Does anyone else remember them. I saw them between the ages of 4-10 and some segments scared the shit out of me as a kid.
I don’t know if it is the same thing, but when I worked for a shitty retail dump that rhymes with “Radio Shack Go Fuck Yourself”, (well, it kind of rhymes) we played a laser disc on repeat with something called “The Mind’s Eye” with early computer animation and shitty music. It was about 45 minutes and I’d have to watch it over and over for 8-plus hours. It became fairly tedious.
I only remember one segment that featured dinosaurs running and one other that was maybe an undersea thing.
This was the early 90’s.
When my kid was very young (about 10 years ago), I whipped out a VHS copy of this and played it for him. He loved it! Played it over and over till the tape was worn out.
I guess it wasn’t so bad after all.
I remember them as being played at a techno/industrial club I frequented. Considering I was usually not entirely not hallucinating at the time, I found them absolutely amazing.
I’ve got a VHS copy of Beyond the Mind’s Eye. I watched it a few years ago and to me it didn’t hold up. Reminded me more of an old amiga demo.
My dad had the same VHS, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I was, like, eight years old. I remember enough of it that I can’t imagine it would take the transition from 22 inch tube TV to modern HD-size monitors very well.
Are these available to watch streaming anywhere? I seem to have missed them entirely when they were new. This thread is the first I ever heard of them.
Youtube as some full and partial videos of several of them.
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=mind%27s+eye
Check the bottom of the Wikipedia page for External links
There you’ll find links to download or view the entire series at the Internet Archive
Here’s the first:
I was in my twenties when these came out the one I remember the most had something that looked like the drinking bird toy and the video and soundtrack of Herbie Hancock’s rock it I loved them