Mr Payback (1995)

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 8, 2022 0:35:52 GMT lammyvox and GrigioGuy like this

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Mr Payback was a 1995 interactive movie, one of the first of its kind. It involves an android, played by Billy Warlock, committing acts of vengeance against people who have wronged others in the past. The movie would play in a special theater with a proprietary system allowing the audience to vote using buttons on their seats. The results from these polls would be transferred to a series of laserdiscs in the projectionist booth, which would play the selected clip. The film experience would take 30 minutes in total.

The complete movie is currently lost, and only a sample of the contents of one disc have surfaced online

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tp8av0SesI&ab_channel=JoeRedifer

Many promotional videos for the movie include clips

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2LE_EC-1c

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfBpTsfA_rs&ab_channel=GrowinupinSincity81

It was even featured on At The Movies with Siskel and Ebert

youtu.be/T18E8i9p6nU?t=582

I'd very much like to start a search for this, it seems like a novel and interesting piece of lost media.

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 8, 2022 3:32:57 GMT

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Post by darkrage6 on Aug 8, 2022 3:32:57 GMT

I've heard about this and i'd love to see it found as well. On a similar note there's a lost Police Academy video game that was made for the unreleased NEMO console(which Sewer Shark and Night Trap were originally developed for)it featured the original cast of the film series and all of the footage was filmed but the choices weren't programmed in. Hopefully one day it will get released.

co Global Moderator Posts: 1,310	Mr Payback (1995) Aug 5, 2023 3:44:42 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by co on Aug 5, 2023 3:44:42 GMT This is very interesting and I would love to see it found.

imoutlawpete Full Member All he said was, "Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete." Posts: 164	Mr Payback (1995) Aug 6, 2023 2:50:08 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by imoutlawpete on Aug 6, 2023 2:50:08 GMT Damn this sounds cool. I wonder why this phenomenon never got popular?
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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 6, 2023 4:24:10 GMT imoutlawpete likes this

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Aug 6, 2023 2:50:08 GMT imoutlawpete said:

Damn this sounds cool. I wonder why this phenomenon never got popular?

Primarily due to costs, only a few theaters could support this short film and it was very expensive, doing a full-length film like this back then would've been incredibly expensive.

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 7, 2023 3:46:28 GMT via mobile imoutlawpete likes this

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Aug 6, 2023 2:50:08 GMT imoutlawpete said:

Damn this sounds cool. I wonder why this phenomenon never got popular?

Yeah, you would basically have to retrofit a theater to do this and nothing else, and a lot of people weren't willing to adopt, so the format died.

Our best hope would still be that some of the laserdiscs survived, but there's a very slim chance of that.

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 7, 2023 8:59:39 GMT

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Aug 8, 2022 3:32:57 GMT darkrage6 said:

On a similar note there's a lost Police Academy video game that was made for the unreleased NEMO console

that's pretty funny, as there is ALSO a lost Police Academy game for the
Nintendo Entertainment System, which was planned for a 1990 release date
by Tengen.

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GrigioGuy Lost Media Guru Posts: 911	Mr Payback (1995) Aug 7, 2023 14:28:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by GrigioGuy on Aug 7, 2023 14:28:21 GMT Wow, this sounds really cool!

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 8, 2023 1:43:55 GMT

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Aug 7, 2023 8:59:39 GMT somebody32 said:

Aug 8, 2022 3:32:57 GMT darkrage6 said:

On a similar note there's a lost Police Academy video game that was made for the unreleased NEMO console

that's pretty funny, as there is ALSO a lost Police Academy game for the
Nintendo Entertainment System, which was planned for a 1990 release date
by Tengen.

That was actually for Hasbro's cancelled Project NEMO console in the late 80s, that was also when Night Trap and Sewer Shark were made, they were both meant for that system, which was going to use VHS tapes as it's storage medium, but the console ultimately never came out. If I had to guess i'd say the Action Max(another game console that used cassette tapes for storage) flopping in 1987 made Hasbro get cold feet about entering the video game market and a few years later SEGA ended up buying the rights to the games and used them to sell people on it's Sega-CD add-on. Why the Police Academy game was never put on there is a true mystery.

tirgo Senior Member Posts: 352	Mr Payback (1995) Aug 13, 2023 8:40:08 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by tirgo on Aug 13, 2023 8:40:08 GMT Now THAT'S an odd coincidence. Just a couple hours ago, I watched Siskel and Ebert tear this apart. It has some historical value, it should be available in its entirety.

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 14, 2023 14:52:47 GMT via mobile

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Aug 13, 2023 8:40:08 GMT tirgo said:

Now THAT'S an odd coincidence. Just a couple hours ago, I watched Siskel and Ebert tear this apart. It has some historical value, it should be available in its entirety.

I agree, although it would be tough to recreate without the original laserdisc masters available

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 16, 2023 19:12:54 GMT

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Aug 16, 2023 19:12:54 GMT

Don Bluth, the creator of Dragon's Lair & Space Ace, will not be happy about you saying that this was among one of the first interactive movies since his efforts date back to the 1980s. American Laser Games as well.

Obvious sarcasm aside, I'd say that "interactive movies" are automatically seen as video games in my head because of Dragon's Lair.

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Mr Payback (1995) Aug 16, 2023 19:25:08 GMT

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Aug 16, 2023 19:12:54 GMT extremewreck2000 said:

Don Bluth, the creator of Dragon's Lair & Space Ace, will not be happy about you saying that this was among one of the first interactive movies since his efforts date back to the 1980s. American Laser Games as well.

Obvious sarcasm aside, I'd say that "interactive movies" are automatically seen as video games in my head because of Dragon's Lair.

He meant first one shown in theaters as Space Ace and Dragon's Lair were designed as games for arcade first and foremost, while Mr Payback was made to be shown to audiences.

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Post by GrigioGuy on Aug 7, 2023 14:28:21 GMT

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