Original upload date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:01:45 GMT
Mr. Payback was billed as the world's first "interactive movie". It was written by Bob Gale and starred Billy Warlock. This was not a product for a videogame system, but actually released to a few mo
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vie theaters around the country which specially equipped one of their small auditoriums with 3-button joysticks on each seat. It used technology provided by the company Interfilm which ran the movie off of 3 NTSC LaserDiscs. Learn more about the Interfilm system here:
http://www.joeredifer.com/site/interfilm/interfilm.html
One night I snuck one of the LaserDiscs home to see how it would act in a normal player. The video was presented in a very nonlinear format. I managed to record a couple of minutes to a Super VHS videotape. I recently found that tape, and that's what this video is from. The black slates and whatnot are directly from the disc, I did not insert them. This is all the video I have, I wish I had more.
