Video Games on a LaserDisc?! The Pioneer LaserActive | Erin Plays
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- Let's take a look at a super rare and weird video game console from the '90s. . . the Pioneer LaserActive! Join me as we find out what it is and check out some awesomely bad games!
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This video was great probably my favorite now. Pyramid patrol and rocket coaster looked like fever dreams and it was hilarious to see Erin play a Japanese porn game intended for lonely salarymen
Thank you! :)
I'm offended, but intrigued.
I owned one of these about 10-15 years ago. I remember seeing it at a local electronics shop when I was a kid in the early 90's when it first debuted. It was playing a demo LD showing off some gameplay with snippets of popular movies mixed in (I vividly remember seeing Terminator 2). I always thought it was so cool, but the price was insane! IIRC a Sega Genesis was going for around $150 at the time and the Laseractive was $999 plus $299 for each pack. I was fortunate enough to find one on eBay for around $200 shipped with the Sega pack and a handful of laserdiscs. Fun fact: none of the Sega CD units have copy protection, so any model (including this one) can play burned Sega CD games with no modification. Unfortunately I never owned any of the Mega LD games (they were too expensive and had terrible reviews), but it's neat to see them in action. It's a shame none of the OG LD games from the early 80's made it to the Laseractive (I'm looking at your Dragon's Lair). Anyway, great video. It brought back a lot of memories.
That’s awesome that you remember seeing this in an actual store. Thanks for watching!
That shit actually don't look too effin bad. I asked Santa for that when I was a kid, but he said, "they ran out of them at the North Pole." Lol!
They actually made a pretty successful movie based on that Britney Spears video. I think it was called The Martian. Matt Damon played Britney.
Great video again! Love it when you play strange retro games!
The size of the laserdiscs cracks me up every time I see them. It's like a SUPER MEGA CD!!
And turns out they called it the MEGALD lol
MSX., Atari 520ST and Amiga series of mid 80s computers could also play Laserdisc games, Astron Belt being one and a full conversion of Dragon's Lair 1 + 2 for the Atari ST and Amiga on Laserdisc by Microdeal being another. We appear to have been fascinated with Laserdisc games for a long time lol
I had a school friend who owned a LaserDisc player in the mid 90s at secondary school...He lived in a massive house and his parents were rich! He also had a 486DX66MHz...I had to make do with my Super Nintendo and 386DX33MHz
ON Laser Disc That's Hard Core LOL❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
When you beat Virtual Cameraman 2 you are treated to a 3D bonus video if you have the 3D goggles.
Oh my gosh. That's amazing.
Pyramid Patrol reminds me of Galaxian 3 and Starblade in a sense. I’m happy to say I have played both of those in arcade form.
Those crab things on pyramid patrol remind me of the winged creatures on super metroid, that bounce from the ceiling and ground.
So it is basically analog laser disc videos playing in background with digital sprites on top.
If you want a (good) bad Star Wars, check out Turkish Star Wars. It's almost beautiful in its ineptitude.
Anyone else going to Oaks, Pa tomorrow for Too Many Games?
See ya there :)
the underground society needed good up-to-date games and consoles
Was it just me or did Rocket Coaster fantasy level reminded me so much of the kids room in Toy Story??
That level when you're small and inside a house really reminded me of Katamari Damacy. Please Erin! Play that series~
That’s funny you brought up Katamari cuz I’ve actually been wanting to play that lately
I love that “Future” world was the inspiration for graphics of the Superman 64....
Not gonna lie... the vag joke made me laugh out loud
My favorite part was the dating advice from Erin :)
14:35 "Fuck the future!" Hahaha, love this beauty; you have your attitude...👍😄
Hey erin this is bodybuildergamer. Thank so much for answering abkut the pokemon game on the switch I picked it up and absolutely love it.
The MSX Palcom looks way more cooler then the Laseractive! But, sadly it’s so rare and expensive.
Technology-wise, this is the predecessor to the 32X.
The creepy photo guys exist in Japan. They have a hard time giving up too. One asshole stalked my sister for days.
More interactive than the last Tomb Raider
Have you played the Sega CD Erin? There are actually some cool games on it,mainly Final Fight and Sonic CD
No, I’ve barely played any Sega cd but I’d love to at some point!
Even though it's been over 2 years since this video came out, I would love to see a deeper dive into Virtual Cameraman in another video.
It's A E S T H E T I C and I'm 33. Thanks
Still better than the Amiga 32X
I often feel repeatedly "DENIED" by the women I talk to.
"...All kinds of crap.. Let's Play It!"
is that bigger than the atari 5200 holy crap
You had never heard of pyramids in space? Neverv seen stargate?
Noooo!!! PYRAMIDS ARE FOR HUMANS ONLY!!!! MARS HAS NO RIGHT TO HAVE PYRAMIDS!
To quote your video, "JUST THE THOUGHT OF ANOTHER PLANET HAVING A PYRAMID PISSES ME OFF!"
What is it about that ancient culture that gets the best of Dave???
Fuck off Joe. The only reason you are commenting on this is b/c it's a girl making the video. You and your buddy (which ever this is, Joe / Dave) are both sexist pieces of shit. Go back to the PCEFX forums aka 'cesspool world' where you belong you losers.
@@talkingcircles Gee you must be fun at geek parties.
@@xxcrysad3000xx Dave must be reincarnated King Tut to have such resentment.
It was really refreshing to see something "new" in the retro community that I hadn't heard about or seen a bajillion times before. Great video, Erin!
lol how could someone in the retro community not know about this lol were you born in 2001?
This is too big and expensive. I'll just wait for the Pioneer Laseractive Classic.
Still bigger than a SNES Lol
Jeremy Shartzer Even bigger than the Atari 5200!
Pioneer LaserActive Classic
- Sega Genesis games
- Sega CD games
- Acer Group TurboGrafx-16 games
- Acer Group TurboGrafx-16 CD games
- PC games
- Nintendo Wii games
- Nintendo Wii U games
- Blu-ray Disc
- DVD
This system doesn't look half bad for 1993, this might have actually evolved into something good if it was like 1/4 the price.
In the early 90s I remember a Dragon's Lair arcade game that was on laserdisc. It was the biggest quarter-eater I have ever seen and looking back now it's only like a 12 minute game if you can manage to beat it, lol. I would pay good money to see Erin play that if she could find it
I would love to play that version, haha. I played the first bit of the NES game a while back. If interested, here's a link :) th-cam.com/video/8hH5V-1j88g/w-d-xo.html
Still better than Soulja Boy's game console 🤓🐙
I like to think consoles like the LaserActive, 3DO, and even the Phillips CD-i were just poorly executed experiments in Video Game history. Having watched several of your videos, Erin, your videos are informative and easily make anybody laugh. I appreciate your work!!!
Thank you!
that dragon is breathing Listerine you know how much that burns your throat, what kind of dragon breaths fire.
At 10:02 , Erin enters stage 1 of RAGE QUIT mode... At 14:28 , Erin enters stage 2 of RAGE QUIT mode..... the rage.... the rage.... LMAO!!
I have one that I picked up at a Estate sale with two official controllers and pyramid patrol (sega pak). I believe I got the whole deal for $50, I was absolutely shocked when I saw how much they go for lol. I secretly want to sell it for the money, but it’s pretty cool having one lol.
I want a poster made from the box-art of Rocket Coaster.. Jesus Christ, that's so awesome.
It’s pretty great! 😎
Man I actually never knew about this system. It seems like this must have flopped back then. Plus I can only imagine how expensive the games were back then. But unless your parents are rich ain't no way your owning this system. I know if I wanted this back then my parents would have laughed at me lol. Great video as always Erin!
My parents bought it, and pretty much every other electronic imaginable, for themselves, didn't have to ask for anything.
The graphics looks pretty incredible for its time, I just hope the Laser Active gets emulated for the purpose of game preservation.
The only people I can imagine picking up one of those systems back then are the kids who had really rich parents and asked for it, played it once, and never touched it again. Considering it was almost $1000 lmao
A buddy of mine had one when back in the day. Go figure, his step dad was rich (real estate) and spoiled him rotten. 😄
@@DamaramuHQ Hahaha case in point 😂
Don't clump the 3DO with the CD-i. 3DO is there with failed systems like the Jaguar and 32x.
F-Zero references and dropping
F-bombs, awesome.
That’s crazy you have one of these I would love to have one super collectable and rare console. I’m kicking myself for not buying one I found on Craigslist I neeeever knew these ever existed in back in the day. Cool you have one. I only knew one friend who had a laser disc back in the day but the fact you had to keep turning them over I wasn’t impressed I stuck to my genesis/Snes and vhs lol
I got so excited seeing the Laseractive in magazines as a kid. The potential was amazing, as LD was already the sweetest format for films, and I loved playing Mad Dog McCree in the arcades. It was like the Rolls Royce of consoles, as it was so high class, and expensive. Living in the UK we never got to see it, as it was only released in the US and Japan. But to me it was like this almost un-real dream. I scoured mags for any mention of it. Of course, now seeing it, the content def didn't live up to the potential. Such a shame!
If you can Erin, check out the Laseractive game, I Will: The Story Of London, it's a video based detective game. It's not great, but the acting's hilarious. There's also a driving based level around the historic British city of Bath, which is basically Google Street View in 1993, but a lot quicker! One of the mini games also involves you doing washing up in a restaurant to earn money!
I have Mad Dog McCree for DOS, it's actually enjoyable for a while. I never did beat it though.
I learned something new. What an adventure. Thank you!
Yay, I'm glad! Thanks for watching :)
"The game's so nice they named it twice :D" You're killing me, haha!
*GENERIC SPACE BULLSHIT™*
Erin Plays, 2018.
I would so buy the Britney - Oops I Did It Again Game! Either the hotness of playing as latex catsuit wearing Britney herself...or the tragedy of playing as the astronaut, saving a girl who isn't really that into you.
Take my money!
I bought a Pioneer LaserActive back in the day. It was at my local Incredible Universe store for something like $1100 or more for the longest time, but then it was discontinued. I had been considering getting a laserdisc player for a while, and when the floor model of the LaserActive was knocked down to $209 I grabbed it, along with my first laserdisc movie, Clerks (I wanted to hear the commentary and see the extended footage and thankfully cut ending). I also wanted a LaserActive because I had a Pioneer rack stereo system already, and it could play Sega and PC Engine/Turbo games with Paks. So, I grabbed the LaserActive, went over to the section where the games were, and they were gone. They'd sent the games away a week earlier according to an employee, along with all of the Sega and PC Engine paks. I did find Pyramid Patrol somewhere else, but didn't have a game pak to play it with. When Incredible Universe closed down, they found a stray Sega pak in a torn box and marked it down to $5, which I immediately grabbed. Years later I bought Rocket Coaster through mail order, which was the only other game I've ever owned for the system. I used mine mostly as a Sega CD player and movie player. Any time I'd play the Sega CD game Surgical Strike on it, there was a one in three chance the disc would get stuck inside the console and I'd have to fish out the CD with a makeshift hook. Another good thing was that when I bought my LaserActive Sega pak, all the stores were clearancing all their Sega CD games, so I picked up titles like Keio Flying Squadron for $7.50 at Best Buy. Wish I'd have tried getting more RPGs rather than buying Rise of the Dragon for $2.
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Some shows still use sounds of the Pac-Man 2600 game as generic video game sounds.
Thanks for suffering through those for us Erin. I'm kind of intrigued by that Cameraman game, if it was that weird and creepy to start with how much worse does it get if someone agrees.
I think we all agree that Erin should have a full playthrough of Virtual Cameraman. No? Well, maybe only I agree on that. That game is on par with Plumbers don't wear ties and The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe.
The laser disc [size] looks like the Predator's throwing "boomerang" weapon, but I bet you could cut heads off with the LaserDisc just as well, if thrown hard enough. ;P
It has hilarious to watch her getting rejected all the time xDD
It's funny that you called Pyramid Patrol the type of game that would appear in a movie, because I swear to Christ this was the game young Stephen played in the flashback scenes in the Haunting of Hill House.
Great video! I often wondered what the Pioneer was all about, they certainly went all in with great expectations. All the games are 'on rails' and video quality worse than VHS what were they thinking?
Your videos are so entertaining :] Totally got me at "fucked up version of Pokemon Snap" xD
My next door neighbor had this because his father was a huge movie guy and bought everything Pioneer. He must have been sold the Laseractive as part of a home theater bundle. He had the Sega pack but no Genesis games so he would ask me to bring some over but sadly I never realized it could play Sega CD games. He had maybe 2 or 3 Laserdisc games I was blown away by them at the time.
Yikes. Vapor wave. Is that what kids today say? Dang whipper-snappers.
Lol that was great,thanks Erin,never even heard of this console before!
These games are pure A E S T H E T I C
Laserdiscs are pre-recorded analog video and often in games are more used for backgrounds where the game console overlays sprites and characters and score displays on top of the video.
"Fuck the future"
- Erin, 2018
GREAT video. In the early 80s my grandad had a Laserdisc player he bought in Hong Kong, one of the original Pioneer models. He was a futuristic grandad. I remember he had Dragon's Lair, and one Easter me and my 3rd grade buddy and my cousin played it and our minds were blown that we were practically controlling a movie. My NES paled in comparison. What's so amazing is that so many people aren't aware that this technology existed as early as the 70s.
That’s awesome!
I wonder what type of shelves are needed to stores these beasts. o:
Wow and I thought cassette games were weird . Another classic from Erin 👍👍☺
Best comment: "Fuck the Future!" LOL
This was wild. I forgot this even existed. I remember the 3DO and Neo Geo. I had a Turbografx-16, I loved Bonk's Revenge. I look at the prices some of these cost now. WHY was I such a dumb@$$? I can't even remember all the games I had. Anyway the reason I wrote was these retro reviews are so awesome. The Neo Geo etc I couldn't afford. Hell what 17-18 could. I could have got one but no car....NAH. Priorities..lol. I do still have my Saturn yea!! Anyway keep it going. Your channel and Cinemassacre are awesome and really give retro gamers a voice and a kick @$$ channel. BTW Felix the Cat(NES)....AWESOME.
Thank you!
I love it "this is like a fucked up version of Pokémon snap
You could have held up your phone with Google Goggles on that one game to translate.
Also.. I'm not having Erin be my wing-woman if I'm a creeper/photographer.
I love that the video just couldn't keep up with how pink her dress was.
You mean you have to use your hands?! That's like a baby's toy! :P
I feel like Pyramid Patrol is where Universal Studios stole the idea for the Revenge of the Mummy ride from.
Always love the videos Erin! Thanks
I’m 9:00 into this and I’ve been laughing my ass off the entire time
Is this Mike's Laseractive console?
Wow, the colour palate is very "special", so much saturation.
damn I actually remember playing on this system as a kid in the Navy exchange... and then my disappointment when my parents opted for a low model Pioneer LD player, strictly for karaoke of course.
They even made a couple of the games on both LD formats 😂
Cool vid.
There was even a Myst prototype LD out there somewhere
how the hell did you manage to find one of these laseractive systems? or did you foot the bill buying one on ebay?
Borrowed it :)
@@ErinPlays was gonna say wowsers if you bought all that...im still keeping a sharp eye out for one of these at a thrift store, i found a Nuon player recently so keeping my eyes open.
It seemed like it was pretty lame, but Rocket Coaster legit looked awesome!
*Did You Know...*
The Space Gold is a neon hue of _GREEN._ :)
Pyramids in space? Sounds like someone's been watching Stargate.
I'd never heard of that console. But it sure looks good.
As bad as that system is shockingly there is systems that are worse and plus I find it hella funny that the disc are the size of a pizza tray 😂 btw you should play sometime rescue rangers with mike on your channel. btw again I'm happy to see you are dating mike because you two are very cool and nice people so when I seen you two got together I was happy for you 😃
Rescue Rangers would be fun :) And thank you!
Pyramid Patrol gives me a 3D Action 52 vibe, with its flying staplers- as-enemies randomness. All of these games have one thing in common: they're empty. It just looks like you're flying or driving through a bad CG movie. There's no interaction between the player and the environment, which makes it difficult to relate the two in your mind. You're painted on to a barren world and just told "SHOOT STUFF BECAUSE IT'S THERE."
That said, thankyou for showing us! I've certainly never heard of this system before.
It reminds me of early 90s FMV games like Nova Storm and Rebel Assault.
I bought a LaserActive about a decade ago for about $60. It came with the Genesis pack, the LaserActive branded remote control and 6-button Genesis controller. The guy even sent me all the original paperwork that came with it as well as the little pack port cover that goes on the front of the system. He shipped it all in a PC monitor box filled with tissue paper and packing peanuts. A couple of years back, I stumbled across two LaserActive LD games in the wild (Hyperion and Space Berserker) for $5 a pop at a local Half Price Books of all places. Good times!
That’s awesome!
New channel idea Erin Plays Mid 90's Japanese pseudo-porn games. Watch Erin get creeped out playing while Mike watches and laughs.
Sadly, it appears we won't get to see much. It can be called No Game Erin.
Hey Erin I subbed. You made me laugh more than a few times. I love the dry humor. I finally got my hands on this beast of a system recently. I couldn't disagree with you more about it though. The laser disc games are very secondary and gimmicky at best. Have you ever owned a sega cd? If you have you know the nightmare of multiple power plugs and the spiderweb of cords. You don't buy this system for LD games. You buy this console for Pc engine hu cards or Turbo grafx/discs and Sega genesis carts/Sega cds. This is the most versatile system simple and plain. I will be getting a hold of that racing game just for the fact you can drive through cakes.
the camera game had a sequel. btw, love rubbeface..
I know! I would love to see the sequel XD Thanks for watching!
Wonder if there is an analog control on one of the original laser active joysticks that is used for racing.