1998 E3 CD found..

[nitz]

Sucks that you couldn't get this working. Would have liked to have seen it.

This thread did get me thinking about late '90s gaming in general and Acclaim in particular though.

Acclaim always seemed like one of those companies that had the potential to make great games but always came up a bit short.

I remember picking up Turok back in the day when it was re-released as a Player's Choice title. People ranted and raved about that game...I started playing and just thought "That's it? This is what people are going on about?" I thought it was generic, confusing, and boring. And the damn fog drove me nuts. I know it was a technical limitation at the time, but other games seemed to work around it better. I think I tried to like it off and on for about a month and then just never played it again. I honestly think the only reason that game was so popular was that Nintendo fans were not used to getting M-rated games or FPS's, so it seemed like a big deal being the first game in that genre on the N64. If there had been any other decent ones out at the time, it probably would have been forgotten.

The NFL Quarterback Club games looked really good graphically, but were a little confusing play control wise and seemed a bit cold somehow - no personality.

The All Star Baseball games were quite good actually, but suffered a bit in the play control department.

Forsaken seemed a decent enough game at the time, but kind of forgettable.

Their 8-bit and 16-bit offerings were generally the same story. They always looked like they would be good, even seemed like they should be good as you played them, but always fell short somehow - usually some combination of poor control, too short, or just kind of dull.

[dre-w]

 

Got it working!!

So check this out,  I wiped off all that mystery liquid that was dried up on the bottom of the cd.  Took about a good 5 minutes b/c it was just smearing around.  After that I threw it in my computer and wah lah,  Drive (D:) E398!

I quickly started copying everything to my computer and got halfway when all of a sudden it started getting all screwy and not letting me copy over a few folders..  popped the cd out and looked at the bottom only to find that it was all fogged up again!!  Cleaned it and got another 2 minute window before it started acting up again.

Got everything off the disc onto my computer except for one weird file in the WWF Warzone / Logo folder, had no file name extension..  read something like WWFswooshlogo

But yeh, good stuff.  Artwork/sketches from early development stages of games, pics, and lots of Quicktime videos with sweet 90s techno music.. the good kind tho, like the high energy kind from the Mortal Kombat movie    I still don't know what keeps making it foggy on the bottom of the disc.. freakin bizarre.. was the disc sitting so long that the clear layer on the bottom was melting then drying..??

534MB, where should I upload?  The only place I ever used was Megaupload (RIP)  ..mediafire?

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

sending a pm for storage.

[lilshawn]

i know it's old as hell but, i'm getting all excited to see this now.

  youv'e spent more time with this disk than i would have.

read...no? toss. 

[Howard_Casto]

So all of that and no links?

I am dissapoint

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

He was having issues accessing the FTP account I gave him.


Does anyone else get a spammy page when they go to http://cotmm.org/ ?

[Howard_Casto]

Looks like a regular website to me. 

I can host it, but since my webspace is really saint's we might wanna ask him first. 

[dre-w]

Ha, sorry for the delay guys.

Yeh it's my AOL that's acting up..  I can access http://cotmm.org/ no problem from here, google, or when I paste it into the browser.. but that one day I kept clicking on it in the email and I was getting redirected to different sites.

And now another problem, I can't even open the new message you sent me or the old ones.  It keeps getting stuck on "loading message..."  which is weird b/c I can open up the other emails in my inbox no problem, just not those 3 for some reason  ?

Is it possible you can just PM me on here?  If you don't wana PM here I can send you a different email or whatev

[Vigo]

You are just gonna have to face it, dude...computers hate you. 

[Howard_Casto]

Ha, sorry for the delay guys.

Yeh it's my AOL that's acting up.. 

Well there's your problem!

[lilshawn]

I think I've found a paradox portal to the past.

I've named it the Dre-w paradox.

can we get photos of your computer rig to prove my theory... I'm betting it's a 486dx-66 or a Pentium-75?

[dre-w]

You are just gonna have to face it, dude...computers hate you. 

Well there's your problem!

AOL and posting content from 1998.  You couldn't make this up if you tried.

I think I've found a paradox portal to the past.
I've named it the Dre-w paradox.
can we get photos of your computer rig to prove my theory... I'm betting it's a 486dx-66 or a Pentium-75?

 
Hilarity ensues.  Yeh I need to stop using that AOL account..  no excuses there.  Well if you took the Dre-w paradox portal back a couple posts, you would see that your theory has already been debunked..

I guess I'll try looking into the security feature for now and also see if I can find an older computer to try it on.  

..I doubt I would need to find a computer older than those if I had one.     but if you wana know I've had this comp for about 4 years.  Nothin fancy,  it's a HP Pavillion A6237C desktop pc

The only complaint I have is it came with Vista..

But yeh I'll try to get this uploaded, if not tonight for sure tomorrow.  Wife wants to go out, being it's Valentines Day n all.....

[lilshawn]

harumph!

all the cool paradoxes run UNICS....

[dre-w]

http://cotmm.org/private/dre




(Thanks again for storage cotmm68030!)

[lilshawn]

wow! this whole cd is like... the internet... of the future!

[dre-w]

 

Found another one at the swapmeet over the weekend..

[Howard_Casto]

Where do you live Drew?  Video Land?

We need to setup a proper site for your stuff if you are going to keep finding these things.  I think it's nice to preserve it somewhere because it's considered throwaway media...  in other words nobody else is doing it.

[yotsuya]

Found another one at the swapmeet over the weekend..

Have you tried getting this to work yet, or should we just save time and have someone kick you in the nuts repeatedly right now? 

[dre-w]

 

Yeh I got this one to work no problem.  I actually like this one a lot better.  Covers 16 games and it has a program that runs this cool interactive menu.

Haha Video Land.  Yes.  Orange County CA..  and believe me, it's pretty rare to find anything video game related out here at a good price.  I always see people in forums posting these ultra rare finds they got for dirt cheap and they're usually in some small town or back country away from big cities..  makes me hate this crowded overpriced place even more.  And your right.. I swear if I find another one of these this weekend I'll make a dedicated site lol.