From: btribble@terapin.com (Bobby Tribble)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Bandwidth time! Part 2!
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:12:15 PST
Organization: BBS

> Here's part two of my LD thread...
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> #278 rec.games.video.arcade 2k
> From: patenaude@nhtima.enet.dec.com (Roger Patenaude)
> Subject: Re: Laserdisc Games (Complete List)
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 17:59:41 GMT
> 
> 
> 
>   Alphabetical list of LASER games...
> 
> Astron Belt             {Sega '83, Laser}
> Atomic Castle           {LDCS '84, Laser}
> Badlands                {Centuri/Konami, Laser}
> Bega's Battle           {Data East, Laser}
> Cliff Hanger            {Stern, Laser}
> Cobra Command           {Data East, Laser}
> Cube Quest              {Simutek, 3D, Laser}
> Dragon's Lair           {Cinematronics '83, Laser}
> Firefox                 {Atari '83, Laser}
> Galaxy Ranger           {Sega/Midway, Laser}
> Goal To Go              {Stern '83, Laser}
> Inter Stellar Fantasy   {Funai, Laser}
> Laser Grand Prix        {Taito '83, Laser}
> M.A.C.H. III            {Mylstar '83, Laser}
> NFL Football            {Midway, Laser}
> Road Blaster            {Laser}
> Space Ace               {Cinematronics '83, Laser}
> Star Fire               {Exidy, Laser}
> Star Rider              {Williams, Laser}
> Thayer's Quest          {RDI, Laser}
> The Laser Shuffle       {, Laser}
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> #282 rec.games.video.arcade 4k
> From: weaverd@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Dana M. Weaver)
> Subject: Re: Laserdisc Games
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 22:08:07 GMT
> 
> In article <1992Jul13.173756.3251@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (The Blabbermouth Man) writes:
> >In article <1992Jul11.213942.135080@zeus.calpoly.edu>,
> claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu (King_Claudius (Chris Knight)) writes:
> 
> >- GALAXY 999, by ??.  Never seen the game, but heard about it.
> >  Uses footage from the Japanese animation GALAXY EXPRESS 999.
> 
> hmmm... minor correction here... The game is/was (haven't seen
> one for a looong time)  It was called Freedom Fighter, and, I
> believe, used only footage from the second Galaxy Express Movie.
> (the game was great, lesse... the joystick truely original,
> it moved forward and back, but swiveled left and right. you
> aimed your gun (you were a kid with a gun... eeeek! :) by
> directing a computer generated target sight (in the apropriate
> sceens).  also, at some points you had to choose wether to take
> a left or right path as you ran towards a corner (in first
> person no less), this is where the swiveling joystick was
> really used, as you swiveled it left and right, the picture
> turned with it... a neat effect to be sure :)  Anyway, fun
> game, very little lag time, and besides, you got to shoot up
> a baseball game!  who ca beat that? :) It had some great
> quotes in it too... "Here... This'll shoot the lips offa
> cockroach", "Nice kid like you belongs in a Baseball game"
> (procede to shoot everyone)  I wish My local arcades'
> hadn't gone kablooie.
> 
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> #297 rec.games.video.arcade 3k
> From: mikep@iastate.edu (Michael K Patterson)
> Subject: Re: LaserDisc Games
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 12 21:49:14 GMT
> 
> In <btribble.0q82@terapin.com> btribble@terapin.com (Bobby Tribble) 
> 
> >(Related note) I heard from one person that says he owns
> >a LaserDisc of Dragon's Lair and watches it on his LaserDisc
> >player at home...is this true (or did I just completely
> >misunderstand his message)? If it's true, where would I be
> >able to buy just the disc without buying the entire arcade?
> 
> I own one of those Dragon's Lair disks, and it plays
> beautifully. Every once in a while we slap it in the 'ol
> LD player and watch it go. (BTW- no, I'm not selling it :)
> It's fun to watch-- Each screen does the following:
> 
>          1) Ressurection on that screen
>          2) Play the "correct" pattern
>          3) Show the Deaths
>          4) Show the "final death" for the level.
> 
> The exception to this is, of course, the falling disk
> level, where if you fail to jump onto one of the
> outcroppings, you fell through the floor.
> 
> And yes, I am looking for a full-sized Dragon's Lair
> arcade game. Anyone with any information, send me
> mail. I know these games are hell on the arcade
> owners, and I would be willing to relieve them of one.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------- Michael Patterson AKA Dirk the Daring
> mikep@iastate.edu
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> #301 rec.games.video.arcade 1k
> From: bovine@engin.umich.edu (Mitchell Rohde)
> Subject: Re: LaserDisc Games
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 00:20:14 EDT
> 
>  I own a DRAGONS LAIR arcade machine.... and, yes, as
>  was cmmented above, you can play the disk in any old player.
> 
>   I have problems with my machine, though.  It is very difficult
>  to repair the laser disk player.  I have the manual/schematics..
>  but the player is a DINOSAUR!! It is the MCA Discovision...
>  the first consumer laser disk player.  
> 
>   ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED ON THIS PLAYER/OTHER LASER PLAYERS,
>  PLEASE E-MAIL me!! 
> 
>   If anyone is interested, and it is not illegal, I would be 
>  willing to videotape the disk for anyone providing
>  they cough up a small amount for the tape/trouble/postage.
> 
>                                mitch
>     bovine@CAEN.engin.umich.edu
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> Well, that's all... One game that wasn't talked about
> that much was Badlands... this was one weird game...
> There was one BIG fire button that you used whenever
> you wanted to fire at a baddie... There was one part
> where the cowboy hero travels backwards in time to the
> dinosaurs (Hologram Time Traveller? Naaaah....)
> 
> Too bad the one at a local arcade was shot to hell...
> 
> Until later, I'm outtie 6000, G...
> 
> Bobbibble  |8')
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> btribble@terapin.com              

Hm, went pretty well...a few errors (that did NOT originally say "Bobbibble"!)
My name is Bobby Tribble, dern it! Well anyways, enjoy...oh, and don't forget
to start capturing this! Oh, did I say that too late? :)
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