I have some N64 tapes at my parents house. I do not know what they show or don't show. My mom will be visiting me in a few weeks. I will have her bring them so I can check them out for you.
If you're talking about the preview tapes like Nintendo Power used to send subscribers, I don't think that's what he's looking for. I just assume since you didn't indicate Beta tapes that you mean VHS, anyway. I saw the topic title and was ready to ask why anyone would want those horrible things. Let us know if you ever find them, I'd love to see more video of an early Mario 64.
I can't imagine why anyone would care to prevent you from getting them Just noticing from your Youtube channel who you are. Not to drive the topic off course, but you do a lot of neat stuff with the game. Your beta hack, I can't even imagine how you got some of the stuff in it so accurate looking. Hope you find them!
itv and bbc dumped a lot of their archived footage and stock after either converting and storing it digitally or just not bothering. this included lots of tapes and reels etc, so that may be one reason they cant find it. i also doubt it would have been high importance or priority for them to save something like that.
Oh. Not the Nintendo Power tapes? Darn. That is what I was talking about. Sorry for misunderstanding. :x
Am i correct with the assumption that it is/was stored there but ITV cannot find it after you contacted them?
I've seen series 1-4 of Bad Influence! on Underground Gamer. Not sure if it has anything of interest, but Violet Berlin was a presenter at some point. [h=1][/h]
she also presented a show about games on the "bravo" channel in the early 2000's and various kids tv in the 90s very distinctive voice, i miss the old game "shows" like bad influence and gamesmaster
Firstly, please stop saying ml - that means millilitres and has no relevance to video cassettes. If you mean minutes, say minutes - or abbreviate it to mins. To those suggesting it, Bad Influence! won't be of any use. I've got all the episodes. The tape they used was most likely loaned or given to them. It's not guaranteed that they would have kept it. However, the production records for Bad Influence! would show what tape was used from what archive. Andy and Violet won't have a clue about tapes or where they'd be, so asking them is pointless. They only presented the show. And contacting the show is impossible, as the team disbanded over 15 years ago. You could talk to the producer or a former member of the team, yes... but you can't officially talk to the show. You could try talking to Patrick, but he's long left ITV. If the tape is in a broadcast archive, you have zero chance of getting a copy without being a production company with a specific production brief. And if you're talking about ITN Source, that's a news archive. You won't find it there. I'm not even sure whether the archive is at Kirkstall Road any more, since the reorganization up there. I've not been to the Yorkshire studios in many years, now. If there archive is anything like the old TVS archive down here, then it's in a right state! I'd think you'd have a better chance contacting Nintendo's press department, to be honest. Even if ITV have the tape, technically it's not their copyright so they shouldn't loan out a copy. *EDIT* You could ask the NFTVA, but I doubt they'd have anything. Probably, your better bet would be to get friendly with a member of staff at a magazine that had shots from the videos - one that's still running, and preferably a member of staff who was there back then!
The Bad Influence! website is just fan run. They have little or no direct connection with the production. Nintendo's press department would have been the ones that distributed the tapes, although back then Nintendo's affairs in the UK were pretty much run by THE. That company got swallowed up by what was Woolworths group and no longer exists. Your main problem will be that hardly anyone will have valued these tapes. Much like any promo material, it was intended to be sent out and reviewed. The people who might have kept it (magazine houses, possibly television archives) will probably have scrapped them - if they had any involvement with making tapes for whatever reason, if there was a half hour tape sitting around, it will probably have been reused. The magazines themselves will often have folded, although the likes of Future Publishing and EMAP are still about. Whether they'd have anything sitting around from that long ago is doubtful. However, you might find someone who loved the tape and took it home. Try looking through staff lists for the likes of N64 Magazine, N64 Pro, Nintendo Magazine System etc., but also the multi-format magazines like C&VG, Gamesmaster etc. The only other games programme that might have had something would have been Gamesmaster, made by Hewland. Of course, even if you find the tapes, you then need to have them transferred on a PAL Betacam SP deck As for the tapes, yeah that's part of a model number, but it's usual to just say 30 minute
Hewland was set up by Jane Hewland, who was an Executive Producer on the show. The company dissolved and she set up Two Shot Films, a family-run business. I think they own the rights to the show.
Well, he left Nintendo back in the early 90's, before any of this stuff would have been made/circulated. Not sure if he'd be able to help you in that area.
Nothing to add to the topic (sorry) except to say great job, a big thumbs up from me and some very interesting videos on youtube there. I've never seen them before, in fact I was so excited about getting my launch UK N64 that I deliberately ignored all promo material at the time so I didn't have much of an idea what it was like until I played it! Thanks, Chris
Really, if you're buying it it's yours, you can do with it as you wish =p If it was so forbidden then they'd be breaking their own morals in the name of money just by selling it to you. That said, good luck!
