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!



Disc Two:

• 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.

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

No Paypal? Send a money order for the correct amount to the PO box address below. Please make sure the money order is made out to Earl Green, and that you specify which product is being ordered (CGE 2005 DVD).

Alumni? If you’re one of the special guests who was giving a presentation at the 2005 CGE, contact me at the e-mail address above to ask about the alumni discount.

Disc One:
• Starcade Alumni Highlights – featuring former Starcade contestants and season 1 host Mark Richards
• The Jawbreaker Story – former Sierra On-Line programmer John Harris talks about his breakout games, and the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that drove him out of the business
• Arcade Designer Highlights – featuring Ed Rotberg, Tim Skelly, Warren Davis & Franz Lanzinger
• 2003 Auction Excerpt – some of the highlights from the 2003 CGE Auction.
• Bonus features: CGE ‘03 Raw Footage – raw, unedited footage from the show floor and the CGE museum. It’s CGE as seen from an attendee’s perspective!



Disc Two:

• Nolan Bushnell: The Atari Story – the complete Nolan Bushnell panel, over 90 minutes.
• Phosphor Dot Fossils: CGE 2003 Edition – using the same format as the popular Phosphor Dot Fossils DVDs (also available from theLogBook.com), this is a brief “video glossary” giving brief historical overviews of the games mentioned across the rest of the 2-DVD set.

Best of CGE ‘03 can be ordered now from theLogbook.com Media.

No Paypal? Send a money order for the correct amount to the PO box address below. Please make sure the money order is made out to Earl Green, and that you specify which product is being ordered (CGE 2003 DVD).

Alumni? If you’re one of the special guests who was giving a presentation at the 2003 CGE, contact me at the e-mail address above to ask about the alumni discount.