MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Haze demonstrates LJN Video Art *edit*

This probably gets the highlight and lowlight treatment in the future what’s new segment.

Product shown in a tv commercial back then.
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1987 LJN Video Art tv commercial https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=neURIc_A3js

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And Haze showing the emulated results.
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https://m.youtube.com/@mamehaze

LJN Video Art is Now Emulated in MAME, and It's Still Awful

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwdqs9GNXE

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After running that in MAME on a computer, it will probably leave an odor that is equivalent of the valet’s odor.

Seinfeld - The Car Stinks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEhqiCD27E

btw: Thank goodness this product didn’t arrive until late 1980s because if this came out in 1980 when Mattel Intellivision was popular. One of my cousin’s parents would have plugged the VideoArt product into their television so VideoArt would get equal access to tv screen as well as the Intellivision console back in 1980. The VideoArt unit would then probably get mysteriously destroyed or disappeared had that been unleashed in 1980.

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https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/64105fa176e3c5c8b6cf0dc8968f1311d2ef5f63

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/videoart.xml

All the known accessories additions are now supported. A couple issues remain towards getting the product to be considered fully preserved.

From the start, the product had all the makings to be a flop from the beginning. The product had to have been marketed for age range 4 years to 6 years age group. The advertising company that produced the tv commercial for the product did a disservice using older age kids and trying to use hip hop style music as background music.

The kids being casted in the tv commercial should have been from ages 4 to 6 age range and the music should have been music made for preschool age youngsters.

Kids older than 6 years might want ability to save their artwork that they spent lots of time on. The product probably had no such feature. And by late 1980s, there were already much better products that would meet kids’ needs. LJN was way too late with the product by late 1980s. The best chance to have the product be a semi success should have been 1980 to 1982 years. After those years went by, it was then too late since better options entered the commercial market. The commercial product probably earned just enough to break even.

Edited by gregf (11/04/23 02:35 AM)