Just to stress again, this is not a guide on what you should use to capture VHS tapes or best practice. This is just some fun seeing what's on these tapes and the kit I had to hand to share them. Enjoy! Neil
@batteryjuice3041
7 ай бұрын
Thanx for a nice Cozy video sir =)
@thepeller210
7 ай бұрын
The clips for Marble Madness, Chuck Rock & Terminantor are from Australian adverts due to pronunciation of 'Seeega' which seems to be the way down under!
@ryoga-hibiki
7 ай бұрын
Might be an idea to have a wallmounted TV with a USB drive playing back these videos on loop during your open day sessions.
@Nobe_Oddy
7 ай бұрын
OMG!!! LOL!! That first clip of the Microprose F-1 Stealth game had the voiceover's done by the guys at Spinning Image !!! I know that Regan Impression ANYWHERE!!!! I have/had this VHS when I was a kid of their TV Special about the Regan Administration and me and my younger brother watched it OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER lol ... They did their own type of Jim Henson puppeteering but they were more like those charactures that you could get done on the Boardwalk where they would do a quick drawing of you and GREATLY over exaggerate your features like a SUPER long chine or big forehead... Well these guys did a whole bunch of shows of their own apparently, none of which I've ever really seen except for clips on YT but I know you can look them up and you'll hear that Regan voice.... I think the name of all their shows about Regan were called 'The Ronnie and Nancy Show" ... just a ll FYI nostalgia :D
@backacheache
6 ай бұрын
I think not up-rezing them adds to the charm, I have seen this myself watching the original "karate kid" on Blu-ray and my TV switches down to the 24fps the movie was made in
@AlabamaShrimp
7 ай бұрын
That's definitely Chris Barry (Arnold Rimmer) doing the Reagan impression. It's the one he did for spitting image.
@ianlacey8323
7 ай бұрын
Yes the famous or infamous “President’s brain is missing” voice from Spitting Image.
@MarcWeertsMusic
7 ай бұрын
Never knew that was Chris Barry! Thank you!
@camberwellcarrot420
7 ай бұрын
Barrie fyi
@FatedSnowfox
7 ай бұрын
I was going to say the same, that's Chris Barrie! He voiced a *lot* of spitting image, and he'd often mimic the likes of Kenneth Williams when he'd flub his lines on Red Dwarf ( see smeg-ups/outs for examples!)
@matthewgregory2106
7 ай бұрын
Both voices are Chris Barrie
@jamesdecross1035
7 ай бұрын
Ah, poor old VHS. The history you can find on old VHS tapes is something quite remarkable.
@gingerhippygaming7962
7 ай бұрын
Glad the tapes I sent you got saved for others to enjoy. Just to think they was in that storage unit I found for over 30 years
@Mars-l9b
7 ай бұрын
Seeing a young Neil with hair was the cherry on top of this video! :D
@Rocky1138
7 ай бұрын
It's wild that you've lived this second life. Seeing footage of your younger self is so surreal! Thanks Neil for all the great videos!
@jasonb8187
7 ай бұрын
“Awkward and awesome” is a perfect description.
@BayouCityAstronomy
7 ай бұрын
When I played F19 on my old Tandy 1000, I was getting a blistering 2 FPS, and I was happy to play it. These youngins and their 120 and 240 FPS gaming rigs don't know the struggles we older folks lived through!
@quadders9198
7 ай бұрын
Completely unrelated but totally related, I diligently stayed up late every week to record every episode of BITS (yup those three girls) on VHS. Ah those were the days, pausing the ads just on time, labelling each VHS tape, thinking I needed these for the future! How quickly things changed!
There might be an annoying voiceover, but it’s a great reference to the spitting image character! Needless to say, I love it!
@TheSudsy
7 ай бұрын
Dune 2 on my Amiga 500+ was epic - blew my mind. Played it to death and even tried Dune 2000 on the PC for nostalgia.
@endlesspath3044
7 ай бұрын
Thinking about Dune 2, the intro and cutscenes still gives me chills. Such a great game. Worm sign!
@TheSudsy
7 ай бұрын
@@endlesspath3044 building complete
@bewilderbeestie
7 ай бұрын
There's an extremely unofficial Android port. It works fantastically well.
@davidorton296
7 ай бұрын
Spice Wars on Steam (PC) is out if you still like Dune themed games! 🙂
@lancebaylis3169
7 ай бұрын
It was, unironically, my entry point to Dune. The books were impenetrable to me as a youngster (I've since read and enjoyed them more as an adult) and the original movie similarly so for different reasons, but Dune II managed to make Frank Herbert's world accessible in a way a lot of the source material and other attempts did not. In fact, I would say that the foundation created by the game made reading the book a lot easier.
@kirkhammett2107
6 ай бұрын
That PC Pro vhs tape is the purest form on nostalgia!
@ProffyChaos
7 ай бұрын
The man needs an Oscar for that performance. The way he pointed at the projector screen and shook hands were truly believable.
@Brookspirit
7 ай бұрын
It was an interesting time when people were buying their first PC, most people really had no idea how to use them or set them up. I had computers since the Sinclar Spectrum came out (i also owned an Amiga 1200) but i remember back in the early 90s asking a friend who was really into computers what the internet was and what you could do with it. It seems a long time ago now.
@RichardCJohnson
7 ай бұрын
We got our first PC in 1991 (a 286) and it came with no OS installed and just a DOS manual with just a list of commands. Had to figure it all out myself 😂
@chriscrossan8034
7 ай бұрын
To be honest, that Ronnie Reagan impression is on a par with your Sir Alan Sugar, Neil 😂
@ulysses2162
7 ай бұрын
Every time you say "We thank them for their support." about PCB Way, it always reminds me of the teacher at the beginning of episode 1 of the 80's BBC show The Tripods, when he says "We thank the Tripods." 😂
@nerdygeezer78
7 ай бұрын
Very nice of Ginger Hippy Gaming to send you these..... Top bloke
@colinr0380
7 ай бұрын
KGB! I had lots of fun with that game on my Amiga! That and Jaguar XJ220 have the funkiest soundtracks of the era!
@tamazonx
7 ай бұрын
This was quite fun. I hope to see more of these in the future!
@lynnmakes
7 ай бұрын
The PC World one physically hurt me at the "well, you're an expert" part... that takes a lot.
@GreyHulk2156
6 ай бұрын
The music played during the KGB game (Virgin Games Reel) is "The Persuaders!" theme by John Barry!
@davidrenton
7 ай бұрын
i remember Shuttle it came with a full colour poster, which was probaly A3 size, of the complete Shuttle cockpit , as it included a fully clickable cockpit . 2 'manuals' stick out from the 8 bit era onwards, that shuttle poster , and the Falcon 4.0 manual, which is the only manual i made a thing to keep, still have it. Shuttle was hardcore and as a 12 year old , i never managed to lift off as if i remember if you did'nt accerlerate time, the countdown started at T-10 Hours
@adamredwine774
5 ай бұрын
My father has always been both an early adopter and ridiculously bad at choosing good technology. When I was a kid we had a satellite dish (about 10 feet across), a Phillips CD-I for video games, and a laser disk player. He rode Harley Davidson motorcycles back in the '60s when they were garbage but switched to Honda with the earliest versions of the Gold Wing. He had a Dodge Stealth and a Ford Focus station wagon. He even had a car phone at one point in time.
@shodan2958
7 ай бұрын
This is interesting to me being born in the mid 90s and enjoyed games from all ages is that you can forget how old these games you've played are. Seeing media about games from that time can really give you a crashing down to earth feeling as you realise just how long ago they were made.
@johnknight9150
7 ай бұрын
I think that is Chris Barrie! Can anyone ask him? (Though he'll probably deny it out of embarrassment anyway!) VHS tapes are shooting up in value now, and there's a speculator's market appearing, so you might want to hold onto that stuff for a while. Speaking of holding onto stuff, that later model VCR you have is worth keeping handy: newer VCRs often have both PAL and NTSC support, so they're great for running NTSC consoles through PAL tellies.
@Kris_A
7 ай бұрын
He did the voice for Spitting Image's Ronnie Reagan and so I think this is that version of him basically. At the time it would have been more familiar and funny (kind of).
@quatz1981
7 ай бұрын
The Commodore video, "Where's my telly".
@evertonshorts9376
7 ай бұрын
David Pleasance mentions commissioning that Commodore PC video in his book.
@TimLeeSongs
7 ай бұрын
Loved Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker!
@GuillaumeLevasseur
7 ай бұрын
Glad I stayed and watched until the end. 😄
@Turrell_
7 ай бұрын
That looks like Jim Sweeney and his comedy partner Steve Steen doing the PC World Setup Guide, both members of the comedy store players, I'm sure his slightly odious demeanour was intentional :)
@ianlacey8323
7 ай бұрын
I remember them from CBTV Channel 14 a replacement show for Magpie on ITV.That show also gave us Anneka Rice .
@Brookspirit
7 ай бұрын
Yep, they were on TV a lot back then, i guess if you don't know who they are it could look weird.
@GreyHulk2156
7 ай бұрын
Both famous, around this time, for "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", among other things.
@neoinfinity
7 ай бұрын
I'd love for you to interview the legendary Fred Harris at The Cave, I know Iain Lee has tried to get in contact with him recently for similar reasons but didn't have any luck as far as I'm aware.
@B3tanTyronne
7 ай бұрын
Chris Barry as Ronnie, it was good enough for Spitting Image for years - `The President's brain is missing` was great. Also, I have a completely different history with VHS tapes, my parents had a video shop at the time and being a 11yr old in 1984 with free access to as many horror and porn titles as I could get my grubby little hands on was sheer bliss (my parents did not know this at the time) - I even had my own old skool huge colour telly (for the time) and a video player of my very own. Loved it.
@75slaine
7 ай бұрын
Awe man, that Commodore PC video really takes me back. The Computer City store in Dublin City centre where I bought my Amiga and would rent games, had that video on loop for a while. I remember the first time I saw it and being fascinated. Not only did I recognise Tim from British TV but was also amazed that Commodore made stuffy old PCs too.
@Supersimagicguy
7 ай бұрын
Funnily enough Jim Sweeney was in the One Foot in the Grave episode 'The Broken Reflection' where he turns up as a PC salesman. Victor Meldrew gets his revenge on the guy after he cut him up in the car and wastes his time by calling him round to sell a PC 😂
@monkeysyndicate
7 ай бұрын
That PC world is in Osterley (West London) on the Great West Road. In the background is a building I worked in for many years (Sky had premises there). Funny to see it in that period, I didn't work there til the mid noughties.
@Brookspirit
7 ай бұрын
I've been there many times, the last time i was there i bought a fridge. That site used to be the Art Deco Firestone factory, it was a gorgeous building, but there was a huge scandal when it was demolished, lots of dodgy behaviour going on, you can google it to find out. If you know the Hoover building on the A40, it was a bit like that.
@w4lsh
7 ай бұрын
It is that PC World but its actually in Brentford, it is Osterly just behind it where Sky/Tesco is though.
@leonfranklin1554
7 ай бұрын
I used to work for Mastercare PC Service (part of PC World, Dixons, Curry's) in the mid-nineties. Driving around installing and repairing Packard Bell, Acer, Apricot PC's to name a few, my conscience wrestled with the company's ethos of pushing customer's towards a ridiculous premium rate 'helpline' - and let's not forget charging customers £59.99 to update their computer's Bios for the 'Year 2000' ouch !
@computer_toucher
7 ай бұрын
Oh lordy lord the soundtrack for the Activision reel was completely of its time for stuff like this. So E-mu! That combo pan flute / bottle blow lead (OK it /might/ be a Synclavier) just screams late 80's :)
@midierror
7 ай бұрын
That PC World Setup Guide is super creepy
@DronePilot23
7 ай бұрын
Virtual Pool, now there's a flashback to my childhood. I used to smash my mouse into the back of the desk trying to hit the balls as hard as possible.
@FatNorthernBigot
7 ай бұрын
I remember finding a VHS video in dad's bedside cabinet. I did not contain F19 Stealth Fighter, but was in dire need of a filter for the grubby image quality.
@davidmylchreest3306
7 ай бұрын
You never know when at any point someone will mention Bodger and Badger. We are never safe.
@endlesspath3044
7 ай бұрын
I remember playing Jimmy White’s snooker and then switching to Virtual Pool (and snooker later on) and being absolutely mind blown how realistic VP was! Virtual Pool was the Doom of billiards games.
@RoyLake
7 ай бұрын
That's Jim Sweeney in that PC World advert, known for his improv at the time and his comedy partner Steve Steen
@pnvgordinho
7 ай бұрын
11:40 The way the presenter says Sega. :)
@IdiotRace
7 ай бұрын
It's really weird that they say it like that when half of the games on the mega drive had the 'say-gah' jingle at the start of them. Although I guess it's just some random vo person reading a script
@BungleBare
7 ай бұрын
Seeger? As no-one ever called it.
@lazarusblackwell6988
7 ай бұрын
VHS RULES. I still have a collection of original VHS movies and some mystery home tapes. Its HISTORY people
@NeilGrevitt
7 ай бұрын
Brilliant! Loved the twenty years ago Neil video
@ScottsGameAsylum
7 ай бұрын
This is a goldmine of awkwardness. And perfect b-roll for videos!
@TheStevenWhiting
7 ай бұрын
14:08 So my history story that disappeared. In the 80s I went to Gunnersbury School in Boston Manor. It was never The Great West Road. On this road was the big DoITAll. I loved going to that store as a kid, as I'd hang out waiting for my parents in the mock up kitchens. All those kitchens were posher and cleaner than ours at home. That DoITAll was the one that featured in the famous advert of the time. What has this all got to do with this vid I hear you ask. Well the PC World featured IS that DoITAll. The entrance is new because the DoITAll entrance to that building was down the left hand side. In that area were other business buildings and later on Sky HQ appeared there (not sure if they are still there) and Sega's HQ was also located there. It was known as The Golden Mile. The last post I put the coordinates to it, I wonder if that's why the comment got removed automatically? Just look up Golden Mile (Brentford) and you'll find it. The building is now a Currys. It is off the Great West Road down a road called West Cross Way.
@MattJH
7 ай бұрын
I tried reverse image search but couldn't find it. Would you mind sharing the maker or model of the entertainment unit you're using? It's exactly what I've been looking for.
@dant5464
7 ай бұрын
12:42 you'd think they would leave out the bug showing the flying cop car.
@menhirmike
7 ай бұрын
9:06 Just going to appreciate that Picture-in-Picture transition and resizing. I wonder how long that took to render?
@jamespotter3334
6 ай бұрын
It can't be a coincidence that they got lookalikes for that pc world video. The main character looks a bit like Hugh Laurie and the bloke passing by the window looks like Paul Merton
@mrtwostrike
7 ай бұрын
always risky going through old VHS tapes…😬😬😉😅
@purrator
7 ай бұрын
I think if you want go get really fancy, you can go a similar route as Tech Tangents showed in the LaserDisc archival video, with direct signal tapping from the VHS head.
@daveb1930
7 ай бұрын
Fascinating video. I've still got a copy of Issue 1 of "Click", the VHS gaming "magazine" in a box somewhere from 1991. It lasted a whole 2 issues, I believe. I couldn't get enough of it as a kid when it appeared in my local newsagent. It's already been uploaded to KZitem, if you're curious.
@W2APS
7 ай бұрын
If you ever need any help with the Lumagen give Gordon @ Convergent AV a shout. I've known him around 25 years and he's been the UK distributor for Lumagen for most of that time. I bet he'd be fascinated with the Cave!
@Ezyasnos
7 ай бұрын
The charm of VHS is that they're true time capsules. No doubt you got a treasure of vaporwave camp. 😃
@matthewgregory2106
7 ай бұрын
Both voices is played by Chris Barrie
@cheddarfish225
7 ай бұрын
Great to see all these. Thanks Neil, From Irata
@Cypher007vUK
7 ай бұрын
this was fun to watch. i think if you can get an old Panasonic NV-HS950B youll be able to squeeze even more out of the tapes and possibly loose some of the jumping. ive had one from new and recently dug it out to transfer some S-VHSC tapes. it has a pro chassis inside a consumer shell with digital noise reduction and to help locking the video a time base corrector.
@sie4431
7 ай бұрын
I've had a copy of an old weekly games mag for decades and I'm pretty sure Roller Ronnie was the cover game. This is probably the first time I've seen it mention The PC World in the promo video looks suspiciously like it might have been filmed on the great west road in Ealing, where Sky now have their studios
@wearwolf2500
7 ай бұрын
That PC World video is interesting because it seems like it's not sure if it wants to say "Computers are really easy to setup" or "Computers are really complicated, right?
@scottwalsh6999
7 ай бұрын
Entertaining video! I'd be keen on seeing another one.
@iainlee
7 ай бұрын
13:10 the lovely Jim Sweeney. Pioneer of alternative and then improv comedy in the early 80's. He's on Who's Line Is It Anyway and The Young Ones. Sadly he's not very well now. I'm trying to work out who the guy getting into the cab is. I thought it was Mark Arden, one of the Carling Black Label men...but it's not. Steve is Steve Steen who was Jim's double act partner. Those two really were at the forefront of improvised comedy in the UK. Trying to work out who that lad is. Clearly a cash grab. I had a similar one a few years ago when I was in a bit of trouble financially. I got offered a lot of money for a day's filming. Dressed up as a superhero I had to save offices from the nightmare of whatever the product was. Awful soul destroying stuff but....whatever it takes to pay the mortgage! This is a great video, Neil. Really enjoyable stuff. And Fred Harris on sax? Absolute banging tune. I reached out to Fred a few months ago to ask for an interview but he wasn't keen...
@NottsKnots
7 ай бұрын
16:13 - I think I recognise that building. If I'm correct it's the Mastercare building in Lenton, Nottingham (Next building after Games Workshop), I worked in the other Mastercare building next to that one and only went into that building occasionally. when Mastercare/Dixons left it in the naughtys, the top floor was condemed because the mesine floor you can see in that clip became unsafe and they didnt want to pay to remedy it.
@flibblesan
7 ай бұрын
Thats the place. Became PC ServiceCall / The Tech Guys for PC World & Currys. I worked there in the mid 200s doing tech support for Packard Bell (yuck). By then the building shown in this video was only used for administration.
@RichardTroupe
7 ай бұрын
I was howling at that Andrew Neil comment. 😂
@ugzz
7 ай бұрын
I actually find old VHS fantastically interesting! If you get more, i'd love to see more!
@Cobalt-Jester
7 ай бұрын
Being 13 years old and getting a VHS recorder in my bedroom was one of the greatest gifts I had. It had a full 12 month recording timer with Video+ recording feature. It had 8 video heads (I'm guessing 8 is better than one?). Instant record, so you could pus the record butto and there was no waiting it would instantly start recording, and frame by frame playback. I recorded a lot of the game show Gladiators. Well... That's not quite true. I recorded a lot of Jet the Gladiator on the game show Gladiators.
@spyrytaraxalass
7 ай бұрын
Jet was lovely. Everyone loved Jet. 🥰
@NeverlandSystemZor
7 ай бұрын
VHS was a great stopgap (that lasted too long) to something better.... the ONLY downside to moving to DVD is not being able to record from a TV directly anymore... DVR is a thing, yes, but it's generally controlled by the service provider and NOT exportable or home-user controlled or stored.
@ProffyChaos
7 ай бұрын
I liked this video before watching as i knew it was going to be legendary
@charlesgi5058
7 ай бұрын
Instructions unclear: Saxophone riff fails to launch high powered applications program
@thomasrotweiler
7 ай бұрын
Howard the Duck - excellent comic . I still have a HTD hand puppet. Not sure why. Never watched the movie or played the game.
@TheUAoB
7 ай бұрын
Break147/Superpool for the Archimedes was released in 1991, which predates Virtual Pool by 4 years and also utilised the mouse for aim and stroke. It was pretty amazing at the time.
@voltare2amstereo
7 ай бұрын
You want a time base corrector. This will fix the wobbly
@MarkTheMorose
7 ай бұрын
RIP TB-T.
@slithery9291
7 ай бұрын
Video rental stores were epic in the UK when I was growing up.They didn't care about checking ID so I watched Aliens when I was 9. Other classics that scared me were Brain Dead and Bad Taste. Me and my best mate got arrested one night on the way home for stealing a life-sized cutout of Arnie.... Edit - Posted this comment before Aliens was shown.
@jkmac625
6 ай бұрын
The PC World one looks slightly familiar, I wonder if the same actors did their TV adverts.
@dazsly
7 ай бұрын
Love watching old videos! Dune and Dune 2 need a remaster package.
@NeverlandSystemZor
7 ай бұрын
DUNE II was on the Genesis in the US as "Dune the battle for Arakis" I think... The RTS one was GREAT and I played the crap out of that cartridge on my Genesis.
@thetwistedsock3253
7 ай бұрын
13:47 wow it's a young Guy Martin 😁
@davexmit
7 ай бұрын
I also had hair in 2003 😢
@barryoconnell6986
7 ай бұрын
I loved those old Dune Games
@Spikemonkey80
7 ай бұрын
I had tapes from Digital Pictures promoting their upcoming 3D0 and 32X releases, Nintendo promoting Donkey Kong Country, NEC promoting the TurboDuo with Lords of Thunder, and Sony promoting the launch lineup for the PS1. I wish I had kept them.
@JenniferinIllinois
7 ай бұрын
Those tapes are gold!!!
@gnginquisitor
7 ай бұрын
that setup is the sickest i,ve seen so far! what type of furniture is that?
@RMCRetro
7 ай бұрын
Thanks. Those are haberdashery drawers I added LED lighting to.
@gnginquisitor
7 ай бұрын
@@RMCRetrolooks marvelous!
@andymerrett
7 ай бұрын
It's funny how some things have a nostalgia value and others don't (I am sure it's quite diverse). After all, many people still collect, play and have nostalgia for ordinary cassette tapes (for both audio and data) even though CDs, DVDs and the like were superior in almost every way.
@jason_a_smith_gb
7 ай бұрын
Trash to DVD Trash! Quite nostalgic. You’ve presented this well... You need a Freeserve disc...
@simmo1024
7 ай бұрын
I saw Howard the Duck at the Cinema when it came out. The ABC in Birmingham on the Bristol road (now a McDonalds). Last time I went to the ABC.
@fd5927
7 ай бұрын
Well, although VHS was an inferior analogue way of recording TV channels and renting films (sometimes) months and months after the cinema release, especially in the UK. It was a way to record, own, and KEEP your videos until the demise of the format. I have old recordings of The Hit Man and Her, even Video 'n Chips, Sapphire and Steel and Dramarama on old VHS that I recorded on tape, LOST TO THE DIGITAL AGE, and I loved the new higher quality DVD period, lost to the so called "cloud".
@jason_a_smith_gb
7 ай бұрын
Just spent a good hour watching Scooby Doo intros and such. Think this video triggered something...
@w4lsh
7 ай бұрын
Damn, they were good times back then...
@Rocky1138
7 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Very interesting topic!
@PeterNancarrow
7 ай бұрын
23:15 - As the video was about windows, I was disappointed that Fred Harris wasn't playing 'canyon midi'.
@PeterNancarrow
7 ай бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/sH-NmnpocWeCnXY
@Haxmanzz
7 ай бұрын
I have not played shuttle yet but i do hage a complete boxed copy. The manual is MASSIVE and ther is a massive A3 fold out map of the shuttles controls. Once you work out the controls I'm sure you couod have really piloted the real thing.
@Nukle0n
7 ай бұрын
There's guides on how to capture tapes at the proper 50/60hz and then doing a bob or motion adaptive deinterlace to get the full framerate from the parts shot on video. I find it really elevates VHS capture that you get the full temporal resolution.
@Retro_B8
7 ай бұрын
Where did all these VHS tapes come from, were they donated, purchased would be good to hear how they came into your possession.
@sisyphus8870
7 ай бұрын
That did sound like Chris Barry, good ear.
@DQSpider
7 ай бұрын
Honestly an S-VHS deck probably wouldn't help much unless the video circuitry was a lot better than your deck. VHS is native composite video so an S-VHS connection just means your deck is doing the comb filtering instead of the TV
@Brookspirit
7 ай бұрын
I think S Video only works properly if the video is recorded in S-VHS on an S-VHS tape, the best he could probably do is use RGB out of a scart socket.
@W2APS
7 ай бұрын
Agreed. The Lumagen will do a far better job than an S-VHS player for normal VHS cassettes.
@DavidWhitley
5 ай бұрын
i agree the PC world guy was creepy, dont know how they ever thought that was acceptable, imagine him coming to your house to set up a computer.
@wearecity
2 ай бұрын
I thought this wasn't going to be a good video. But I really enjoyed it
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