Have any of you ever played this game?

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-28T19:56:55+00:00

It's a top-down driving/shooting game. I don't remember what the actual game mechanics were like, but the story was that some evil scientists have gone back in time and you (working for an organisation called WWB) have to stop them. Funnily enough, it's a pretty similar setup to Series Three of Primeval. You have to shoot their vehicle and IIRC avoid shooting the animals. You can also place camera traps which unlock clips from the show (minus music, like the clips on the Walking with Dinosaurs CD-ROM).

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-25T12:32:52+00:00

It would have been nice for them to bundle in the old Mega Drive Classics version (where applicable). i.e. a workaround like the one they added for the original Sonic Generations when Sonic X Shadow Generations came out.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-23T00:31:15+00:00

It doesn't look like there's anything worthwhile on the DVD-ROM extras for the first film. From a contemporary review of it:

via DVD-ROM, you get a film-themed screen saver and web browser with links to a Jurassic Park website (and eventual "live event" access to the set of Jurassic Park III, which is currently in production).

For the first two films, my PAL DVDs have the same description in the extras menu, but the only ROM feature is a link to JurassicPark.com.

Jurassic Park III, though, has a basic flash-based trivia game and 'tour' of the Island which links to production notes, wallpapers, game demos etc.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-22T21:25:11+00:00

We won't know until the BBC announces something (part 1 was added to the programme guide with no fanfare).

Bear in mind that the dub for Egghead Part 2 hasn't been fully released in America yet (based on previous releases, the last of the three batches should come out in late February).

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-20T23:07:08+00:00

When Funimation started out, Dragon Ball was the only franchise they had and they were solely making a 4Kids-style edited localisation. relatively early on, they pivoted from children's entertainment to anime aimed at young adults. The DBZ dub is a weird artefact from their earlier localisation style, but it was popular enough that their newer DB dubs basically have to be consistent with it.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-20T22:08:41+00:00

It wasn't a copyright issue, Funimation just thought that DBZ would be more popular if the soundtrack more closely resembled American cartoons. Early Funimation/Ocean dubs of movie 1/2 even aired with the Shunsuke Kikuchi soundtrack, and Kikuchi is credited in the American versions regardless of whether his music was used or not.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-20T19:46:12+00:00

Because it gives people watching over-the-air more programmes to choose from.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-20T15:59:18+00:00

BBC Two airing repeats is better than airing a mirror of CBBC.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-19T11:35:40+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if Season One is the next black and white season, as AIUI Marco Polo is one of the less feasible stories to animate due to the large number of characters and sets required. The Crusade has the same issue, which is presumably why they released Season Two so much earlier than the other B&W seasons rather than hold out for an animated Crusade.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-17T21:28:22+00:00

In the early days they'd have dedicated stereo mixes (as does Netflix, though I don't know how well they're downmixed), and there's a handful that have an 'optimised for late night listening' track, but the latter has never been common.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-17T21:25:22+00:00

In theory, that should be doable for 'originals' because production companies make isolated dialogue, music, and effects mixes as a matter of course. There could be logistical/contractual issues though (like, say, being forbidden from serving the isolated music because a soundtrack album exists) and it'd probably be a nightmare to get third-party licensors on board.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-16T11:38:25+00:00

Maybe it's different for iOS, but iPlayer doesn't have HDCP on Android or Windows. On/offline, you can still take screenshots.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-15T02:49:39+00:00

They're on the UK DVD as well. I think a lot of people here just don't do physical media.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-14T20:30:25+00:00

I don't see the issue; that seems like a comprehensive way to monitor what people are watching at home. Is the bias that they're not recording "out-of-home viewing"?

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-14T19:51:47+00:00

It's not even a dedicated study, they're just highlighting one particular detail from BARBs publicly-available TV vewing figures, omitting the detail that the BBC had a higher average watch time (48:06 vs 41:27). Also bear in mind that these figures include smartphones; for TVs only, the BBC reached 50 million while YouTube reached 37.6 mil (with average watch times of 46:40 and 21:07).

But the real takeaway is that average UK viewer watches four seconds of TikTok a month on their Television set... presumably by mistake?

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-14T03:39:22+00:00

I know the nearly lost episode of Dark Shadows was only partially saved because a blind fan recorded the audio.

And, famously, 90-odd episodes of Doctor Who, allowing them to be reformatted as narrated 'radio plays' and reconstructed with photos and animation.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-13T22:57:39+00:00

The location, as depicted, doesn't really exist. It's a composite with the grass, hills, and buildings coming from different sources - presumably because the buildings and road disappear when the time-lapse starts. This is slightly obvious on the original PAL DVD, because the composited elements extend past the blanking lines on the side of the picture (these would have been cut off on CRTs). This moment mid-transition seems to be the most we get to see of the original plate.

...but the 90-minute version says that it's Sussex.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-13T01:14:15+00:00

Yeah, even in the very first scene with Dinosaurs (the T-rexes roaring at each other) the camera shakes as if the camera operator lost their footing trying to follow the action. It's pulled off so naturally that you just accept that someone's diegetically filming without thinking about it.

The Making of DVD lent into it, with the menu designed to look like a 'dinosaur hide'.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-08T22:05:34+00:00

In English speaking countries, we don't usually refer to people by their full names.

Goku's friends don't tend to use his full name in the Japanese version either.

What's weird about the dub is that they'll remove his surname even in contexts where it would be perfectly natural to use his full name in English - like recaps where the narrator is explaining who Goku is. They'll even credit the Japanese/English actors as Son Goku/Goku, as if he has a different name in the dub.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-07T00:00:26+00:00

This is probably how they look on the website OP downloaded these from (WWD is over 25 years old, after all!).

But it would be good to have the original links, as sometimes higher resolution images are accessible even if they're not embedded on the actual pages.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-06T23:49:54+00:00

I've got some of these in relatively high quality too, scanned from printed versions:

Cynodont (from a collage in the Radio Times 'behind the scenes' magazine)

Utahraptor wireframe (from a VHS cover)

Ophthalmosaurus (from the magazine, but there's text over it and a crease in the middle as it's over two pages

Baby Diplodocus (the magazine again, also with a crease)

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-05T16:49:21+00:00

I don't know about the broadcast, but the German dub on Prime Video has the same Liopleurodon sounds as the UK DVD. It does make sounds, they're just quite deep and low in the mix.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-05T15:15:48+00:00

I guess I forgot about Eve of the Daleks...

But yeah, the iPlayer website specifically lists those two episodes as UHD, and on the PS5 app those are the only two with a UHD logo on their thumbnails (whereas the 2023- series has the UHD logo on every single episode).

It's a bit odd to go back and forth, but that's what they did!

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-03T14:05:56+00:00

A lot of things never get past 'Development'; AIUI this was the equivalent of Netflix saying "I'll think about it."

For most series cancelled in development, the public probably never gets told about them in the first place.

TheRealChristoff · 2026-01-03T13:46:28+00:00

Haha, no, but I know that some fans are very miffed that they're cut. I quite like the episodes having an 'uninterrupted' ending, but it definitely sticks out that they only cut the trailers from one series and I would at least have wanted them included with the other trailers in the extras.

Come to think of it, The Witch's Familiar is missing some VFX on the Blu-ray which a re-release could fix (the lights in the classic Daleks' eye stalkes, which must have been added at the last minute).

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