M.A.C.H 3 - HD

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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• mach
• laser
• disk
• m.a.c.h. 3
• laserdisk
• arcade
• game
• Gottlieb

[alexserp1967]

M.A.C.H. 3

Military

Air

Command

Hunter

awesome game

[pcvideogamer]

@alexserp1967 you know i thought this games name was about the speed of the plane, thanks for the awesome comment :)

[Stereolabdream]

whewy I havent seen this in 25 years....i loved it at the time, it seemed so far ahead of its time....looking at it now, I remember how frenetic and difficult it was...and I had forgotten how the explosions look rather lame compared to the laser disc backgrounds...why did the scene keep changing so often?

[pcvideogamer]

@Stereolabdream I think it was to keep the pace of the game up, they filmed the scenes specifically for this game and they did a good job, apparently one of the better laser-disk games, just wish i could get my hands on another rare laser disk game called "Star-Rider" by Williams, i loved that game back then :)

[38Squid]

"Disk error, stay put" You would get this message in the sit down game if you stomped your foot on the floor when getting aggrivated at the difficulty of this game.

[homestar328]

I actually got motion sick watching this. Damn, I'm getting old.

[jemilambi]

so cool

[StelyDn]

WOW!

I haven't seen this since 1984!

As many times I have played this game, I compleated it....

Once.