Ever stumble across one of these?

Psycho Nulltard · 07/29/2013, 12:04 AM

As I was digging through a box-o-stuff in my basement, I came across this gem.

My phone's camera isn't the greatest, but the labels on the tape read:

Duo Games Ending: Keith Courage 0-104,
Pac Land 105-132, It came from desert 133-287, Air Zonk 288-
436, TVS F-ball 437-467, Vigil-ante 468-500, CF2 501-1700

Exile 1701-2060, B-Man 2061-2105, Ninja Spirit 2106-2142
Order of grif. 2143-2200, SLnt Debug 2201-3291,

What I wouldn't give for a VCR right now!!! I'd love to watch this and relive the memories and throw it on the youtubes for grins. Sure, I could replay all of those games and relive the memories, but I don't think tween/teenage me would have so diligently captured all of these endings on VHS if I ever planned on playing the games again. (hah, gonna do it anyway)

What old labors-of-love have you guys still in your possession? I know Bucci has VHS cassettes galore, but surely someone else has some relics. Doesn't have to be a VHS... drawings, tattoos, love letters to Johnny Turbo... everything counts. Out with it! I want to see.

Arkhan Asylum · 07/29/2013, 02:04 AM

I still have the broken PS1 controller from when Aeris died.

does that count?

bob · 07/29/2013, 07:53 AM

I have one of those USB VHS players if you want to send it to me, I can give it a try.

JoshTurboTrollX · 07/29/2013, 09:16 AM

That is pretty smart adding to the labels the time frame of when the game is recorded on. I also found some gameplay VHS tapes, but just wrote a list of what games were on the tapes, leaving me to have to guess (fast forward/rewind/forward....) to where it is on the tape. I only have like 2-3 tapes left from old gameplay videos. (I think one of them has the endings to Dungeon Explorer II and Dungeon Master) But I used to have a few dozen tapes of NES, Atari, Sega, SNES and Turbo games......

Memories...

majors · 07/29/2013, 09:38 AM

I remember recording the audio from Ys to a cassette tape. But back then, I did not figure out that I could play the CD as an audio so I would rec while playing the game. I wanted the boss battle music, and I would dodge the enemy's hits to have a "clean" recording...I was not 100% successful so you'd hear Adol being hit a few times.

I sent a blank tape to a guy in Alaska (Aaron or BT?) with a SASE so he could record video play of PC-FX when it was first released. I got the tape back but he only had launch titles: Battle Heat, Team Innocent and Graduation. It was recorded on SLP...:/

DildoKKKobold · 07/29/2013, 10:02 AM

I made one of these. I even made mario paint intro-screens, with the worst cacophony music ever.

JoshTurboTrollX · 07/29/2013, 10:41 AM

Quote from: DildoKKKobold on 07/29/2013, 10:02 AMI made one of these. I even made mario paint intro-screens, with the worst cacophony music ever.

1/2 of one of my remaining tapes is Mario Paint creations! Matter of fact, I actually uploaded one of them to youtube. LOL

DildoKKKobold · 07/29/2013, 01:41 PM

Quote from: JoshTurboTrollX-16 on 07/29/2013, 10:41 AM
Quote from: DildoKKKobold on 07/29/2013, 10:02 AMI made one of these. I even made mario paint intro-screens, with the worst cacophony music ever.
1/2 of one of my remaining tapes is Mario Paint creations! Matter of fact, I actually uploaded one of them to youtube. LOL

I am not an artist, which is why I went into Engineering, lol. My creations were horrible.

xcrement5x · 07/29/2013, 01:42 PM

Keep an eye out for an SVHS VCR when digging through thrifts, I've found some decent VCRs there. They do a good job of accepting the video and making it look nice when digitizing.

roflmao · 07/30/2013, 11:18 PM

I ripped a VHS tape chock full of PCE gameplay that an old Mailing List buddy sent me back in the late '90s and posted it to YouTube.

Nowadays, I use a cheap DVD recorder to capture gameplay.

esteban · 07/31/2013, 07:24 AM

Somewhere there are 1-3 VHS tapes with (mostly) final boss/endings (mostly NES), but later I started using VHS to capture music (sound test = best friend!...for games without sound tests, as majors pointed out, you hoped you could find a "dead zone" that was free of SFX). I would transfer VHS audio to cassette when making a "mix tape"...I did the same with songs I liked from movies (usually moody synthesizer stuff from 80's and the "songs written just for the movie" replete with lyrics that connected to the film).

I also have snippets of family videos where folks are playing various games...beating Cadash, ha!