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DaveMMR:

Definitely not a good game by most standards, but it was novel and amusing enough for me to plunk quarters into it many times.   I wouldn't mind owning this.  Wish I was local to this seller...

Turnarcades:


--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 27, 2010, 03:31:20 pm ---I have a DVD version that plays on a standard DVD player. It's as crappy as the real game was. :lol

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I never felt much love for the other 'regular' Laserdisc offerings anyway; however they were novel in their own way (the way they played) and from a technical point of view I think it was an achievement that gameplay flowed fairly smoothly considering how much work the poor quality discs had to do and the pre-drawn nature of the graphics. They could have ended up very clumsy and not played at all.

Regardless of how it plays, it could be quite rewarding as it's immersive in a way no other machine is. I'm pretty sure I saw someone MAME one of these cabinets a while back (had DK playing on it) . Sacrilige or genius? Normally I'd say the former, but if someone could reverse-engineer some of the classics into layers, could be great for things like Galaga or other 'space shooters' to create an illusion of depth the Virtual Boy epically failed at!

Gray_Area:

The game displayed could be anything, right? Dragon's Lair, or....

Turnarcades:

In theory, though of course games with black backgrounds would create a better holographic effect.

RayB:


--- Quote from: Gray_Area on August 28, 2010, 11:27:02 pm ---The game displayed could be anything, right? Dragon's Lair, or....

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DL would look like crap. The screen is reflected off a parabolic mirror.


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