Laserdic Arcade games pretty much set the precedence for all transcending arcade and video games that exist today. You wouldn’t have a Wii, Xbox, or Playstation without the innovative inspiration that emerged from the idea of Laserdisc Arcade games. Pac-Man wouldn’t even be accessible in your home. So folks, let’s pay homage to Laserdisc Arcade games. They’re no longer popular for various reasons, but when you do get your hands on one of them, there’s no stopping you. We can’t help but remember Dragon’s Lair, the second yet most popular animated laserdisc game to exist. It was also the first video game to look and be treated like a movie. After all, it was animated by Don Bluth and other animators who used to work for Disney.
The Age of the Laser Game didn’t take place until Sega unveiled Astron Belt. Anyhow the game. At a time when the game industry was experiencing a severe slump in earnings,and thought to themselves, “hey a new area for new growth could be in creating laserdisc hardware for arcade players everywhere!” Because it was so new, Astron Belt had a few problems, and Sega decided against an instant American release of the game (it was released in Japan, but did not make an appearance in American arcades until the fall of 1983). But the news that laser games were coming traveled fast, and the excitement began to build — and was still building
You might wonder, why did laser games fail? Well for starters, the laserdisc players themselves cost thousands of dollars in 1983 as opposed to now. Most people attribute the failure of laserdisc games to gameplay. Aside from the incredibly rich graphics that laser footage offered, the play action and control were sluggish because of the slow speed of laserdiscs, and the screen would also blank out during particular sequences, which made many laser games more of a novelty attraction — a two-week wonder. Eeek
