Halcyon?

[Dirty Tiger]

I was thumbing through tihs cool book called "Supercade" it was a nice coffe table book about the history of video games 1974-85.

On the time line they had a small blurb about a Laser-disc console named Halcyon that retailed for 2K?!?

Can some one tell me more Pleez.

[norkusa]

The RDI Halcyon was put out by Rick Dryer (who teamed up with Don Bluth to make Drangons Lair) in the mid-80's and was the first attempt to make a LD game system for the home market. Came with a keyboard and headset which allowed you to give voice commands to the unit. I think only a couple games were released for the Halcyon before Dryer went bankrupt (Thayers Quest and NFL Football?). On the Dragons Lair DVD, Dryer enthusiastically talks about it for a few minutes in one of the interviews.

I would love to get my hands on one of these systems, but they are impossibly hard to come by. Saw one on ebay about 3 years ago but it was just the LD player and didn't come with the CPU or other accessories. Anyone here have one?

[norkusa]

There was one in the CGE museum one year.

Yeah, I remember seeing it in some pics. First time I've ever seen one complete like that. Who'd it belong to anyway? Buyatari? He always has the good stuff...

[Dirty Tiger]

When I posted this question I half-expected the author of Supercade to reply :P