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This is fascinating to me. It's worth noting this was from the same console generation as the PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, and GameCube. I found some specific informa
by lunixbochs 11y ago
This is fascinating to me. It's worth noting this was from the same console generation as the PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, and GameCube.
I found some specific information about it here [1]
> The technology in the few available NUON DVD players raised the price around $100 over comparable players.
> Only eight games were ever released for NUON. The graphics are comparable to early PlayStation 2 games and are most notable in Iron Soldier 3, a mech combat game.
Here's a video showing the Iron Soldier 3 graphics [2]
> The best game is generally regarded to be Tempest 3000 (many sources consider it the only truly playable game)
The wiki also lists 16 homebrew titles including an Atari 800 emulator and Doom.
On the NUON-Dome site [3] there's a homebrew release announcement from 2014, as well as Amazon links where you can still buy some discs and hardware.
It also features a "Video Light Machine" [4] which as far as I can tell is Winamp-style audio visualization.
[1] http://www.giantbomb.com/nuon/3045-85/ http://www.giantbomb.com/nuon/3045-85/
[2] https://youtu.be/0nypv2_qvSg?t=173 https://youtu.be/0nypv2_qvSg?t=173
[3] http://www.nuon-dome.com/ http://www.nuon-dome.com/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJlY4Z8v-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJlY4Z8v-A
- dopeboy 11y agoGreat links. Adding one more - Tempest 3000 gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyaeUNAAaXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyaeUNAAaXc Seems like a 3D version of space shooters...?
- tetraodonpuffer 11y agoit actually looks like a pretty nice graphically updated version of tempest (my favorite arcade game probably) in general, and pretty similar to Tempest 2000 (I vaguely remember buying it on PC way back when). I wonder what kind of controls it had, might have been interesting if any DVD player had a jogwheel with which to simulate the original spinner control...
- duskwuff 11y agoThe Nuon gamepad was wired, and was similar to the N64 controller (D-pad on the left, analog joystick in the middle, various buttons on the right).
- lunixbochs 11y agoIt had four completely different controllers. One like the PS1 with no analog stick, another like the N64. The Logitech aftermarket one was more like an original Xbox controller with D-pad and analog on the left and six buttons on the right. This console had only eight games. One was region locked to South Korea (and you couldn't play the other seven games in that region). Another one of the games didn't even work properly on all of the controllers.
- Narishma 11y agoThat looks more like PS1 graphics rather than PS2.
- lobster_johnson 11y agoOne of the main developers hired to write games for Nuon was actually the legendary Jeff "Yak" Minter, he of the Attack of the Mutant Camels fame. He wrote Tempest 3000 for it, as well as the Video Light Machine. Both were sequels to previous work; Minter wrote the original Tempest 2000 (itself a sequel to Tempest), and the VLM for Nuon was version 2.0 of a synth he did in the 90s.
- osi 11y agoI wanted one just for the VLM, to replace the one from my Atari Jaguar :)