Curious if your Genesis globe produces blue streams without touching it?

Hi Starmute, I loved this vid and was thrilled to find out somebody else out there knows of Bill Parker! I " bought" from Sharper Image in the80's but had to relenquish when I decided I really couldn't afford ☹️one as a broke student- and longed for one ever after- UNTIL I managed to actually track Bill down- I was eventually able to commission a piece which I was finally to own, a VERY interesting guy that I wished had enjoyed his invention more. I haven't had mine out of the closet in ? Decades?🫣😖😵‍💫 It would be an actual miracle if it has survived, but it was working fine when lovingly packed so long ago. I'll see if I can find pics- if so I'll post em too. Mine is similar to "the rights of spring" but more blue streamers and nice greens and purples. As you know, you have to see it!

Thank you for the awesome video! You Inspired me to want to make one of my Aurora collection. I have Phoenix Rising S3 #52 and Promethean Fire #9 and a couple jrs.

Game from my childhood, thanks for uploading it.

Man, that green one is beautiful! I need this!

There’s this video game called metal gear rising revengeance where the main characters sword is wrapped around electricity at times, one of the special editions when it released had a little piece with the hilt of the sword and some of the sword inside and had a plasma lamp wrapped around it. Pretty cool, and I bought it very recently since I’m a huge fan of the game and plasma lamps

You do know you are being irradiated with ionizing radiation and high emf emissions right? Put a geiger counter next to this and it doesn't just click a lot... it squeals... mightily.

I built and repaired Parker globes at the Stamford factory - any globe that does not have Chore Boy brand copper scrubber in the electrode should not be used until is is installed. This will spread the heat and conduct best. DO NOT USE STEEL WOOL - steel burns! Do not use dollar store copper scrubber, those are copper colored steel. The top and bottom of the base is stuck together with silicone sealant. To open the base, use a razor blade at the corner. Sealing it up again with packing tape is my preferred method.

Who said you couldn't catch lightning in a jar.

Beautiful Globe, but that music.

As someone who's only ever had plasma globes made by Chinese companies, at least those low-quality power supplies seem to be just as effective as the higher quality supplies in commercial-grade plasma toys. That said, I don't really see a quality difference besides the screechy arcs, which personally don't bother me

it's a shame that the only new company that seems to be trying to follow in his path is Aurora, although one day I may start producing replicas, and creating my own.

dude, was that you making them uberstrike videos? if so, why did you remove them? i missed them back in the day while i was young, eating my food and just watching you commentating uberstrike..

Need an update video on this to see how the globes have aged, what effects that has had on the patterns and colors! Just picked up the Genesis myself.

Beautiful footage, thank you!

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What gas mix gives blue light?

Don't breath that stuff in!

Now do it without cheats noob

Played this in second grade when it first came out, I feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up in the 90's haha

Cool stuff. Gosh that music is rough as hell though. Ha. Dang, man.

In the menu, what (who) is Nanosaur's dentist? Are they a secret character in the game? Is it a joke? If anyone knows, please share. I must know.

Holy crap this just unlocked a childhood memory in me 😱

Thanks for this video! It brought back great memories of playing it years ago with my kids on our new iMac 3 in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

I am a great admirer of Aurora Plasma Globes. I have a few budget models, but I cannot persuade Aurora to ship to UK unfortunately. Does anyone know where similar plasma globes can be obtained in UK?

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I loved this video. Who is HBI? I can't find out anything about them. Do you know why multi-slider-controlled-globes lost popularity? I only ever had plasma globes with on and off but that customizability is what really takes that Sleepless nights globe to a big WOW level to me. I hope someone manufactures parker-like globes again soon.

This game was released in 1998 ! I was a naive schoolboy when I played this (before 2005), and I only wanted to walk on the map without fulfilling the objectives. A fun souvenir. I miss that simple and modest time... I'm 27 years old and I feel so old when I remember this.

I called is plasma, art daylight lightning

I really like what you did there just converted to what used to be a shell of what it used to be from Bill, Parker’s sleepless nights, plasma, art… And making something new out of it

Hi Starmute VII Great video! I'm about to experiment with plasma globes as well and have a question you might know the answer to. :-) I have an opportunity to have a globe made from plastic. Do you know if it is possible to use plastic in stead of glass? Both the outside and inside part. Does it insulate correcly? or get too hot maybe? Hope to hear from you. - Peter

How do you pick up eggs in this game? I've tried but my dino just always stands there XD

If you heat the globe prior to pumping you won't have to flush it so many times

What are those one plasma balls were when you touch it and your hair stands up, and how could I order one?

Plasma globes are so cool! I've had some bad luck with them, although I never have bought a high end one.

That Touhou music completely caught me off guard, I've always loved those OSTs! And you're definitely making me want to order some plasma artwork now...

I have a parker globe and have this problem too I believe. It sometimes randomly throws a red hot spark on the inside of the electrode. I believe it is the high voltage wire just not making good contact with the metal coating and indeed that is what modern globes use, coarse steel wool. I think I will put a piece into it. Don't want the globe to die. Also, do you perhaps still have the original electronics installed? The power supply of mine has been replaced with a generic chinese plasma globe psu, but I belive it is overpowered at 24v to make it run this big of a globe. It works, but I rather like the original controls. Power, frequency and pulsing I believe the 3rd slider is. Not sure what the button originaaly did. Mine is an early 1983 model, not signed, no numbers on it or anything. I belive it has the elegance of becoming gas mix. The original PCB with sliders is still there, but it is missing some components, but your's looks very different from the inside. A lot of connectors instead of soldered connections, but idk if that is the only difference.

love to see an effects artist use these to do a terminator time travel effect

Hey Starmute! I was wondering where you got those AC flyback transformers? Because I have one from a CRT tv but it doesn't power up any plasma globes that I have (it was a DC flyback).

does this get hot on the inside? also could it conduct thru say plastic around the inside?

SOunds like you should have just sent it to parker for repair. This is typically how most "It works for me" repairs go

Played in 6th grade, none of us actually ever beat the game lol

is it possible to make a plasma toroid ball that will react to the sound input by changing its color like polar lights and twisting its wave shape accordingly? probably using FFT phase analysis?

You are a lot better than I was.

Nice. If you want to get rid of air you could use alkaline earth metals because they react both with oxygen and nitrogen. From the alkali metals only lithium reacts with nitrogen.

This was my first computer game

Nice video, but Bill Parker didnt invent the plasma globe. Nikola Tesla did back in the early 1890s.

It took me years finding this game!! I played this in my last year in Elementary school. So awesome!!

This was one of my firsts in computer lab. We got rid of the old black and neon computers and got the translucent apple computers. Late 90s