The game was later released in Japan on April 5, 2017. On April 1, 2017, Taito Classics announced that they would release several of their older games onto mobile devices, with Time Gal being its first release. Melon Brains is an interesting novelty, but it’s not worth checking out today unless you’re really into watching dolphin documentaries on outdated tech. The LaserActive version is the rarest home release of Time Gal, as well as one of the most expensive on the system among collectors. And while it isn’t likely to impress people today, it is nice to see that Melon Brains‘ creators were really making use of the laserdisc by giving users the chance to change audio soundtracks on the fly, as well as making use of the format’s ability to skip and repeat footage.
#TIME GAL LASERACTIVE MOVIE#
Side A contains the more educational material while side B consists mostly of animal footage and new-age music. Time Gal is an interactive movie video game developed and published by Taito and Toei Company, and originally released as a laserdisc game in Japan for the. Melon Brains is also one of the few LaserActive titles to use both sides of the disc. There’s a lot of neat information in the documentary (although who knows how much of it is still accurate, given 20+ years of advances in science), and it really does feel like Multimedia Creators Network was putting their all into this one. Melon Brains is for the dolphin lover who also happens to have a LaserActive. The little dolphin cursor is pretty cute.
#TIME GAL LASERACTIVE FULL#
It’s chock full of facts about the creatures as well as interviews with many scientists who have studied them.
This documentary focuses on dolphins, and derives its odd sounding name (Melon Brains) from the shape of that particular mammal’s brain.
Like The Great Pyramid before it, Melon Brains is an interactive encyclopedia-style title that’s the equivalent of a DVD with interactive menus. This week’s edition looks at Taitos Time Gal, released in the arcade in 1985, for the Sega CD in 1993, and for the PlayStation in 1996. RELEASE DATE: 09/20/94 – (JP), 11/23/94 – (US) Might Have Been is a column by Todd Ciolek that explores the ways in which promising games, characters, concepts, and companies failed. So while I grumble about the price of the Saturn one in a moment.
In this special series on the Pioneer LaserActive, guest author Taylor Pinson will be discussing some of the games released on the Sega PAC, an add-on for the LaserActive that could play Genesis, Sega CD, and Mega LD titles. Sadly, Time Gal was released when the LaserActive was about to die and as such has become a sought-after rarity, going for up to and including four-digit prices- one you can see in the shot above, in fact, taken from an article on expensive video games in Japanese retro stores.