How do 1990's stand. def digitally shot videos have such good slow motion?

So I have some older 1990s sporting videos on vhs that I am pretty sure were shot digitally, and they are 4;3 aspect ratio, but my questions is, most of the video is shot in slow motion, and it is soooo smooth and slow, I mean almost as slow as my 60p HD stuff I can shoot on my EX1. Were they shooting 60p in the early 90s or is that software just doing a good job of slowing it down?
Thank you.

it is a motorcycle video. couldn't have cost that much to shoot.
What makes you think that? (Hint: I shoot a lot of pro motorcycle racing stuff).
I doubt it was film. no film grain or anything...
You would have a tough time discerning film grain on a VHS tape's 240 lines of resolution.

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With due respect... this does not answer my question and does not help me that much , but anyway, thank you for the very constructive answer ^^.
I'm not sure I would even have considered doing this by myself...
I hope I do not get this kind of answer because you feel like my question was silly or unpolite... To my mind this was a pretty serious question.
Shooternz, next time you need to go 150 km far away from where you are, go by feet rather than with a car, I'm sure you will have plenty of satisfaction too. Just cross the fingers for you not to be in a hurry while it's raining outside.
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It was easy to check the effect of dragging a file to the timeline to see if it played normally or not, but it's definitely not to count and compare each frame of some sample file to find if some are lacking, or have been doubled or what....
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