History Of The Pioneer Laser Active - Laser Disc System Review and Retrospective 

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@@TopHatGamingManChannel I heard the Laseractive version of Time Gal is one of the most expensive video games of all time, regularly selling for over 1000 dollars on Ebay.

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I prefer the Turboo Grafx Shixteeeen.

You freaking beat me to it.

shhhh or you might awaken the PeeShee police.

Mega CD was +£300 in some places like Dixons, Curries, etc. 3DO also. The first wave of CD-based games was pretty grim. The Mega CD had awful loading times any footage taken from movies was of abysmal quality. The Mega CD version of The Terminator was especially bad. Not the actual game, I thought that was good, but the load times and the movie footage was very bad. It's funny how only a year or two later that the PSX & Saturn really utilised CDs much better than earlier consoles, and the price for those consoles was much more consumer-friendly, well maybe not at launch but the prices did become reasonable eventually. Laserdisc was doomed from the start in my opinion. The discs were too expensive and were very fragile and just weren't worth the money for what you were getting.

And it is probably even more out of your price range now then when you orginally saw it in that store.

@@vidlink Funnily enough, a boxed Mega CD in good condition goes on eBay for roughly £300 these days, but certain games have become ridiculously expensive, especially Snatcher.

When it comes to SEGA CD, I'll just emulate them on my Raspberry Pi.

@@msbae I use Fusion on my PC for Sega games and PicoDrive on my PSP. Never used Pi to this day.

subliminalvibes Brits are weird

Sean Connery does the same. I never knew if it was just a thing he did or other Scottish people do it as well

British people don't speak proper english very well. Look it up, the accent the english have now is only a few hundred years old. The only people that speak true English without an accent are people that have the "news speak" way of speaking English like people in the Midwest of America.

His family were millionaires, so I can see how it was not available to everyone!!

Wrong, I played it at my friends house in South Florida in the 1990s!!!

LaserActive allowed for a dual frame video portion... it interweaved 480i into 2 streams of 1 hour each (or 108,000 frames).... so on games like Blue Chicago Blues, it had in excess of 3 1/2 hours of video (double sided). It has an analog audio track, which some games put in mono English on one side, Japanese on the other... in addition to all this, it had about 540 megs of digital data (similar to CD data), which could be divided up into game data or additional digital audio. As the format was being exploited in later games (term loosely, aka 1 year after launch)... Ghost Rush and Don Quixote used short video clips sequentially to simulate walking Strait, Left,Right or turn around into environments.... it used digital sound effects onto of this for 'walking barefoot' or 'walking with a horse (horse trops)... and Midi music (similar to what the Genesis could do) for soundtracks. It could also do games as complex as Myst (I actually had the prototype for a couple of years)... so it would play exactly the same as the Playstation for instance. LaserActive excelled at video with graphic overlays (from Genesis or NEC).. had ability to darken/filter video, still frame screens, multiple audio tracks/multiple languages, sound clips, sound effects, plus the capability to do sprites or graphics equal to what the Sega CD could (ontop of running video/audio). The 3d0 has more computing power, but LaserActive 'could have' better video and audio and much longer running time of that type of content. It also could have been upgraded to include gaming systems like the 3d0, Phillips Cdi, Playstation or Sega Saturn, but it died off too early... the modules would have been expensive but 'it could' technically be done without much difficulty.... The Pioneer people in the 1990's were very smart engineers.

@@Have.An.AmicoDay interesting thanks for explaining. I don't completely understand how Myst would work but I appreciate the detailed reply!!!🙌

Myst is a simple game... pretty much its a static screen, (one frame)... with a genesis sound effect in the background... a wind noise or a page turning. Most of the transitions involved a short animation, aka walking forward/to the side ect, which involved only 6 to 10 frames... before ending up at another static screen. When a book played, it primarily is only a voice talking (with static sounds), which is easily taken care of by digital audio (aka the CD music portion of the disk). Any video clip is easily taken care of by LaserDisc video. The main problem with why it wasn't released because the start and stop portion of the disk, aka 6 to 10 frames... were too short a period of time, so by the time the command was sent to stop the laserdisc movie (only 6 frames), the laser would ;sometimes; already by far past that... and start playing other 'video frames' of other parts of the game... but anyway that was the speculated answer... I think most of the bugs were worked out on later prototypes, and the game was canceled because the system was discontinued before MYST could launch... aka be finished programming. I was very fortunate to look at the 110 Prototype in a regular LD player and its an absolute mess trying to watch it sequentially like a movie... so much work was done, so many scenes and sound effects all crammed together, it would give most people a seizure... no doubt it was maxing out LD's capabilities. @R133

@@Have.An.AmicoDay I must be thinking of a different myst game because the one I know if 3D and free roam.

Myst was remade to be fully 3D about 10 years ago, but the earlier versions (LaserActive/SegaCD) Mysts were based upon the McIntosh 1.0 version... those were basically static screens with short animation transitions. Very archaic compared to the fully movable worlds of today, but back in 1993 Myst was just about the first of its kind and highly praised. @@DCMAKER133

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Wow, the hurt right-wing feelings are strong with you, over boobs. Nice meme term the alt-right uses on twitter, made it easy to see what side you're on.

Those are Anime ladies you swine, and there's nothing better for thumbnails, or for anything else.

Holy crap! A "first" comment that was actually first!

yay i won

I cringe every time he says it

I know, I have not got the time at the moment to put the level of depth in I have in the past. My son was born five weeks ago.

@@TopHatGamingManChannel Respect to that! Thank you so much for answering back!

@@TopHatGamingManChannel Congratulations! All the best.

To be honest, there's not that much to say about the Pioneer Laser Active.

I don't see whats wrong with this or any other of his more recent videos. You can tell he put a lot of work and thought into them. Informative and overall well done content.