Poll of the Day > Why did VHS consoles have to exist to begin with?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leMHa49VbHU

Someone, somewhere, thought that this was a good idea

Well, they could deliver better graphics than a normal console.
And the basic idea wasnt new, we had multiple arcade games running from Laserdiscs.
Not watching that video so I dont know if it is mentioned, but Night Trap was originally recorded for a VHS console.
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Foppe posted...

Well, they could deliver better graphics than a normal console.
And the basic idea wasnt new, we had multiple arcade games running from Laserdiscs.
Not watching that video so I dont know if it is mentioned, but Night Trap was originally recorded for a VHS console.

Not when games are about as interactive as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4ZsA8G4vc

This... thing is a game. The whole game.

Yes, thats what Interactive Movies are.
People misuse that term so much these days.
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7th guest and ripper were good CGI games

Ripper even had the actor Christopher Walken AND Blue Oyster Cult in a single video game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbAWZ8yPks
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Don Bluth did Dragon's Lair in 1983, it still look great.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Foppe posted...

Well, they could deliver better graphics than a normal console.
And the basic idea wasnt new, we had multiple arcade games running from Laserdiscs.
Not watching that video so I dont know if it is mentioned, but Night Trap was originally recorded for a VHS console.

Not when games are about as interactive as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4ZsA8G4vc

This... thing is a game. The whole game.

The action max was awesome, and it's still awesome. It was basically VHS blaster games. People are still making mods for it. They set it up so you can set target indicators over any video, so now when everyone gets shitfaced together, you can compete to see can shoot Justin Bieber in his stupid face the most. Good times for all.
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I imagine VHS consoles could still play regular movies too. If anything that was an early attempt to give gamers a multimedia console and possibly only failed due to bad games and marketing. PS3 was basically trying to sell a Blu Ray player as a game console at first so it wasn't much different. They just had the software and the marketing spin.

Foppe posted...

Don Bluth did Dragon's Lair in 1983, it still look great.

This is not the same thing.

You shoot at one of those seizure-lights, and then an external light you have to attach to the screen blinks red, and your score increments by one whenever you land a hit, or decrements if you miss four shots. The video never changes.

wah_wah_wah posted...

I imagine VHS consoles could still play regular movies too. If anything that was an early attempt to give gamers a multimedia console and possibly only failed due to bad games and marketing. PS3 was basically trying to sell a Blu Ray player as a game console at first so it wasn't much different. They just had the software and the marketing spin.

Nope. You had to have your own VCR, at least for the Action Max. The "console" is the thing you needed to hook up to the VCR.

TheWorstPoster posted...

Foppe posted...

Don Bluth did Dragon's Lair in 1983, it still look great.

This is not the same thing.

You shoot at one of those seizure-lights, and then an external light you have to attach to the screen blinks red, and your score increments by one whenever you land a hit, or decrements if you miss four shots. The video never changes.

How is that much different from Duckhunt?
The View-Master Interactive Vision was another VHS console that allowed simple videogames with graphics similar to the Colecovision to be played during the course of the videotape, and the movies had two soundtracks that changed depending on your choices which made it look like a different game. Like in Muppet Madness, the ingame Muppet show is either a soap opera or a science fiction.
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Foppe posted...

How is that much different from Duckhunt?

No interactivity whatsoever.

None at all.

Got to milk media before it's completely obsolete. See the n64 and it's carts.
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Dejanji posted...

Got to milk media before it's completely obsolete. See the n64 and it's carts.

Carts are now unobsolete. Look at the Switch.