Right, time to catch up with some of the game reviews I’ve been producing and/or uploading of late.
This particular video was recorded when I had time to load up my Mega Drive again, but evidently not enough to play through the game. Thank goodness for cheating, or should I say the Internet, from which I pinched a simple final level code. Yup, I lost the little bit of paper I wrote passwords on – you know, the one you always put in the box with the manual.
From the second half of last year — couldn’t tell you when exactly, but it explains the ’2009′ note at the end of the video for you.
Commentary is a bit cardboard, so forgive me for that. In fact, don’t: call me a rip-off hack with no skills or talent whatsoever.
I wonder if copyright messages are themselves copyrighted? Let’s conduct an experiment.
Here’s a video consisting entirely of legal warnings from the likes of VVL and the VHS Video Collection. Who will be the first, if any, to get the video removed? Find out right here, soon. Or not, depending on how many people actually care enough to watch the thing.
Might be interesting, could be boring. Let’s see how things transpire.
This is a curious snippet I encountered when trawling through a bunch of VHS tapes I recently purchased from a car boot sale. I’m going to label it as part of The VHS Project, though I don’t currently have plans to expand on that notion. Maybe some time in the future.
Some woman claims she’s been to the moon with aliens. How much monetary compensation she received for these revelations is yet to be disclosed, though I’d guess it’s quite a lot.
Oh yeah, and apologies for the poor quality, but then you generally get that with verrry old VHS tapes.
I had almost completely forgotten about those poor quality videos I uploaded to YouTube for no other reason than embed them on my project blogs. Until this morning, when I was mucking about with the ‘Insight’ feature and discovered a large increase in views for a particular date: 20th April 2010.
Turns out Biased BBC used it to make a small satirical point about some politician or other at the beginning of last week. I shouldn’t really comment, as the closest I ever got to this genre was taking the mickey out of local MP Ian McCartney, and even that was tepid and rather childish.
Still, it reminded me about those pointless ‘Day in Your Life’ uploads I made. Incidentally, many have now been deleted because the fools over at YouTube cannot quite grasp the concept of a project video. Never mind.
This project is quite significant in that it was my first ever attempt at fashioning some sort of video game critique in the form of a video. It didn’t really take long, just a few days – in my opinion the perfect length for such a review, anything longer and you start reading into things too much. Besides, this is a very simple game I played a lot when I was younger, so it wasn’t that hard to pick up and get into again.
The reason it wasn’t ever uploaded until this week is because I couldn’t quite get the audio right. In the end I decided to go with a take from 2008, one recorded with a horrible microphone. However, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the hissy bits have been removed and it doesn’t sound quite as bad! Having said that, I still had to paste a bit of music over the top to plug the awkward silence left since the background noise departed.
