Best of CGE '05 DVD set available for pre-order!

Phosphor Dot Fossils · October 3, 2009

Announcing theLogBook.com Media's final video game history DVD project of 2009 - Best of CGE '05!

Here's a rundown of what's on this 2-disc, 6-hour set:

Activision vs. Imagic – a unique gathering of the third-party software masters. The creators of such hit Atari 2600 games as Pitfall! and Atlantis talk about what drove them from Atari to start their own companies, and their view of the state of the video game industry as of 2005. Over an hour of lively discussion!

The Atari Engineers – three of the hardware wizards who were there on the ground floor at the beginning of Atari discuss the early days: competition, innovation, and working with Nolan.

Jerry Lawson – meet the man behind the first cartridge-based video game system: the Fairchild Video Entertainment System, introduced in 1976 (and later renamed Fairchild Channel F after the introduction of the Atari VCS).

Bill Kunkel – along with Joyce Worley and Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel was a pioneer of video game journalism and helped to launch Electronic Games Magazine. He recounts the journey from “why would anyone publish a magazine about video games?” to EG’s heyday.

The Atari Programmers – a gathering of some of Atari’s greatest video game designers talks about their time at the company, from the Nolan Bushnell era through the Warner era, competing with their former co-workers at Activision, and the perils of licensing arcade and movie titles for video games. It’s a surprisingly frank discussion of the state of the industry, then and now, lasting nearly an hour and a half.

Bonus features: CGE ‘05 Raw Footage – raw, unedited footage from the show floor and the CGE museum. It’s CGE as seen from an attendee’s perspective!

All of the video shot for Best of CGE ‘05 was shot in standard definition 16:9 widescreen; both discs have been authored in that aspect ratio. Disc one is a dual-layer disc with four hours of video, while disc two is a single-layer disc with two hours of video. Since we have to special order the dual-layer discs, Best of CGE ‘05 is slightly more expensive than Best of CGE ‘03 – but it’s also two hours longer!

Go here to order.

OR...

If you're going to OVGE in Tulsa or CCAG in Cleveland on October 24th, Best of CGE '05 will be making its "live" debut at both shows simultaneously, and until October 12th, you can pre-order Best of CGE '05 and any of our other DVDs at the show floor price (no shipping!), and your DVDs will be reserved for you to pick up at the show. Click here for more details on that.

Discs will start shipping toward the end of October!

Phosphor Dot Fossils · November 27, 2009

We're now running a special bundle deal on all of the CGE DVDs in one package for under $100, or all of the CGE DVDs plus the Phosphor Dot Fossils DVDs - check the prices here. :lust: