Pioneer CLD-A100 "LaserActive"

[BijouMan]

The Pioneer CLD-A100 "LaserActive" was a LaserDisc player released in 1993 that could use expansion modules containing Sega Genesis/Mega Drive or NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine hardware. As well as being a fully functional Sega Genesis/Mega Drive with Sega CD/Mega-CD or TurboDuo/PC Engine Duo (disc-based games used the LaserDisc mechanism), the machine could also play games off of LaserDiscs! Only 18 LaserDisc-based games were ever released in the USA across both platforms. The game data was stored where digital audio would normally go (up to 540 MB) and the Sega or NEC hardware would run the game and display the graphics over the LaserDisc video. Games using the Sega hardware were called Mega LD and those using the NEC hardware were called LD-ROM² (pronounced "LD-ROM-ROM"). Why didn't this machine get more support from developers? Have any of you ever used one of these?