I buy VHS tapes that were specifically meant for a VHS release. I love VHS board games, promotional tapes, and educational videos, because I feel like I’m experiencing the media the way it was originally meant to be experienced.
So, for example, I don’t need a VHS copy of Cruel Intentions, but a VHS promo for Cruel Intentions where the cast sexually manipulates the viewer, a video store owner, into stocking Cruel Intentions at their store? I’d pay a surprising amount of money for that, apparently!
This comment reminded me of a Lilo & Stitch the series DVD board game my family used to have. Thanks for that, those were good memories that came to me. Sounds like you might also be interested in some promos Gamestop did, where if you pre-ordered certain games a character from it would call you to remind you to pick it up, like Mario for Super Mario Galaxy.
Thank you for sharing, I remember this! I forget who called me, but I got one of these Gamestop phone promos. Man, now I need to figure out what it was. *Scanning Brain*
I didn't know there was a Lilo and Stitch DVD board game, which is wild because Lilo & Stitch is one of my favorite Disney animated movies and I love video board games. You better believe I'll be scouring the internet for a full video. (Only the opening appears to be on YouTube. Argh...)
Tried searching my family's downsized DVD collection, which is just two large travel cases of DVDs. We don't have the DVD for the board game anymore, which is disappointingly logical. Would have been happy to record it if it was still in my possession.
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I had fun getting past the challenge. Design wise I found it a little strange since I could only narrow down most of the blanks to a 50/50, but word three could only be lyin' which meant it had to be full. You can solve the whole puzzle off of word three alone without bothering to fill the other blanks, but without that I don't think I could have solved it in the first place.
Tried out all the endings as usual. I see we both hate Free Guy based on the foul ending, if you hadn't I would have joked about not being able to see it being a good thing. Got forced to see it by family and was vindicated in my assessment of it as a movie about video games written by people who know nothing about video games. The use of the # in the name also got me chuckling.
I'm in the generation that's just young enough to have experienced the twilight of DVDs. My family still has a decent DVD collection, though now we pretty much only pull out the White Christmas DVD around a certain holiday. We used to have this neat portable DVD player too.
Personally I'm a fan of physical media, it can't be taken away from you. Also I miss a lot of the stuff that went into DVDs. The design of the menu, the names for different scenes in the scene select, the bonus features, it's a lost world some people today don't even know existed.
DVDs were my introduction to old TV shows like Get Smart, Green Acres, and Gilligan's Island, I remember the Get Smart DVDs had optional commentary from 99's actress. I also remember loving the bonus features for Lion King 1/2. There was this choose your own adventure thing where you went on safari with Timon and Pumbaa, I had a lot of fun with it.
I didn't watch the movie itself, but looking at the details for the Jungle Cruise movie on Disney+ made me a little happy because I saw the extras section included DVD style extras. Also I just found out that Lion King 1/2 also has some of its DVD extras on Disney+, including the choose your own adventure safari. Though they're missing the gameshow extra, but if I'd had to pick I'd save the CYOA safari over Lion King Jeopardy too.
(EDIT: Spoke too soon, it's not the CYOA adventure they have on Disney+, it's a different educational bonus feature. NOOOOOOOO!)
This has me pondering, is there some sort of group or website dedicated to preserving these DVD extras? I'm mainly familiar with video game preservation, but it seems to me that these extras are in need of similar efforts. Also DVD based board games, I had a Lilo & Stitch one based on the animated series.
As an ironic side note, right now my personal media preservation quest actually revolves around digital media. Nintendo is taking down the online stores for their old consoles so I'm trying to get stuff only available there while I still can.
Thanks for the feedback! My original draft of the game was a bit too hard for playtesters. Maybe I made it too easy to solve? I'll remember this for next time.
Yes, exactly. Free Guy reminded me of a feature length version of that old commercial meme where the game testers say they need to "tighten up the graphics" on level 3.
I was just talking about this the other day. I really miss bonus features, too, especially commentary tracks. In college, I'd get together with friends to watch the commentaries on classic Simpsons episodes. Some day, a local movie theatre is going to do a retrospective screening of the great commentary tracks of the DVD era and I will feel extremely old. If there isn't an effort to preserve that work, there needs to be.
Thank you for preserving that Nintendo media! I've been collecting a set of rare Muppet VHS tapes to preserve them online. It's been a long, slow eBay journey.
My absolute favorite part of older Universal DVDs was the Universal promotional video that showed all the next gen classic hits like Jurassic Park and The Mummy 😍
1. The puzzle aspect was fun and replaced my morning sudoku! 🧩
2. I remember renting VCRs from Blockbuster! Then my mom bought a TEAC VCR that was really high quality. We never bought any tapes though--always rented. 📼
3. Having small children, I try to substitute bad language with words like “fiddlesticks” and “Christ on a cracker.” 🤬
4. Still have a zippered DVD travel case with a hundred or so movies in it that we use on the sailboat. ⛵️
I love games like this!! Can you make one that's super hard lol? or like an added part of one that's super hard? I ask as if its just very easy to make lots of games lol i know it's hard
Richie Rich - I watched that over and over as a kid I just wanted the McDonalds in my house but mostly I wanted friends.
no DVDs or VHS tapes, I must admit!! Well, maybe a few DVDs of old short films that I acted in haha .
the word I use when i'm upset is absurd. I also use it in other ways too, I'm realizing I just use that word way too much haha
This game was actually quite a bit harder in my first design pass, but I eased it up a bit. I like the idea of an optional, extra challenging section. Noted!
I feel like the McDonalds kind of upstaged the whole movie? Whenever I talk about Richie Rich, it’s the first thing that comes up.
I have so many old films I made with my friends in college on DVD. Too afraid to look at them again. My brain might melt? Or is that concern... absurd?!
I definitely still have a large stash of DVDs and some VHS, though I don't watch them very often when it's so easy to stream most stuff. When I was a kid I probably burned out a copy of The Princess Bride.
Yeah, that’s why I focus on rare stuff on VHS. If I can stream the movie with a few button clicks, why go through the hassle of getting off the couch to put a bug clunky tape in the VCR?
📺 South Park, LOL. Granted, I was a teenager by then, but that's (literally) still growing up, so it counts, IMO. Had the first three seasons on VHS, then up to season eight (I think?) on DVD.
🤬 Just your run of the mill curse words. It's really startles people, as I *rarely* curse, so when I do, they know I'm PISSED. Strangely, the situation almost always de-escalate afterwards. Which is good, because I'm probably a terrible fighter 😆
📼 We have a handful of Blu-Rays, almost all are older, obscure, or foreign films that are tough to find on streaming services. I've also got a shelf full of physical Nintendo Switch games, which will be like VHS tapes and DVDs in another ~20 years!
Glad you liked today's quest! It's good to break-up the formula every now and again.
Wait, three seasons of South Park or three volumes? Three seasons would be, like, 50 episodes, which I think would be around 15 VHS tapes. (!) I think I've got at least one season on DVD, but I forget which one.
Blu-Rays are totally a thing! I'm on Shout Factory's mailing list and I just got an email about their They Live SteelBook Blu-Ray set. Their releases are super classy and very collectable.
I've got a few Switch carts, too. Fingers crossed my physical copy of LEGO Pokemon + Rabbids will be worth enough someday to pay down my mortgage.
Nope, seasons—15 tapes sounds about right! I got the VHS tapes as volumes, one by one, and over time I ended up owning the first three seasons 😬
Season 5 was a good DVD to have, as one of its episodes has long been pulled from syndication and streaming (it wasn't even that offensive, even at the time), and it's a really good episode, too! Alas, my DVD collection became one of the many, many casualties of my constant moving around throughout my 20s 😢
As for Switch carts, everyone knows "Vroom In The Night Sky" is going to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at future (shady) auctions!
You were a hardcore South Park fan! I’m sure Trey and Matt would be delighted to know that.
Yeah, I definitely scaled back my physical media collection over the years moving around, too, but somehow I still have so many DVD folders and a folder of CDs! I don’t believe I actually have a way to play CDs anymore, lol.
I buy VHS tapes that were specifically meant for a VHS release. I love VHS board games, promotional tapes, and educational videos, because I feel like I’m experiencing the media the way it was originally meant to be experienced.
So, for example, I don’t need a VHS copy of Cruel Intentions, but a VHS promo for Cruel Intentions where the cast sexually manipulates the viewer, a video store owner, into stocking Cruel Intentions at their store? I’d pay a surprising amount of money for that, apparently!
This comment reminded me of a Lilo & Stitch the series DVD board game my family used to have. Thanks for that, those were good memories that came to me. Sounds like you might also be interested in some promos Gamestop did, where if you pre-ordered certain games a character from it would call you to remind you to pick it up, like Mario for Super Mario Galaxy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Snprp2QOhA
Thank you for sharing, I remember this! I forget who called me, but I got one of these Gamestop phone promos. Man, now I need to figure out what it was. *Scanning Brain*
I didn't know there was a Lilo and Stitch DVD board game, which is wild because Lilo & Stitch is one of my favorite Disney animated movies and I love video board games. You better believe I'll be scouring the internet for a full video. (Only the opening appears to be on YouTube. Argh...)
Tried searching my family's downsized DVD collection, which is just two large travel cases of DVDs. We don't have the DVD for the board game anymore, which is disappointingly logical. Would have been happy to record it if it was still in my possession.
Thanks for trying! Luckily, it's pretty cheap on eBay. I added it to my watchlist. Happy to upload it for you when I get it.
I had fun getting past the challenge. Design wise I found it a little strange since I could only narrow down most of the blanks to a 50/50, but word three could only be lyin' which meant it had to be full. You can solve the whole puzzle off of word three alone without bothering to fill the other blanks, but without that I don't think I could have solved it in the first place.
Tried out all the endings as usual. I see we both hate Free Guy based on the foul ending, if you hadn't I would have joked about not being able to see it being a good thing. Got forced to see it by family and was vindicated in my assessment of it as a movie about video games written by people who know nothing about video games. The use of the # in the name also got me chuckling.
I'm in the generation that's just young enough to have experienced the twilight of DVDs. My family still has a decent DVD collection, though now we pretty much only pull out the White Christmas DVD around a certain holiday. We used to have this neat portable DVD player too.
Personally I'm a fan of physical media, it can't be taken away from you. Also I miss a lot of the stuff that went into DVDs. The design of the menu, the names for different scenes in the scene select, the bonus features, it's a lost world some people today don't even know existed.
DVDs were my introduction to old TV shows like Get Smart, Green Acres, and Gilligan's Island, I remember the Get Smart DVDs had optional commentary from 99's actress. I also remember loving the bonus features for Lion King 1/2. There was this choose your own adventure thing where you went on safari with Timon and Pumbaa, I had a lot of fun with it.
I didn't watch the movie itself, but looking at the details for the Jungle Cruise movie on Disney+ made me a little happy because I saw the extras section included DVD style extras. Also I just found out that Lion King 1/2 also has some of its DVD extras on Disney+, including the choose your own adventure safari. Though they're missing the gameshow extra, but if I'd had to pick I'd save the CYOA safari over Lion King Jeopardy too.
(EDIT: Spoke too soon, it's not the CYOA adventure they have on Disney+, it's a different educational bonus feature. NOOOOOOOO!)
This has me pondering, is there some sort of group or website dedicated to preserving these DVD extras? I'm mainly familiar with video game preservation, but it seems to me that these extras are in need of similar efforts. Also DVD based board games, I had a Lilo & Stitch one based on the animated series.
As an ironic side note, right now my personal media preservation quest actually revolves around digital media. Nintendo is taking down the online stores for their old consoles so I'm trying to get stuff only available there while I still can.
Thanks for the feedback! My original draft of the game was a bit too hard for playtesters. Maybe I made it too easy to solve? I'll remember this for next time.
Yes, exactly. Free Guy reminded me of a feature length version of that old commercial meme where the game testers say they need to "tighten up the graphics" on level 3.
I was just talking about this the other day. I really miss bonus features, too, especially commentary tracks. In college, I'd get together with friends to watch the commentaries on classic Simpsons episodes. Some day, a local movie theatre is going to do a retrospective screening of the great commentary tracks of the DVD era and I will feel extremely old. If there isn't an effort to preserve that work, there needs to be.
Thank you for preserving that Nintendo media! I've been collecting a set of rare Muppet VHS tapes to preserve them online. It's been a long, slow eBay journey.
Oh! And of course the DVD extras and behind the scenes making of the films! Back then it was the only place you could see that content!
My absolute favorite part of older Universal DVDs was the Universal promotional video that showed all the next gen classic hits like Jurassic Park and The Mummy 😍
1. The puzzle aspect was fun and replaced my morning sudoku! 🧩
2. I remember renting VCRs from Blockbuster! Then my mom bought a TEAC VCR that was really high quality. We never bought any tapes though--always rented. 📼
3. Having small children, I try to substitute bad language with words like “fiddlesticks” and “Christ on a cracker.” 🤬
4. Still have a zippered DVD travel case with a hundred or so movies in it that we use on the sailboat. ⛵️
1. I’m honored to hear that! 😊
2. Tapes were expensive, especially when they first came out. We rented a lot, too.
3. That’s very considerate. Hearing someone scream “fiddlesticks!” with legitimate rage would be hilarious.
4. Love that you have a DVD collection on a sailboat. That’s my kind of luxury!
I love games like this!! Can you make one that's super hard lol? or like an added part of one that's super hard? I ask as if its just very easy to make lots of games lol i know it's hard
Richie Rich - I watched that over and over as a kid I just wanted the McDonalds in my house but mostly I wanted friends.
no DVDs or VHS tapes, I must admit!! Well, maybe a few DVDs of old short films that I acted in haha .
the word I use when i'm upset is absurd. I also use it in other ways too, I'm realizing I just use that word way too much haha
This game was actually quite a bit harder in my first design pass, but I eased it up a bit. I like the idea of an optional, extra challenging section. Noted!
I feel like the McDonalds kind of upstaged the whole movie? Whenever I talk about Richie Rich, it’s the first thing that comes up.
I have so many old films I made with my friends in college on DVD. Too afraid to look at them again. My brain might melt? Or is that concern... absurd?!
This was fun! I like the variety :-)
I definitely still have a large stash of DVDs and some VHS, though I don't watch them very often when it's so easy to stream most stuff. When I was a kid I probably burned out a copy of The Princess Bride.
Awesome, thanks for playing!
Yeah, that’s why I focus on rare stuff on VHS. If I can stream the movie with a few button clicks, why go through the hassle of getting off the couch to put a bug clunky tape in the VCR?
🧩 This puzzle was great! Even though these are always interactive, this one felt even more so. Loved it!
📺Star Trek: Enterprise!!!
🤬 I call people Turds lol
📼 We have four massive hardback briefcases with all our DVDs alphabetized 😅 There’s even a labeled table of contents in each one LOL
CONGRATS on UYPPA!! So flippin’ cool 👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed today’s ULTRA interactive quest!
Is Enterprise your favorite Trek? It’s one of the ones I know the least about.
Turds is a very funny almost swear word. Shout out to turds.
We are cut from the same cloth, DVD-wise. I don’t have a table of contents, though, and that’s a good idea.
🧩 It was fun! Nice way to switch things up.
📺 South Park, LOL. Granted, I was a teenager by then, but that's (literally) still growing up, so it counts, IMO. Had the first three seasons on VHS, then up to season eight (I think?) on DVD.
🤬 Just your run of the mill curse words. It's really startles people, as I *rarely* curse, so when I do, they know I'm PISSED. Strangely, the situation almost always de-escalate afterwards. Which is good, because I'm probably a terrible fighter 😆
📼 We have a handful of Blu-Rays, almost all are older, obscure, or foreign films that are tough to find on streaming services. I've also got a shelf full of physical Nintendo Switch games, which will be like VHS tapes and DVDs in another ~20 years!
Glad you liked today's quest! It's good to break-up the formula every now and again.
Wait, three seasons of South Park or three volumes? Three seasons would be, like, 50 episodes, which I think would be around 15 VHS tapes. (!) I think I've got at least one season on DVD, but I forget which one.
Blu-Rays are totally a thing! I'm on Shout Factory's mailing list and I just got an email about their They Live SteelBook Blu-Ray set. Their releases are super classy and very collectable.
I've got a few Switch carts, too. Fingers crossed my physical copy of LEGO Pokemon + Rabbids will be worth enough someday to pay down my mortgage.
Nope, seasons—15 tapes sounds about right! I got the VHS tapes as volumes, one by one, and over time I ended up owning the first three seasons 😬
Season 5 was a good DVD to have, as one of its episodes has long been pulled from syndication and streaming (it wasn't even that offensive, even at the time), and it's a really good episode, too! Alas, my DVD collection became one of the many, many casualties of my constant moving around throughout my 20s 😢
As for Switch carts, everyone knows "Vroom In The Night Sky" is going to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at future (shady) auctions!
You were a hardcore South Park fan! I’m sure Trey and Matt would be delighted to know that.
Yeah, I definitely scaled back my physical media collection over the years moving around, too, but somehow I still have so many DVD folders and a folder of CDs! I don’t believe I actually have a way to play CDs anymore, lol.