This is my first post here, so it's very nice to meet everyone! I'm a collector of interactive experiences that shipped on analogue media. So that covers things you may have already heard of, like the Laser Active, but also covers some things you possibly haven't heard of like MSX games that shipped on VHDs. The good news is I want to ask about a Laser Active title so it's nothing so out-of-this-world obscure that you won't even know what I'm talking about, the bad news is that if it exists then it's done a very good job of hiding!

I was recently talking to another Laser Active collector, and he seemed convinced that the North American version of "3D Museum" on TurboLD (the Turbografx-16 variant of the Laser Active) was never actually produced and doesn't actually exist. It's this entry in the LDDB: 3D Museum (1994) [PEANU1012]

That LDDB entry reports two copies as being in peoples' collections, and there's even a UPC code! So you'd THINK that would be case closed. However, there are other releases of 3D Museum for Laser Active that it could easily be confused for, like PEANJ1012 or PEASU1012, and there are no pictures. The only information on the page references the PAC-N1, the Japanese version of the Turbografx-16 (well, PC-Engine) Laser Active module. It's all a little suspicious, especially since searching high and low for that UPC code only returns hits on yet another website that has no pictures!

Should you be one of the two purported owners of this title (or if you have it but just didn't put it in the DB), then your mission should you choose to accept it is to come out of the shadows and into the light: pics or it didn't happen! Bonus points if you PM me your asking price

Thanks for reading!

IIRC, there were several LA games where multiple versions exists for different regions but that whole format was such a failure and the distribution and documentation so bad it can be very hard to prove they all were released. It’s also quite likely that something sorta came out and then was bought back by the distributor and destroyed making it super uncommon or perhaps even no longer existent.

Some time ago when the PCEngineFX forum was still going I specifically remember one of the more hardcore guys sorta “discovering” an unverified disc…it may have even been this one.

Wasn’t there a game or two where they made both a MegaLD and an LDROM version of the same thing and then US and JP versions of it on top of that? That may be the one I was thinking of…

Anyway, it sounds like you have the right idea. If it’s not very well documented and you don’t have it in your hands then you can’t count on it actually existing, and just because someone added it to their collection on LDDB.com doesn’t mean they clicked the right box for what they actually have.