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M.A.C.H. 3 was a laser
disc game created by Mylstar / Gottlieb in 1983. In M.A.C.H. 3, you
pilot either a "Fighter" plane or a "Bomber" plane and must
fly around hitting targets on the ground or in the air while avoiding enemy
fire. M.A.C.H. 3 used video footage from the laser disc and overlaid
computer graphics for your ship and the enemy ships.
In order to record the
video footage for the game, a specially designed plane was used that had cameras
mounted on the nose and in the belly. To keep the video from the laser
disc player and computer graphics in sync, target data had to be entered by hand
one frame at a time on the right audio track of the laser disc. This was a
very time consuming process but was worth the effort, as M.A.C.H. 3 was one of
the most successful laser disc games of all time.
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