Oh, my! I haven't posted since last year! What is wrong with my consistency, man? Anyway, Papa Plague is back with something newer than usual, with a promotional disc from Gen 3! GAME is essentially the UK's equivalent to GameStop, acting as our retailer over here. I picked up this old CD from uhhh...either a Charity Shop, or by an employee when I was getting a Midnight Forme Lycanroc Event from said store. It was one of the two, not sure which. I've had so much stuff come in and out of this collection it's silly. Sorry, I don't know which! I know it came from Staffordshire, though. I own quite a few promotional pieces from GAME, including demos of Star Wars Rogue Squadron II and Splinter Cell on the GameCube. This just happens to be one of the things I've picked up in the past, and I never actually thought to upload it online. For starters, here's the cover. I had to compress it to JPEG quality as my scanner, once again, saves gigantic images with pristine quality. You can find a high res raw scan right here, clumsily put together by myself. Now, this disc is dated on the files to be from 11/6/2003, or 11th June 2003 (note this is BritSpeak we're talking). So, a month and a week or two before release. GAME has been doing this for years, so it's nothing too out there. This IS licensed and copyrighted by Nintendo, and is probably one of the most haphazardly made advertising ever. I can't believe I didn't even open it until now. The amount of work put into this is kind of nutty though, as you usually never see discs like this put together for customers. In fact, I don't think these were even meant to leave the store, as if you try to run the files extracted (as in, not on a disc you've burned the files to), it'll mention a projector being turned off. Maybe I'm looking a bit too much into it though. So, what's actually ON the disc? There are 6 trailers for what I assume is given to consumers to watch when they get back from their trip to the store. I believe this as the 2nd video mentions the 6th one being included on the CD. Weird system though, especially considering that they could have put these into one big video. So as you can see, you can select those 6 trailers to have shown on a projector. In my case, it showed up on my monitor, with an option to click Space for full-screen watching. The videos are all in MPEG, dated 11/6/2003, all edited in a very small time frame. The EXE File to open this application was made the next day at 5 AM (poor advertisers). Each trailer features a poor British soul trying to talk about Pokemon, although he sadly doesn't seem to quite understand it. What, you want to watch these trailers now? You can! I dumped the disc and uploaded all the videos to a nice tidy playlist. Go here! Or if you want to see it in its original format, I extracted all the files on the disc and uploaded them to Dropbox! Now, I'm going to sum up the videos for you! Because of course I'm going to needlessly look into content made a month before the release date! Who do you think I am?!
That's all I really observed while screaming at all the inaccuracies, and I really don't want to watch it again. I'm kind of shocked this was copyrighted by Nintendo at all, as there wasn't much quality control done at all.
So that's all I have for now. What do you think of this? Interesting, no?
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