Here come the holidays and as usual more site work is done around this time than any other.  Things are a little different this year however as I have once again secured employment.  So for the immediate future things are a little uncertain as I don't know how much time I'll have to work on things here.  This period should only last a couple weeks until I can get myself a solid schedule for working on the site figured out.  My obligation to Retrogaming Times Monthly comes before anything I write here but that shouldn't be any kind of problem.  Well honestly my personal life comes first but no one cares about that.  I'll try to keep to the one update per week minimum for DVGI but we all know that things do get in the way. --09/07/06

I'm back from my summer away so things here are beginning to get back to normal.  That includes the weekly update upload at David's Video Game Insanity.  This weekend the battery of DVGI updates will return and hopefully the trend will continue every week now that temperatures are beginning to cool down.  Thank you once again for sticking with us through the summer months. --09/07/06

This is an important announcement about this summer at ClassicPlastic.net which will effect all sites under the ClassicPlastic.net umbrella.  Beginning on the 18th of June, I will be away for weeks at a time with limited e-mail access.  There will still be a support staff making sure the site is accessible but there will be no updates or new content while I am away.  Upon my return every couple weeks for a one week duration, I will update the site (namely David's Video Game Insanity) with new content.  I will still have e-mail access while away, limited as it will be, so e-mails will be responded to as promptly as possible.  In other words a drought in site updates and new content for the next few months does NOT mean that the site has disbanded.  We are simply on temporary hiatus over the course of this summer and updates are going to be sparse until September rolls around.  Take it easy this summer everyone and thank you again for visiting ClassicPlastic.net - your source for video game insanity! --06/11/06

The temperature is starting to get warmer which means that I'm putting the site into "Summer mode" a little earlier this year.  This means that there may be occasional delays in updates, however the content will be up eventually.  I will still make a serious attempt to keep weekly content updates at DVGI going as they have been over the past couple months - new stuff each week.  I simply wanted to announce this publicly here before I get a backlog of e-mails or anything. --05/04/06

Just a few quick changes to this main index page.  There is now a direct link to Gear Up @ ClassicPlastic.net, the ClassicPlastic.net store at Cafepress.  Additionally there are some new products there and the pricing schemes are now correct in that only one dollar or less profit is made on any item.  Please take a look. --03/25/06

I've went through and updated Built For Speed, the Stray Cats lyric archive.  There are now ads on each page but they are unobtrusive as the others that are sprinkled around key pages here at ClassicPlastic.net.  If you find the sponsors on the ads interesting, please click them.  ClassicPlastic.net content has always been free of popups, registration, or cost to you the end user - I'd like to keep it that way and Google Ads are one of the ways that can be maintained.  I've also changed the Built For Speed linking graphic to the right.  Now it's time to get back into review mode for David's Video Game Insanity. --03/13/06

In keeping with my original plan of having all my web projects in one place, Star Tours Info joins the rest of the features here.  Originally the data there was at StarToursInfo.com but I have decided it would be better if it was located here.  Take a look for the most comprehensive guide to the Disneyland Star Tours attraction. --01/31/06

I've completed a long overdue update to the FAQ file.  Also a link for Sailor Senshi Sanctuary has returned, hopefully it'll be back this summer. --01/13/06

The ads are now fully in place and everything seems to be running smoothly, I'll be updating the FAQ soon. --01/08/06

It took awhile but Built For Speed, my unofficial Stray Cats lyrics archive is now online and active.  Please take a look because it was quite an undertaking to clean up and transcribe the lyrics.  I created the archive because I was fed up with lyric sites that were filled with popups and spam.

You may also notice that now certain parts of ClassicPlastic.net contain a Google ads window.  These ads are safe to be displayed on your computer and I hope they are unobtrusive.  I decided to implement them to help to pay for hosting as I have visions of expanding the site over this year into the summer.  Thanks again for visiting as ClassicPlastic.net enters the new year. --01/04/06

With 2005 winding to a close it's time for a few changes here.  First off our data storage site, ClassicPlastic.info, has been relinquished - it will not be renewed for another year.  Thereby from this date forward ClassicPlastic.info is not longer associated with us, ClassicPlastic.net.

StarToursInfo.com, a site I also maintain, will be folded into ClassicPlastic.net in Spring 2006.  It was always my intention to move it here but now there is an official date.  Additionally some other site features should come back online in the Spring and Summer of 2006.  These include the Programs / Utilities section, a revamped Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, the Unofficial Stray Cats Lyrics Archive and so forth.  Some of these new and/or returning features are ready to go, many are still in development.  There are also a few additions I'm considering but have not be finalized.

The 8 Bit Flashback Information Hub will go through a radical change soon.  With the final release approaching fast, the site will change to a project chronicle and archive. --12/08/05

Summer comes to a close and with that the hot temperatures do as well.  That means I can get back to having weekly content updates at David's Video Game Insanity and more of them. Also means that the smaller parts of ClassicPlastic.net such as 8 Bit Flashback and the Anime Archives can be updated more frequently.  Speaking of 8 Bit Flashback, I'm currently laying the groundwork of what will be the final release slated for sometime this Winter.  The Information Hub is terribly out of date, I know, that will be addressed shortly.

I want to take a moment to mention another site I recently set up and got moving, StarToursInfo.com.  It's basically the source for all information concerning the original Star Tours attraction at Disneyland.

That's about it for now, be sure to check back and thank you again for visiting ClassicPlastic.net and continuing to show huge support for this small site. --09/24/05

Well here we are, it's July and that means ClassicPlastic.net is now one year old.  A lot has happened in this past year but the site has continued to grow and things will only get better from this point forward.  There are a couple very exciting site features that are coming up later this year as well as continual updates to David's Video Game Insanity!  If you've noticed, certain parts of the site have already begun these refinements.  Also there will be some restructuring at DVGI later this summer to make navigation even easier as well as many additional features.

On a final note, as the temperature increases I will have less and less time to work on site features.  The area where my computer terminals are simply gets way too hot for most of the day.  In other words site features will continue to be worked on but only when it is cool enough, this may also delay e-mail replies.

Thank you again for visiting ClassicPlastic.net and continuing to show huge support for this small site. --07/04/05

Thank you everyone for understanding and listening to my requests concerning only uploading updates weekly and not direct linking to images and site features.  With the changes made to the site to clean up the file system as well as the removal of the Sailor Senshi Sanctuary and streamlining of certain features, our bandwidth usage in April was back down to a hair over 185MB.  I know lots of people were direct linking to the PlayStation 2 cleaning tutorial images but I'm going to change up their file names and locations periodically to prevent this and all images that were being linked to have been watermarked and their locations and names changed.

The weekly upload model is working out great, only giving the bandwidth a hit once a week when the uploads go out.  Remember that I work on the site throughout the week but the updates aren't made available until the following weekend.  Thank you again for visiting ClassicPlastic.net and helping keep it running smoothly. --05/07/05

There are some changes to the way ClassicPlastic.net is now updated.  Instead of uploading changes and new features as soon as they are ready to go live, all updates will now be on a weekly basis.  I will continue to work on things offline and they will be carried out as usual (including the running news updates at DVGI and dev notes at 8 Bit Flashback Information Hub) except the week's changes and additions will be uploaded at the same time.

This is for two reasons.  First it helps ease the bandwidth hit of uploading pages that change three or four times during the week usually, such as the news pages.  (bad example since the file size is so small but you get the idea)  Running changes that may happen to added features can now be handled before uploading so that there's not so much back and forth uploading / deleting to and from the server.  Second it helps ease the bandwidth hit of return users since instead of checking the site every day or so to see if there's anything new, they'll only have to check back weekly and read the news sections.  If there are important additions (new crucial reviews, etc.) or changes they will still be uploaded immediately but for the most part weekly updates will occur over each weekend. --04/16/05

About half way through March ClassicPlastic.net had its hosting suspended due to exceeding our bandwidth limit.  Since I don't plan on increasing the monthly bandwidth plan until sometime this summer there are a number of changes going into effect.  First the Programs / Utilities section will remain offline.  Second the truncated Sailor Senshi Sanctuary has been removed.  While there aren't any character pictures there I do have a large amount of scans and merchandise pictures that take a tremendous hit on bandwidth.  Sailor Senshi Sanctuary is set to return, in all its former glory, when I increase my hosting model after this summer.  Davy's Anime Archives has been redesigned from the back end to load more efficiently.  There have also been a large number of changes to David's Video Game Insanity mostly concerning better origination of documents and removal of unused, old, or alternate images.  However you won't see any differences, it's all technical junk on the back end.  Lastly I may end up serving unobtrusive Google ads here on the main page to help bleed off hosting costs.  Remember that I plan on restoring the now missing features once I beef up hosting but as things sit now the main parts of ClassicPlastic.net are as they have always been. --04/02/05

Traffic continues to be extremely heavy so I've disabled the Programs / Utilities section until further notice.  If the usage rate doesn't begin (and continue) to drop then I'll have to remove the Sailor Senshi Sanctuary as well.  Sometime this summer I'm going to beef up the server bandwidth but currently that simply is not an option. --03/11/05

It seems traffic has been pretty heavy as of late, both to David's Video Game Insanity as well as Sailor Senshi Sanctuary.  Is this one of the few sites left that still has a working download of WS_FTP LE?  It sure seems that way because the download from here has been pretty popular.  If you have a site and use the program PLEASE download it and upload it to your webspace to help cut down on my bandwidth usage.  My newest site addition is now up, Extended Play Game Backups.  Basically it's my contribution to the world of lost video games, offering clean (as in virus and adware free) emulation archives as well as duplicate backups of console games.  Please read the disclaimer and rules on the respective page.  Thanks for visiting ClassicPlastic.net! --02/23/05

Time for some site wide news.  Updates have been continuing among each section of ClassicPlastic.net as always but I wanted to make a news update here just in case you only read one part of the collective. Sailor Senshi Sanctuary has finally gotten its first content update since early 2001 and more should follow this week.  David's Video Game Insanity is beginning to return to how operations were earlier.  The 8 Bit Flashback Information Hub will have some development updates by next week but due to some technical problems the project itself is on hold.  The Anime Archives should have some reviews up during the month of February.  That's it for now, remember the individual sites within ClassicPlastic.net are updated all the time. --01/27/05

A few changes - first the Punkat Productions pages have been removed.  They simply were not suiting any real purpose and since my emulation distributions are no longer going to be public I've decided to pull the Punkat Productions information archive as well.

Second - my Sailormoon site, Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, has finally returned.  It was my first really big web project and was at one time the third largest Sailormoon site in existence.  The new version is somewhat truncated to fall in line with bandwidth usage.  I will be monitoring the activity on the SSS directory.  Please note that direct linking to images or heavy usage will force me to pull SSS all together.  Here's hoping that I don't have to. --12/12/04

The previously noted planned updates to David's Video Game Insanity have been completed.  Now David's Video Game Insanity is finally at version 4.0 - please check the "News and Updates" page over at DVGI for more details.

The holidays are on the way and that means our annual game sales rush here at ClassicPlastic.net (formerly only David's Video Game Insanity!!) so be sure to go over to David's Video Game Insanity and check out the "For Sale" section to see what's at the DVGI Storefront.  During this time offers are considered on EVERYTHING so look over what's for sale, pick out some items, and e-mail me with your requested price.  I'm sure we can work something out. --11/11/04

My anime archives are now up, or at least they are for the most part.  Additionally now I have an area for archived site news.  After every fourth news update I will transfer all of them over to the archives.

The next update in the way of site restructure will take place over at David's Video Game Insanity, possibly sometime before the end of the year.  It will have to do with the game archival pages, mainly making them easier to read and update as well as replacing some terribly out of date graphics.  --11/04/04

The Frequently Asked Questions file is now up, finally.  Now I just need to do the news archive and the Anime Archives. --09/08/04

The summer comes to an end this weekend as a number of my assistants for other parts of the site head back to school.  The 3.0 graphical roll out is now complete including the final missing graphics here and a link button at the bottom of this page, if you want to link to ClassicPlastic.net please post the link button on your site.  Now that the next 8 Bit Flashback release is taken care of for the most part, I'm going to concentrate my resources to getting missing parts of the site up and writing for David's Video Game Insanity. --08/23/04

Programs / Utilities section is now completely active, I'm working at getting the other features implemented as soon as possible. --07/30/04

The 2.0 graphical roll out is now complete.  Navigation from the main page is far cleaner and more efficient and now follows the style I originally wished to create.  The graphics took me quite a while to design and complete so no reusing them please.  Everything but the sprites are, after all, copyrighted works. --07/28/04