Welcome to the community! This is a great first post. I'm glad to hear its a good disc.
Jesus Christ, both!! 😆 But only finger tight. Sod you bastards who get the screwdrivers out! That's overkill. 😁
I like the collectability factor, but on the other hand, it is more plastic for the environment.
I enjoyed Ready Player One at the time even though some of it was just ridiculous. Re-enacting Ferris Buellers Day Off for example.
Armada, Cline's next book was awful. So many references on every page, I stopped reading. I remember a line that was something like, "my mum wouldn't let me past, like Gandelf in the mines of Moria." Sheesh! Let it go!
I fully read Ready Player Two but the guy has no story telling abilities. Every time the main character encounters a problem, e.g. I need a level 49 sword to get past this problem, but there's no way to get one, it was always solved with the same solution, "oh, I own the game and all Admins have level 1000 swords because we do!"
I think I reached my limit when he managed to shove in a Shaun of the Dead reference just because he mentioned a cricket bat!
CodeMaster religiously hold onto their copyrights. I remember searching for their 8bit games of the 1980s and while copies are out there, the places that do it legally, World of Spectrum for example, don't host them because CodeMasters refuse permission for these old games to be distributed for free.
I'm guessing PVOD is renting the film while a digital release is buying a copy. COUGH! I mean buying a license to stream a film whenever you want until they remove it from the service.
Discs forever!✊
There's a very good fan edit out there which removes many of the silly moments, such as the scientist talking to the worm creature as if it's cute and cuddly. They also completed VFX work on the deleted scenes and placed then back in the film.
It may be hard to find now. Looking at fan edit.org, I think it's Prometheus: Paradise Edition.
Isn't the anime like just a small part of the manga run. Its huge!
I only discovered it myself in the last month or so.
For example, I loved X-Wing CD edition back in the day for the real Star Wars soundtrack but I need to try it with MT32 midi emulation. I bet the iMuse system sounds fantastic.
It's an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It's very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you'd be laughing. The music is awesome.
The program is called Dreamm.
DREAMM is a backronym for:
DOS
Retro-
Emulation
Arena for
Maniac
Mansion (and other LucasArts Games). I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn't coming to the Atari.
I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.
The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.
I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.
There's also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.
There's a very dedicated team of fans who have bought, or been lent, cinema reels of the original Star Wars trilogy.
It's taken them years to scan it in, frame by frame and to correct the colour and repair the picture.
They're considered the gold standard. Search for 4K77, 4K80 and 4K83.
I remember interviews with Lucas and I think Rick MacCallum that said the original Star Wars negative was used to create the Special Editions.
The Library of Congress definitely has a print of Star Wars that was submitted in 1978. I think they also have Empire and Jedi but I'm not sure if they are the original editions.