Good news, RGN is slowly but steadily growing and now has a YouTube channel! At the moment there I have only uploaded one video, but there will definitely be more in the future as I find suitable retro game related content to post. The video that I have uploaded is from an old and mostly unknown YouTube channel that I used to own, but I can no longer log into it due to not having access to the email address that I signed up with anymore. I know the password but when I try to login it asks me to get a verification code that was sent to the defunct email address. So obviously it’s impossible to retrieve the code when it was sent to email address that doesn’t exist anymore. Rather than trying to claim the channel I have decided to re-upload the videos I have on that channel to a new channel – the Retro Game News Channel!
So what sort of video have I uploaded? It’s a video that has the start of a very rare and unique simulation video game released by BP (British Petroleum) only to employees and other select individuals. The game is a polyethylene plant simulator, if you don’t know what that is, it is basically a plastics factory that turns polyethylene gas into plastic products such as nappies, food wrap, plastic bottles, pipes and other products. It’s not very well know but these factories are responsible for producing many of the goods that we use in everyday life and take for granted. The game is a real life simulation using FMV footage and paid actors, possibly employees that work for BP, that play the various job positions in the staff of fictional organization in the game. There’s your secretary, heads of different departments, the Chief Executive and others who help guide you establishing and running the polyethylene plant. The video that I uploaded is just the start of a game, it only runs for about 9 minutes but it’s enough to get a good introduction to the game.
In the early days of my retro video game collecting I had become completely fascinated with the Philips CD Interactive and spent a lot of time and money researching and importing the console, peripherals and it’s unconventional library of games. As you can see from the start of the video I didn’t have a standard CD-i player but a rare DVS model that I bought brand new. Unfortunately I traded and sold most of my CD-i collection and only kept a couple CDs, one of them being Making the Grade. Another game that I acquired and took footage of is one of the only Japanese games discovered for the system. It was called Cyber Soldier Sharaku and I took footage of a playthrough of maybe half of the game. I will be re-uploading videos of that game soon too. Unfortunately I have sold that game to another collector so all I have remaining is the footage that I took. An encryption virus known as Deja-Vu has locked up a lot of my data as IFLA files including a ROM image of Cyber Soldier Sharaku. Hopefully one day I can recover it by finding a way to decrypt the data. If you happen to know anything about recovering files from that virus please let me know by contacting me by comment or the contact form on this website.
After I upload the other second hand game I don’t have any ideas of what else I am going to upload to the channel. However I’m sure that something will come up in the future that will be worth posting. One interesting VHS that I have is some footage of the Nintendo 64 that I got when my mum pre-ordered the console from Toys’R’Us back in 1996. It had very tantalizing teaser footage that made me and my brother drool over the games that were coming to this exciting new system that wasn’t released yet. One day I’ll have the VHS digitally converted and then I will upload it to the channel. If you have any ideas of content that you would like to see on the Retro Game News channel please let me know. I have no experience with narrating videos or producing any such videos myself but you never know what the future will hold.
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