. . . the RDI Halcyon apparently.

Never heard of this thing before, but I do remember seeing that one game for it, Thayer's Quest in the arcades. Never played it, because I thought it would be nigh impossible to play with that multi-buttoned keypad (Dragon's Lair was hard enough with a joystick.) Didn't know that it was actually a home game.

Apparently, they were going to go with CED as the medium, but CED went under by the time the system was completed.

If only that thing actually lived on, I might have been able to play all those other LD arcade games at home properly like Astron Belt, M.A.C.H. 3, Firefox, Ninja Hayate, Cliff Hanger, etc.

there were some really cool systems out there.
for home and arcade.

The Halcion system was badly under funded and not quite ready when finally released, which, coupled with its price, caused the system to fail fast. RDI was planning on using the funds gained from the arcade market to subsidise the Halcion system, but the arcade market was a more costly business to be in than they expected due to maintenance, slower sales than anticipated, etc. So, Halcion never got the money needed and soon the arcade market basically died causing RDI further problems. People were used to home video game systems costing a few hundred dollars at most, not well over a thousand. And if you bought one, there wasn't a whole lot else you could do with it besides play the one game and watch LaserDisc's - since it used a standard Pioneer LD-700 player instead of an industrial unit, it wouldn't even have the reliability and quality that a person would expect for the price asked.

The computer show on Archive.org where they demo the unit is funny because it doesn't work right and they really have nothing to show - its all talk about what it could do, not what it did do.

Plus with how poorly the LaserActive was received, it's no wonder this thing never caught on.

has anyone ever seen one of these on the bay?

I've never come across one. Seen LaserActives a lot, but never one of these.

Though I haven't checked the video game section for one of these ever, so they might have shown up there.

seen the laser active dragons lair quite often on ebay but a few on ebay now seem a little more rare

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Space-Ace-on- ... 3a79720ad5

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M-A-C-H-3-on- ... 3a79722c86

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M-A-C-H-3-on- ... 3a79722c86

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-last-boun ... 3a79726240

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mad-Dog-2-The ... 3a797a426e


does anyone on here own a player for these and do they play on the same player that play the ld rom titles such as pyramid patrol etc?

I would say a cheaper way to own the games is on the old philips cdi players.

Pretty sure Space Ace was never released on LaserActive, nor were any of those titles.

Those may just be the LDs that go in the arcade machines.