"C.E. Forman" wrote:
>
> Here's an odd request for you...
>
> Does anyone have a tape of the (howlingly BAD) computer / videogame awards
> show "CyberMania '94"? God only knows why, but I've had the recent urge to
> see it again.
No can do, but if anyone does have it I'd be more than happy to convert it to
VideoCD for viewing on a DVD player. The following is only slightly off-topic,
but I'll bring it around to software collecting in a bit:
I offer this service (coverting analog media to digital) for free for qualified
projects. (It only costs me my time -- oh yeah, and the $5500 it cost me to
build my video rig). I do this because videotapes can warp, stretch,
disintegrate, etc. and I would hate to see old and rare video get lost
forever. In fact, I can always enhance bad videotapes and make them more
presentable. (You'd be surprised how effective a time-domain smoother can be
in reducing noise -- a time-base corrector also helps immensely with tapes that
get out of sync.)
By now you're either asking me to shut up :-) or asking "But why do this when
you can just copy the videotape?" Well, have you ever seen a 3rd- or
4th-generation copy of a videotape? It's degraded beyond acceptable viewing
quality. Digital copies, however, never suffer degredation.
So what's a "qualified project"? Game-related material, of course! In August,
I'll have the capability to burn actual DVDs onto $10 blanks. I plan to put a
lot of stuff onto DVD (including chapter points, menus, etc.) that nobody else
would bother with. Both Sierra video catalogs (1989 and 1990) on a single DVD
will be my first project in this line, but I'd be happy to accept others... any
ideas?
> (For those of you who missed it, CyberMania '94 was supposed to be gaming's
> equivalent of the Oscars. They invited all of the top industry people and
> presented awards for best game script, soundtrack, actor/actress, best of
> genre, etc. Like the Oscars, it was a big overblown production with lame-o
> dance numbers, pathetic pseudo-celebrities clamoring to get noticed, and
> little "skits", of which the less said, the better. It was an all-time low
> for gaming, and that's counting the release of "Leather Goddesses of Phobos
> 2".)
Sounds a lot like the SPA awards (Softie? Codie?), which are a disgrace to the
industry. It's why sh*t like "Barbie Pet Rescue" gets the award for "Best
Educational Game" simply because it sold the most copies.
Was there another CyberMedia other than '94?
PS: I can count many, many more games that sucked more badly than LGOP2. If
you're calling it the lowest point in PC gaming, then you haven't played very
many PC games. :-)
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