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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: Laseractive-Top Hat Gaming Man Posted: 27 Nov 2018, 20:55 |
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Joined: 01 Feb 2018, 02:41 Posts: 1992 Location: Finland Has thanked: 183 times Been thanked: 386 times
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signofzeta wrote: Its really a sad waste of space, that thing. I wish I liked it. I was going to buy one from a friend once and he leant it to me for quite some time to try it out and I eventually told him to sell it to someone else. It just doesn't have a real use. Almost none of the games are fun at all and the cheapest of them are $100. If it had Dragon's Lair or Space Ace it would be worth it for that alone but the best LD game it has is probably Road Prosecutor or Time Gal and TG is like $2000 these days. Its also the cheapest deck there is on the LD side (I think it has S201 parts). The modules themselves are quite overbuilt, which is weird, but ended up succumbing to 90s capacitor plague so not only is the system expensive AND the games suck AND the games are expensive AND the LD side stinks but it ALSO will probably need preventative maintenance the minute you find one because of the LD side isn't frozen up from lack of use then its worn out from having too many hours on it and if you don't recap the POS the modules will eat themselves to death inside their sweat metal cases.
Its one of those things a lot of people used to own before they sold it on to the next guy and that was four owners ago and still nobody has had fun with it yet except for once when one of the owners watched Speed on it that time on his birthday when everyone was high. I can always count on you to come with an appropriate colorful description of things Do you have any experience with LV-ROM games for the MSX?
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Laseractive-Top Hat Gaming Man Posted: 27 Nov 2018, 21:14 |
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rein-o wrote: But he is so right.
This player came out in 1993, this was 4 years after we bought a 3070 and couldn't justify buying another LD player when the 3070 at the time was way beyond this player.
Price, availability and games are why it tanked. Also no game stores in NYC even carried this but they did have the Neo Geo at the time, so price was not an issue. The Neo Geo is like the opposite of Laseractive. Whereas every Neo game is at least a little fun in some way and is often very fun, every Laseractive game is at least a little sucky in some way and in most cases is totally sucky.
_________________ All about LD care, inner sleeves, shrink wrap, etc.
https://youtu.be/b3O-vHpHRpM
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mckie1
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Post subject: Re: Laseractive-Top Hat Gaming Man Posted: 29 Nov 2018, 12:39 |
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Joined: 25 Apr 2015, 08:15 Posts: 12 Location: Australia Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time
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Quirky system but not one we would get rid of. Probably like the UK, there wouldn’t be too many down here in Australia. There are different versions of the sega and pc-engine pacs to collect plus the illusive pc pac with remote and software. Sadly only 30 odd games Prices are just ridiculous!
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