Was it a holographic kind of display? I seem to remember seeing a game like that once or twice, but never played it myself.

I remember playing a cocktail game in the mid-80s that was a space shooter with big green spoked (jack/snowflake-shaped) enemy ships. I've never been able to figure out what game that is - I sometimes wonder if I dreamed playing it in the hallway just inside the restaurant with the big Paul Bunyan statue outside in the town I grew up in as a kid (North Bend, WA - where Nintendo now has its U.S. warehouse).

That's it! Holograph! That's the word I was thinking of but my mind was resisting it thinking of something out of Star Trek. 😁

Looked around on the net a bit after you mentioned that and found this pic:

Time Traveler, Sega, 1991. Developed by Rick Dyer, Time Traveler was the first of two "Hologram" games that Sega produced. The game characters appeared to be holographically projected onto the playing area. Time Traveler contained a laser disc player and a T.V. monitor that was aimed into a curved mirror. The 2-D image was reflected through the surface glass and produced an illusion of depth. The images seemed to have dimension, but the game didn't truly produce holograms.

http://www.hortonaviation.com/timetrav/ttpics.html

http://www.atarihq.com/coinops/laser/timetrav.html

It seems to be available on CD/DVD according to this page:

http://www.digitalleisure.com/pr/pr000511.html

Now to figure out if it's actually worth bothering to have. It's been so long since I played it I don't really know but if it's pretty much the only game I remember since 1992 (except for TMNT) it must be something. Although the graphics are probably what impressed me the most.

Here's a good review: http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/timetraveler.shtml

Now to find a copy......

Must be pretty cheesy if you can play it on a DVD player (as the page describes). I checked to see if MAME supports it, but it doesn't as far as I can tell.

Nah, Game uses LaserDisc so no ROMS to download....which leads to me to wonder if any one has bothered to implement some sort of backup solution for LaserDisc. Can LaserDisc's be imaged to HD?

I know that some people have made some nice rips of Star Wars laserdiscs. It's not as high-resolution as even normal DVDs though. I'd say it's somewhere between VCD (mpeg1?) and DVD/SVCD. (mpeg2?). They might be digital-to-analog-to-digital rips though.