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is there any hardware / old tech you’ve got that’s completely impractical and wasn’t even great at the time, but you just adore it anyway?

THE LASERACTIVE

I love my Laseractive. It's broken more often than it works these days. Games are expensive and impractical. It's wonderful.

The Laseractive was Pioneer's idea of "what if we made our laserdisc players into a game system". It's a modular lasterdisc player with a bay in the front that takes add-ons which add support for Sega games (Genesis/Sega CD) or NEC games (Turbografx/Turbo CD). In addition to regular games, it can play laserdisc games that require the Sega or NEC expansion. Most of them are totally unique to the hardware! Some are bad, some are actually really good, and none of them are boring.

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zlchxo
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Ooh which LaserActive games do you like? (I felt so cheated when I looked into the "RPG" they made for the thing and it's as much an RPG as any flash "interactive movie" from like 1999 was lol, it's not without merit though)

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Is that Don Quixote? I haven't played it, but I thought it at least had real battles. I could be totally off though!

The JB Harold games are both really good, and Blue Chicago Blues especially makes fantastic use of the hardware. The educational discs might seem like they'd be boring, but they're actually pretty cool - I really love Melon Brains, which has a lot of personality and some very charming artwork and footage.

Of the FMV-based shooters, I think Hyperion's probably the best; it uses the FMV for flashy backgrounds, but the core gameplay is actually really solid. (By comparison, Pyramid Patrol leaned a little too hard into FMV, to the point that it's really hard to play and a bit too literally on rails.)

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It has "real" battles in that you have the option to attack enemies and hope their HP goes down faster than yours. That's as complex as it gets.

And YESSSSSS JB HAROLD MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just went to go look at melon brains and it's a minor thing but that dolphin cursor makes me so happy.

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