Operation Black Ice (PS1 Pre-Launch video) and more PSX Vids

I recently got some VHS tapes in, and one of them was labeled Operation Black Ice. Its a prelaunch video promoting the PS1 before it hit the states on 9-9-95. It contains a woman who poses as Toshinden's Sophia, complete with terrible accent and dominatrix leather.
Operation Black Ice (PS1 Pre-Launch video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7zOeyRwPM

Sony Playstation Merchandising Video April May June 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhULXZMRT2A

Sony Playstation Merchandising Video July August September 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Jq9oAfXyk

Sony Playstation Merchandising Video October, November and December 1996

I had to cut this into two files due to youtube upload limits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6SPsMbS8bc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDj85ys9sps

Sony Playstation Merchandising Video January, February and March 1997

This one was also cut in half due to youtube limits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBo_EMAOY8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBRhTSsZKA8

Game lists are available on the youtube page. Enjoy!

 

ah some nice vidoes there, Makes me want to put away my ps2 and play my original playstation again.

 

anyone noticing how games were actually promoted as being frentic and FUN? I miss that "cheeseness" .

 

Man those were the good ol' days.
I used to rent the PS1 from Blockbuster back then to play
Xtreme games, ridge racer and Crazy Ivan. I always wanted to play
Jumping Flash!, but never got a chance to.

FMV was violently shoved down your throat back then and it was still awesome.
Only one thing would have made the 90s FMV craze better..
If they kept the live actors in the RE series. =)

 

nice. been planing on ripping the movie materiall from my demo discs too. what software do you use? the ones I found was a pain in the ... to use =/

 

These are off VHS tapes, not demo discs. I use an LG VHS>dvd deck.

 

ah ok. thanks any way

edit: lol. just noticed that you had that info in your first post

 

Any chance you could put .avi versions of it for download?

 

The PS1 had a pretty good lineup for a console at the time. I forgot some of those titles were available.

 

I left .avi encoding a long time ago, sorry :crying:

 

wmv? mpg?

I wanted to save those videos, but .flv loses to much video quality.

 

I have some mp4's (x264 codec), but they are 320x240. Better quality than the youtube though. Is that cool?

 

That's because YouTube lower the bit rate far too much. Just take a look at the flv videos on my site. They're perfect quality :nod:

Yakumo

 

Don't worry. I'll save the YouTube ones then.

The Yakumo seal of quality owns Youtube :thumbsup:

 

So you know, Youtube videos are also 320x240

 

I know. :thumbsup:

But since the ones you could provide would be in the same resolution, i thought it wasn't worth the trouble for you to host them or send them to me.

I'm already thanful for you putting those avaible. ray: