{"id":4626,"date":"2012-02-23T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:52:30","slug":"dms-etches-psa-on-dvd-4-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"DMS etches PSA on DVD 4 U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In yet <em>other<\/em> news <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> has failed to spill in a timely manner, the cool kids behind <a title=\"Dark Maze Studios :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmaze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dark Maze Studios<\/strong><\/a> of <strong>Champaign<\/strong> completed their videogame adventure collection with <a title=\"PRESS START ADVENTURES on DVD @ Kunaki.com\" href=\"http:\/\/kunaki.com\/accounting\/ShowproductDetail.asp?PID=PX00Z0RWIM\" target=\"_blank\">the DVD release of <strong>PRESS START ADVENTURES<\/strong><\/a> on <strong>Friday, February 10<\/strong>. Fleshing out the colorful world inhabited by warriors Zach, Sam, and Lin-ku in the <strong>PRESS START<\/strong> live action films, the cartoon series directed by <strong>Ed Glaser<\/strong> and animated by writer <strong>Kevin Folliard<\/strong> spans three seasons of 13 Webisodes each. The region-free disc features this complete run as well as audio commentaries, bonus specials, and a making-of featurette; one can also visit the Dark Maze Web site for sneak peeks and additional behind-the-scenes interviews while the nifty cover artwork by <strong>Andrew Dickman<\/strong> appears below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fans received an e-newsletter <strong>January 17<\/strong> mentioning further Dark Maze developments apart from the PSA DVD. Stylized animation series <a title=\"SPACE NINJA :: Dark Maze Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmaze.com\/spaceninja\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SPACE NINJA<\/strong><\/a>, designed by comics artist <strong>Alex Mitchell<\/strong>, recently wrapped a 10-episode run just in time for the debut of <a title=\"NINJA THE MISSION FORCE :: Dark Maze Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmaze.com\/ninjathemissionforce\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NINJA THE MISSION FORCE<\/strong><\/a>, starring Glaser and <a title=\"The Cinema Snob :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecinemasnob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brad Jones<\/strong><\/a> as secretly warring ninjas in search of six \u201cavian ninja warrior\u201d figurines granting the possessor \u201cultimate ninja power.\u201d Inspired by the cut-and-paste action films of <strong>Hong Kong<\/strong> producer <strong>Godfrey Ho<\/strong>, Glaser splices together minimal original footage with dubbed clips from public domain material like the <strong>Brandon Lee\/Ernest Borgnine<\/strong> programmer <strong>LASER MISSION<\/strong> (1989) seen in Episode One, \u201cNinja Begininator.\u201d We\u2019ll embed ninja-tastic examples right here on <strong>CUBlog<\/strong> this Saturday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally, Dark Maze partner-in-crime <strong>Meagan Rachelle<\/strong> launched a new section of the e-newsletter, \u201cBe a Low-Budget Filmmaker,\u201d filled with valuable tips-and-tricks gleaned from their experiences. In her first compilation, Rachelle advises on how to make the most of cheap store-bought costuming. <a title=\"Dark Maze Studios :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmaze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Head back to the Dark Maze home page<\/a> and sign up if this interests you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"PRESS START ADVENTURES (Dark Maze Studios)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_pressstartanimeDVD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, gets pixely with it as they bring their animated Webisode series PRESS START ADVENTURES to your home entertainment system via DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[164,824,328,329],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-videos-du-c-u","tag-dark-maze-studios","tag-ninja-the-mission-force","tag-press-start-adventures","tag-space-ninja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}