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Vintage Videogame Commercials

Posted by Zonk on from the old-skool dept.

Ant writes "Bezoar has a collection of old video game commercials ranging from Atari 2600 to SNES. These WMV files (1-2 MB each) can be downloaded for nostalgia flashbacks or if you are curious (you young kids!)."

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  1. Yet more crappy lo-res WMV video by LocalH · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why don't these sites archive this video at 720x480? Sure, it may be old VHS captures, but still, when you resize to half-resolution, you lose HALF of the available resolution immediately?

    This type stuff should be archived in standard MPEG-2 format, and offered in lower resolutions for streaming purposes only.

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    1. Re:Yet more crappy lo-res WMV video by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 3, Insightful
      These guys aren't exactly archivists, and seeing as their site just got dropped on Slashdot, well, can you blame them for cutting out 75% of the frame?

      This site is there for the authors' amusement, not to preserve the history of the human race. Give 'em a break.

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    2. Re:Yet more crappy lo-res WMV video by LocalH · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Then if you're not an archivist, and you find some rare old video, then find a friggin' archivist. Hell, if they'd send me the tapes, I'll run the tapes through a TBC to stabilize them a bit, archive them at full resolution high-bitrate MPEG-2, and send them around BitTorrent.

      I'm not ragging on these guys particularly, just lamenting that 99% of the time I find this type of old video online, it's some crappy lo-res, low-bitrate WMV (or worse, Real) video. Half the time, it's even at some shitty frame rate like 10fps or something.

      Preservation is a laudable goal, regardless of the target of the preservation. Sure, perhaps these people aren't set up to preserve such media, but they should get the video to someone who is.

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  2. Saves money by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "The Crystalis one shows a guy running around in a really bad warrior costume"

    It keeps the budget very low. You don't need to hire any actors or stage anything. Just sneak a camcorder into any typical sci fi con.

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  3. Right hook by the_skywise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The power glove could sense forward motion as well as directional motion. And you could equate those to button presses. So the forward motion could become the right punch and an up-down motion could become a left punch.

    Still more hassle than it was probably worth...