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TimeTraveler – now in 3D!

With all this talk about 3D movies right now I got thinking about this coin-op I played years ago called “TimeTraveler”. I found a couple awesome videos about it, posted one below. I’m not sure if you guys had this around here but it was in cedar falls for a while and I remember playing it a few times. I thought it was super awesome, really weird and expensive.

Posted by POI on January 12, 2010 at 3:57 pm
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  1. Zoyx Said, January 12, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    Vaguely remember that game. I might have seen it at the State Fair. I don’t think it was at any of my regular arcades.

  2. Commander Tim Said, January 12, 2010 at 4:30 PM

    Digital Leisure put out a DVD version of this a few years back. It came with 3D glasses to help compensate for the lack of the concave mirror. I got rid of it quickly because it sucked. Not necessarily due to comparisons with the arcade game; Time Traveler always kinda sucked. ;-)

  3. POI Said, January 12, 2010 at 4:36 PM

    hehe. yeah I can imagine that kinda sucking.

  4. s1500 Said, January 12, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    I saw it in Pop’s Arcade(in dt Minneapolis). Thought it was rather unimpressive. About as (non)interactive as the laserdisc games.

  5. POI Said, January 13, 2010 at 7:06 AM

    well, okay… to defend it a little bit.. It’s about as interactive as dragon slayer and you guys all like that one right? Also, you have to admit that TimeTraveler is very innovative.

  6. Cloudscout Said, January 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM

    I remember this game… and it was about the same as the Laserdisc games like Dragon’s Lair, Cliff Hanger, et al. That is to say, they had a novelty factor but the playability really wasn’t very good.

    There’s no denying the innovation, it could have been even cooler if they had continued developing the concept as technology progressed.

  7. Madaracs Said, January 13, 2010 at 1:40 PM

    @POI: Well……………. I don’t know how innovative it really is. The name Rick Dyer should have rung a bell for you as he is/was the founder of Digital Leisure… the company that invented Dragon’s Lair Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, Thayer’s Quest -and- Time Traveler. They were all Rick Dyer’s creation Dragon’s Lair getting the most press because of its involvement with Don Bluth’s animation studio.

    This was the beginning in a long string of games of this type: Mixing real actors with video games. Sega CD, CD-I and 3DO made them popular on the home consoles with home ports of the previously listed along with new ones like Mad Dog McCree and Corpse Killer.

    The reason it seems so familiar when you play it is because it IS the same control scheme as Dragon’s Lair. Almost every one of these actor integrated games were the same concept.

    I will agree (to a degree) it was innovative to have an actor in the game–but it wasn’t particularly an original concept for the game itself.

    Totally awesome post though. Loved to see it again! Derek and I were trying to figure out what the name of this game was a long time ago… Glad you dug it up! @Zoyx: I think I too saw it at the fair. Not a good place for a Laser-media based game.