My memory is rough about it right now (nearly 14 years ago now... )... but it was a little under a thousand dollars for the CLD A100 itself (the laserdisc player). Maybe 900 or 800 dollars... But I really remember it being near 1000.Pullmyfinger wrote:
@lordofduct
what was the original price?
As for each unit to play games on... they were about 300 dollars a pop. For that whole system there at the prices I remember would probably run you a good $1600+ in hardware alone, then tack on games.
I do know the Japanes release cost (googled this and found the Pioneer ad archive):
CLD A100 - 89,900 yen
genny/SCD addon - 39,000 yen
NEC TG-16 addon - 39,000 yen
that roughly translates to 1,500 US Dollars... at the time of release (roughly)
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oh just to let you know
most of the games release on the LaserActive architecture (the CLD A100 also played games developed directly for it) were just ports of arcade laserdisc games. These same games were ported to SegaCD and the TGCD. For instance the "Road Prosecutor" game shown in that auction is just the CLD A100 version of "Road Avenger" on the SCD.
These games on the LaserActive architecture were slimmed down slightly from the Arcade versions (due to memory differences mostly), but they have MUCH better video quality then the SegaCD and TGCD. Main reason is that the CLD-A100 has a much better video playback capability then the SCD/tgCD... AND ofcourse much greater storage space.
