 16 colors of the normal CD+G.
I just went to a yard sale yesterday. I got a bunch of CDs for free. And the Lou Reed New York does say Compact Disc Digital Audio Graphics right on the CD itself. And just like you said, it DOESN'T have graphics. Strangely enough, the booklet and back of the case don't have the standard Compact Disc Digital Audio logo anywhere on them. Somebody screwed up here big time when these were mass produced.
