Saving Video Game History - Here's What We Found (The First 100 Videos)
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Edited by Danny O'Dwyer
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Thank you for losing your mind re-editing these videos. It's worth it for the crabs and Ludacris.
We love our tapes almost as much as PlayStation's Jack Tretton loves Ludacris
RIDGE! RACER!
As a dead media enthusiast, someone who's ripped terabytes of VHS tapes and demo discs to preserve them, and a games media enjoyer - this is my favorite project of all time. I'm so grateful for the work you're putting in and a little envious. Thank you, good stuff.
What do you normally rip?
@@rawallon @rawallon In 2017 I acquired a middle school library's archive of locally-produced/licensed educational VHS tapes (stuff I don't really see anywhere) and have about 9TB of rips from that, I LOVE ripping and dissecting demo discs, got about 2TB of those (still going), etc.
I love ripping old educational tech or game preview tapes whenever I can get my hand on them, and a buddy and I are soon ripping some beta tapes for commercials and music videos, etc.
@@EposVox I hope you put the things you rip onto youtube or the internet archive or somewhere where they can be kept.
I didn't know ghosts had access to youtube! 😆👻👻
I still vote for project Apollo, but this is also fantastic work!
Fun-fact: this video is the source for over 50 video game memes.
that's why we do it!
Video game preservation is something I feel not many companies, gamers, or historians are working towards, especially in today's climate where games can be digitally restricted from us (the consumers) at the publisher's whim. The work you are doing is incredible, and will be looked back on for years to come. More power to you, mate ✊
It feels like it's finally tipping slightly. Maybe it's the realization people are having across media about the dream vs reality of a digital future we were sold. The idea that everything would be available whenever that seemed like it could happen compared to the fact that stuff just actually just disappears and you can't do anything about it. From TV series being deleted to the huge number of games that for all intensive purposes have just gone. I hoping that more and more people are going to start thinking about this because it is so important. Video games are art and even bad ones are iterated on for better ones.
For games as a service, AI will be critical to quickly and efficiently recreate these experiences
@@stuartmorley6894 Absolutely, this phenomenon affects the digital media industry as a whole. Music on spotify, games on steam, movies & series on streaming platforms... apparently we can't own anything anymore.
@@TreesPlease42 it's crazy that AI techbro brainrot is so intense it actually makes you sound like an AI
@@radii0 You've been on the internet too long. AI is a tool for war, however... Games as a service won't be preserved by most corporations. How are we going to play them in the future? Rely on incomplete leaks? Painstakingly recreate them by hand? Or feed an AI a few videos and let it do the work? Technology continues to outpace human hands, and this will be no exception. Enjoy your gaming.
My day job is specifically as a video tape archivist/digitizer, and I've spent every week of the last 3 or so years doing this kind of work. It's a tedious, long process that requires constant babysitting of tape decks, repairs, quality checks, metadata entry, and a LOT of money. I'm employed by a large corporation, so funding/staffing/planning is taken care of rather nicely, but we still run into issues. That all being said, I am in AWE of how much Danny and everybody at Noclip is getting done with such a small budget and team!! I absolutely love the work you're doing for everybody! Bravo, and thank you for caring about this material enough to preserve it 😸💖
hey I'm a huge fan of all types of archival projects and I'm wondering how one can get into the industry of archiving? I'd love to do archival work of my own but unfortunately money (as you also stated) is a problem there
@@midosyt Hi there ^-^! Sorry I'm a bit late on this response!
Broadly-speaking, almost any archival job (in the US, at least) will require or request that you have your Masters of Library and Information Science ("MLIS") degree as a baseline requisite. I'd say probably 75% or more of the people I know who make archiving their whole career have this degree or something similar. This especially applies for "DAM" (Digital Asset Manager) type jobs, where you're handling digital assets for a company.
This can change, however, if you're working with a specific physical material that may require some other form of expertise. Personally, I went to school for audio engineering, where I learned to work with tape. This gave me the right skills to work as a tape archivist :)! Similarly, one might have experience with music transcription, which would make them fit for a music library! Or maybe you know how to work a darkroom, and could get into photograph preservation for a studio!
And lastly, if money/resources are tight but you have the free time, I've seen people volunteer (Internet Archive takes volunteers, iirc) or even start up their own mini archival projects for fun (typically pertaining to some sort of digital material/collection, but not always)! At the end of the day, I'd recommend figuring out if you're more passionate about the archival process itself, or the material that you're interested in archiving. For the former, I couldn't recommend a proper library sciences education enough; it'll take you far. But if you're passionate about preserving a specific material/collection/etc., then there may be some workarounds to get involved in different/creative ways :)!
I hope that helps a little bit!
As a post-production guy, the moment you mentioned square pixels I got overwhelmed with years of adobe ptsd.
Hey Danny/NoClip Team, love this project it's so cool! I am probably not the first to say it but Bob from the channel/website RetroRGB has been doing a lot of work and research in the area of upscaling and capturing vhs, low res and interlaced content. If you see this and haven't already giving a quick look at Bobs stuff and maybe reaching out to him might lead to some invaluable info when working on some of these. Also, lots of love from Ireland I'm always very proud to see an Irish guy being the absolute pinnacle of video game docs and such an important force in their preservation.
I've used his website for sure, it was very helpful at the start in making sure our setups were decent. There's so much to learn in this space. And thanks so much - where are you from? I'm Waterford born and bred!
@@NoclipDocs Tipperary man myself, I actually remember seeing you on GameSpot back in the day and it was one of those things where I realised 'well if he can do it so can I' down the line I ended up working in vfx in film and ended up working on a few sets over in LA. Back home in Ireland now but look back fondly on that experience. You were definitely one of the many Irish inspirations I had that just because I was from rural Ireland didn't mean I couldn't do whatever I wanted.
if you've still got VCR problems, you should call Lightning Fast VCR repair. Anyway, excellent job, keep it up.
they say we're next in line once they fix some old guy's VCR
It would be absolutely fantastic to have a long retrospective on the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R trilogy with all the never-before-seen interviews and footage. However, I believe that Noclip can go further with what you can do and what you have done in the past. I know that Noclip has its plate full with regular docs, archival work and other projects, and I know how difficult/expensive it would be to hire a translator and organize studio visits in Prague (let alone in Kyiv), but I think that you should take the opportunity to conduct a feature-length documentary of STALKER 2/GSC Game World. I think it is an incredibly unique and important story in the half-century history of commercial video games that is worth being told. Noclip is one of the best and most respected independent games journalism outlets out there, and you are uniquely equipped to give STALKER 2 the sensitivity and attention that they deserve.
I agree - there's a really important story there. The games are worth it on their own, but with Stalker 2 and the invasion of their country, there's so much to talk about. ------------------ between us, we're already looking into it ;)
That's a very nice enemy crab indeed
Be a shame if someone…. Hit its weak spot for massive damage…
thank you
Genuinely excited to have high quality "Ever wondered what the bottom of an avatars shoe looks like?" I know it's an (in)famous moment but over time people have forgotten. They need to be reeducated.
Well BAM
Danny had real HBomberguy energy on that sign off. 😂
Ironic, he too touched on the topic of video game preservationists his .oof video.
so are you saying we SHOULD or SHOULD NOT do a Tommy Tallarico documentary?
@@NoclipDocsDo it. Don't you want your mother to be very proud of you?
Appropriate since they're probably uploading some of his future b-roll.
@@NoclipDocsOof!
As a Patreon supporter for years now, I love that my support goes toward things like this.
Thanks so much for your support Jason!
6:01 fuckin' hell non-square pixels. My brain had almost erased the bad memory of working on HD video of that era
There should be a special place in the furnace of afterlife for those that invented non square pixels and interlaced.
@@FabledGentlemanYou mean the legit geniuses who came up with a way to broadcast and display analog TV signals?
@@CantankerousDave bastards
I'd forgotten about mini dv tapes too. I remember faffing with them and struggling to install a firmware card to my pc as a kid
My high-school students even think what you are doing is great. This isn't just preservation for us, who may remember it, but it'll be there for future generations.
That's important as the idea of 'Games are Art' continues to grow in recognition.
And I'm sure Checkpoint will be able to use this high-quality stuff for a number of gags in the future, too! :)
For many years I've always wanted to see the Eight Days trailer and the PS3 E3 2006 conference in the highest quality - it was so cool to see it, and I really appreciate you doing this!
Noclip turned into Lighting Fast VCR so gradually I never realized it.
09:00 if you need a VCR repair shop, I hear there's a famous one in Milwaukee.
I hear those guys drink a lot.
if you've got VCR problems I feel bad for you son, I got a DVD player that still function
Sure, I love your videos and documentaries, but your efforts to conserve the history about games so many people love just makes me respect you all that much more. You guys are awesome.
As someone that has a complete collection of original PSM magazines just to time portal back and read every so often, I absolutely LOVE what you guys are doing. Please please please keep doing this, it's pure nostalgia candy, I love it.
I'm so desperate to find a full collection or archive of the official UK PSMs
I know the pain you're going through with the horrible interlaced or double interlaced, false-interlaced content (metadata lying), or god .. mixed-interlacing stuff.
Used to run the video pipeline of a retro-cartoon channel here in the Netherlands. Video standards were such a mess back then :')
This is an amazing step for preservation (and a great thing for those who use old commercials and press conferences as b-roll).
This whole archive thing is what pushed me to finally become a patron last year. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much, I hope our updates on the monthly patron show have helped you keep up to date with our progress.
God how I want anything related to Fumito Ueda's ICO/SotC or The Last Guardian but in higher quality, depending how old the footage is, This would help the community immensely.
But i'm sure that many others uploaded thus far is just as important and mean as much to each community respectively.
I appreciate this "stupid amount of work" that is preserving gaming history which nowdays there are very unfortunate attempts at trying to burry them.
You’re doing an incredibly important job with this. It might not seem like it, but you’re doing the equivalent of saving books from being burned. I’m not trying to say this would be a loss on the same level as The Library of Alexandria or anything, but as someone who passionately loves this industry and its history, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
That clip of the cancelled game '8 days' was such a marketing driver at the time. I remember watching it and thinking theres no way thats a video game. Looking back at it now it looks so simple by todays standards. Thank you so much for preserving that
This is incredible. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Randomly watching danny on gamespot random encounters has certainly payed off years later. Such an incredible dude who does such great work. Keep it up noclip!
Doing gods work. Thank you!
I just love seeing in my sub feed videos popping up those classic commercials, conferences.
The amount of nostalgia and some stuff I never even seen in higher res than 240p in 2008 is amazing,
From the bottom of my heart thank you for this endeavour, it's an amazing job.
Thank you, seriously, thank you so much for undertaking this massive project. The interstitial material about the games we play and this medium we all love is important, and I'm happy that so many efforts are being done to preserve as much of it as possible.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this! It's clearly a hugely time consuming piece of work with not a lot of material gain, but I feel like it's massively important that we have the opportunity to preserve this collection, and it's clear you feel the same way.
Noclip is one of the best channels on TH-cam, these guy's have a supreme dedication to the videos they make. Hope thing's have been going well for you guys.
I love you guys so much for doing this work. It is genuinely amazing that you found this stuff and are allowing us to see it in all its glory, game preservation is so necessary and this is just as much a part of it!!
Absolutely love that y’all are doing this. If you ever needed help I went to school for video production but never got to do any real world work because of a surprise that turns 12 this year. But logging tapes was always something I enjoyed. I could volunteer some time to helping out the cause.
I really wish there was a way I could work with you on this massive undertaking as an intern or something, but live in south England. You guys are doing a great job at reviving all this old press footage and lost media. I think its super important to keep this stuff alive and available to the public. Its been such a joy to see all of this stuff again and even the stuff I missed over the years like the behind closed doors demos.
God's work! Thank you for all of your hard work! Imagine if companies, like Nintendo, released their classic 1985 NES commercials in perfect quality? (Or even clear Betacam quality.. Or whatever they were shot/edited on). So many of those commercials that I grew up watching, look like they were on their 10th generation copy and saved to TH-cam at 240p). This history is so important to save. Thanks again! Matt
Absolutely love the work you're doing! Have already bookmarked a couple vids to reference for my retrospectives when I start my new channel next year
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Please continue what you're doing. It's incredible generous and meaningful!
4:28 "With a bunch of others you haven't heard of." ...hey, is that D2? What a weird game. Looking forward to the footage.
Danny, I've been a fan of you since your appearances on Giantbomb. There's nothing quite like the energy and genuine (or manafactured) enthusiam of gaming conferences of the late nineties to naughts (?). A lot of that energy was captured on IGN and early Giantbomb videos. I haven't been a gamer in nearly 10 years, but I still try to loosely follow the games industry. Haha what a joy it is to see familiar game developers (namely, a baby John Drake and Adam Boyes!). I'm so excited to watch what you upload. Bye!
This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for these!
Loving all of this, but putting particular love on uploading press kits. They're a really good source for high res artwork, and anyone who uploads them online deserves all the good things.
Bloody lovely to be able to archive all these things and see them all being seen and that :D Hopefully you can get some gamers around LA to give ya a hand :D. Glad to see you are still doing well dude!
Bookmark it! :D
Maybe I'm just old, but I actually have a bunch of TH-cam channels bookmarked separately from the ones I've subscribed to: They're the sort of content that I only *sometimes* feel like watching, making it both easier to return later and catch up from where I left off, and keeping them from cluttering the main subscription page the rest of the time.
the saviours of giant enemy crab: me and my close friends dined on that meme video for beyond a decade, now we can continue to do so, in the real quality.
NoClip forever
This is amazing, I love any kind of preservation especially for this still young and grown medium of video games. I appreciate the thoughtfulness and care you folks have for this project. Thank You!
Thank you for your work ❤
Thank you for doing this! I've been waiting for an update on this archive and the progress is amazing!
You're doing AMAZING work. It seems like it must be thankless at times, but please don't think it's going unnoticed. Preservation of this media is so important, and by the time most people realize this it will likely be too late to save a lot of it. So THANK YOU for all the hard work you're putting into this project! I've been blown away by how good some of this stuff looks, and it's the best quality I've ever seen some of this footage displayed in. Can not wait to see what else you find!
Hell yeah! Danny's doing more to preserve game history than pretty much any organisation in the industry itself, and for that alone he has my respect.
i'll bookmark it and add it to my rss feed. :D amazing stuff
Thank you for putting in such a enormous effort to capture in digitised these tapes. A lot of us in the community are retro video experts I know a thing or two about old video formats, is there a repository or a place that you go looking for help when you get stuck with problems? I for one would love to help if you run into problems processing footage.
This is an amazing treasure trove you’ve found. Just imagine all the stuff that DOES end up getting pitched from shuddered developers and publishers. I was working for THQ when they shut down and…you would not believe the stuff that was destroyed, and will likely never be seen again.
An example: Volition Inc was working on a Batman game for PS2 at one point. We had a fully playable prototype…now, it’s gone forever. Breaks my heart every time to think about it. At least I got to play it before it got destroyed.
Thank you for your Awesome work! ♥
one must imagine sisyphus happy learning about repairing vcr players using youtube tutorials
I'm currently going through something like this with my personal tape collection from the 90s and 2000s. Mostly VHS S-VHS Hi-8 and MiniDV plus a smattering of HDV. What impressed me is for the analog stuff I dragged out a dual Timebase corrector that I bought over 30 years ago for my Video Toaster and it worked! No more frame drops and desynched audio on my analog captures. Darn thing built to last I guess.
Amazing work, I love this. You are absolutely insane for taking this on but I’m so glad you have.
Thank you Danny and co for keeping these alive
Back in the day, you could rent pro video decks from production houses, but I guess that’s a thing of the past, too. We used to use one in Lincolnwood, IL that was conveniently across the street from the Lou Malnati’s there. Google Maps says it’s a Home Depot now.
this makes me so happy, such important work for a specific type of person, i.e. me. bless y'all for this monumental effort.
I'm so glad you guys exist and that you care so much about this stuff. These could have gone in the trash or maybe even worse, found by someone who hoarded it for themselves. But the fact that you're doing all this work and re-editing ancient footage and then giving it to everyone to see and use is amazing!
Amazing work, thank you so much!
Been around since the early GS days. So glad to see you saving all this history Danny. Keep up the good fight!
You guys are amazing for preserving history like this. For the millionth time I'm sure you've heard it, thank you.
Thanks so much for already the noclip stuff but also this to preserve video game footage (specially since it's not even running ads) and even editing it
What a great day for TH-cam uploads - first Ahoy puts one out after nearly 8 months (not counting the deep dive he does on a particular weapon), followed by the Skyblivion community doing a dev diary, now Noclip.
What you guys are doing here is so cool and important. I can’t wait to watch some of these with my kid to teach him what we had to suffer through.
So much work! Thank you guys so much 🙏🏻
Hey, Danny/NoClip team! I bought a few high-end VCRs using Smurf's recommended list from some AV forms a few years back. I wanted to preserve a few of my old VHS tapes from when I was a young video editing kid. The VCRs, though, needed work/servicing, and I was out of funds. I would love a run down of how you serviced your VCRs. It would be a big help. I also wouldn't mind a lengthy rundown of how you digitize your footage. I ran into a passthrough issue with mine with audio getting out of sync or Sony handycam footage needing special 8mm Sony tape decks to get around playback protections. I want to see more on how you're doing the work so I can better my digitizing efforts before it is too late.
I am a day one supporter and a long-time appreciator of the work you do. I really love this project. It's super fascinating. I am in Emeryville. If you need help digitizing, I'll happily come and help you, to learn more myself, but I do think you said you moved fairly far away now. Best of luck with the next 93% of tapes left to go.
Crackin work Danny! This project is a fantastic time capsule.
Also, "A big dirty IGN logo" the most Irish thing to say about something!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for preserving this piece of gaming history! A lot of those videos are SO nostalgic too, thank you!!
You guys are goat for this seriously, the passion for video game and video game related content being preserved warms my 8-bit heart. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic work! Appreciate your time, energy and effort archiving all this gaming history 👏🏼
Been a long time fan of Danny and no clip. Its incredible to know his background and honestly some of the amazing shit hes ended up doing in the gaming sphere.
I always wondered, did this come about because of all the tapes youd find at gamespot/cbsi?
The source of the tapes is a mystery passed down from generations. Perhaps one day we can disclose where these tapes came from but for now we just need to upload them before they turn to dust. (also, thanks!)
I was thinking only recently hoe much I'd love to watch through these old conferences. As a kid I saw snippets through dodgy Irish rural broadband connection. This makes me incredibly happy to see
This is amazing! I would also love to see some Gaming Magazines preservation (along with the demo disks), but you might have copyright issues with those.
Amazing stuff, thanks for all your hard work!
wow thats insane!!!!!! you guys are doing amazing stuff. Thank you.
RIIIIIIiiiiiiiiidgggfge RAaaaaacerrrrr!
Wonderful, this is important work! Amazing. Sadly I can't help on patreon but I'll like and comment and subscribe as much as I can. Keep it up.
Amazing work! Those press kit uploads are awesome!!
Thank you! I'd imagine interest in this stuff kind of died down after it first started so thanks for the update and I subscribed on patreon to help support. Liked and commented to also hopefully help the algo.
I love this, hearing the way Danny talk about Crew I think nostalgia for this era in games coverage almost surpasses the nostalgia for the games themselves for him as it does for me.
Yall might not be my most watched channel but you're my favorite. Hope the videos keep coming for years man
Thank you so much for doing this.
I can now show this to my niece and nephew regarding the old days of games.
Thank you so much for doing this guys. Preserving video game history means alot to me.
Thanks Gordon. (PS: did you see the Half-Life retrospective Valve hired our production company to do?)
th-cam.com/video/TbZ3HzvFEto/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Valve
love what you guys do!
Can't wait for more. Please keep it coming. 🙂
When i remember you do this on top of all the other noclip stuff, i really understand why you said you're a workaholic! Thank you noclip
If i haven't said it enough: I really appreciate the effort going into these tapes. It's so rare for some of these to ever turn up in modern standards of quality.
Also, that DICE awards haunts me forever now, so that's fun.
Danny, you and your team are seriously the best archivists of modern video game history today. I so deeply appreciate everything you guys and gals are doing. Thank you.
This is great stuff, will definitely check out the archive. I also still say bookmark when referring to favouriting a page.
You are amazing, there is hardly work more noble than preserving history.
Man, I love you guys so much.
I've been a fan since the Escape from Mount Stupid/Bluffer' Guide days and it's just getting better and better
The best channel when it comes to video game development. No one else can even compare.
This is amazing, thank you for all this work!
Thank you for all the work ya'll do!
Hands down the best channel on the platform.
Thank you so much for sharing what's been found!