In terms of the whole thing with Official Playstation Magazine and Playstation Underground that was talked about in the vid, they're actually both done by Sony Computer Entertainment America, though I don't remember why that was the case at least during the PS1 era. I might be wrong with this, but I think the Underground was more of an independent venue for SCEA while the demo discs for OPM was a contracted thing. Plus the Underground had more of a "best of" angle where the demos on there were supposed to be the best of the best games, while the OPM demos were the ones where they tried to fill up the discs with whatever they can find month per month, so SCEA focused more on making PU more of a better value than OPM, but failed to do so once the OPM discs ended up selling better, solely due to how well those magazine sold. I might have facts confused on that front, and if anybody can correct me on that, that would help me out a lot. Either way, it lead to the two demo disc formats merging into one as soon as the PS2 years came along.
Funny enough, when Playstation Underground folded into Official Playstation Magazine around the PS2 era, the first "OPM/PU" crossover disc was actually the supposed "issue 5.2" that was promoted on the final official standalone Underground disc. To the degree that the OPM PS2 disc had codes for issue 5.1 on it, like a traditional Underground issue. That and the fact that the Underground host Maggie hosted the next couple of OPM/PU issues. Though she was phased out a year or so later, after the fact that the costs to do those intro segments got more expensive once the Underground issues went from a bi-monthly format into a regular monthly format once the PS1 OPM demo discs finally phased out. But the best part about that period of time, they actually had Maggie host a couple of actual segments aside from the intros on a few of the PS2 OPM/PU discs, including an incredibly cringe-worthy Jak and Daxter BTS video which I really hope the Demo Derby crew get to soon. To be specific, the OPM issue that happens on is OPM Issue 51. I totally recommend it.
I think the cow movie Dan was talking about was just called "Barnyard". I might be wrong but I do know it was a Nickelodeon movie from the guys that did Jimmy Neutron.
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