Long before YouTube was even thought of, and even before the internet began to become avilable in the home in the mid-90s, gameplay advice was limited to mainly magazines and the premium rate “tip lines” that used to be published in the back of game manuals.

In Japan they went one further introducing gameplay videos in the late 1980s, mainly of arcade games. These gameplay videos became more widely known as “Superplays”, and featured expert game players demonstrating perfect play throughs of a given game.

As fighting games became popular “Superplays” were released not only showing expert play throughs, but also combo and special-move demonstrations for the in-game characters.

The majority of these “Superplays” were published by Pony Canyon in partnership with Scitron, and could be viewed on either VHS tape or Laserdisc (LD).

I’ve been a Laserdisc owner since the mid-90s, and when I first discovered “Superplay” LDs I knew I had to see one for myself, eventually deciding to try and track down all the Neo•Geo related LDs that were published – which took quite some time as no definitive list could be found, and some of the discs are now very rare, even in Japan!

Below is the complete set of all the Neo•Geo LDs that were published including some which are not “Superplay” related, and I’ll highlight those discs accordingly.