New member of Club LaserActive!

[erehwon]

Just found a laseractive as well. I went to a sale that listed a laserdisc player hoping to find some laserdiscs (already have a player, but need movies) and came away with a laseractive player and Goldeneye for $40. I paid a lot less than Johnny, he got a lot more stuff with his.

I did have a question. Does the laseractive Sega module have a special genesis controller? All I got with mine was a crappy 3rd party controller that doesn't really work very well. I'm also guessing it's very unlikely I'll ever find the other modules for it?

It's rather funny. I've found this and my vectrex on crappy days with very few sales. Yet, I never get any get any games with them.

[Astrocade]

Mine came with a six button Sega controller.

[Johnny Pow!]

My LaserActive has a Pioneer-branded controller that looks like a Genesis controller. It has smaller X, Y, and Z buttons in place of the Start button and the shape is slightly different.

I see the NEC module on eBay sometimes, but I don't do eBay and couldn't afford one even if I did. So I guess I'll keep my $5 TurboGrafx-16 around. And I sure ain't gonna pay $90 for a MegaLD game. But I'm like that. So enjoy 'em if you find 'em. I'll save 'em for ya.

[otoko]

I would love to get my hands on one of these.

[Rickstilwell1]

Yeah one reason I'm not in a hurry to get my LaserActive's power supply repair is that I don't have any Mega LD games to play on it. If I ever do, I'll probably get another Laseractive with a TG-16 module first, so then I can use both.

[A Black Falcon]

The idea that this thousand-dollar player required TWO separate $600 add-ons just to play all the games available for it is just insane... did they think the thing was actually going to do well with the games all being limited to only one of the two modules available? "you need to spend another $600 to play the other five games on the system"... now that's bad design! In order to just play all the games, you needed a system ($970), Sega PAC ($600), and NEC PAC ($600). Just for hardware. Um... ouch. Most expensive game console ever? It's hard to imagine anything matching it...

I mean, because of the small number of games many other systems surely have total values that are higher if you include games given how few games the LaserActive had, but based on just the hardware... wow.

[erehwon]

What are some of the better games to be on the look out for? I'm just asking for the slim chance of finding some of these in the wild or somewhere else.

[Rickstilwell1]

That's a good question. Are any of the LD games really that great?