Assuming the video description is to be believed this was traded on copied VHS tapes, much like the original South Park shorts were. I enjoy the thought that edits like this have existed longer than many may realize.
I discovered this old VCD in my collection, and couldn’t find any reference to it. Made by Hot Ramen Video from around 1997 or thereabouts, it is a video mashup of NGE and SP that has Angels appearing in our favorite hick mountain town. It also brags of an “appearance” by Apollo Smile (don’t believe the hype). Not much of an NGE fan, but I"m a huge South Park nut, so I had to get this. And now, I’m looking to share this little oddity with other heads. Source was a VHS traded tape, so don’t complain about the quality.
Obviously, I don’t own any rights. Neither did they.
Yes, this stuff was traded on VHS tapes.
Source: I was graduating high school when this stuff was going on. I was in the thick of it. I don’t understand why the younger generations find it hard to believe the previous generations didn’t do things like this. Every generation does, they just use the media formats available at the time.
I don’t find it hard to believe, I’m just always a little in awe of how much more work would have been involved at every step. I admire the perseverence of people to do things they just think are cool, with whatever tools available. I’m old enough and/or grew up poor enough that we had some copied tapes but it was basically just things from cable traded among friends.
I only questioned the description a little because I’ve recently encountered a lot of art projects purporting to be old recordings I hadn’t heard of but most of them don’t look as authentic as this one under scrutiny.