Best of CGE ‘05 DVD now available for pre-order!
theLogBook.com Media’s new 2-DVD set Best of CGE ‘05 is complete and ready to order! The first copies ordered online will ship immediately after the DVD makes its “live” debut at the 2009 Oklahoma Video Gaming Exhibition in Tulsa and the fall 2009 CCAG show in Cleveland, Best of CGE ‘03 can be ordered online now – see below for ordering buttons!
If you’re attending OVGE in Tulsa or CCAG in Cleveland on October 24th, don’t forget: you can click here pre-order your DVDs here and a copy will be reserved for you to pick up at the show. Show pre-orders close on October 12th!
- Disc One:
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
Disc Two:
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!
Best of CGE ‘05 can be ordered now from theLogbook.com Media; discs will ship near the end of October.
| U.S./Canada – $31.00 USD |
Outside of North America – $36 USD |
Also available: get Best of CGE ‘03 and Best of CGE ‘05 in one bundle – with only one shipping price!
| U.S./Canada – $54.00 USD |
Outside of North America – $59.00 USD |
