Oh, I remember LaserDisc, all right... I still have all of mine, plus the Magnavox disc player I bought back in 1987. Still works, too... (though I've since acquired an RCA and a Pioneer player, as backups, in case the Magnavox ever croaks.)

If you want to acquire more discs, hit eBay. There's loads of them for sale, and often going for pretty cheap. If there's a Half-Price Books in your area, try them as well; they often have some lying around, usually tucked away in the same section as vinyl LPs.

Do you remember the other videodisc system that was a competitor to LaserDisc back then? (Up 'til about 1986, when RCA threw in the towel and discontinued it entirely.)

Nice! Pioneer is the one I grew up with, still works fine, (for now)
I need to get Indiana jones and Star Wars some time,
I do know there were a lot of others competing too, only one I can think of off the top of my head was Betamax and VHS,
VHS winning over disk as you could record live tv,
But if laserdisk wasn't made we wouldn't have gotten to DvDs as soon as we did :U
I'm only 18 but I was exposed to a lot of older stuff,
So it makes since if I haven't seen "everything"
I would Love too tho :D

The Pioneer player I have is actually a specialized model, called the CLD-A100 "LaserActive" player. It was basically an early, proto-Playstation kind of device; in addition to playing LD movies, it can also be made to play games on specially-made LaserDiscs, and also play Sega Genesis or NEC Turbografx-16 games. (And being a Japanese invention, it can also be made to be a Karaoke machine, of course...) It was a neat idea, but a rather dismal marketplace failure, for several reasons -- not the least of which was the astonishing cost of the unit; the player alone cost $1200 (in 1992, mind!), and the modules that allowed it to play Genesis or TG16 games were $600 apiece... and you had to have at least one of those modules to play games at all, so that was an $1800 investment in a machine that you would then have to fork over about $80 - $100 per Laserdisc-based game in order to play.

Now, considering that the Genesis and TG16 were both selling for about $250 at the time, and Pioneer didn't even license any of the Laserdisc-based arcade games anyone might actually have heard of (like Dragon's Lair) while pushing "edutainment" titles like Quiz Econosaurus and The Great Pyramid... gee, I can't imagine why that would have flopped in the market, can you?

The other disc system was made by RCA, and was called the CED -- Capacitance Electronic Disc. It was basically a vinyl LP that played video instead of audio; the pitch of the gooves was extremely fine, with a special stylus that sat above the grooves and read the changes in the depth of the groove. Because the gooves were so fine, the disc was permanently housed inside a plastic outer jacket, and you never actually touched the disc itself -- instead, you'd slide the entire jacket into the loading slot, the mechanism inside would take hold of the disc, and you'd then pull the jacket back out and the disc would stay inside.

You can find out more about it at https://www.cedmagic.com . And yes, I have one of these, too.

Never heard of this before, I grew up with VHS haha!

xD mabye if you visit Ill take you to the past and show ya?!