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• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony
• VHS Release Date: October 7, 1997
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1573306843
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,441 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gamebrain: When the Internet Was but a mere child..., January 10, 2010

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Kincaid Kjeedo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mtv / Gamebrain: Official Playstation Guide [VHS] (VHS Tape)

MTV's Gamebrain was a very cool, but indefinitely scrapped idea on the whole of Strategy Guides by video. This video came out sometime in the late 90s, about the time when the Internet really started to get big. I think because of the internet this idea fell by the waist-side and thus, no more than one video was ever made. I however, happen to have collected the one video and used it many times to help me on most games.

The video started Tim Beggy (from MTV's "Road Rules") playing, supposedly, himself, talking to a fake brain in a glass jar. Tim, apparently a "wiz kid", creates a virtual reality chair that allows him to appear in the games he loves to play. This is but merely a setup for the rediculous story, of which, is almost transparent. From there, it's Tim appearing (via Green screen) in video games while a voiceover actor that makes Ben Stein's voice more lovable comes on and tells you what to do where, when, and how, mostly.

It covers a few great titles, like Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Armored Core, Tomb Raider 2, Final Fantasy VII and Crash Bandicoot 2. The reality of this video, however, is that it only tells you the stuff you NEED to know, and unfortunately, never goes much farther than that. This is where the video part fails. It's enough to get you to play the game, but not much more than that, and that's the bottom line.

It would be a fun purchase only if you still are missing the internet (I had Dial-up then, so this was better than going on the computer for two seconds by tying the phone lines for codes) or wanted the nostalgia factor, but other than that, it's not much else. A good friend or a computer can help you find codes, cheats, hints and whatnot, so the video is a bust, and plus, it only covered Playstation 1 games. Like VHS, Most Playstations are obsolete by now, and this video existed in a time when Video was still the king of the Video Store.

Still, I love popping it in every now and then just to marvel at the amazing decade I lived in called The 90s, and how strange it tried to be, and for that, it gets a 4 out of 5.