Amazing work, Bill! You really blew the lid off with this one. Love the jokes and cool special effects!
Thanks. It's fun to experiment. I still have obvious audio issues, but towards the end Premiere Elements barred me from tweaking the levels and even adding a few final transitions I wanted. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to wrestle with the software all the time!
Matt Barton wrote:
I loved playing Satan's Hollow on my C-64 back in the day, though it was too hard to get very far. I love its theme and design; quite bizarre and even unique even today. I've heard about a Miyamoto game called Devil World or some such, but not sure if that has any relation to this game (I'm guessing not).
Satans Hollow (I believe it actually is without the apostrophe, which is why I didn't include it, though to this point I've always written "Satan's") is a naturally difficult game, but the nice thing about the C-64 version is the "Easy" mode, which I activated for the video. That's the mode I was able to roll the game over in when I was a child (>1,000,000). Also, in doing this video, I couldn't believe how poor the Atari 8-bit version was (for the reasons we stated in the video, but still). Apparently Atari fans still like it, but it really doesn't give you the true flavor of the arcade experience. On the plus side, I was happy with how Camtasia Studio rendered out MAME, so I think we have another good option for the documentary outside of Mark's generous assistance.
Devil World is not related. I was going to mention other "devil/satan" games, like the classic pinball machine "Gorgon" and contemporary arcade game "Satan of Saturn", but there really wasn't a good place to do it (plus that whole 10 minute limit thing--in fact, if it wouldn't have pushed the file size past 2GB, I would have rendered this at 1080i instead of 720p). I also had to drop one other film clip that I thought would have been funny because I forgot to record that bit of narration and didn't feel like recording it!
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Amazing work, Bill! You really blew the lid off with this one. Love the jokes and cool special effects!
Thanks. It's fun to experiment. I still have obvious audio issues, but towards the end Premiere Elements barred me from tweaking the levels and even adding a few final transitions I wanted. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to wrestle with the software all the time!
I loved playing Satan's Hollow on my C-64 back in the day, though it was too hard to get very far. I love its theme and design; quite bizarre and even unique even today. I've heard about a Miyamoto game called Devil World or some such, but not sure if that has any relation to this game (I'm guessing not).
Satans Hollow (I believe it actually is without the apostrophe, which is why I didn't include it, though to this point I've always written "Satan's") is a naturally difficult game, but the nice thing about the C-64 version is the "Easy" mode, which I activated for the video. That's the mode I was able to roll the game over in when I was a child (>1,000,000). Also, in doing this video, I couldn't believe how poor the Atari 8-bit version was (for the reasons we stated in the video, but still). Apparently Atari fans still like it, but it really doesn't give you the true flavor of the arcade experience. On the plus side, I was happy with how Camtasia Studio rendered out MAME, so I think we have another good option for the documentary outside of Mark's generous assistance.
Devil World is not related. I was going to mention other "devil/satan" games, like the classic pinball machine "Gorgon" and contemporary arcade game "Satan of Saturn", but there really wasn't a good place to do it (plus that whole 10 minute limit thing--in fact, if it wouldn't have pushed the file size past 2GB, I would have rendered this at 1080i instead of 720p). I also had to drop one other film clip that I thought would have been funny because I forgot to record that bit of narration and didn't feel like recording it!
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.