From the search I found another link to this book, think it brought this is up as it references Zorton Brothers in there
https://ebin.pub/qdownload/video-ga...-to-playstation-9780313338687-031333868x.html
.. laserdisc or compact disc or DVDROM. How the actual images are ... A Spanish company, Web Picmatic, produced a few games, including Zorton Brothers
Okay, so page 99 talks about Laserdisc games, but that's all thought guy has done some research
A Spanish company, Web Picmatic, produced
a few games, including Zorton Brothers (Los Justicieros) (1993) and Marbella Vice (1994),
and in 1993,
Some interesting stuff though
In 1981, David H. Ahl, the founder of Creative Computing magazine, wrote a program
for the Apple II computer that could control a laserdisc and play scenes from the
movie Rollercoaster (1975), demonstrating that the new technology could be used in
games. The first time a laserdisc was used in an arcade video game was in 1981, in Electro
Sport’s Quarter Horse. The game had two screens, one for computer graphics and one
for video. Players placed their bets and interacted on the screen with the computer
graphics, and then the game would randomly select a winning horse and play a video
clip from the disc on the video monitor. While the game used a laserdisc, the use was
not very interactive, but others were conceiving ways laserdiscs could be incorporated
into games.
(1991), Gallagher’s Gallery (1992), Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (1992), Space Pirates
(1992), Crime Patrol (1993), Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars (1993), Fast Draw Showdown
(1994), The Last Bounty Hunter (1994), and Way of the Warrior (1994). A tenth game,
Shootout At Old Tucson was a prototype that did not make it to the arcade as they decided
to release it on CD-ROM instead
https://ebin.pub/qdownload/video-ga...-to-playstation-9780313338687-031333868x.html
.. laserdisc or compact disc or DVDROM. How the actual images are ... A Spanish company, Web Picmatic, produced a few games, including Zorton Brothers
Okay, so page 99 talks about Laserdisc games, but that's all thought guy has done some research
A Spanish company, Web Picmatic, produced
a few games, including Zorton Brothers (Los Justicieros) (1993) and Marbella Vice (1994),
and in 1993,
Some interesting stuff though
In 1981, David H. Ahl, the founder of Creative Computing magazine, wrote a program
for the Apple II computer that could control a laserdisc and play scenes from the
movie Rollercoaster (1975), demonstrating that the new technology could be used in
games. The first time a laserdisc was used in an arcade video game was in 1981, in Electro
Sport’s Quarter Horse. The game had two screens, one for computer graphics and one
for video. Players placed their bets and interacted on the screen with the computer
graphics, and then the game would randomly select a winning horse and play a video
clip from the disc on the video monitor. While the game used a laserdisc, the use was
not very interactive, but others were conceiving ways laserdiscs could be incorporated
into games.
(1991), Gallagher’s Gallery (1992), Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (1992), Space Pirates
(1992), Crime Patrol (1993), Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars (1993), Fast Draw Showdown
(1994), The Last Bounty Hunter (1994), and Way of the Warrior (1994). A tenth game,
Shootout At Old Tucson was a prototype that did not make it to the arcade as they decided
to release it on CD-ROM instead
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