Digital Press' "Live From Your Home" 15th Anniversary

[digitalpress]

Thanks to Scott "stonic" Stilphen, the long-destroyed master copy (VCS) of the Digital Press production "Live From Your Home" is once again available!

The videos are now viewable on YouTube - we need to do a little further editing as some pieces have copyrighted music or were a bit too long to fit into YouTube's guidelines but you can get a real blast from the past from the 15 segments that are up and running! Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/DigitalPressLLC

"Live From Your Home" (1994)

This is one of our earliest attempts at pulling members of the gaming community together. Remember, we weren't using e-mail or the internet at the time. So, via our bi-monthly newsletter we asked gamers to send in videos of themselves with their collections, highlighting their favorites. I compiled the videos, "mixed" them with some music and low-tech graphics, and sent the final copy to everyone who participated (though copies were also available for a short time through the newsletter). The quality is pretty rough but it's interesting to see what people were collecting at a time when the Atari Jaguar was the hot new system.

[Oobgarm]

Absolutely love these.

[TonyTheTiger]

It's neat seeing actual video of what DP was like back then. A shame some of the audio had to go. I can only imagine how difficult it was to form a community without the aid of the internet.

[NoahsMyBro]

That's very cool!

I wish I'd known about DP pre-internet. How *did* word spread about the newsletter? Did you ever place ads in gaming mags? Something else? Or was it just word-of-mouth?

[digitalpress]

That's very cool!

I wish I'd known about DP pre-internet. How *did* word spread about the newsletter? Did you ever place ads in gaming mags? Something else? Or was it just word-of-mouth?

We didn't place ads but were reviewed a number of times by pro magazines. In those early days "fanzines" were quite the rage and got a page or two of notice from a couple of the magazines (most memorably for me personally "Video Games & Computer Entertainment").

[hellfire]

I started watching these and I love them

[digitalpress]

There are a few really good ones that need to be cut down a bit before we can post them on YouTube (Jeff Cooper, Mark Terry) and a few conspicuously missing (Scott himself!, Russ Perry). Those are really KEY to getting the whole collector scene of that era.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Good stuff.

[MrRoboto19XX]

These are really great, but I seem to have an odd craving for Kippered Herring all of the sudden...

[Nature Boy]

"What would you like. Some Absolute?" ...

Brilliant! I need more time to watch 'em all...

[Kid Ice]

DVD. Please.

[Enigmus]

DVD. Please.

Better yet, "Live From Your Home Again: LFYH 2"

[kingpong]

Pretty cool to see these. In those days, those of us who were on the Internet kept wondering when all of the fanzine guys were going to join us. With rec.games.video having been split out into multiple groups in 1993, most importantly rec.games.video.classic, we were living the high life.

Interesting to see the collections of some of the bigger names who never or rarely showed up online. Much smaller collections than I expected, but of course with some crazy good stuff.

I don't know what's sadder - realizing that this stuff was all 15 years ago, or being reminded that the glory days of classic game collecting ended 10 years ago. Time sure flies...

[newtype5]

i think i have this VHS somewhere at my parent's house. wasn't there a vol. 2?

[digitalpress]

i think i have this VHS somewhere at my parent's house. wasn't there a vol. 2?

There was, and that's coming soon too.

What I'd really like to do is a volume 3. SO much easier to pull off now with all the digital gadgetry we just take for granted.

Who's in for volume 3?

[Greg2600]

So is the guy in video V1.02 is the guy who owns the only Pink Panther 2600 prototype, but never dumped it, and then vanished? That son of a gun!

[supergoldzero]

There was, and that's coming soon too.

What I'd really like to do is a volume 3. SO much easier to pull off now with all the digital gadgetry we just take for granted.

Who's in for volume 3?

I'm totally in to contribute towards a volume 3! It is great you managed to find and post these neat little relics of the past online.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

So is the guy in video V1.02 is the guy who owns the only Pink Panther 2600 prototype, but never dumped it, and then vanished? That son of a gun!

He hasn't vanished, and a few more copies have turned up since then.

[Sonicwolf]

God, I was just a little toddler when these videos were made.

[RASK1904]

Very very very cool! Thanks for puttin those up there! Love them. Awesome!