Season 8, Episode 2: The Danger is to the Body, and It Can Kill (Patreon)

This week we pursue Gato into the mists of uncertainty. Is this a nothing of an episode or one of the finest pieces of Gundam cinema yet? Who's Mora really worried about? What's Gato's first name? What's the big deal about laser discs? And is fog a kind of precipitation? Listen now to learn the answers to some of those questions!

Show Notes

LaserDisc (LD) Optical Videodisc Format

• All That Gundam is a website that catalogues Gundam releases - including release dates, formats, prices, etc. This page lists Gundam laserdisc releases. For Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory specifically, there is one page with VHS releases and another for laserdisc.
• LaserDisc Database search for all Gundam LD releases.
• Wikipedia pages for optical disc technology, LaserDisc format, and LaserDisc players, as well as Pioneer Corporation, Philips, and the BBC Domesday Project.
• ObsoleteMedia.org has a helpful video media timeline, with links to pages for specific technologies like LaserDisc, LaserKaraoke, LaserDisc 8-inch, LaserJuke, LD Single, Compact LaserDisc, LV-ROM, LaserDisc 3D, and LD-ROM.
• An ad for Pioneer's LaserKaraoke machine, SPIN magazine, August 1990.
• Hobbyist websites with detailed information about the LaserDisc format, LaserDisc collecting, and more: Laserdiscs.discdude.net and Blam Entertainment Group.
• Articles and book chapters:
  
  Logie, Jamie. “Why LaserDisc Was Way Ahead of Its Time.” Medium, Back in Time, 4 Aug. 2020, https://medium.com/everything-80s/why-laser-disc-was-way-ahead-of-its-time-a425e46c418c. Accessed April 5, 2023.
  
  VanHooker, Brian. “The Film Geeks Who Still Watch Everything on Laserdisc.” MEL Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020, https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/film-geeks-who-still-watch-laserdisc. Accessed April 5, 2023.
  
  Mamber, Stephen. “LaserDiscs: On the Way to a Digital Video Future.” The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, edited by Mark J. P. Wolf, Routledge, New York, NY, 2021, pp. 337–348. 

The recap music is “80's Synth Rock (Guitar Improvisation)” by Zombie-Fish.

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