3.17 Home Video

These games looked so good… and failed so hard.

Chapters

• 0:00 Opening scene
• 1:05 The choice of Kinoautomat
• 2:24 Nintendo's Wild Gunman
• 3:13 We don't talk about EVR Race
• 4:17 A flipping Sky Hawk
• 5:27 Duck Hunt, the first
• 6:48 Test Driver vs. Battle Shark
• 7:37 LaserDisc spins up
• 13:06 Bill Gates shows his whole Donkey
• 16:15 Quarter Horse, a horse for a quarter
• 16:52 Adventures in Videoland
• 18:38 Astron Belt, the thrid first disc game
• 21:17 Rail-shooters roll out
• 25:22 See the future in Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
• 28:38 Blaster, and other 1983 failures
• 31:25 Before Dragon's Lair: Electronic Book
• 33:43 Confused by Maze Mania
• 36:47 Murder by MysteryDisc
• 38:28 The misfits of Dragon's Lair
• 43:51 Enter Dragon's Lair
• 46:51 Exit Dragon's Lair
• 50:49 Cloning the not-success: Stern, Taito, Data East
• 52:23 Shooting at Mach 3
• 54:02 Cube Quest, aka Polybius
• 55:38 Firefox: death and damnation
• 1:01:09 I, Robot has many perspectives
• 1:02:21 Do laps around GP World
• 1:03:56 Domesticaled LaserDisc
• 1:05:48 A ghostly Halcyon
• 1:08:03 The digial discs, and a Domesday
• 1:10:23 Forget disc, we've got tape
• 1:11:43 I don't have a Clue VCR
• 1:13:45 Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land… on tape?
• 1:17:24 A killer Dogfight VCR
• 1:19:11 Spinnaker meets RoboCop
• 1:20:06 VCR consoles are a poor consolation
• 1:20:37 The unseen Control-Vision
• 1:25:17 The last gasp of Exidy
• 1:29:36 Operation Wolf, the new hope
• 1:30:57 Wild Gunman (2) and Duck Hunt (2)
• 1:32:53 Star Wars (2)
• 1:33:14 Yu Suzuki presents Space Harrier
• 1:34:18 From Star Trek to Solaris
• 1:35:06 Starflider, the grampa of Star Fox
• 1:35:30 Silpheed, or They Remade Major Havoc Again
• 1:36:54 Afterburner and after Afterburner
• 1:37:18 We've got Dragon's Lair at home
• 1:38:48 Aware of Cinemaware
• 1:41:57 Let's welcome cutscene QTEs
• 1:44:14 Wrap up