I always forget how expensive stuff like this used to be. My parents moved recently and there was an old VCR type thing in the rafters of the garage in its original packaging that they had bought in or around 1980 and the tag had it priced at _$1,100.00_. In *1980*. That's about $3,500 in 2017 dollars. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus.

IMO, Dave being upset at non-terran pyramids is the best gag in the whole Game Sack canon. PS I fucking love you guys

For being 11 years old, this video looks pretty good. That said, the lighting has significantly improved.

It's 2021 and I watch a lot of retro video game stuff and I am just now learning that this exists. The modules that you can plug in to play cartridges blew my mind. What a weird system.

And this is why Game Sack is great. I had no idea this console even existed. Great job as always guys!

I'm watching this episode in 2018 and seeing Dave sit on the left and Joe on the right is FREAKING me out man!

What? There's no Flowers of Robert Maplethorp!?!? D: Laser Active owners sure missed out.

Go to the Game Sack Episode Guide linked in the description, find the "RPGs - Part 1" episode. Pretty much the entire second half is Phantasy Star 1-4.

"UUGH!!! JUST THE THOUGHT OF ANOTHER PLANET HAVING A PYRAMID PISSES ME OFF!!" Hahaha!!

I really like that your videos are lengthy and you actually play the games for longer than 5 minutes before you move on to the next one. Real effort goes into these

LMAO @ Dave getting pissed about the pyramids!

A massive disc needs a massive sound effect. You provided big time on this vid and I love this kind of small detail that makes everything coherent. Good work.

I've watched all these episodes so many times. They never get old. My LaserActive is still my favorite system to show off as most people have no clue what it is. Everyone is always very intrigued.

I'm impressed at how good the video looks at 240p

10:43 "My name is... (uh?) Roberto... (How TF I spell this?) ... Ba-seti."

I remember this "console" back in my grandpa-in-law's house sent from my uncle, but the module it had was karaoke one instead of all of those game modules. watching you guys video make me wanna go back in time and ask my grandpa-in-law to give me when he was no longer interested.

"Triad Stone" is also called "Strahl" on the Saturn and 3DO

This is one of my favourite episodes of Gamesack. Has awesome replay ability.

"I'm so oh no, who is gonna help me find....the alpha ozone for me?" LMBO

@valgalder I agree. The only place I remember seeing it was an add in EGM. Basically it was giving away a bunch of gaming stuff and a hi fi audio system if you entered their contest. This was part of it.

8 years too late, but I think you have a faulty eject button. I know someone who was lucky enough to obtain "old new" Laseractive (as in, never opened since production, probably was stored in a warehouse somewhere and only recently put on sale) and the eject button for the modules is easy to press and ejects much further (about 1/3 to a half of the module's depth).

Pioneer LaserActive is one of my favorite electronics that were manufactured by Pioneer.

I love the outro music you guys used for this video. I recognized it immediately from Final Fantasy III.

An RGB modded CLD-A100 would be pretty neat. Then get the Sega Pac and the NEC Pac and you've got THE TRUE KING OF EARLY 90'S ENTERTAINMENT! A SINGLE-DEVICE TO ENTERTAIN YOU AND YOUR GUEST WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY VISUALS AND SOUND. GAMES! MOVIES! ALL IN ONE MASTERFUL PACKAGE! ONE MACHINE TO RULE THEM ALL!!!!!

That black guy who looks like Morgan Freeman sounds like Ben Carson.

This video has 143,226 views, the LaserActive sold over 10,000 unitsWow

I *STILL* cannot believe Sarah killed herself

Oh man, I was hoping to see Time Gal. Apparently 20 other people did too, except I'm gonna give a thumbs up.

G'damn Martians building our pyramids, next they'll be takin' er jerbs.

This was one of those systems that I saw in the early 1990's that I always wanted to try. i finally got my hands on one with the Genesis pack in the early 2000's and it didn't take long to figure out how horrible the thing really was. I cannot imagine how furious someone would be had they bought one for full price. I landed up selling the thing as there was really no reason to keep the thing.

Laughed the entire video! You guys are awesome! Only took 11 years for me to find this video

While I have a Laserdisc player and about 500 movies, I've never seen any of the games that were designed for this system, until now. Thanks for the video guys. That was nicely done. Now I'm glad that I never invested any of my hard earned cash into that. I didn't realize they were that bad.

What a kooky system, with all the modules... (but at least they do play cartridges as well).

In the early 90s this was one of the golden rules of gaming: if your system costs more than a SNES, but isn't a Neo Geo, it's trash.

13:22 Wow that is the most hilariously bad acting I've seen in a while. :D Thank you.

my 1st time to see gaming runs on LD disc system~ so great!

Those girls are below average? ( looks at Joe ) uhu

Now this is what game sack is all about! Thanks for another informative and funny show!

What a unique video! This episode is for sure one of my favourites. Nice job guys!

I remember my school had one when i was in 1st grade they used for teaching math with educational movies and games lol

LOVE the obscure console videos you guys rule nobody covers this at all anywhere on KZfaq you are awesome and unique

I really enjoy these hardware videos, some of the best I've seen. Please talk more about the specs of the machines.

Yea I remember this ungodly priced behemoth machine. Never got to see the games excusive to it till now. Space Berserker and Hyperion actually look pretty cool. For their time of corse.

I forget just how long Game Sack has been on KZfaq

"Your main goal is to shoot the enemy shots to defend yourself. Your secondary objective is to shoot down the enemies if you find the time." That pretty much describes every rail shooter ever made.

You did indeed! That was the only one I was able to purchase, though I rented Mind's Eye and Beyond the Mind's Eye on LD and recorded them to S-VHS.

Well you managed to find a console I've never heard of... Impressive...

ah.. time to relax and have dinner while i let my gamesack playlist run :)

you guys always have stuff I have never heard of! Now I want one of these sooo bad!

We want to. Neither of us have one any more. So we're gonna need to get one again before we can really talk about it.

Thank you for this video. I cannot imagine how expensive it would have been back in the day to get this system to play Genesis, Master System, or TG16 games!! This is amazing lore.

I collect Laser Discs simply for the awesome cover art. Someday I hope to actually view one. I imagine I will be blown away by the quality.

*First four games* "We have a cross hair with full motion video and we shoot stuff!" *Sigh*

I remember seeing that thing in the store in the Audio/Video dept. back in the day. I found it interesting, then I found out about the price. My interest evaporated faster than a pan of water over a nuclear explosion. I also saw the Phillips CD-I in the store when it came out, and I was not impressed. Although the price did impress me. I never bought either one. I would have had to sell my wife.

"Holy Crap! It's Morgan Freeman"....completely out of the blue. I totally lost it.

@Tahnvalas Thanks for that compliment! We have a great time making these videos. Well I do and then I go home and leave all the editing work to Joe. He probably doesn't enjoy it as much as I do. Or maybe he does, who know.

I don't normally comment on videos, but you guys are funny, interesting and simply awesome. You always publish vids about rarer products not overly discussed elsewhere. Very nice! Keep up the great work!

Hey Dave. I'm an alien from another planet, and we have pyramids.

was that English professor played by Tommy Wiseau? His acting style looks the same

I really can't get over how unnecessarily huge laserdiscs were lol

just the thought of another planet having a pyramid just pisses me the hell off

"Unique game with crosshair and FMV backgrounds" - very funny! :). Good job!

I can't even imagine the feeling of superiority owning this console back in the day. "Hahahahaha, who is the console peasant now!?"

The reason why the laserdisc video on LaserActive games are at half the capable resolution is not only because of the fact that the overlaid game graphics are at 240p. On a CAV formatted disc, you may notice that the disc looks like a two-spoke wheel. One side has one field of video while the other side has another field of video. Two fields = one frame. Well, LaserActive uses the full resolution in an atypical manner that actually works for some games. One field is one kind of footage while the other field is another kind of footage and the system can select either field to show at a given time. For example, in Triad Stone, the gameplay may show you footage off of one field on the disc with a different set of video on the other field playing at the same time, and are synchronized with each other. So, for example, if you choose the wrong move, the game will switch to the other video field as well as switching the audio track, so as to play the death footage with the death soundtrack. When done in this manner, the switch is instant compared to having the player seek to another spot on the disc to play the same footage. The drawback is, you guessed it, lower resolution video since you're only playing one field for one frame as opposed to having two fields interlaced for one frame. If you want to see what the video footage looks like on an ordinary player, you'll have to play it on a Pioneer player that predates the LaserActive or on a machine that is not actually made by Pioneer (some brands of LD players may have had their machines made by Pioneer for them). Otherwise, a newer Pioneer player will read the LD-ROM flag encoded on the disc and refuse to play it, displaying LD-ROM on the on-screen display (the LaserActive player without the PAC module will say "Need Control Pack" on the on-screen display). When playing the disc, you will encounter the Pioneer and Sega or NEC logos, but then be treated to a frame encoded with a frame stop code indicating that the disc is meant to be played only on the LaserActive with the correct PAC module. Keep pressing play until you are past these series of frames and the player will play through the disc. Caution is advised, however, if you are epileptic; on games where there are two different kinds of video on the fields, both fields playing on the screen at the same time will be kind of dazzling to the eyes, to say the least.

All these nineties multimedia systems have one flaw... nobody ever designed a game genre for it that had any replay value, or was fun at all. So they all died quickly and gamers went back to PC games that were fun ( RTS, 1st person shooters etc) and Nintendo and Sega consoles (Sony and Microsoft )

I like the way you presented this stale platform. I found some bits of new information as well. Job well done!

oh god i cant stand it when other planets have pyramids

Wait a sec...the main console cost 1000$ and you must have at least one module at the price of 600$ ??? Good bye wallet.

the Legendary Axe!

so quick time events did exist in the stone ages... good to know i guess...

Wow, I had never heard of this system before at all! This was cool to learn about!

@cityside75 Cool! Thanks for watching. It's hard to get excited about monday morning when you have a week of work ahead of you.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.

10:27 "What are we, some kind of suicide club?"

"Ooooh, just the thought of another planet having a pyramid pisses me off!!!"

Serious? Joe had a Time Gal and was tossing it and didn't even notice? What a dope.

I don't know why but I LOVE FMV games. Maybe it's the campiness, seeing live action and getting to interact with it. They saddle the line between gaming and movies, but still enjoyable and relaxing.

Pioneer LaserActive games are so good, they give you pleasure overload.

LaserActive was actually Mega CD/Sega CD's prototype. You see, originally in 1989, SEGA and Pioneer attempted to design a niche,overpriced System 24 powered Laser Disc add on for Mega Drive. The project, codenamed " Earth", was retooled in 1990 in favor of CD and tweaking and enhancing of Mega Drive's hardware instead of a full fledged System 24 hybrid accessory(It simply would have been way too expensive and overinflated). As part of the brokerage deal, SEGA agreed to allow Pioneer to use modules of Mega Drive and the Mega CD to play its ROMs. And SEGA also gave Pioneer it left over patents and ROMs"Mega LD". Regarding NEC, they were both laser focused on PCFX/Turbo X, and were already shifting away from video gaming entirely, so they didn't mind allowing PC Engine to be licensed and co-licensed on a Module at the time. PC Engine was already dead by 1992 anyway. For Mega CD, JVC would handle OEM 2nd party licensing and motherboards.

5:00 "It turns out there's a pyramid on Mars and we have to blow it up. We don't like other planets having pyramids." "Ooh! Just the thought of another planet having a pyramid pisses me off!" "That's right, we can't have that."

Pyramids on other planets are my favorite running joke in all of the GS joke catalog.

Your acting and sense of humor is great! Keep up the good work!

@Heroelime Actually the system and games were on loan.

Oh man! Rocket Coaster, Pyramid Patrol and Hyperion were my shit back in the day! I understand your criticisms of the console nowadays, but back in the 90's, this thing was the shit!!

Oh My! That beast is HUGE!!! Laserdisc tech actually goes all the way back to the late 50's but was not introduced for consumers until the mid-late 70's! I have a Pioneer CLD-D606 which I got from a local Goodwill for $40. Funniest part is I paid an additional $20 to PIONEER to get the official remote for it. LOL

Excellent video! I know nothing about this console and this was a cool surprise!

my family had a laser disc player but I never heard of this. Amazing. I kinda wanna get one lol. Those sega/Nec "packs" though. 600?! Crazy

Just discovered this channel in 2022

One of the earliest known about the laserdisc on KZfaq including the miniseries of oddity archive episodes like laserkaraoke and among others like laserdisc and DIVX

Interesting games.My grade school had laser disc players in the 90's.I saw a documentary (on laser disc) about under water life i think in history class or something. Only got to see that on laser disc. The school i went to mostly used VHS if we were going to watch an educational program in the class room.

You forgot mentioning that the packs are known of capacitor issues. Thanks for a great review.

That ending was LOL Hilarious. Thank you for that genuine gut hitting laughter! :)

I have a question, do you guys have a US Laseractive or a Japanese one? I'm looking to getting a Japanese imported console and was wondering if it would accept US Sega pacs Thanks and love your in depth videos on these awesome pieces of hardware.

Yet another device I vaguely recall hearing about. Never saw one in person. Nobody could afford them. Stores never carried the things anyway.

My friend actually had this machine when I was a kid. I was thinking I was crazy and it didn't actually exist until now. All we used it for was Sonic and Knuckles and watching Disney movies.

Triad Stone for the Mega LD was relesased under the name "Strahl" for the 3DO player.

Dave & Joe... Nice work as usual

Holy crap, you guys weren't kidding. I looked up Time Gal for Laseractive just to see how much it goes for, and all I could find was someone saying they snagged a copy for $350. Everyone else on that forum immediately chimed in about how amazing a deal that was, even though the copy the person bought didn't include the spine card.

This is really amazing! I wonder if one can play the original arcade laserdiscs on the laseractive...

Moon language lmfao... between that line and the pyramids, i was genuinely laughing my ass off this entire episode