View-Master Interactive Vision

View-Master Interactive Vision

The Interactive Vision and controller
Manufacturer	View-Master Ideal Group, Inc.
Release date	1988 (1988)
Storage	VHS

View-Master Interactive Vision is an interactive movie VHS console game system, introduced in 1988 by View-Master Ideal Group, Inc. The tagline is "the Two-Way Television System that makes you a part of the show!" The titles include four Sesame Street games, and two games featuring the Muppet Show characters, as well as a Disney game, Disney's Cartoon Arcade.

The system comes with a simple controller which included a joystick and five colorful buttons. As the video plays, the characters address the player directly, and ask the player to make a choice by pressing one of the buttons.

The video has a number of different soundtracks recorded, and the player's choices toggle back and forth between the soundtracks, giving the impression that the player has changed the course of the story. For example, in the game Muppets Studios Presents: You're the Director, Kermit the Frog leads the player through the process of making a Muppet movie. At the end of the game, he asks if the player liked the movie they've created. If the player gives a positive response, then the Muppets sing a closing number called "Everything Was Wonderful!" If the player responds negatively, the closing number is "Everything Was Terrible!"

The optional parts of the soundtrack are designed to fit the movement of the Muppets' mouths, to create the illusion that the video was recorded with only one soundtrack.

Games

• Sesame Street: Let's Learn to Play Together
• Sesame Street: Magic on Sesame Street
• Sesame Street: Let's Play School
• Sesame Street: Oscar's Letter Party
• Muppet Madness
• Muppet Studios Presents: You're the Director
• Disney's Cartoon Arcade