Laserdisc movies, TV shows, live music concerts, and games you blew quarters on

Besides still owning a laserdisc player with about 40 movies collecting dust on laserdiscs and a lot of rock and classical music concerts as well as some great IMAX movies on LD too..  Seems it only took a couple of years for DVDs and then Blu-Ray to make it all obsolete almost overnight and now Blu-Ray is going obsolete too, replaced by digital downloads and streaming - LOL





LaserDisc was also known by the names DiscoVision and LaserVision. Laserdisc was first produced by MCA in 1978, and became well known in the 1980s. Movie companies stopped making Laserdisc movies when DVDs became well known in the late 1990s.

The first LaserDisc title marketed in North America was the MCA DiscoVision release of Jaws on December 15, 1978.

Why did LaserDisc fail?

Although the format was capable of offering higher-quality video and audio than its consumer rivals, VHS and Betamax videotape, LaserDisc never managed to gain widespread use in North America. This was largely due to the high cost of the players and their inability to record TV programs.

LaserDiscs degrade over time?
Laser rot is the appearance of video and audio artifacts during the playback of LaserDiscs, and their progressive worsening over time. It is most commonly attributed to oxidation in the aluminum layers by poor quality adhesives used to bond the disc halves together.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LaserDisc_video_games

https://www.dragons-lair-project.com/
https://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bluth
https://www.donbluthanimation.com/

The Disney/Don Bluth Animation War - The Story of A Rise, Fall & Renaissance




Ranking EVERY Don Bluth Film : The Golden Age




Scariest Don Bluth Movie Moments (ft. Don Bluth)




Donald Virgil Bluth (/bluːθ/ BLOOTH; born September 13, 1937)
September 13, 1937 (age 86)
El Paso, Texas, U.S.

 is an American filmmaker, animator, and author. He is best known for directing the animated films The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Anastasia, and Titan A.E., for his involvement in the LaserDisc games Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, and for competing with former employer Walt Disney Productions during the years leading up to the films that became the Disney Renaissance.

http://www.donbluth.com/


Laserdisc Game Ports - See which games have been ported to which systems.

https://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/related/ports.asp

Don Bluth laserdisc games Series

https://gamesnostalgia.com/games/series/295/Don+Bluth+laserdisc+games


Dragon’s Lair was an arcade game animated by Disney veteran Don Bluth. Despite being the first arcade game to cost 50 cents, the hype helped to revitalize and keep afloat a then-failing arcade industry. Here is a newsreel from 1983 which visits an arcade, interviews kids, and talks to the creator.

Dragon's Lair Historical 1983 News Reel




https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/su0xby/dragons_lair_was_an_arcade_game_animated_by/


Dragon's Lair Playthrough 1080p - Full Screen High Quality - 1983






Dragon's Lair II : Time Warp Full Playthrough - 1991




Space Ace - Full Playthrough - 1984




Space Ace is a LaserDisc video game produced by Bluth Group, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems). It was unveiled in October 1983, just four months after the Dragon's Lair game, followed by a limited release in December 1983 and then a wide release in Spring 1984. Like its predecessor, it featured film-quality animation played back from a LaserDisc.

The gameplay is similar to Dragon's Lair, requiring the player to move the joystick or press the fire button at key moments in the animated sequences to govern the hero's actions. There is also the occasional option to either temporarily have the character transform into his adult form or remain as a boy with different styles of challenge.

Rick Dyer/SEGA - Hologram Time Traveler (Full Playthrough via Daphne/Singe Emulator)

I still have my cherished boxset before Lucas changed the films


Vintage 1993 Star Wars Trilogy The Definitive Collection Collector's Edition Widescreen LaserDisc Laser Disc LD Set Boxed Rare

https://www.etsy.com/listing/695882212/vintage-1993-star-wars-trilogy-the










Stars Wars 1997 Special Edition Laserdisc Box Set all 3 original Films




Star Wars LaserDisc Box Set Collection




The Original Star Wars Trilogy...On Laserdisc!!!




Laserdisc Collection Pt. 18: Star Wars and the best official release of the films to date

Another in my collection

TRON CAV Widescreen Edition Laserdisc Box Set and First Edition "The Making of TRON" Book Signed by William Kallay and Harrison Ellenshaw (Walt Disney, 1982).

This is an unopened CAV Widescreen Edition Laserdisc Box Set featuring TRON. Constant Angular Velocity or CAV discs support several unique features such as freeze frame, variable slow motion and reverse. CAV discs were spun at a constant rotational speed during playback, with one video frame read per revolution. This is said to be the highest quality Laserdisc format. Along with the Laserdisc is a fist edition copy of "The Making of TRON" by William Kallay with Foreword by Harrison Ellenshaw. The dynamic cover was designed by visual effects icon, Richard Wynn Taylor II. The book features over 30 never-before-seen photographs with an extensive appendix filled with TRON trivia and is hand-signed on the title page by Kallay and Ellenshaw. In Fine condition.
From the Harrison Ellenshaw Tron Collection.


https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06557/6141-CS/Tron
https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/miscellaneous/tron-cav-widescreen-edition-laserdisc-box-set-and-first-edition-the-making-of-tron-/a/7311-19010.s







Laserdisc: Tron




Opening to Tron: Exclusive Archive Collection (US Laserdisc, 1995)




Tron Laserdisc Package Vid

Laserdisc Collection Pt. James Bond 1962-1977





The Golden Age of Looney Tunes is a collection of LaserDiscs released by MGM/UA Home Video in the 1990s. There were five sets made, featuring a number of discs, and each disc side represented a different theme, being made up of seven cartoons per side. The first volume was also released on VHS, with each tape representing one disc side.

Like many other Looney Tunes home video releases by MGM/UA Home Video, Volumes 1-4 used faded 35 mm Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) television prints as MGM/UA and Turner Entertainment, owners of the rights to the shorts, at the time had no access to Warner Bros.' negatives. Unlike many other Looney Tunes home video releases by MGM/UA Home Video, most of the a.a.p. logos were cut from the releases.

As Volume 5 was released in 1997, however, newer "remasters" were used that Turner Entertainment had created in 1995, infamously known as Turner "dubbed versions", to make the shorts look more presentable for television and home video releases. These shorts had an altered ending card taken from one of the shorts with the disclaimer to Turner Entertainment below. Turner did not have access to Warner Bros.' negatives, so only what was provided from a.a.p. could be used, hence why some of the Turner prints are of varying quality.

With the exception of the "Censored Eleven" shorts, every Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short in the a.a.p./Turner library was released in this collection.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Age_of_Looney_Tunes


Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 1 Laserdiscs (Public Domain Cartoons)




Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 2 Laserdiscs (Public Domain Cartoons)




Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 3 Laserdiscs (Public Domain Cartoons)




Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4 Laserdiscs (Public Domain Cartoons)




Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 5 Laserdiscs (Public Domain Cartoons)