So a while back I had a website, www.greeneyedzeke.com, that was poorly maintained and almost never updated. Well, I'm trying again. This time, the site is called www.2d-sprites.com (thanks to Syd and Jeebus for helping decide on the name). You can also access it via the old URL if you so desire. While the name is basically a direct reference to gaming glory from days gone by, the scope of the site is slightly larger. Right now, in fact, the only thing up there is a CD review.

Tomorrow I see "Snakes On A Plane", though, and I'll probably post a review of that this weekend.

Also, there are various other projects being planned. Hopefully I can stay motivated enough to see them through.

Okay, that's enough sitewhoring by me.

I definitely want to include the DPP on the site. The backup disc with the files on it isn't playing nicely, though, which could suck in a big, big way. Stay tuned...

And yeah, I'd love some Jenna DP, too.

Just to let anyone know (since I don't update regularly enough that I assume anyone would be checking the site daily), a new article is up on 2d-sprites.

The "sister site" to 2d-sprites, www.plutoisaplanetdammit.com, was just updated. It links to another site I just put up. Basically, I've uncovered a horrifying plot against mankind that must been seen to be believed. That, and I have way too much free time at work, apparently.

I'm on a roll of some sort, 2d-sprites has been updated with a new food review!

Okay, so lemme ask a question...

Some of you might remember that back when I owned greeneyedzeke.org, I was undertaking "The Digital Pictures Project", where I attempted to play through every single Digital Pictures FMV game for the Sega CD/Saturn/3D0 without killing myself. I came to find out that it was fairly popular and a number of Sega fansites actually linked to it.

Sadly, when I took down the site, though I had backed the material up onto disk, I didn't take the greatest precautions (I honestly though the whole thing was over and that was that). Long story short, I can't find any of the DPP data anymore. I've put the machine I originally authored it all on through two separate file undelete utility scans and have only been able to pull up fragments at best. There's not much I can work with.

So my question is, for 2d-sprites... I've been going back and forth. Would it be worthwhile and of interest to people for me to redo/finish this? Part of me really wants to go through with it and experience every one of these games. But I'm worried that it would seem "fake" for me to cover material I've already spent time on. At the time, I had four articles. The first was a description OF the project, with a history of Tom Zito, Digital Pictures, and the Sega CD. The second was a rather longwinded look at how much goes into actually setting up a Sega CD. Number three was a playthrough of the game "Double Switch". And the last one (and the one that almost drove me to suicide ) was a playthrough of (gulp) "INXS: Make My Video."

If I did this over, I think the first article would be a history type deal again, only now I'd include stuff about the DPP version 1. As far as setting up a Sega CD goes, I might roll that up into the premiere article, since it might be of some benefit for me to get the games for the "stronger" systems, too. (For example, "Night Trap" is unrated and much nicer looking.. and more expensive... on the 3D0). Thus, placing such an emphasis on the SCD might be unnecessary, though still fun. Then I'd start with the games, an article for each one. Obviously, to be fair, I'd replay the two I'd already written about, with fresh material (I actually think the "INXS" video might benefit from my having already battled it once before).

Anyway, I'm just tossing that out there. Any feedback would be great.

Thanks!

Aaaand a new article is up. It's the last of the "stupid Halloween food" ones and I believe it is fittingly ridiculous. Tons of pictures, too.

A... sizeable new article is now up.

I can't believe I wrote this much about the topic.

Hey, thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you guys like the article.

To answer questions regading the DPP, my hope and goal is to have it back up at some point in the near future. The problem is that computer technology can oftentimes crap all over us and that's exactly what happened. The hard drive with the data... kaput. The freaking CD with the backups... nowhere to be found. I have bits and pieces of a few articles and almost the complete "INXS: Make My Video" one, though.

What I THINK I'm going to do is redo the whole damn thing, starting with the setup. This time out, though, the introduction, in addition to talking about the history of Digital Pictures/Tom Zito/the Sega CD would point out how undertaking this task has already almost killed me once.

As far as games go, the official list of Digital Pictures games (all of which I'd be playing) are as follows:

Double Switch, Night Trap, Corpse Killer, Prize Fighter, Sewer Shark, Supreme Warrior, Slam City with Scottie Pippen, Ground Zero Texas, Quarterback Attack, Four MAKE MY VIDEO titles (INXS, Kriss Kross, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, and C&C Music Factory).

I have also now learned that there were other non-sega cd games put out in the final days of the company, including Maximum Surge (with Yasmine Bleeth and Walter Koenig), and two PC-only games that I now vaguely recall as being somehow "educational" -- Kids On Site and What's My Story? .

There were a number of non-DP FMV games that were also awesome/awesomely bad (depending on your viewpoint), like Viacom's "Dracula Unleashed" (I actually really, really like this game... and I own the DVD version these days) and Sega's own Tomcat Alley, etc. If I ever actually made it through the main list, maybe I'd touch some of these, since they were very heavily influenced by what DP did.

Phew...