Watching this feels like watching the cat in the window trying catch the birds that are flying outside, plus some gigantic random explosions with no cause or effect :D
I've remembered this game for 30 some odd years but could never remember the name. Then I was thinking, I remember the graphics being real life, and nothing in the 80s had this graphical power so my mind went to laser disc games and bam. Finally my curiosity has been settled after all these years. Astron Belt. Sega too
It was at alton towers where I first saw this, back in 1983 or 1984, so I was about 10 or 11 at the time. I played it and it felt odd and disjointed even then. Nonetheless, I was utterly captivated by the music and the whole spectacle. Seeing the footage like this is comical, as clearly the game was poorly designed and implemented ( laser disc technology and the processing capabilities for data, were insufficient for the time to cope with the speed and accuracy of this sort of game), but the music still sounds crisp, even though I can hear that the analog synths used have one slightly out of tune on one of its voices. It's pure, warm, nostalgic fun watching and listening to the whole shebang. And that's what makes me smile. A odd, yet great share on here.
Wow, a literal blast from the past. I remember going on a school trip to Alton Towers (UK theme park) in '83 or '84 on a typically wet and miserable British summer's day, and a friend and I spending a small fortune in 10p coins feeding this damned game and taking turns trying to get to the final screen. I dread to think how much money we shovelled in there but we'd drawn quite a crowd by the end, all peering in through the sides of the sit-in cabinet. This was before I'd seen The Wrath Of Khan, so I was quite amazed when I watched the movie a year or so later and recognised some of the elements from this. Thinking about it, it probably cost less to rent the Star Trek movie than it did to complete the game...
I remember this at Alton Towers every time I went. I think it must have been one of the only Astron Belt cabs in the UK as I don't remember seeing it anywhere else.
14:30 This is footage from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. This is the USS Reliant (NCC-1864), captained by Clark Terrell, portrayed by the late actor Paul Winfield. In this short sequence, the 35mm film was projected upside-down and ran in reverse sequence. Using VLC Media Player, I was able to turn this footage upside-down again, restoring it to it's original orientation. It's obviously the Reliant. The rest of this footage is from the 1978 Japanese film "Message From Space".
@@SamanthaMunitz Easy. Sega was owned by the same people that owned Paramount at the time, Gulf & Western. They'd actually owned them since the late 60's, but they sold them to Bally a couple years after "Astron Belt" was released.
The crashing mothership in flames at the end of the level appears to be unused footage from Battle Beyond the Stars; the Malmori ship crashing onto Akir.
The music in this game is spooky. If I saw the arcade cabinet in person when I was 8 or younger, it probably would've scared me with the music and the full motion video.
I thought the music was cool. Eerie for sure, but I liked it. I’ve been wanting to know what video game this was. If I remember, then I saw this game at-of all places-a laundromat. When I would go with my mom at this laundromat this particular game was there. And hearing that music sounded really cool.
wow that brought back memories. This was really expensive to play i remember, maybe 4 or 5 x the cost of Sinistar, Crystal Castles, Time Pilot, Xevious etc...it was the best game i ever played and still is. ( im sadly not 13/14 anymore). It had glitches but was superb.
I've played that back in the day, besides "Dragon's Lair", "Space Ace", "MACH 3" and "Firefox". One of the things I can recall is going through that canyon sequence without running into the wall. It's kida odd to see an explosion filling the screen whenever an enemy or player gets destroyed. The enemy fire sounded like bird calls! :-D I recall seeing the live action scenes but I haven't noticed that they were from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Battlestar Galactica" and some obscure Star Wars inspired stuff.
@ThisGuyFrritz Dragon's Lair & Space Ace used a LaserDisc player that didn't have a solid state laser projector and the motor that spun the disc only had an estimated lifespan of 10,000 hours. If an arcade was opened every day of the week, how long did it take to eat up 10k hours? Here's a picture.... www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_pr-7820/PR-7820%20in%20case.jpg
Actually, the two "Star Trek" sequences were both ILM's work from "The Wrath of Khan." The CGI was taken from the Genesis Experiment tape, while the other was an obvious shot of the Enterprise entering warp. Sega at the time was owned by Gulf & Western, the same company that owned Paramount; that's how they were able to get away with using the "Star Trek" footage. They actually owned it, anyway.
@@cubdukat Yes, there were a few things I never noticed when playing the game, including this computer animated sequence from "The Wrath of Khan'. It wasn't until I saw this Astron Belt video: th-cam.com/video/7SYuC5aTW88/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUQYXN0cm9uIGJlbHQgc2VnYQ%3D%3D
Whoever is playing this made the same mistake I made back then- holding down the fire button all the time. I didn't learn til much later that it's better to just fire when you're likely to hit something. I just got the laserdisc used in this game, I'll upload it here eventually.
Hey! great channel! Been in video games since Atari 2600..actuall won one in a contest with a Froot Loops contest..lol..They retailed for about 300.00 back then..Also worked as an Asst. manger for an arcade when all this was prime entertainment..brings back memories..
Until today, this level of realistic videogame movie graphics are not still possible even with the most powerful 3D graphics videogame console, the movement of ships is very fluent, awesome
35 yrs later I am seeing a game I thought I imagined...I was blown away by this game when I was 11, but I was sure there was a woman's voice commentating on my amazing piloting skills...well, that could be my own Mandela Effect I guess.
Only the player avatar is graphical, the other space ships are not. they used collision detection so the laserdisc and the cpu could communicate, if a player shots one you get a full-screen explosion, that way the laserdisc can change the scene without the obvious.
I remember playing this game it looks so cheesy now.😂 But I loved how you had to right up the ship to avoid collision with the mountains when you dove into that planet's atmosphere.😎
Ha! Just spotted the short clip taken from the Genesis sequence from Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan at 5:54 to 6:01. When playing it as a kid in the 80's I don't remember spotting it.
I remember playing this in the arcade back in the day. I thought it looked great at the time but I remember not knowing if my controls had any real impact on the game. It was a mess of confusion. Explosions seemed completely random to me. Did I just cause that? *ship explodes* What the heck just killed me there?
Same here. It's an overly-ambitious game for the technology of the time. It was amazing to watch in arcades, but actual play was awful...thirty seconds' worth of hyperactive jump-cuts and explosions. "Shoot at some stuff, then wait while the game's CPU rolls dice to get a result" explains the game's logic. Then the laserdisc drive would inevitably crash and burst into flames after two or three plays, requiring Sega to fly in ten specialists from Japan for a month's worth of repair time. :) Still, even though the movie footage is Grade Z super-cheap (some is even blatantly ripped off from Star Trek movies), I still find it interesting, especially the part similar to the "Return of the Jedi" Death Star reactor run. The ships with six wings and lightning lasers are cool, too.
This was amazing machine in 1983, computer graphics were still emerging, we weren't ready for visuals like these yet, but they found a way around it until computer graphics were capable and being fast enough to render everything, elimating the need for a laserdisc at all.
Loved this game. We once had to stop between games so the arcade manager could empty the coins..and we saw him hit a reset button on the back left of the cabinet. If u hit it you’d get a free game. Of course we abused the hell out of that.
great ...I thought about this game for about 30 years accidently having played it age 6 somewhere in some Dutch themepark (beekse Bergen) ....and now I finally find the name and D'loaded it for Daphne.....great!!!
Never played this game and I’m glad I didn’t looks horrible are the scenes taken from a movie or made for this game thank you for showing the ending so far my favorite laser disk game is Mach 3 some of the scenes are even out of focus I don’t know how they made it onto the laser disk
Took me a few yrs to figure out where this stock movie footage came from. Until one night while watching TNT's Monstervision they showed " Message From Space"Toei Co 1978 I could tell it was a Japanese Version of Star Wars.
God i feel old. Played it as a kid in sydney australia 1984 loved that game back then it was the shit! Had no idea at the time it ripped off star trek 2 though lol
My top five from 1983 was: #5: Spy Hunter #4: Dragon's Lair #3: Crystal Castles #2: Mario Bros. #1: Star Wars It's funny that Spy Hunter mite be last on my list but the music was iconic & I find myself humming it as I'm driving.
This is the game that got me hooked into video games, the graphics were awesome, even though I was 5 and hardly played it, what I would give to play it again,, I got daphne but don't have the roms, someone help me to download it?
The Laughing Rabbit Hehe I played this game a LOT. We had one at the tiny arcade down the street from me. I think it was part of the Games People Play franchise. It's now a bait & tackle shop.
***** It is indeed. They took part of the Genesis Project animation, the Enterprise going into warp, and the boss at the end is the Reliant, upside down and flying backwards. Nowadays, Sega would never even dare to think about doing something like that. I don't think they ever gave credit to Paramount for using their "Wrath of Khan" footage. Nowadays, they'd have sued Sega out of existence while the game was still in the planning stages.
i remember this you had to sit inside this cockpit and shoot the filmed models shot on lazer disc. most of the time the shots never connected...the game was frustrating and expensive...i look at it now and laugh at how dated it is.
Yeah, before the internet, before smartphones, cellphones or most people even having any type of computer in the house at all. Seems pretty advanced when you think of it in those terms! I wonder what tech will be like when TH-cam and all the current games looks this dated in the future?
Most of the sequences used in this game were from the movie *Message from Space* which in itself was a ripoff of the Star Wars franchise which in itself was a ripoff of *The Hidden Fortress* and... Uh-oh, I think I'd gone cross-eyed.
Okay, commenting as I go. Right now I'm at the 7 minute mark. Pretty much like Galaxy Ranger: nothing you do affects game play, and the score goes up at a constant rate no matter what you do. Special effects and model work are slightly better, but the editing and camerawork are still awful. There was no logic to this game at all, was there. Okay, now at 8 minutes, and I've seen at least six shots lifted directly from Star Trek II. Jeez, this is bad. How in the world did Sega get away with packaging this crap??
Simple. Sega got away with it because for content they didn't own, they were able to secure permission to use them. For instance, the 1979 Toei copyright disclaimer at the beginning. As for the Star Trek II footage, that's easy to explain. At the time the game was made, Sega was a Gulf+Western Company. So was Paramount Pictures.
Awesome graphics but a really stupid game. I loved it - I suppose shows how starved we were back then of games combining great graphics AND gameplay. The Star Wars arcade game was out at same time and was line graphics rather than video, it played better though.
Congratulations on destroying the final boss...uh...upside down USS Reliant footage...and reaching the end goal of...an episode of the Electric Company? I remember this game, and remember thinking it was odd that they'd nicked clips from Star Trek II, among other cheesy foreign films. The game play made almost no sense and didn't appear to have much rhyme or reason.
yeah there were loads of games like this back then. MACH 3 and Firefox were better... this was terrible and was about as much fun to play as watching a burning orphanage. Thankfully these laser games all died out eventually...
Watching this feels like watching the cat in the window trying catch the birds that are flying outside, plus some gigantic random explosions with no cause or effect :D
I almost expect this to turn into the intro from The Naked Gun movies. You'd suddenly be flying through a restaurant blasting platters off the tables.
what a connection!
I have this game, it should of been called "filmed explosion watcher" :)
The most radical thing about this game was the vibrating seat!
The arcade machine had a vibrating seat? Wow... Awesome...
I've remembered this game for 30 some odd years but could never remember the name. Then I was thinking, I remember the graphics being real life, and nothing in the 80s had this graphical power so my mind went to laser disc games and bam. Finally my curiosity has been settled after all these years. Astron Belt. Sega too
It was at alton towers where I first saw this, back in 1983 or 1984, so I was about 10 or 11 at the time. I played it and it felt odd and disjointed even then. Nonetheless, I was utterly captivated by the music and the whole spectacle.
Seeing the footage like this is comical, as clearly the game was poorly designed and implemented ( laser disc technology and the processing capabilities for data, were insufficient for the time to cope with the speed and accuracy of this sort of game), but the music still sounds crisp, even though I can hear that the analog synths used have one slightly out of tune on one of its voices.
It's pure, warm, nostalgic fun watching and listening to the whole shebang. And that's what makes me smile. A odd, yet great share on here.
Wow, a literal blast from the past. I remember going on a school trip to Alton Towers (UK theme park) in '83 or '84 on a typically wet and miserable British summer's day, and a friend and I spending a small fortune in 10p coins feeding this damned game and taking turns trying to get to the final screen. I dread to think how much money we shovelled in there but we'd drawn quite a crowd by the end, all peering in through the sides of the sit-in cabinet. This was before I'd seen The Wrath Of Khan, so I was quite amazed when I watched the movie a year or so later and recognised some of the elements from this. Thinking about it, it probably cost less to rent the Star Trek movie than it did to complete the game...
I remember this at Alton Towers every time I went. I think it must have been one of the only Astron Belt cabs in the UK as I don't remember seeing it anywhere else.
14:30 This is footage from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. This is the USS Reliant (NCC-1864), captained by Clark Terrell, portrayed by the late actor Paul Winfield. In this short sequence, the 35mm film was projected upside-down and ran in reverse sequence. Using VLC Media Player, I was able to turn this footage upside-down again, restoring it to it's original orientation. It's obviously the Reliant. The rest of this footage is from the 1978 Japanese film "Message From Space".
How did they manage to get the rights from Paramount Pictures to use the U.S.S. Reliant footage from the Wrath of Khan?
@@SamanthaMunitz Easy. Sega was owned by the same people that owned Paramount at the time, Gulf & Western. They'd actually owned them since the late 60's, but they sold them to Bally a couple years after "Astron Belt" was released.
What a discovery! I had buried in the memories of beach holidays 1984
The crashing mothership in flames at the end of the level appears to be unused footage from Battle Beyond the Stars; the Malmori ship crashing onto Akir.
The music in this game is spooky. If I saw the arcade cabinet in person when I was 8 or younger, it probably would've scared me with the music and the full motion video.
Fancypancy3000 lol
KJ Setser It doesn't scare me now. I was just talking hypothetically.
@@Fancypancy3000 lol
I thought the music was cool. Eerie for sure, but I liked it. I’ve been wanting to know what video game this was. If I remember, then I saw this game at-of all places-a laundromat. When I would go with my mom at this laundromat this particular game was there. And hearing that music sounded really cool.
Loved this one. The video clips were from "Message from Space" and "Wrath of Kahn".
That's years ahead of its time!
wow that brought back memories. This was really expensive to play i remember, maybe 4 or 5 x the cost of Sinistar, Crystal Castles, Time Pilot, Xevious etc...it was the best game i ever played and still is. ( im sadly not 13/14 anymore). It had glitches but was superb.
I've played that back in the day, besides "Dragon's Lair", "Space Ace", "MACH 3" and "Firefox". One of the things I can recall is going through that canyon sequence without running into the wall. It's kida odd to see an explosion filling the screen whenever an enemy or player gets destroyed. The enemy fire sounded like bird calls! :-D I recall seeing the live action scenes but I haven't noticed that they were from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Battlestar Galactica" and some obscure Star Wars inspired stuff.
ThisGuyFrritz JESUS
@ThisGuyFrritz Dragon's Lair & Space Ace used a LaserDisc player that didn't have a solid state laser projector and the motor that spun the disc only had an estimated lifespan of 10,000 hours. If an arcade was opened every day of the week, how long did it take to eat up 10k hours? Here's a picture....
www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_pr-7820/PR-7820%20in%20case.jpg
Actually, the two "Star Trek" sequences were both ILM's work from "The Wrath of Khan." The CGI was taken from the Genesis Experiment tape, while the other was an obvious shot of the Enterprise entering warp. Sega at the time was owned by Gulf & Western, the same company that owned Paramount; that's how they were able to get away with using the "Star Trek" footage. They actually owned it, anyway.
@@cubdukat Yes, there were a few things I never noticed when playing the game, including this computer animated sequence from "The Wrath of Khan'. It wasn't until I saw this Astron Belt video:
th-cam.com/video/7SYuC5aTW88/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUQYXN0cm9uIGJlbHQgc2VnYQ%3D%3D
That's the Sega Cd of the 80's folks.
I take it back.It is like a Action Max game.Of the 70's.On betamax.
Sega CD was 90s. I know. I bought one
What is this, Michael Bay, the video game?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Whoever is playing this made the same mistake I made back then- holding down the fire button all the time. I didn't learn til much later that it's better to just fire when you're likely to hit something. I just got the laserdisc used in this game, I'll upload it here eventually.
Hey! great channel! Been in video games since Atari 2600..actuall won one in a contest with a Froot Loops contest..lol..They retailed for about 300.00 back then..Also worked as an Asst. manger for an arcade when all this was prime entertainment..brings back memories..
映像提供に、東映さんのクレジットがあります。
ゲーム中では「宇宙刑事ギャバン」のマクーの円盤や、「宇宙からのメッセージ銀河大戦」のガバナス戦闘機、ギャラクシーランナー、コメットフライヤーが飛び交っています。
whenever the guy that fixed the machine came he would always leave a bunch of credits on it for us. :D
That’s awesome!
thanks for sharing took me way back
Until today, this level of realistic videogame movie graphics are not still possible even with the most powerful 3D graphics videogame console, the movement of ships is very fluent, awesome
35 yrs later I am seeing a game I thought I imagined...I was blown away by this game when I was 11, but I was sure there was a woman's voice commentating on my amazing piloting skills...well, that could be my own Mandela Effect I guess.
They used movie footage on a laserdisc and used computer graphics to animate the spaceships
Only the player avatar is graphical, the other space ships are not. they used collision detection so the laserdisc and the cpu could communicate, if a player shots one you get a full-screen explosion, that way the laserdisc can change the scene without the obvious.
I remember playing this game it looks so cheesy now.😂
But I loved how you had to right up the ship to avoid collision with the mountains when you dove into that planet's atmosphere.😎
Michael bay couldn’t even come up with these many explosions 🤯🤯🤯
laser-Disc Technology!! Cool! 80s amazing!
Ha! Just spotted the short clip taken from the Genesis sequence from Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan at 5:54 to 6:01. When playing it as a kid in the 80's I don't remember spotting it.
Amazing. My fav at the time.
I remember playing this in the arcade back in the day. I thought it looked great at the time but I remember not knowing if my controls had any real impact on the game. It was a mess of confusion. Explosions seemed completely random to me. Did I just cause that? *ship explodes* What the heck just killed me there?
Same here. It's an overly-ambitious game for the technology of the time.
It was amazing to watch in arcades, but actual play was awful...thirty seconds' worth of hyperactive jump-cuts and explosions. "Shoot at some stuff, then wait while the game's CPU rolls dice to get a result" explains the game's logic.
Then the laserdisc drive would inevitably crash and burst into flames after two or three plays, requiring Sega to fly in ten specialists from Japan for a month's worth of repair time. :)
Still, even though the movie footage is Grade Z super-cheap (some is even blatantly ripped off from Star Trek movies), I still find it interesting, especially the part similar to the "Return of the Jedi" Death Star reactor run. The ships with six wings and lightning lasers are cool, too.
@@seanwilkinson3975 That explains a lot ... Was wondering how they could possibly get a hitbox out of that mess
Unfortunatetely when you put your money in those all your paying for is video scenery.
I randomly ran into this game at a brewery like 8-9 years ago and was shocked it was working.
This was amazing machine in 1983, computer graphics were still emerging, we weren't ready for visuals like these yet, but they found a way around it until computer graphics were capable and being fast enough to render everything, elimating the need for a laserdisc at all.
Take a look at Blaster, same year, similar concept, better executed. Early attempt at a 3D game that used pixel scaling.
If you never played this or any laserdisc game, you didn't miss much, all of those had almost no gameplay at all.
This is peak gaming right here
It seems the videos in the background are from "Message from space".
Loved this game. We once had to stop between games so the arcade manager could empty the coins..and we saw him hit a reset button on the back left of the cabinet. If u hit it you’d get a free game. Of course we abused the hell out of that.
Never heard of this before today. It’s interesting. They had the technology but it just wasn’t quite “there” yet it looks like.
Same here. Played it at Hoyts Cinema on George Street, I believe. And I loved it!
great ...I thought about this game for about 30 years accidently having played it age 6 somewhere in some Dutch themepark (beekse Bergen) ....and now I finally find the name and D'loaded it for Daphne.....great!!!
1:33 VR Troopers title card background from the intro.
Never played this game and I’m glad I didn’t looks horrible are the scenes taken from a movie or made for this game thank you for showing the ending so far my favorite laser disk game is Mach 3 some of the scenes are even out of focus I don’t know how they made it onto the laser disk
Laser disk brought dark times to arcade games.
At least this one at least tried to resemble an actual game for a change and not a glorified interactive cartoon
1:33 They used this explosion at the VR Troopers intro.
all you have you do is shooting up and destroy the alien , and then! fly across to the alien planets ,have fun!
So apparently this was the first Laserdisc game ever made before Dragon's Lair was a thing. SEGA was ahead of everybody.
Given the nature of the footage, what happens if you don’t shoot at all?
Took me a few yrs to figure out where this stock movie footage came from. Until one night while watching TNT's Monstervision they showed " Message From Space"Toei Co 1978
I could tell it was a Japanese Version of Star Wars.
You have to wonder why they made FMV games for the Mega CD when they already experimented with this.
1:08 & 5:55: Need extra footage? How about effects shots from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan! Brilliant!
I love that the game ends but the players score is still going up lol
SEGA'S ASTRON BELT 30TH ANNIVERSARY 1983-2013.
A lot of the footage is originally from Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
th-cam.com/video/cpyS4nZqAnU/w-d-xo.html
This makes Rebel Assault look fun.
Roflmao....
God i feel old. Played it as a kid in sydney australia 1984 loved that game back then it was the shit! Had no idea at the time it ripped off star trek 2 though lol
My top five from 1983 was:
#5: Spy Hunter
#4: Dragon's Lair
#3: Crystal Castles
#2: Mario Bros.
#1: Star Wars
It's funny that Spy Hunter mite be last on my list but the music was iconic & I find myself humming it as I'm driving.
Oh I do like the realism of this video game; it's just like virtual reality.
Damn, I remeber playing this at the boys club in orange county back in 85-86. I t was so dope then !!!
Wow, I loved this game so much at 13 when it first came to arcades. Now I have to laugh at its nearly complete lack of interactivity. 🤣
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Ha! The score keeps going up, even after the game ended. I remember this from the arcade. Wasn't a fan of this or Dragons Lair
its like battle beyond the stars
It 's exactly like Battle Beyond the Stars because it is Battle Beyond the Stars (1980).
They ripped off scenes from "Star Trek the Movie" and "Message from Space" in this game.
Star trek owned by paramount gulf western
This is the game that got me hooked into video games, the graphics were awesome, even though I was 5 and hardly played it, what I would give to play it again,, I got daphne but don't have the roms, someone help me to download it?
Too....many......EXPLOSIONS!
Michael Bay would cream in his pants of he played this.
Do you know where i can play online this game??? Its been like ages ago!!
Is it just me or is there a bit of film from Star Trek 2 around the 1:10 mark?
***** It is actually.
The Laughing Rabbit Hehe I played this game a LOT. We had one at the tiny arcade down the street from me. I think it was part of the Games People Play franchise. It's now a bait & tackle shop.
***** It is indeed. They took part of the Genesis Project animation, the Enterprise going into warp, and the boss at the end is the Reliant, upside down and flying backwards.
Nowadays, Sega would never even dare to think about doing something like that. I don't think they ever gave credit to Paramount for using their "Wrath of Khan" footage. Nowadays, they'd have sued Sega out of existence while the game was still in the planning stages.
Larry Wilson Same as Sega stole Rambo sound effects for Golden Axe without permission.
+Larry Wilson Wasn't Sega owned by Gulf + Western? They owned Paramount. That would explain Star Trek II.
Ironically I was thinking about Space Sheriff just now! Gavan is the best. I like that his spaceship becomes an oriental dragon!
There is some Star Trek FXs. I know I see them.
14:30 - Why would I wan to attack an upside-down USS Reliant? Is Khan still onboard?
I totally missed that. Lol
I heard of Star Trek TWOK. But, I never hear of the other sci-fi movie. what is the name of the other sci-fi movie?
Message From Space
@@TheVideoGameNutt
Of course! I seen the movie on TH-cam back in 2018 and this movie is... A bit better than Star Wars EP7 and EP8.
I like this
It's kinda funny Sega gave Toei credit for the video segments, but not Paramount who, if I remember correctly, owned Sega at the time.
Since both Sega and Paramount were owned by Gulf+Western at the time, they had free reign to use the Star Trek footage.
Wow memories
14:43 Ending & Game Over
these ships appear to be a mixture from battlestar galactica, Starfleet (remember that one, anyone?) and Blake's 7
The triangular ship is from Gavan.
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So this was the first live action games?
Jesse Patterson They were film footage not digitized graphics.
i remember this you had to sit inside this cockpit and shoot the filmed models shot on lazer disc. most of the time the shots never connected...the game was frustrating and expensive...i look at it now and laugh at how dated it is.
Cool and rare!
Greetings from Germany!
A important point, I really don't know how good video card pallet color had the sega arcades and about 90's they decided to made poor home console!!!
Big Rigs was more of a game than this…and I remember this being a 4 credit per play.
Smartphoneless arcade laserdisc
1:08 Gameplay
I prefer to play Blaster over this
You'd need more imagination playing this, than a zx81game.
That's 1980's technology
Yeah, before the internet, before smartphones, cellphones or most people even having any type of computer in the house at all. Seems pretty advanced when you think of it in those terms!
I wonder what tech will be like when TH-cam and all the current games looks this dated in the future?
Footage from star trek
Most of the sequences used in this game were from the movie *Message from Space* which in itself was a ripoff of the Star Wars franchise which in itself was a ripoff of *The Hidden Fortress* and... Uh-oh, I think I'd gone cross-eyed.
Smartphoneless Arcadig video games
Okay, commenting as I go. Right now I'm at the 7 minute mark. Pretty much like Galaxy Ranger: nothing you do affects game play, and the score goes up at a constant rate no matter what you do. Special effects and model work are slightly better, but the editing and camerawork are still awful. There was no logic to this game at all, was there. Okay, now at 8 minutes, and I've seen at least six shots lifted directly from Star Trek II.
Jeez, this is bad. How in the world did Sega get away with packaging this crap??
Simple.
Sega got away with it because for content they didn't own, they were able to secure permission to use them. For instance, the 1979 Toei copyright disclaimer at the beginning.
As for the Star Trek II footage, that's easy to explain. At the time the game was made, Sega was a Gulf+Western Company. So was Paramount Pictures.
Computer graphics in 1983-1984 just weren't at the level they are now...a game like this would be best programmed in the Unreal or Unity engine.
@@Crimefighter duuuuh really????
i thought it was a joke game from gta series
Awesome graphics but a really stupid game. I loved it - I suppose shows how starved we were back then of games combining great graphics AND gameplay. The Star Wars arcade game was out at same time and was line graphics rather than video, it played better though.
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Congratulations on destroying the final boss...uh...upside down USS Reliant footage...and reaching the end goal of...an episode of the Electric Company?
I remember this game, and remember thinking it was odd that they'd nicked clips from Star Trek II, among other cheesy foreign films. The game play made almost no sense and didn't appear to have much rhyme or reason.
yeah there were loads of games like this back then. MACH 3 and Firefox were better... this was terrible and was about as much fun to play as watching a burning orphanage. Thankfully these laser games all died out eventually...
Terrible