I remember this. This was one of the best shorts in The Mind's Eye. It was pretty good for the time, although it just seems ridiculous by today's standards.
Mind's Eye was such a cool series. I mean, yeah, some of the stuff is lame and dated now, but oh well. They kind of continued it with the Computer Animation Festival videos, but I think those stopped.
And yeah, this had better music originally. I think the copyrights on all that stuff lapsed a long time ago since most of the Mind's Eye video used all sorts of new age artists who then put all the stuff on their own albums.
It was cool. I still have my sleeveless VHS kicking around here somewhere. As for the games thing, yeah, I had the exact same thought. It led indirectly (by way of clips from Beyond the Mind's Eye) to me playing the "Lawnmower Man" SNES game a lot more frequently than it deserved. It really didn't deserve to be played at all.