Do they have to be VHS tapes? There were tons of making-of videos included on CDs with various games. Also, have you considered the legality of this (not that I care)?
Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] Software collecting videos Origin Museum wrote: > > 1. Direct Sale from EA--This was the FULL package, obtainable only via mail-order. This included the game (in the film canister), the music CD, the VHS video, the T-Shirt, the 'Behind The Screens' CD, and the 1995 Wing Commander calendar. This version came in a BROWN Cardboard Mailing Box, with the extras packaged OUTSIDE the canister...there was NO 'game box' for this version. Small change of subject: Does anyone here have this VHS tape? I am not going to beg for a copy, but I wanted to tell you guys that in the next few months I am going to finally start another DVD video project, this one an effort to preserve video relevant to software collectors, and I have contacts who are willing to lend me their copies of the Sierra promotional tapes of the late 1980s for it. Also scheduled was the "making of" Wing Commander VHS tape, which is why I bring it up because I don't have a copy. The DVD produced by the project would be sold a few bucks above cost (probably through CustomFlix so that I don't have to deal with fullfillment). The goal of the project would be to: - Professionally dump the video in 4:2:2 for proper mastering to DVD's 4:2:0 (no cheap DV conversions) - Clean up the video (remove noise, color correction, exposure/white level correction) - Clean up the audio (remove noise, remaster audio (game soundtracks) where appropriate) - Author to DVD with simple menu and chapter points - Professional-grade MPEG-2 encoding All of this was done for MindCandy so I already have the tools and knowledge. The scope of this project was "behind the scenes" and/or "making-of" videos -- inside trivia stuff that any collector would drool over. So, so far, I can only think of four: - Sierra promo videos (1989 and 1990 I believe I have contacts for, were there any more?) - 7th Guest "making-of" bundled with early versions (I have this) - Wing Commander VHS tape (I do not have this) Can anyone think of any more? (Also: There are some CDROM videos that may fall into this scope, like the Ken & Roberta interview snippets on CDROM bundled with the Robert Williams collection, and I can remember a Robert Williams promo interview on some CDROM gaming multimedia magazine that was popular in the mid 1990s, but I haven't decided on including those yet. I can make crappy .AVIs look pretty damn good through motion vectoring tricks, but I was only going to include them if the original sources had been lost.) -- http://www.MobyGames.com/ The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
