So this is all speculation, but i have a theory about "Rod Soldier". In an interview Tony Hawk admits to doing video editing for Turbo Grafx. It would confirm your "skateboard feel" impressions. ua-cam.com/video/2wv-SppeJCs/v-deo.html
I used to be the artist for Datel's video game magazine, GBX which came with a VHS tape each issue. Also in the UK, there was a short lived magazine entirely on VHS tape called "Click!", I've posted both episodes on my Video Game Reviewer archive channel if you ever want to see them! They talk about the upcoming "Super Famicom" in one issue/episode :D
The DKC promo tape is.the first one I ever saw and is my personal favorite. I also got it in the mail. To answer your question, the tape was sent to anyone who either subbed to Nintendo Power or filled out the reg card for their SNES.
universetwisters As an older, and grumpier gamer, I've never really gotten into the let's play channels. I agree with you that these videos could be considered a predecessor to those channels, the difference being that the modern let's play channels have people trying to be funny the entire video, and I just can't take it. Maybe I'm just an a-hole, but I prefer the channels where they don't talk.
Fun fact: the Street Fighter arcade segments were filmed at the long-defunct arcade called Yellow Brick Road at the UTC mall in San Diego, CA near La Jolla. If you go there now, the location occupied by the YBR is the Mongolian grill area. I have fond memories of going there every weekend and dumping my entire allowance on the games there. Amazing memories!
Wil you tell him about my comments on the top and if he likes them also tell him to replie back to me please first replie to me if you are really going to tell him that will you say yes
This is the greatest episode you guys ever did.. PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE TYPE OF SHOWS. The editing, style, subject Matter, videos is truly the best I ever seen. Please keep don't ever stop making these.
Damn! I heard the narrator's voice and was like "Holy shit, I know who that is! The guy who narrated the Biff Tannen Museum video in 'Back to the Future'!" Was Neil Ross. xD
Man, this brings back memories, not because I used to watch any of these vhs tapes, but because I actually used to record all my playthroughs once I perfected a game and sold them at school. They were quite popular with kids who didnt have the game or the console able to experience the game for themselves. I'd get advice and requests from people on how to tackle/approach a game the next time Id make a recording some kids even coming around to my house to pitch in with player 2 on local co-op games, it became a sort of community and discussion during breaks at school too. The money I made from selling the tapes would go towards the next game I could go and purchase. Ah good times.
Shoot at all enemies on screen whilst simultaneously dodging attacks. Never let your energy come down to zero. Defeat the stage boss and guess what? You did it! You won the game!
When I first got a DVD player, I actually loved how clean it looked. But now I like that nostalgic look that VHS tapes have. Although my big problem with them is that, at least for movies, they're more often than not in the wrong aspect ratio. And they're not enhanced for widescreen TVs.
I think you're confusing underrated with underappreciated. Plus channels like these are more niche anyways as they get very technical and specific about stuff that really only nerds like you and me care about
Really, it's no wonder the Sega Saturn flopped stateside. They were probably better off just dubbing over the Segata Sanshiro commercials they had in Japan.
Next on 'My Life in Gaming' Coury and Try show you how to RGB mod your VCR and upscale to 1080p through the XRGB-Mini! is this even possible? I am really curious
Will Lovrak Upscaling to 1080p using the XRGB-Mini Framemeister is perfectly possible, and RGB modding a VCR is *technically* ‘possible’, however it’d be a long and complicated process, and I expect it’d have little effect on the video quality, maybe even reducing it! The problem is that VHS stores composite video, using a strange encoding system that stores the chroma in a weird way, called “Colour-Under”. If you digitise the composite video signal, and then convert that to RGB, (or maybe even use a fully-analogue video converter.) you can output the composite as RGB, but it’d be a stupid thing to do as it wouldn’t improve the picture.
I had a cringy "how to play Pokemon" VHS that I found in an Oshkosh Bgosh just lying on the floor. There was a part where they had parents on to teach them and one said "you sunk my Pokemon!" The Diddy Kong Racing VHS will always be the best one though, hands down.
I was going to say that exact same thing. Seems likely that it *IS* his voice and that he simply doesn't want to associate with people he thinks are lower than him, some people are just like that. My opinion, if I liked him in the first place, would quickly turn into thinking he's a bit of a dick.
Yea, maybe he never set foot in North Carolina. He could have had the narration sent to him in Los Angeles or something to do the voice overs. He might have not even known what he was reading for and never saw the video!
Or he could just be denying something he considers embarrassing. But it's not surprising that someone would not remember some voice over work they did 20-30 years back, that may have only consisted of 20 hours of work spread over a year, mixed in with all the other crap they may have done in that time.
Thanks so much for this deep dive! My parents got me Game Players magazine the year after the Christmas I got a NES. I was annoyed at first that it wasn’t the dedicated Nintendo magazine, but when I realized I could learn about all kinds of systems and games I didn’t even know existed, I was hooked. I never had money for the VHS tapes, so it’s cool to see them here.
Love that the TurboExpress is clearly not turned on when the kid is shown playing with it. I vividly remember a lot of these videos being shelved with the games themselves at my local rental place. I loved them just for the glimpse of games I'd never played before.
I stumbled upon this channel while looking for the Game Player Game Tapes on UA-cam and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this breakdown and the video itself and had to subscribe. Much like you, I have a ton of nostalgia for these tapes as seeing video games being presented in VIDEO was incredibly mind-blowing for the time, I had all of the ones covered on this tape, too. I was so into the tapes, and starved for content, that I fell asleep to them for an entire year, particularly the Ultra Game Tape. Yeah...
Wow, seeing Ken Lobb talk about Game OSTs on CD is just fascinating. I owned the same DKC VHS Tape, so it's weird to think that years later I'm still following the man in his KI endeavors. Small world.
Thank you so much for all your content. its hard to find retro gaming content i haven't seen already. your production and content style is so great!! please keep up the great work. its very appreciated.
The first Turbo Grafx video tape you showed I remember seeing it in a toy r us kiosk when I was a kid. It had the only footage of Castlevania rondo of blood I ever saw at the time.
Hey guys, can you please give me a couple of tips on how to convert my VHS and S-VHS tapes to MP4 (if that's the best one). I have roughly 150 tapes from the mid 80's to around 1992 full of video game news, CES clips, video game commercials, and even the full 2 seasons of GPTV. I also have promotional game tapes, including some Philips CD-i tapes, some of which were never publicly , as well as many video game preview kiosk tapes from when managing a Babbage's store in the mid-90's. I'd love to share some of this, but want the quality to be the best possible (within a budget). I guess the main things I need advice on are: 1. Which device should I use to capture video from a JVC S-VHS deck? 2. Which resolution should I capture at? I've heard everything from capturing it at twice the native resolution, to calturing at full 1080p so that it will look better on UA-cam. 3. Which program should I use to capture it? 4. Should I de-interlace the video? Thanks in advance!
[Coury] I want to see all this stuff so bad. I used a consumer level Samsung DVD/VCR combo that upscales nicely and outputs over HDMI at 1080p. Capturing at 60fps is kind of the big key to it though. Any capture device will work, generally. In terms of S-VHS, Try got a player at a medical warehouse when we got some PVMs last summer. It has BNC out and is pretty nice. Unfortunately, I'm pretty unsure of consumer level S-VHS decks.
Imma try my hand at this if you don't mind +My Life in Gaming 1. Some of the very best capture cards are the Micomsoft X-Capture 1 and the Startech USB3HDCAP. However they might be overkill since you pay for RGB capability. I think you'd have great results with a Startech SVID2USB2 which will be cheaper. Startech makes nice quality gear and I've seen good looking captures on youtube with that card. 2. Some prefer to upscale SD video before capture. Some prefer to capture in 480i and upscale after in software. I do the latter. I allows me to experiment with different scaling algorythms plus I have the capture at original res as backup, which can be fun to look at and mess with. But you'll also have great results by upscaling before capture. To do this you'll need an upscaler in the chain. The DVDO processors should be great for this. (Iscan HD, VP30, VP50). It will save you time since you won't have to upscale in software after, but then again the capture process will be longer this way, since the upscaled capture files will be much larger then the 480i capture files would. It's up to you which method you choose. 3. usually the card comes with a capture software so you can use that. I personally use AmarecTV. Some people use OBS. 4. Once captured, you should open the videos in a video editing and encoding software. I use VirtualDub after someone knowlegeable recommended it to me and am happy with it. Then add two processing steps in your rendering chain : "deinterlace" to get 480p, and then "scaling" to, well, upscale. For UA-cam, either upscale to 1280x720p60 or 1920x1080p60. The latter will take alot more time to process, so I would personnally go with 720p. (of course if you have a DVDO processor then you can skip all that, as you'll have a file that's already deinterlaced and upscaled. The capture step will take longer though). *another option is to use a DVR. THose have video inputs and some of them have pretty good deinterlacing and upscaling chips. I don't think it will look as crisp as what I suggested above but, hey it's another option, and it can still look pretty nice. Once you'll have everything and are ready to go, don't hesitate to write to me before starting, there's a couple other things you'll need to know to get the very best results :)
+FinalBaton +My Life in Gaming Thanks guys, I appreciate the input. I'm keeping notes on everything. I guess I should have mentioned a couple of other things. I only have laptops to work with now. So capture cards per se are kind of out. I was hoping for either a USB input type solution or a standalone box (Elgato HD64 for example), but the latter seems to be mostly for HDMI input so I guess that is out. I do actually have an older Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick USB2 HDTV, which comes with a dongle for Svideo and composite input. Connection wise it seems like a perfect match for the output on my JVC S-VHS deck, but is this too dated to yield decent results? I think I'd like to capture it at either 1080p or 720p just to make sure it looks decent on most devices that play it back, which will be most likely HD. I'm just not sure about interlacing. I made some DVDs from VHS home movies a while back on a DVD-Video Recorder. I wasn't happy with it and returned it, but only after converting my home movies. The thing I hated about it was the severe interlacing issues. Some programs like VLC have the option to remove them on playback, but I'd like to tackle that issue in the encoding phase. Also, I assume H.264 is the way to go these days? Oh and my allowed budget isn't too high. Maybe $200, if I need to buy a new encoder. I am a bit of a stickler for quality, but really, these are VHS and S-VHS tapes we're dealing with. Not something I can pour a lot of cash into at this time. Thanks again guys. -Matt/VGO
When I say "cards" I actually mean USB plugged stuff! All the stuff I mentionned in my first paragraph are USB devices. And yes, the H264 codec is still the best
Awesome! Thanks again. I need a new laptop too... technology is a pricey game. ;) I'm going to try and get started, or at least start buying some of this in the Summer. Thanks again.
For me, the Banjo Kazooie tape was the best one. My mom worked at Toys R Us at the time, and she was able to get an extra copy of that tape for me. I wasn’t sold on Banjo prior to that, but after watching that tape, I couldn’t have wanted that game more. All these years later, and it remains one of my most favorite games.
I have a large stack of VHS players, a D-VHS player, laserdisc players, and hundreds of tapes. I think I'm addicted, it's not a space saving hobby which sucks but still.
There is just something about putting on a vhs tape and watching it on a old CRT TV. Still the only way I watch Christmas movies. Nostalgia is one of the most powerful drugs
Same here, man. I keep a stack of VHS Decks (multiple versions of the same deck that i'm using, so I never run out of spare parts so fast). I think the worst space consumer of all are good CRT TVs :P But it's worth it.
Vhs...beta...specially the first release with a big boxes,I try to complete my favorites early movies back then. Evil dead,Goonies,Return.of the living dead,Beetlejuice,Splash,E.T... Like video games.
My Life in Gaming If it’s been deinterlaced then it kinda sucks as the picture quality is permanently degraded and even when watching them on a CRT that natively supports interlaced video you get a worse experience than when watching directly from the tape.
Very excited about this video, guys - thank you for making it! There's so much hidden history out there on VHS tapes, and it's great that you're bringing this to peoples' attention. You do such tremendous work - keep it up! -C
There were actually sixteen known tapes in the Gametape series from Game Player's Magazine. Two alternate tapes were also labeled as Vol. 1, No. 1. One had Double Dragon, Super Mario Bros., Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, and Ninja Gaiden; the other had Super Mario Bros. 2. Both of them also had some noticeable differences from the rest of the series, so you could very well think of them as "Pilot Episodes".
I specifically clicked on this video to see if you would feature the Nintendo in sports VHS and you did it wow lol. I watched that damn tape so many times as a kid, and I still remember all of it.
I love this so much! You're totally right, the nostalgia and value in these old VHS tapes is off the charts. I still remember watching that Street Fighter 2 mail-out video although watching it back now the kids reactions are so obviously fake that it's hilarious! 😄 PLEASE make more of these videos if you have more content!
I grew up on VHS, still have most of my old ones including a taping of me on the news as a youngster. VHS doesn't look very good now, but man there is something about the blurry, grainy look that takes me back to my younger years. I recently got a Sega tape that was available if you mailed away for Post cereal or something and it is just atrociously "Xtreme 90s".
When I was a kid, the day I got my N64 promo tape was neighborhood movie night at my house. Almost my entire 7th grade homeroom class was at my house watching that N64 promo tape, over and over again. I especially was hyped for Kirby's Air Ride which got cancelled.
That's interesting! The Backloggery was how I found your UA-cam Channel-in fact, If the HappyConsoleGamer hasn't told me about this channel (from him purchasing Volume 1 of the Backloggery on VHS at a convention), I wouldn't have known about the RGB Master Class. I hope that in the future you guys could make more (maybe a Volume 2). If not, I look forward to more videos from you guys! Keep it up!
Man, what a nostalgic episode. I had many of the Nintendo VHS tapes, rented a couple of the third-party strategy tapes, and even came across that Lords of Thunder tape as well (talk about so bad it's good!). I didn't even know some of them existed though despite being a Nintendo Power subscriber myself, like the Yoshi's Island tape for instance.
Brings back a ton of memories. Lords of thunder promo video was done by turbo technologies staff who didn't have much of a budget to work with so they kinda did it awkward for humor sake.
You guys should definitely do another one of these! It really put me in the Saturday-morning type mood XD And thanks for uploading the tapes to UA-cam! I think I'll take a look at a few of them 😉
I remember getting the Starfox 64 and Diddy Kong Racing VHS cassettes in the mail too, really loved them when I was a kid, got me super hyped at the time and they were a lot of fun too.
Most likely. As long as you cleaned the tape player and looked over everything (and most importantly have a decent machine), then it can look good. VHS pretty much died because of it back then
Great vid, man. It had me thinking about a few of the promo vhs tapes I owned that came free with certain game magazines. I remember owning the Donkey Kong Country tape from 1994, and also the Sega Saturn preview tape that showed clips of Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally and Virtua Cop. Those were the days.
I miss the days of being able to watch video games being played on TV shows, which always got me in the mood for playing them myself... Why did the internet have to ruin everything for aspiring gamers of today??
That absolutely IS Neil Ross. Either he lied to you, or it was just such a mundane job to him that he either forgot all about it, or for whatever reason just refuses to acknowledge it, but that is absolutely him. It's also entirely possible that the title of the videos was never made clear to him, or that all his lines were recorded at home or at a local studio where he was and sent over by someone else which would also explain why he has no memory of these things, exactly the way he phrased it to you. Remember, to him, it was just a one-and-done job a long time ago. It makes perfect sense he either might not remember OR might not care. But there is no voice impersonator alive that can copy a voice EXACTLY, only to come reasonably close with training. And definitely not a voice as distinctive as that.. Because no two vocal chords are exactly the same and it doesn't take a spectrum analyzer to tell that IS him, beyond a shadow of a doubt. These are old videos, so either he truly has no memory of a job he did quickly and then forgot about, or it was a bad experience to the point where he lied to you flat-out because he was for some reason, possibly ashamed. Also the lead you were given lined up so well with him, that it's an impossible coincidence. You found him, and this story is over. Be certain of that.
There were a couple of promotion VHS tapes for Nintendo 64 in Germany as well, that my dad picked up in the local supermarket. As a kid I was obsessed with them and watched them over and over again. They two that I know of are called "N64 - Feel Everything" and "Wie viel 3D hältst Du aus?" (How much 3D can you take?). As far as I know, both of them are available on UA-cam and worth checking out
I recently found one of these tapes at my parents house from Nintendo as a promo about the upcoming Nintendo 64 console. I remember it just showed up one day as well.
I got the same Donkey Kong Country tape in the mail and i used to watch it all the time until my birthday when i got my first SNES with DKC as the pack in game. I really wish i still had the tape and that original SNES with the box...=(
I'm new and i think this show is cabe quality. I love it ! i'm only 5 minutes in this video and you guys are just awesome. keep up the good work hopefully you'll get over 100k subs
Such a wonderful and neat episode guys. Coury you chose right to watch the DKC vhs over Jurassic Park I would have as a kid. Some of these actors were 90s corny but some of them were actually normal sounding and really interesting to me. You guys are doing a GREAT service uploading those tapes. I'll check out the other channel.
i remember making jokse to a high school friend that was (at the time) a 16 year old version of the dude on the Street Fighter tapes, he not only looked like him, also his mouth moved identically to him every time he speaked, LOL.
I used to request a lot of these when I was young, and have a lot of the ones mentioned here. NEC used to like to send lots of promotional stuff too about their systems and games.
i remember screenshots of that starfox 64 beta video on magazines back in the day ... like just last year i could watch that ocarina of time beta video where magazine took all those creenshots ...
Oh man, that Star Fox 64 VHS with the SEGA and Sony representatives stealing the Nintendo employee who *parachuted in,* and then later Bob, is amazing! I love how silly it is, with a Mario doll being tortured and fake Pizza guys, that’s hilarious!
Tonic Trouble and Rocket Robot on Wheels were my childhood. Yeah we had a majority of the more well-known titles but for some unknown reason I was drawn to those two games.
This was absolutely fantastic. Indeed, in the time BI (Before Internet), these tapes were some of the few options that we had to check out games and get tips and strategies. Magazines were essential (of course), but seeing the games in action, via video, was really exciting. The Game Players' walkthroughs are definitely some of my favorites, too. They were strategy guides and video footage wrapped into one, and that was awesome. I had a feeling that Skip Rogers was gonna show up. Oh, boy. What those videos lack in decent information, they make up for in unintentional hilarity. Yeah, we were all "video game champions" back then. Seanbaby's piece on Skip Rogers is hilarious-- and this video got me to click on that piece and read it again after all these years. The US National Video Game Team tapes were more informational, even if they were rather dry. There are also earlier tapes than these which cover strategies for Atari VCS and PC games from the early 80s which are pretty decent, too. I hope that you both revisit this topic down the road with more tapes-- and many thanks for archiving the ones you do have, giving others a chance to experience a bit of a time warp back to the BI days.
Jesus, the nostalgia levels of this video is hitting me close to home. I remembered owning these, but those tapes are gone, as well as every VHS tape we ever had, including the home videos. That alone makes me kind of depressed. ;(
So this is all speculation, but i have a theory about "Rod Soldier". In an interview Tony Hawk admits to doing video editing for Turbo Grafx. It would confirm your "skateboard feel" impressions. ua-cam.com/video/2wv-SppeJCs/v-deo.html
This would be so cool.
Salty Barnickel Nice find! It makes sense.....
CONFIRMED. Tony Hawk made the Rod Soldier video. Source: I asked him. He replied and confirmed.
Holy crap thats so cool.
Game Sack Whaaat?! That's awesome. Where'd you ask him?
Ah, the 90's. When everything had power, super, and mega in their names.
Máté Zsiros mega super power mistake 3000 or the more user friendly name tim
I used to be the artist for Datel's video game magazine, GBX which came with a VHS tape each issue.
Also in the UK, there was a short lived magazine entirely on VHS tape called "Click!", I've posted both episodes on my Video Game Reviewer archive channel if you ever want to see them! They talk about the upcoming "Super Famicom" in one issue/episode :D
I see you everywhere! I'm running out of Hello You's!
Click is presented by Jake Wood who plays Max Branning in Eastenders.
The DKC promo tape is.the first one I ever saw and is my personal favorite. I also got it in the mail. To answer your question, the tape was sent to anyone who either subbed to Nintendo Power or filled out the reg card for their SNES.
It's nuts to think that these VHS tapes are sort of a predecessor to Lets Players on youtube.
Daddy DJ, please take me to the party!
Sorry kid, the lights are on
universetwisters As an older, and grumpier gamer, I've never really gotten into the let's play channels. I agree with you that these videos could be considered a predecessor to those channels, the difference being that the modern let's play channels have people trying to be funny the entire video, and I just can't take it. Maybe I'm just an a-hole, but I prefer the channels where they don't talk.
universetwisters p
sometimes you have to find the right person if they are going to talk
Fun fact: the Street Fighter arcade segments were filmed at the long-defunct arcade called Yellow Brick Road at the UTC mall in San Diego, CA near La Jolla. If you go there now, the location occupied by the YBR is the Mongolian grill area. I have fond memories of going there every weekend and dumping my entire allowance on the games there. Amazing memories!
Joe Davis thanks for sharing that memory!
Now THAT'S a fun fact indeed :D
"DODGE THE STATACTATAS"
Wil you tell him about my comments on the top and if he likes them also tell him to replie back to me please first replie to me if you are really going to tell him that will you say yes
@@jakeknapp6833 who r u
"N64: Anti-aliasing 4 crisp graphics!"
riiiiiight. lol
that had me laughing too
Logan Jones whats funny is that its true....first generation
The N64 did had antialiasing.
Convert component to super VGA to HDMI or connect directly into led monitor for best quality
The N64 indeed had anti-aliasing and it made the graphics look smudgy and blurry. That's the joke the OP was making
This is the greatest episode you guys ever did.. PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE TYPE OF SHOWS. The editing, style, subject Matter, videos is truly the best I ever seen. Please keep don't ever stop making these.
Damn! I heard the narrator's voice and was like "Holy shit, I know who that is! The guy who narrated the Biff Tannen Museum video in 'Back to the Future'!"
Was Neil Ross. xD
It wasn't Neil Ross in the game tapes. He said so.
Even if the Game Player's tapes don't actually feature Neil Ross, it'd be neat to get him anyway to do an homage to those old tapes. He's VERY close.
23:21 anti-aliasing for crisp graphics
ANTI-ALIASING FOR CRISP GRAPHICS
Man, this brings back memories, not because I used to watch any of these vhs tapes, but because I actually used to record all my playthroughs once I perfected a game and sold them at school.
They were quite popular with kids who didnt have the game or the console able to experience the game for themselves.
I'd get advice and requests from people on how to tackle/approach a game the next time Id make a recording some kids even coming around to my house to pitch in with player 2 on local co-op games, it became a sort of community and discussion during breaks at school too.
The money I made from selling the tapes would go towards the next game I could go and purchase.
Ah good times.
Shoot at all enemies on screen whilst simultaneously dodging attacks. Never let your energy come down to zero. Defeat the stage boss and guess what? You did it! You won the game!
When I first got a DVD player, I actually loved how clean it looked. But now I like that nostalgic look that VHS tapes have. Although my big problem with them is that, at least for movies, they're more often than not in the wrong aspect ratio. And they're not enhanced for widescreen TVs.
You can always record on blank VHS tapes
Oh my god, you guys, this is the best video I've seen on UA-cam in months. So awesome...takes me back to the good old days. Thank you!!
Love seeing the new videos from MLiG, I like the longer ones that include so much details. Keep em up!!!
Im so glad I grew up in this generation. Everything was so new and exciting!
wow, I didn't think I would watch an almost hour long video about VHS promotional tapes from the 90's
Great video!
The production value of this channel is outstanding.
that Sega Saturn commercial was so demonically cult like
Did you make the intro in a vhs like quality? Man you guys really put a lot of effort into your videos. Really underrated channel
Holy shit that is amazing.
How is this channel underrated? Maybe not as popular as it should be, but I dont think anyone underrates it.
only 50,000 subs when reactors and cringe compilers get 10x that much.
I think you're confusing underrated with underappreciated. Plus channels like these are more niche anyways as they get very technical and specific about stuff that really only nerds like you and me care about
STALE MEME I put out daily content I make 100% myself and have a 50th the audience.
Really, it's no wonder the Sega Saturn flopped stateside. They were probably better off just dubbing over the Segata Sanshiro commercials they had in Japan.
Next on 'My Life in Gaming' Coury and Try show you how to RGB mod your VCR and upscale to 1080p through the XRGB-Mini!
is this even possible? I am really curious
Will Lovrak Upscaling to 1080p using the XRGB-Mini Framemeister is perfectly possible, and RGB modding a VCR is *technically* ‘possible’, however it’d be a long and complicated process, and I expect it’d have little effect on the video quality, maybe even reducing it! The problem is that VHS stores composite video, using a strange encoding system that stores the chroma in a weird way, called “Colour-Under”. If you digitise the composite video signal, and then convert that to RGB, (or maybe even use a fully-analogue video converter.) you can output the composite as RGB, but it’d be a stupid thing to do as it wouldn’t improve the picture.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel Didn't vhs supported s video? And how can composite display rgb if they are mutually exclusive signals?
I swear, long MLiG videos are like the Christmas of my adulthood.
EDIT: Also, nice touch making the intro look like an actual VHS, 4:3 and everything.
I love how you properly captured the 60i footage into 60p, it looks great when it's available. Of course, I couldn't expect anything less from you. :)
I really like the way you guys lowered the intro quality to match that of a VHS tape. Nice touch.
I had a cringy "how to play Pokemon" VHS that I found in an Oshkosh Bgosh just lying on the floor. There was a part where they had parents on to teach them and one said "you sunk my Pokemon!"
The Diddy Kong Racing VHS will always be the best one though, hands down.
I remember getting that Diddy Kong VHS somehow, but I never had a NP subscription.
A neat little tidbit...the kid with the backwards hat in the N64 promo is the game tester from the DKC promo.
Im sorry but... Mr. Neil Ross lied to you sir.
I was going to say that exact same thing. Seems likely that it *IS* his voice and that he simply doesn't want to associate with people he thinks are lower than him, some people are just like that. My opinion, if I liked him in the first place, would quickly turn into thinking he's a bit of a dick.
SmoothEmJay well... his voice is still good?
Yea, maybe he never set foot in North Carolina. He could have had the narration sent to him in Los Angeles or something to do the voice overs. He might have not even known what he was reading for and never saw the video!
Or he could just be denying something he considers embarrassing. But it's not surprising that someone would not remember some voice over work they did 20-30 years back, that may have only consisted of 20 hours of work spread over a year, mixed in with all the other crap they may have done in that time.
48 minutes for a video covering old video game promo VHS tapes. That's why I love this channel.
My god, this is a great video. Wasn't expecting something this well produced, written and edited. A keeper. Thank you, good sirs :)
Thanks so much for this deep dive! My parents got me Game Players magazine the year after the Christmas I got a NES. I was annoyed at first that it wasn’t the dedicated Nintendo magazine, but when I realized I could learn about all kinds of systems and games I didn’t even know existed, I was hooked. I never had money for the VHS tapes, so it’s cool to see them here.
As bad as the DKC VHS was, I love the way Killer Instinct was sneak-peeked at the end.
Love that the TurboExpress is clearly not turned on when the kid is shown playing with it.
I vividly remember a lot of these videos being shelved with the games themselves at my local rental place. I loved them just for the glimpse of games I'd never played before.
Nice episode, amazing to see people kept these vhs tapes around.
Some of them really show what the times were, good coverage guys!
The narrator in the power glove video just flat out lying about how the power glove helps people win games is hilarious.
I stumbled upon this channel while looking for the Game Player Game Tapes on UA-cam and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this breakdown and the video itself and had to subscribe. Much like you, I have a ton of nostalgia for these tapes as seeing video games being presented in VIDEO was incredibly mind-blowing for the time, I had all of the ones covered on this tape, too. I was so into the tapes, and starved for content, that I fell asleep to them for an entire year, particularly the Ultra Game Tape.
Yeah...
Wow, seeing Ken Lobb talk about Game OSTs on CD is just fascinating. I owned the same DKC VHS Tape, so it's weird to think that years later I'm still following the man in his KI endeavors. Small world.
Thank you so much for all your content. its hard to find retro gaming content i haven't seen already. your production and content style is so great!! please keep up the great work. its very appreciated.
3:20 - TMNT "The party wagon is the only way to travel"
Sounds like my kind of party!
'dodge the statactitas' and 'imagine the power you'll have' were red hot schoolyard protomemes back in my day
The first Turbo Grafx video tape you showed I remember seeing it in a toy r us kiosk when I was a kid. It had the only footage of Castlevania rondo of blood I ever saw at the time.
I had that DKC tape. I was a Nintendo Power subscriber at the time though, so I guess it didn't come out of nowhere.
Hey guys, can you please give me a couple of tips on how to convert my VHS and S-VHS tapes to MP4 (if that's the best one).
I have roughly 150 tapes from the mid 80's to around 1992 full of video game news, CES clips, video game commercials, and even the full 2 seasons of GPTV. I also have promotional game tapes, including some Philips CD-i tapes, some of which were never publicly , as well as many video game preview kiosk tapes from when managing a Babbage's store in the mid-90's.
I'd love to share some of this, but want the quality to be the best possible (within a budget).
I guess the main things I need advice on are:
1. Which device should I use to capture video from a JVC S-VHS deck?
2. Which resolution should I capture at? I've heard everything from capturing it at twice the native resolution, to calturing at full 1080p so that it will look better on UA-cam.
3. Which program should I use to capture it?
4. Should I de-interlace the video?
Thanks in advance!
[Coury] I want to see all this stuff so bad. I used a consumer level Samsung DVD/VCR combo that upscales nicely and outputs over HDMI at 1080p. Capturing at 60fps is kind of the big key to it though. Any capture device will work, generally.
In terms of S-VHS, Try got a player at a medical warehouse when we got some PVMs last summer. It has BNC out and is pretty nice. Unfortunately, I'm pretty unsure of consumer level S-VHS decks.
Imma try my hand at this if you don't mind +My Life in Gaming
1. Some of the very best capture cards are the Micomsoft X-Capture 1 and the Startech USB3HDCAP. However they might be overkill since you pay for RGB capability. I think you'd have great results with a Startech SVID2USB2 which will be cheaper. Startech makes nice quality gear and I've seen good looking captures on youtube with that card.
2. Some prefer to upscale SD video before capture. Some prefer to capture in 480i and upscale after in software. I do the latter. I allows me to experiment with different scaling algorythms plus I have the capture at original res as backup, which can be fun to look at and mess with. But you'll also have great results by upscaling before capture. To do this you'll need an upscaler in the chain. The DVDO processors should be great for this. (Iscan HD, VP30, VP50). It will save you time since you won't have to upscale in software after, but then again the capture process will be longer this way, since the upscaled capture files will be much larger then the 480i capture files would. It's up to you which method you choose.
3. usually the card comes with a capture software so you can use that. I personally use AmarecTV. Some people use OBS.
4. Once captured, you should open the videos in a video editing and encoding software. I use VirtualDub after someone knowlegeable recommended it to me and am happy with it. Then add two processing steps in your rendering chain : "deinterlace" to get 480p, and then "scaling" to, well, upscale. For UA-cam, either upscale to 1280x720p60 or 1920x1080p60. The latter will take alot more time to process, so I would personnally go with 720p.
(of course if you have a DVDO processor then you can skip all that, as you'll have a file that's already deinterlaced and upscaled. The capture step will take longer though).
*another option is to use a DVR. THose have video inputs and some of them have pretty good deinterlacing and upscaling chips. I don't think it will look as crisp as what I suggested above but, hey it's another option, and it can still look pretty nice.
Once you'll have everything and are ready to go, don't hesitate to write to me before starting, there's a couple other things you'll need to know to get the very best results :)
+FinalBaton +My Life in Gaming
Thanks guys, I appreciate the input. I'm keeping notes on everything.
I guess I should have mentioned a couple of other things.
I only have laptops to work with now. So capture cards per se are kind of out. I was hoping for either a USB input type solution or a standalone box (Elgato HD64 for example), but the latter seems to be mostly for HDMI input so I guess that is out.
I do actually have an older Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick USB2 HDTV, which comes with a dongle for Svideo and composite input. Connection wise it seems like a perfect match for the output on my JVC S-VHS deck, but is this too dated to yield decent results?
I think I'd like to capture it at either 1080p or 720p just to make sure it looks decent on most devices that play it back, which will be most likely HD. I'm just not sure about interlacing. I made some DVDs from VHS home movies a while back on a DVD-Video Recorder. I wasn't happy with it and returned it, but only after converting my home movies. The thing I hated about it was the severe interlacing issues. Some programs like VLC have the option to remove them on playback, but I'd like to tackle that issue in the encoding phase.
Also, I assume H.264 is the way to go these days?
Oh and my allowed budget isn't too high. Maybe $200, if I need to buy a new encoder.
I am a bit of a stickler for quality, but really, these are VHS and S-VHS tapes we're dealing with. Not something I can pour a lot of cash into at this time.
Thanks again guys.
-Matt/VGO
When I say "cards" I actually mean USB plugged stuff! All the stuff I mentionned in my first paragraph are USB devices.
And yes, the H264 codec is still the best
Awesome!
Thanks again.
I need a new laptop too... technology is a pricey game. ;)
I'm going to try and get started, or at least start buying some of this in the Summer.
Thanks again.
"All these games work really well with the Power Glove!"
Cue JJJ laugh.
For me, the Banjo Kazooie tape was the best one.
My mom worked at Toys R Us at the time, and she was able to get an extra copy of that tape for me.
I wasn’t sold on Banjo prior to that, but after watching that tape, I couldn’t have wanted that game more.
All these years later, and it remains one of my most favorite games.
I have a large stack of VHS players, a D-VHS player, laserdisc players, and hundreds of tapes. I think I'm addicted, it's not a space saving hobby which sucks but still.
There is just something about putting on a vhs tape and watching it on a old CRT TV. Still the only way I watch Christmas movies. Nostalgia is one of the most powerful drugs
Same here, man. I keep a stack of VHS Decks (multiple versions of the same deck that i'm using, so I never run out of spare parts so fast). I think the worst space consumer of all are good CRT TVs :P But it's worth it.
Vhs...beta...specially the first release with a big boxes,I try to complete my favorites early movies back then.
Evil dead,Goonies,Return.of the living dead,Beetlejuice,Splash,E.T...
Like video games.
Are you able to upload the digital VHS transfers to a Google Drive or somewhere where we can download them?
Not the raw files, but you can watch all the tapes here: ua-cam.com/users/VideogameBRoll
Then use a program like clipgrab to download them
My Life in Gaming If it’s been deinterlaced then it kinda sucks as the picture quality is permanently degraded and even when watching them on a CRT that natively supports interlaced video you get a worse experience than when watching directly from the tape.
I never had even heard of these videos before. I love this UA-cam channel guys. Keep up the good work, you deserve more subscribers for sure
I totally remember the DKC video. Pretty sure my brother rented it along with the game from Blockbuster.
Very excited about this video, guys - thank you for making it! There's so much hidden history out there on VHS tapes, and it's great that you're bringing this to peoples' attention. You do such tremendous work - keep it up! -C
There were actually sixteen known tapes in the Gametape series from Game Player's Magazine. Two alternate tapes were also labeled as Vol. 1, No. 1. One had Double Dragon, Super Mario Bros., Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, and Ninja Gaiden; the other had Super Mario Bros. 2. Both of them also had some noticeable differences from the rest of the series, so you could very well think of them as "Pilot Episodes".
I specifically clicked on this video to see if you would feature the Nintendo in sports VHS and you did it wow lol. I watched that damn tape so many times as a kid, and I still remember all of it.
I love this so much! You're totally right, the nostalgia and value in these old VHS tapes is off the charts. I still remember watching that Street Fighter 2 mail-out video although watching it back now the kids reactions are so obviously fake that it's hilarious! 😄
PLEASE make more of these videos if you have more content!
Nice touch recording your intro onto a VHS and then back to digital for this video!
Im pretty sure i remember getting a vhs for donkey kong 64 and the vhs was yellow or something. I was like 10
Hey! My tips were legit! They saved gamers lives. :) However thanks for featuring my tapes in your video! :)
"All these Games work really well with the Power Glove"
-Lies
30:46 I actually found that Banjo Kazooie VHS tape while thrift shopping once. They were asking $15 for it though.
I won't lie... those Turbo Grafx 16 commercials made me want one. Like, right now!
If Neil Ross had been the right guy, presumably the videos would have been on his imdb profile.
I miss those 90s hip kids
found this video randomly, absolutely love it, memories have rushed around my head. Hate growing up 😢. Top vid 👍
I'm a big fan of collecting these old video game VHS tapes. especially the Nintendo ones.
ok i wasnt sure if you would talk about them but right at the end you mentioned the nintendo tips tapes. I love those! great episode!!!
I grew up on VHS, still have most of my old ones including a taping of me on the news as a youngster. VHS doesn't look very good now, but man there is something about the blurry, grainy look that takes me back to my younger years. I recently got a Sega tape that was available if you mailed away for Post cereal or something and it is just atrociously "Xtreme 90s".
Awesome video guys!! A pleasure to watch. You guys need to do a part 2 with the ones you mentioned at the end.
When I was a kid, the day I got my N64 promo tape was neighborhood movie night at my house. Almost my entire 7th grade homeroom class was at my house watching that N64 promo tape, over and over again. I especially was hyped for Kirby's Air Ride which got cancelled.
That's interesting! The Backloggery was how I found your UA-cam Channel-in fact, If the HappyConsoleGamer hasn't told me about this channel (from him purchasing Volume 1 of the Backloggery on VHS at a convention), I wouldn't have known about the RGB Master Class. I hope that in the future you guys could make more (maybe a Volume 2). If not, I look forward to more videos from you guys! Keep it up!
Man, what a nostalgic episode. I had many of the Nintendo VHS tapes, rented a couple of the third-party strategy tapes, and even came across that Lords of Thunder tape as well (talk about so bad it's good!). I didn't even know some of them existed though despite being a Nintendo Power subscriber myself, like the Yoshi's Island tape for instance.
Great video! I loved these tapes back in the day too. Was our only window into this kind of stuff.
The "Steve Harris" part at the 15 minute, 45 second mark in made me instantly think of Iron Maiden. Now I got Powerslave stuck in my head.
Ha ha! Me too! So I logged in just to post the question "Is it THE Steve Harris". Do you get the joke? =D
DinoMosh First two albums> powerslave.
Wow, that narration is great. It's like he really knows about what is happening on screen.
i just found the promo VHS for the MegaCD launch!
Brings back a ton of memories. Lords of thunder promo video was done by turbo technologies staff who didn't have much of a budget to work with so they kinda did it awkward for humor sake.
You guys should definitely do another one of these! It really put me in the Saturday-morning type mood XD
And thanks for uploading the tapes to UA-cam! I think I'll take a look at a few of them 😉
I remember getting the Starfox 64 and Diddy Kong Racing VHS cassettes in the mail too, really loved them when I was a kid, got me super hyped at the time and they were a lot of fun too.
I do not miss VHS at all lol I hated VHS so much, but maybe thats bc it did eat my fav tape at the time.
Most likely. As long as you cleaned the tape player and looked over everything (and most importantly have a decent machine), then it can look good. VHS pretty much died because of it back then
I had that Banjo Kazooie tape too. Was cool to hear some Hollywood talent (Jon Lovitz) doing voice work.
Great vid, man. It had me thinking about a few of the promo vhs tapes I owned that came free with certain game magazines. I remember owning the Donkey Kong Country tape from 1994, and also the Sega Saturn preview tape that showed clips of Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally and Virtua Cop. Those were the days.
Outstanding. You can easily see that this was a hard project and you did a great job. Thank you and keep up the good work.
If you need me to clean your video tapes, I'm your man. I use an RTI TapeChek 470.
I miss the days of being able to watch video games being played on TV shows, which always got me in the mood for playing them myself... Why did the internet have to ruin everything for aspiring gamers of today??
That absolutely IS Neil Ross.
Either he lied to you, or it was just such a mundane job to him that he either forgot all about it, or for whatever reason just refuses to acknowledge it, but that is absolutely him. It's also entirely possible that the title of the videos was never made clear to him, or that all his lines were recorded at home or at a local studio where he was and sent over by someone else which would also explain why he has no memory of these things, exactly the way he phrased it to you. Remember, to him, it was just a one-and-done job a long time ago. It makes perfect sense he either might not remember OR might not care.
But there is no voice impersonator alive that can copy a voice EXACTLY, only to come reasonably close with training. And definitely not a voice as distinctive as that.. Because no two vocal chords are exactly the same and it doesn't take a spectrum analyzer to tell that IS him, beyond a shadow of a doubt. These are old videos, so either he truly has no memory of a job he did quickly and then forgot about, or it was a bad experience to the point where he lied to you flat-out because he was for some reason, possibly ashamed.
Also the lead you were given lined up so well with him, that it's an impossible coincidence.
You found him, and this story is over. Be certain of that.
Also, he definitely was the narrator for Robotech, as well.
Same guy, same voice, though i'm sure he might possibly deny that, too.
Yeah I agree as well, that voice I instantly recognized from the Rogue Squadron games. Looked it up, Neil Ross.
100% him.
I agree with you, that sounds like him 100%. I wonder why he's denying that he did the work? In any case, it's cool to know who it was nonetheless.
I don't think he'd be that ashamed of just some old video game VHS tapes.
There were a couple of promotion VHS tapes for Nintendo 64 in Germany as well, that my dad picked up in the local supermarket. As a kid I was obsessed with them and watched them over and over again. They two that I know of are called "N64 - Feel Everything" and "Wie viel 3D hältst Du aus?" (How much 3D can you take?). As far as I know, both of them are available on UA-cam and worth checking out
[Try4ce] I am in love with the title "How Much 3D Can You Take?"
I recently found one of these tapes at my parents house from Nintendo as a promo about the upcoming Nintendo 64 console. I remember it just showed up one day as well.
I got the same Donkey Kong Country tape in the mail and i used to watch it all the time until my birthday when i got my first SNES with DKC as the pack in game. I really wish i still had the tape and that original SNES with the box...=(
I'm new and i think this show is cabe quality. I love it ! i'm only 5 minutes in this video and you guys are just awesome. keep up the good work hopefully you'll get over 100k subs
Such a wonderful and neat episode guys. Coury you chose right to watch the DKC vhs over Jurassic Park I would have as a kid. Some of these actors were 90s corny but some of them were actually normal sounding and really interesting to me.
You guys are doing a GREAT service uploading those tapes.
I'll check out the other channel.
The guy that did the voice actors is the same actor in Red Lobster/Olive Garden training tapes. He was also in Wawa's VHS documentary
I had a GameShark VHS that came with my N64 GameShark I used to watch over and over and over
i remember making jokse to a high school friend that was (at the time) a 16 year old version of the dude on the Street Fighter tapes, he not only looked like him, also his mouth moved identically to him every time he speaked, LOL.
I used to request a lot of these when I was young, and have a lot of the ones mentioned here. NEC used to like to send lots of promotional stuff too about their systems and games.
i remember screenshots of that starfox 64 beta video on magazines back in the day ...
like just last year i could watch that ocarina of time beta video where magazine took all those creenshots ...
Oh man, that Star Fox 64 VHS with the SEGA and Sony representatives stealing the Nintendo employee who *parachuted in,* and then later Bob, is amazing! I love how silly it is, with a Mario doll being tortured and fake Pizza guys, that’s hilarious!
Tonic Trouble and Rocket Robot on Wheels were my childhood. Yeah we had a majority of the more well-known titles but for some unknown reason I was drawn to those two games.
This was absolutely fantastic. Indeed, in the time BI (Before Internet), these tapes were some of the few options that we had to check out games and get tips and strategies. Magazines were essential (of course), but seeing the games in action, via video, was really exciting. The Game Players' walkthroughs are definitely some of my favorites, too. They were strategy guides and video footage wrapped into one, and that was awesome.
I had a feeling that Skip Rogers was gonna show up. Oh, boy. What those videos lack in decent information, they make up for in unintentional hilarity. Yeah, we were all "video game champions" back then. Seanbaby's piece on Skip Rogers is hilarious-- and this video got me to click on that piece and read it again after all these years. The US National Video Game Team tapes were more informational, even if they were rather dry. There are also earlier tapes than these which cover strategies for Atari VCS and PC games from the early 80s which are pretty decent, too.
I hope that you both revisit this topic down the road with more tapes-- and many thanks for archiving the ones you do have, giving others a chance to experience a bit of a time warp back to the BI days.
Jesus, the nostalgia levels of this video is hitting me close to home. I remembered owning these, but those tapes are gone, as well as every VHS tape we ever had, including the home videos. That alone makes me kind of depressed. ;(
Fire?
That instrumental beginning at 9:23 would later be used as the theme for the E! series "Hollywood's Mysteries & Scandals".