Jeremy Parish
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June Bonus #3: Namco Gal's Island VHS Rip
🕑 Added 2023-06-26 22:00:03 +0000 UTCI, uh, ended up grabbing a LOT of official video game-related VHS tapes from recent auctions. A lot. Some of these have already been posted on YouTube, including this one, but I've ripped them quite cleanly and upscaled them via Framemeister, so these new versions look pretty great (in my opinion). Anyway, I have so many tapes that I need to publish them more than once per month or else it'll take years to get them all posted.
So, this month's second video is Namco Gal's Island, a 1990 tape that highlights Namco arcade games to feature female characters in a prominent role. Or at that's the idea, anyway. Wonder Momo and Legend of Valkyrie, I can see for sure. Ladies front and center at the lead. Phelios and Bravoman, though? Questionable! But hey, it's a showcase for women in games and manages to be minimal creepy despite it vintage, so let's call it a win.
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Jeremy Parish
I've gotten a couple of copyright notices, but no strikes. If anything bad happens, I'll just put these on Archive.org instead.
Julian
So glad you’re doing this, Jeremy — thank you. Do you think you’ll ever encounter rights issues with them being hosted on YouTube? I’d doubt it because they’re old end esoteric tapes, but not sure what the whims of YouTube would bring.
Mike M.
I'm so fascinated by the culture that created these tapes. This must have been a group, right? I can't imagine it was just one person doing this as a hobby. I wonder what the people who made this are up to now, if they were young enough to still be around 33 years later. How do they feel about these kinds of videos still being around on YouTube, or about live performances on GDQ each year bringing in more and more money for charity each year? (I mean, hopefully they're happy about it...)
