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+LaserTube
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+Watching YouTube videos too boring for you?  Wish you could be punished for not clicking on stuff fast enough while you watch a cat play the piano?  Well, LaserTube is here to solve that problem, by letting you turn any YouTube video into a genuine simulation of an oldschool laserdisc arcade game!
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+Work in progress.  
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