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The 90s also had the greatest video game box art. Example 
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Jul 28, 2017 15:48
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Randaconda posted:The 90s also had the greatest video game box art. Were there space hillbillies playing space banjos in this game?
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Jul 28, 2017 16:09
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Iron Crowned posted:Were there space hillbillies playing space banjos in this game? Not a single one.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:17
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Randaconda posted:Not a single one. drat, I want a space hillbilly game
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Jul 28, 2017 16:19
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I was so loving pissed at that game. I kept on waiting for the banjo man to show up. Is he in the opening cutscene? Is he a support character? Is he the final boss? Do I turn out to be him all along at the end? No, he's not loving in there at all! I bought it for the banjo man, they knew I bought it for the banjo man, they sold it entirely on the prospect of the loving banjo man. There's not even any banjo in the soundtrack.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:40
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Maybe we should kickstarter a game about space hillbillies and just laugh our way to the bank instead
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Jul 28, 2017 16:42
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Iron Crowned posted:drat, I want a space hillbilly game 
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Jul 28, 2017 17:07
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More like 
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Jul 28, 2017 20:21
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We should make a game about banjo playing hillbillies that has a picture of a space ship on the cover.
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Jul 28, 2017 20:24
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Fil5000 posted:We had a laserdisc player back in the early 80s, and I think you generally had to only flip the disc once about halfway through. Mind you, we only had three movies (Star Wars, Airplane! and Raise the Titanic), and I was only allowed to watch one of them, so I could be wrong. Yeah that was pretty common for LaserDisc iirc. Still though once is too many times  I remember renting something that came on two VHS tapes. I think it was Stephen King's Rose Red. I also remember watching Titanic in the theater and having a ten minute wait while they changed the reels halfway through or so. quote:space hillbilly banjos This is the only thing that comes to mind upon hearing those words together (possible seizure warning?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohvR3AobR0E
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Jul 28, 2017 20:29
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Mak0rz posted:Yeah that was pretty common for LaserDisc iirc. Still though once is too many times My Laserdisc player flips the read head automatically 
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Jul 28, 2017 20:47
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Pham Nuwen posted:My Laserdisc player flips the read head automatically True 80's top-shelf tech would flip the disc.
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Jul 28, 2017 21:10
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True 80's ULTRA Top-Shelf tech would keep the disc upright, and flip the entire player over around it.
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Jul 28, 2017 21:27
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An even bigger laserdisc that contained and played the smaller laserdisc held inside.
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Jul 28, 2017 22:19
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Lord of the Rings Extended Edition comes on 2 dvds and you have to swap the discs halfway through the movie. Which is a handy break to allow you to call your friends and family and let them know you are still alive and not missing.
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Jul 29, 2017 00:19
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Mak0rz posted:
lol love me some Earthworm Jim. Good poo poo.
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Jul 29, 2017 00:28
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RandomFerret posted:I was so loving pissed at that game. I kept on waiting for the banjo man to show up. Is he in the opening cutscene? Is he a support character? Is he the final boss? Do I turn out to be him all along at the end? No, he's not loving in there at all! I bought it for the banjo man, they knew I bought it for the banjo man, they sold it entirely on the prospect of the loving banjo man. IIRC that was the whole point. They knew there was nothing special about the game, so they put a banjo dude on the cover to get some sales from the sheer weirdness of it.
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Jul 29, 2017 01:17
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RandomFerret posted:I was so loving pissed at that game. I kept on waiting for the banjo man to show up. Is he in the opening cutscene? Is he a support character? Is he the final boss? Do I turn out to be him all along at the end? No, he's not loving in there at all! I bought it for the banjo man, they knew I bought it for the banjo man, they sold it entirely on the prospect of the loving banjo man. I wish I could find the commercial that advertised the game. Banjo Man was heavily featured and the banjo was the background music. It also favored heavily into why I bought a used copy of this game years later.
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Jul 29, 2017 03:14
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Iron Crowned posted:drat, I want a space hillbilly game The game you're looking for is Space Station 13, you can make all the bathtub methshine you could ever want.
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Jul 29, 2017 03:16
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The cover even looks like it has an actual X-Wing on there.
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Jul 29, 2017 03:31
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Randaconda posted:The 90s also had the greatest video game box art. I wanted to play this game so bad, just to see what it was about, and I was so disappointed when I found out. Mak0rz posted:Yeah that was pretty common for LaserDisc iirc. Still though once is too many times I'm pretty sure The Green Mile was on 2 VHS tapes when it came out.
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Jul 29, 2017 04:46
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I'm pretty sure The Green Mile was on 2 VHS tapes when it came out.
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Jul 29, 2017 05:02
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I'm pretty sure The Green Mile was on 2 VHS tapes when it came out. Probably. Rose Red was a whopping four hours and 15 minutes long. Titanic clocks in at 3:15 and The Green Mile just a few minutes less than that. The standard length of a VHS tape recorded for NTSC displays was only about four hours. You can easily get longer times than that out of a single VHS, but that requires thinner (and thus more fragile and susceptible to jamming) tape and slower recording speeds that result in fewer frames per second of film and there was no way in hell they'd use tapes like that for rentals, especially huge blockbuster smash hits like Titanic and The Green Mile.
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Jul 29, 2017 05:14
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Natural Born Killers special edition came on two VHS tapes. One had the movie. The other had the same movie again with commentary. It cost $80. Edit: also when DVD players were super slow, Memento released on two discs just so they could add a special edition of the movie in chronological order without having to rely on chapter skip. Arms_Akimbo has a new favorite as of 05:26 on Jul 29, 2017 |
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Jul 29, 2017 05:22
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Arms_Akimbo posted:Natural Born Killers special edition came on two VHS tapes. One had the movie. The other had the same movie again with commentary. I dont remember this as being a separate disc, but I remember it being a hidden feature on the dvd along with the other hidden menus and options you could root around for so maybe the second release added that who mini arg to it.
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Jul 29, 2017 05:26
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Barudak posted:I dont remember this as being a separate disc, but I remember it being a hidden feature on the dvd along with the other hidden menus and options you could root around for so maybe the second release added that who mini arg to it. drat that was a cool movie. Really got to watch it again.
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Jul 29, 2017 07:03
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Casimir Radon posted:So was Titanic and the 60s Dr. Doolittle. Dr. Zhivago and Ice Station Zebra too.
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Jul 29, 2017 09:13
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As well as the Stand and IT.
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Jul 29, 2017 09:56
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I worked at a video rental store (remember those?) back in the 90s, and those two-tape movies were always a pain. We had to velcro two tape boxes together, so they stood out all weird on the shelf. People didn't understand that it was two tapes per movie, so they'd unvelcro them and bring up only one tape to the checkout and we'd have to send them chasing back. (Or occasionally a new employee wouldn't recognize the movie and would check them out with just the one tape, and they'd call up all mad when they found they didn't have the whole movie.) The double boxes wouldn't fit through the return slot so they'd have to split them, and we'd get to play the fun game of matching up the halves from the big bin of tapes. And of course no one ever rewound tape number one -- hey, they were in the middle of the movie, they didn't want to take the time right then, and by the time the movie was over they'd forgotten all about it.
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Jul 29, 2017 18:13
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The rental stores around here charged 50 cents to your account if you didn't rewind them.
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Jul 29, 2017 18:49
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I was always bitter I never got the fabled video store job as a teenager. None of them were really hiring where I was and I'm a massive cinephile.
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Jul 29, 2017 18:58
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Skoll posted:I was always bitter I never got the fabled video store job as a teenager. None of them were really hiring where I was and I'm a massive cinephile. They probably just weren't hiring you.
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Jul 29, 2017 19:02
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Nah, I had gotten way better jobs than Blockbuster as a teenager. I just wanted free rentals.
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Jul 29, 2017 19:05
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I'm sorry I never worked at a run down independent theater managed by an aging yet still passionate horror movie buff in the early half of the 1990s
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Jul 29, 2017 20:43
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My first job in high school was running the projectors at a fourplex from summer 2003 to summer 2004. I got into movies for free and so did my parents. My sister was technically not supposed to get into shows for free but she usually dis if she was with me. I got two free movie paases every two weeks with my paycheck, so I usually had a friend to take to a show every week. I also got free pop and popcorn. The Pepsi was like pure syrup from the bib and it has been unchanged to this day.
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Jul 30, 2017 00:01
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Buca di Bepis posted:I'm sorry I never worked at a run down independent theater managed by an aging yet still passionate horror movie buff in the early half of the 1990s This sounds like a King Missile song.
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Jul 30, 2017 01:54
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Randaconda posted:As well as the Stand and IT. The stand was 4 VHS I think.
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Jul 30, 2017 04:09
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Barudak posted:I dont remember this as being a separate disc, but I remember it being a hidden feature on the dvd along with the other hidden menus and options you could root around for so maybe the second release added that who mini arg to it. Yeah it was a code you had to enter on the special features dvd, which otherwise only contained like 35 minutes of content iirc.
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Jul 30, 2017 04:40
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Plinkey posted:The stand was 4 VHS I think. That's because it was a four-part made for TV movie series. Each was about 90 minutes long I think. Some Gary Sinise's early work.
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Jul 30, 2017 04:55
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Speaking of VHS, let's have a look at a 17 year old thread on Ars Technica where they ponder if DVD will ever replace VHS: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1073494
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Jul 30, 2017 05:07
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