Some parts of videogame history are best left as footnotes. Consider the LaserActive, an incredibly expensive machine released in 1993 that is quite possibly the most poorly conceived and ...

The 1993 Pioneer LaserActive certainly ranks high on the list of obscure video games. It was an odd duck; it used both a LaserDisc for data storage and provided compatibility with a range of existing ...

I bought things in Japan. Duh. When I go digging through thrift stores in San Francisco, I only occasionally find some piece of old videogame history that I want to buy. Going to Akihabara is the ...

'This is the first:' The 16 year odyssey of 'time, money, wrong turns and frustration' it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive https://www.readonlymemo.com ...

Those were the days: The Pioneer LaserActive, a quirky '90s console that fused Sega, PC Engine, and LaserDisc tech, has finally been emulated after 16 years of painstaking effort. This breakthrough ...

Here in the year 2025, it’s not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that’s just what happened last week with the ...

You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore.

A port of the Cyan Worlds / Broderbund adventure classic. Designed for release on the LaserActive system, but unreleased due to the console's demise.

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