The game's video was full motion NTSC video. It played off a LaserDisc inside the cabinet. Because LaserDiscs have direct access capabilities, when the game nee

The game's video was full motion NTSC video. It played off a LaserDisc inside the cabinet. Because LaserDiscs have direct access capabilities, when the game needed to play a scene it was just giving the player a time index to play. The logic of the game was keeping track of the current playhead and was expecting certain input at certain timestamps, some element on the screen or the action button would flash and you'd have a fraction of a second to hit the button or the joystick in the right direction. If you didn't you died and the game played one of the many death animations. It was...fun in that it was a gorgeous game compared to other games in the arcade. Unfortunately it usually cost like a dollar in quarters for a single play. You only had two or three lives (I can't remember exactly) and the reaction time was very brief and unforgiving. This was a time when the typical arcade game was a quarter for a few lives and if you were good you could get tens of minutes (or more) of play out of a quarter. It wasn't until years later with the home release that I even saw even halfway through the game. I've never once seen anyone get further than a quarter of the way through the game in an adcade.