The LaserActive That Almost Wasn't
Not the most pristine of specimens but this LaserActive has seen battle and lived to tell the tale. At any given moment I probably have three or four "projects" sitting on the back burner, either because I bought parts but by the time they arrived, I had lost my motivation, or because life happened and hobbies had to make way for more important priorities. One such back catalog project was restoring my LaserActive PAC-S10 module closer to its original function. Just a quick primer on LaserActive in case this is the first place you're reading about it. Pioneer partnered with both Sega and NEC to integrate game consoles into a Laserdisc player. The result was a player with an expansion slot for various modules. To my knowledge only five modules were released for it. The PAC-S1 and PAC-S10 are the Japanese and North American versions of the Sega Genesis. The PAC-N1 and PAC-N10 are the Japanese and North American versions of the Turbografx-16. Finally the PAC-K1 is a module...