Official Classic Game Room Packaging

Behold the packaging for my upcoming documentary film, Classic Game Room: The Rise and Fall of the Internet's Greatest Video Game Review Show!



Please let us know what you like or dislike about the packaging and anything else GR related. Classic Game Room can be emailed directly at TheGameRoom (at) Verizon (dot) net. The release date is not yet set but it will be in 2007.

The official website is now live where you'll soon be learning where to pre-order the documentary film about my failed Internet TV show experiences and our original, objective game reviews. The address will be www.ClassicGameRoom.net but I don't believe its all hooked up just yet, so you can see the website from the Inecom Entertainment Company distribution page here:

Official Classic Game Room Website

The documentary film will have a 2 hour running time and I assure you it MOVES along with ten episodes, interviews, outtakes, behind the scenes footage, un-used footage from 2000, etc... Its highly entertaining. At least I think so. I also think Army of Darkness is entertaining. In fact I believe it to be one of the best movies ever made.

Classic Game Room has absolutely no affiliation, relationship, similarity to or reason to even be mentioned in the same sentence with Army of Darkness. However the Game Room Squirrel does because Game Room Squirrel is a force to be reckoned with and appears on Classic Game Room.



On producion news I recently moved from Apple Final Cut to Adobe Premier Pro for final editing, I couldn't quite get into using a Mac interface. I can see why other people like it but I move much faster on a PC. "Final" editing begins next week on our new souped up PC with Premier Pro. Mac lovers, please don't throw your iPods at me. Unless they're well packaged and I can sell them later.

I've posted this before but the original Classic Game Room video game reviews appearing on the 1st DVD will be:

Duck Hunt for NES
X-Men for Sega Genesis
Joust for Playstation
Sega GT for Dreamcast
Frogger for Atari 2600
SeaMan for Dreamcast
Missile Command for Playstation
Perfect Dark for N64
Yar's Revenge for Atari 2600
Alien for Atari 2600

If the first DVD does well enough there are other DVDs in the works. The first Classic Game Room film just scratches the surface. There is a jumbo mass of game reviews, material and stories that we have recently unearthed from Classic Game Room Laboratory. More information and technical drawings of Classic Game Room Laboratory coming soon.

The video game reviews to appear on the 2nd Classic Game Room DVD are:

Contra for the Nintendo Entertainment System
The Empire Strikes Back for Atari 2600
Bionic Commando for the Nintendo Entertainment System
Draconus for the Sega Dreamcast
Pong for the Sony Playstation (previously un-aired!!)
Omega Boost for Sony Playstation
Streets of Rage for Sega Genesis
Kasumi Ninja for Atari Jaguar
Ecco the Dolphin for Sega Dreamcast
Ninja Golf for Atari 7800
Virtua Striker 2 for Sega Dreamcast

This all depends on YOUR support of course, so spread the word aboutClassic Game Room and tell your friends to visit our website and drop us a line telling us how much you want to see us review Bionic Commando.

A preview of Classic Game Room can be seen on YouTube HERE. A new preview will be appearing sometime in the next few weeks.



ROAR!!! Classic Game Room is ill!! More info to come soon...

Expo: Magic of the White City Release Recap

On September 13, 2005, Expo: Magic of the White City narrated by Gene Wilder was released on DVD. It has since been broadcast on PBS HD nationwide as well as standard definition television and received dozens of great reviews from all over the country.

"A dazzling trip back to another time."
- Bill Diehl, ABC Radio Network



We had a release "weekend" in Chicago where the fair took place, only we were 112 years late! Expo: Magic of the White City is a fun documentary film that I produced and directed about the World's Fair of 1893, which is also known as the Columbian Exposition. It was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering America (one year late of course) and debuted many of America's greatest inventions like the Ferris Wheel and Cracker Jack and set the stage for AC Power to be our power of choice. Gene Wilder narrates the film and gives an entertaining tour of the fair, of life in 1893 and the dramatic events that happened at the World's Columbian Exposition.



Chicago as seen from the Navy Pier. It was an exciting few days in Chicago as I had several radio interviews and television interviews. We toured the city, met lots of people and ate tons of good food. I've been to Chicago before but this was the most time I've spent there and everyone was very nice to us and showed us a great time.



On release day we showed Expo: Magic of the White City to an audience at the Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park in Chicago. This was especially fitting because the museum is housed in the only remaining building from the World's Fair, originally called the Palace of Fine Arts. Constructed in 1892 & 1893 the Palace of Fine Arts (aka Gallery of Fine Arts) was unique in that it was the only building constructed for the fair that was built to be permanent in order to get insurance for all of the irreplaceable artwork held inside. Most of the buildings at the fair were quickly constructed and covered with "staff" to make them look like marble. The Palace of Fine Arts was made of brick, iron and real building materials.



The one thing that I remember clearly from our screening day is that it was unseasonably hot for September. I was wearing a suit (which I never, ever, ever do) and was unbearably overheated. My natural habitat is 40 degrees and raining, good Pittsburgh weather.

However the screening was successful in that 200+ people seemed to enjoy it, stayed through the entire film and did not throw any tomatoes or rotten fruit at me afterwards during a Q&A session. It was a great time. Thank you again to The Museum of Science and Industry and everyone who helped to set up the event, manage the event, hand out popcorn and help run the projecting equipment. This was the rare chance for viewers to see what the film looks like in its native HDCAM 1080i High Definition format on a huge screen. I think it looks amazing and detailed but I'm somewhat biased. You can clearly make out peoples' hats, shoes, bags and eyes in high definition.



There's a picture of me doing a radio interview in Chicago on WGN 720. I really enjoy doing radio interviews because it reminds me of the radio show that I used to host in college on WVBU 90.5 FM at Bucknell University. I frequently angered a lot of people for doing things like shredding J-Crew catalogs on air, playing Mr. Bungle or giving fake news stories... which I did not do on WGN 720.

A special thanks to Rick Kogan who bought me a beer at the Billy Goat. That was a good beer too... in fact I think I had 2 of them. Billy Dark i believe. If you ever come Pittsburgh I'll buy you a Penn Weisen.

You can read some good reviews of Expo here to see what other people are saying:

Review of Expo at FulvueDrive-in.com HERE
Review of Expo at ReelTalkReviews.com HERE
Review of Expo at DVDTalk.com HERE
Review of Expo at DigitalBits.com HERE

And of course a big thank you to all the Amazon.com customers who gave us high marks. Its always good to see people enjoying a film that we spent 2-3 years working on. Expo: Magic of the White City at Amazon.com

EXPO: Magic of the White City was filmed in Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was 100% produced, filmed & edited in America.