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[VirusType2]

Some of you may have heard me talking about my oldest brother a lot, that's because there is so much to talk about.

For fun, my brother is working on a CGI Arcade movie featuring the Time-Out chain of arcades at the mall
- resized project images (they look real):

Larger 1920x1080 version of Donkey Kong CGI
http://www.timeouttunnel.com/images/movie/donkeykong_testrender_21.jpg
Large list of arcade machine CGI images here:
http://www.timeouttunnel.com/movie.htm

Sorry for the recent lack of updates! I've been slightly sidetracked with another, somewhat related project for the last few months. In the meantime, here are some new machines that I've just modeled for the virtual arcade. I also updated the Asteroids model a bit.

I can tell you what he means by 'sidetracked with another, related project' is that he has been hired on to do all the computer animation for a movie coming out soon. This is all done on the side, he also has a full time job at a large media conglomerate.


A model "Time-Out" arcade by Kyle Snyder. Made entirely from paper!
http://www.timeouttunnel.com/album_papercade.htm
sample:

Download Arcade 84 CGI Movie by Dave Dries here:
http://www.cinemarcade.com/arcade84.html


My brother's retro arcade radio station (including obscure music and commercials for 80's video game consoles, etc. )
http://www.peterhirschberg.com/arcade/radio.htm


Profiles of his arcade machines here. (shows game Name, release date, image):
http://peterhirschberg.com/arcade/games.htm

All games are dedicated originals - no conversions. Not all the machines are depicted in the gameroom photos. There's just not room for all of them in the gameroom, and some are in another room awaiting refurbishing.

Here you can see a step-by-step restoration of one of his Tron machines:
http://peterhirschberg.com/arcade/tronrestore.htm


Large set of images from my brothers Game room here:
http://peterhirschberg.com/arcade/gameroom.htm
resized samples (the first thing you might notice is the Black-Light reactive carpeting. Looks cool):

This one of Star Wars is for you Shakermaker =_)

I was here. This is me and Sidious' oldest brother. When we go to my brother's house for his kids Birthdays and stuff, you can find me in the basement playing these games. He has a dollar bill changer, but it's set so you press the button and tokens come out. Free play FTW!


Free simulated L.E.D. retro games available for download on Windows, Mac, Palm, PocketPC
I like Football II. It's the one I remember playing the most as a kid. It plays just like the original. -VT2
http://peterhirschberg.com/handheld/ledhead/index.htm

Yes, I actually DID draw all the art, recreate all the sounds, and write the logic routines by hand.

What he didn't say, but told me one time was - this was due to copyright laws that he couldn't just use the sounds and code from these classic handhelds.

More images and info on everything in this post can be found here:
http://www.peterhirschberg.com/
http://www.timeouttunnel.com/home.htm

 

[sinkoman]

Movie == t3h pwn

Donkey Kong image == new wallpaper

 

[Gargantou]

Wow, that's actually really nice : D
I wish my big brother was into gaming and computers, but he's all into all that damn shit.. "Sports" or w/e the hell it's called.. It sounds boring tho, apparently he throws balls in baskets, I mean, how ****ing lame ain't that?xD

 

[Lucid]

So what EXACTLY is the movie about?

A fly by of video game machines?

A tour of Time-Out?

 

[weskerQ8]

Wow, that's actually really nice : D
I wish my big brother was into gaming and computers, but he's all into all that damn shit.. "Sports" or w/e the hell it's called.. It sounds boring tho, apparently he throws balls in baskets, I mean, how ****ing lame ain't that?xD

I don't agree with you, sports is cool espacially SOCCER ( who in the world don't love it )

I am one Of Portugal Team Fan ( But I am Kuwaiti )

 

[Gargantou]

I was just kidding around anyway, I like sports myself, particulary American Football and Hockey.

 

[sinkoman]

Wow, that's actually really nice : D
I wish my big brother was into gaming and computers, but he's all into all that damn shit.. "Sports" or w/e the hell it's called.. It sounds boring tho, apparently he throws balls in baskets, I mean, how ****ing lame ain't that?xD

What I find really sucks, is juggling sports and gaming.

"Am I a geek, or a jock? Last week, I kinda was a tad 'HUF MUSCLE'ey, what about 'hey, do you play BF2' this week?"

Oh and the video is a kind of a flyby tour of an arcade, but it's really cool. All the machines have their own textures, and each one has sound and is playing an animation

 

[VirusType2]

So what EXACTLY is the movie about?

A fly by of video game machines?

A tour of Time-Out?

Sorry for the confusion. There were 3 movies I spoke of.
1) A theater movie
My brother is doing the animation for a movie for theaters. I really don't know any details but I was at my brothers house (I built a swing-set for their kids) and he had some rendered scenes he showed me. It's 3D animation of 80's games. The movie will have a camera fly into these Retro games and show them as a 3D game like todays games. It's going to be cool. I really didn't get much details on anything, not even the name of the movie, but perhaps I'll email him and get more info, but he is extremely busy as you'd imagine and gets a lot of email, so Yes or no questions are about all that are immediately answered when it comes to him, but I have seen some of it, and it's very good of course. Just imagine all those 80's games in 3D! The actual sprites and characters in these games themselves! The camera goes into the screen of these CGI arcade games, flat, 2D walls rise up and look like a 3D cut scene as you watch the game play. I don't know what the movie is about or if it even has a plot, but I will ask him.

2) The other movie I talked about was his hobby project - basically a tribute to the Time Out arcades which were the only place to play video games when he was a kid. This was the beginning for video games, they had just been invented. There was no such thing as a console early on. It looks like Dave Dries sort of beat him to it, but I'm pretty sure my brother will out-do him, since my brother is a perfectionist, and it's sort of a project as part of a resume to show off how skilled he is. I should be able to get a copy in resolutions that my current PC monitor can't even support, since he uses 1900x resolutions, it's going to be uber sick and shiney. He has told me that he hasn't given up his work on the movie as copyright, so my brother owns the stuff, so you will see the things I talked about from the movie as well! Yea he said the company was a bit unpleased to see his CGI work posted here on the internet, but my brother was like, "well, it's mine, It was here before, and thats how you found out about me, from the internet, so I'm not taking it down."

3)The final movie I talked about was Dave Dries 84 Arcade movie. A camera flying around through a computer generated (CGI) arcade at a mall to a 80's rock band that I've never heard of and is very similar to the movie my brother is working on for fun, but probably simpler, although it's really quite good. I watched it several times in a row because it brings back memories of when I was 20+ years younger and like I said it's some pretty good CGI graphics. Download it if you have high speed.

EDIT: and I add this:

Wow, that's actually really nice : D
I wish my big brother was into gaming and computers, but he's all into all that damn shit.. "Sports" or w/e the hell it's called.. It sounds boring tho, apparently he throws balls in baskets, I mean, how ****ing lame ain't that?xD

Well, I never loved the athletic sports mainly because I hated running, which was the basic criteria for most every sport. I've always liked guns, archery, car racing, skateboarding, motorcycle and dirt bike racing, things like that. Sports that don't make me want to fall on the ground in agony gasping for breath and sweat furiously trying to keep me cool but even sticking my head in a bucket of ice water wouldn't cool me down. .. those kinds of sports are just not for me.

I love taking free throws with a basketball or batting in baseball, I just didn't find these great moments in sports frequent enough to make up for all the other boring crap you have to do like run and practice every day of your life.