Pictures taken from MAME WIP page.
Because these games used laserdiscs to play video footage, any attempt to emulate the original would completely lack the video without a large movie file - the machines rely on the frame number of the CAV laserdiscs to find the correct video to display, and there can be over 60000 frames (individual images that play to create the video, or pause for a still screen) on a LD. Any attempt at true emulation would have to take this into account. Digital Leisure has released Dragon's Lair 1, 2, Space Ace, and Hologram Time Traveler on DVD and DVD-ROM. For information on laserdisc games in general, visit the Dragon's Lair Project and Atari Headquarters arcade section. For those very motivated, you can connect certain model LD players (or download huge MPEG dumps of the video) to your computer and emulate some of these games using the Daphne emulator.
Dragon's Lair (Cinematronics, 83)
Pictures taken from MAME WIP page.
Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer (Midway/Sega, 83)
Quarterhorse (Electro Sport, 83)
Star Rider (Williams, 83)
Pictures taken from
Arcade Flyer Archive
Pitchman (Stern [prototype], 83)
Possibly only one copy in existence.
Albegas / Cybernaut (Sega/Bally/Midway [ever finished/released?], 83)
The disc is known (I actually bought it from a laserdisc rental store in
Oakland California) but no board has been found.
Cobra Command (Data East, 83)
Pictures of the driver, which doesn't use the video
background, taken from MAME WIP page.
GP World (Sega, 84)
Pictures taken from
Arcade Flyer Archive
NFL Football (Midway, 84)
Actually this game used not a laserdisc but a CED videodisc. This format
differs from LD in that the discs stay in plastic cases (like minidiscs
but a lot bigger) and they don't play with a laser. The CED player
physically contacts the disc like a phonograph record.
Road Blaster / Road Avenger (Data East, 84)
Max Mile (Konami [ever finished/released?], 84)
Thayer's Quest (RDI Video Systems, 83)
Super Don Quixote (Universal, 84)
Gold Medal with Bruce Jenner (Stern [prototype], 84)
Supposedly only two copies in existence.
Esh's Aurunmilla (Funai/Gakken, 83)
Interstellar Laser Fantasy (Funai/Gakken, 83)
Firefox (Atari, 84)
The laserdisc used video segments chopped up and arranged in a very strange
manner to achieve more fluid gameplay.
Work is being done to support the game, including video.
Atomic Castle (Stern/Sega/Bally/Midway, 83)
Possibly only one copy in existence.
Space Battleship Yamato (Taito, 85)
Captain Zapp (Universal [prototype?], 85)
Top Gear 2 (Universal [prototype?], 85)
Freedom Fighter (Malibu Grand Prix / Millennium Game Products, 87)
Mad Dog McCree (American Laser Games, 90)
Who Shot Johnny Rock? (American Laser Games, 91)
Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (American Laser Games, 92)
Space Pirates (American Laser Games, 92)
Gallagher's Gallery (American Laser Games, 92)
Crime Patrol (American Laser Games, 93)
Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars (American Laser Games, 93)
The Last Bounty Hunter (American Laser Games, 94)
Fast Draw Showdown (American Laser Games, 95)
Hologram Time Traveler (Sega, 91)
Dragon's Lair II (Leland, 91)
The US version 3.16 of Dragon's Lair II is a Most Wanted ROM, if it
exists.
Shootout at Old Tucson (American Laser Games, 93)
Way of the Warrior (American Laser Games, 94)
Orbatak (American Laser Games, 95)
Galaxian^3 (Namco, 90)
Galaxian^3 was a theatrical 6-player polygon game in the same vein as the
one-player Starblade. You aim the crosshairs at the enemy and fire away...
The background, though appearing to be computer generated like Starblade
is actually played off a set of laserdiscs.
A Japanese version of Galaxian^3 exists for the Playstation... including
the vertical black bar in the middle of the screen!
Attack of the Zolgear (Namco, 94)
Similar game to Galaxian^3 (theater setting) but you could choose your
path at certain parts of the game. According to Styx Zolgear was
a conversion kit for Galaxian^3, with a different romset and laserdiscs.