For years we wanted the arcade at home. It's only now that I realise that the atmosphere of the arcades were as, or maybe more important than the games themselves. I miss these times.
Heartwarming, seriously. It's like somebody time-travelled just to capture a totally normal 5 minutes from this place and era -- wicked quality. Even a zoom-in on the blue Nikes! Everybody's happy. Love it.
I love the Asian grandma and granddaughter laughing together. They look so happy. That little girl is probably in her early 40s now and her grandmother probably passed away. I bet this is a treasured memory of hers and she probably has no idea this video exists. I hope she finds it someday.
Yeah me to that year was a blast for me I was 12 and was finding ways to acquire quarters back doing odd jobs like having a newspaper route and found out that Sleep was a necessary thing in my young life back then and having a pickle about what a job really is by reality.
*Born on 10 August 1967 and Yes, i am 53 ;)* *For a Christmas-Retro-Flashback, i just installing MAME v0.226 now ;)* *Much Arcade-Greetings from Hamburg !!*
I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this blonde lady in a white fur coat came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and a drink, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it
@1:00 can clearly see the kid putting his quarter on the Defender game to claim next game. Back in the day when you could put money on a game, could go walk around, it would still be there and people honored your place in line. I so loved hanging out in the arcades back in the day.
So true. A real honor system at work! Then there was that one guy (usually a lot older) that was a total ace at the game, so you had to wait forever ...but the dibs still held!
This is true and was very much alive in the 1990's as well. I grew up in the arcades in the 90's and saying "I got downs" while slapping a quarter down actually meant something. We (gamers) were fiercely protective of everyone playing games in our home arcades. Even if we didn't know you...we watched out for you.
I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this blonde lady in a white fur coat came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and a drink, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it
This has got to be the best arcade footage I've ever seen. It totally captures everything from that era, especially the whole universal arcade "dibs" action of putting the quarter on the bottom of the marquee ledge (@1:00 as mentioned by corn1971). Just that capture alone makes the clip a priceless time capsule. This had to be filmed by a broadcast-quality camera. Look how pristine the footage is! Amazing.
The height of the arcade era, the same year Pac-Man, Galaga and Donkey Kong were the real big time quarter eaters. I was only 2 years old. I played in an arcade back in the day, filled with classic games, but that was like the mid to late 80s. The golden age was over by then. Still, good times.
This video is GOLD. It has it all. The atmosphere, sounds, feel, the person recording not talking over everybody. The way it should be to show how it really was back in the golden arcade era.
Not bad. I turned 9yrs old that year. I remember The Quarters dibs & respect such well. Arcade games weren't limited to just arcades at the time...they were nearly EVERYWHERE...Bowling Alleys, Pizza Joints...Pizza Hut especially featured table top based gaming cabinets for Pac-Man, Galaga & Mr. Do to name a few. You could eat off them too. I remember playing Phoenix at a Safeway Grocery store back in my native Silver Spring MD less than a mile from my house there in my pre-teens. I finally beat it last decade at a local laundromat here in Durham NC where I currently reside. It took me 3 decades later but...🥳. Moving on, arcade games were also in in roller rinks & 7-11's. People's Drug had 1 at most of their stores, including 1 2 blocks from My Grandparents House in DC. It since became a CVS...😪No games there. Thanks for the nostalgia & GAME ON WELL🎮👊🏿.
@2:33 note the comment "Watch his hand, Mickey. His firing hand." Defender's fire buttons were super-sensitive, and experienced, adept players took full advantage of its action. With just the right wrist control one could flutter their fingertips over the button (like this player was doing) and unleash a solid barrage of needle-thin laser death on those enemies.
That reminds me of Hyper Olympic, the game where you tapped furiously to run. Someone had the idea of rubbing the edge of a coin over the button. The high scores quadrupled and a groove appeared through the buttons on machines all over town. Fun times
@@tenmillionvolts oh man yup, we knew it as _Track and Field_ here in LA. I'm convinced this was the only arcade game that people discovered how to "hack" to their advantage. When we first got the game installed at our local bowling alley, you could hear people from miles away furiously thumping away at the buttons during gameplay. That cab took so much wear/abuse from that action that the deck plate surrounding the buttons totally got worn away to the bone where people's fingers hit it. Then after awhile, I'm not sure who started it, but someone got the idea that you could position a pencil between your fingers, using the middle two fingers as a fulcrum to create a sort of "see-saw" motion where you only had to tap one button to reciprocate the action to the other one. It worked like a charm; those of us who honed our skills at this method would totally sweep the game. Then there was one day where this older guy (in his mid-'20s) came up with some crazy hack that involved an electric toothbrush. I wasn't there to witness it in person, but supposedly his hack worked so well that the players would zip across the screen at light speed. I wish I'd seen it. Either way, what's crazy is I guess the cab owner caught onto our hacks, and installed these new raised button bezels that prevented us from "cheating." The game's popularity totally fell off after that, lol. That's cool about using a coin-I'd never seen that! Funny how you could tell how prevalent the hack was, with those tell-tale grooves haha ...good times.
This was before I was born but I still remember enough of the 80s to know that there were arcade machines everywhere, and when you think about it you really are traveling back in time, but those arcade games were ahead of their time when they first came out.
Yeah, ppl did in general look better then; not like today's inflatable, tattooed and pierced Ken and Barbie dolls. And yeah, _mostly_ well shot except for random, annoying closeups on wall art. I'm not sure the guy operating the camera knew what he was doing. At some point we hear somebody say, "what are you doing, man?", probably to the camera guy.
I remember being a Kid when Sears had its own Arcade. Memory serves that there was a decent amount of machines to play. I remember Sears had Super-PAC-Man,first time I saw & played it! Disney World had me addicted to the game Tron!
My brother used to work for Atari HQ in San Jose Ca. they literally had a break room like this with games of all different kinds. sometimes they had games before they hit arcade places. I forget which NHL game it was, but my brother and all his co workers altered the game and added themselves to the game.
I remember the arcades were so much fun , they were still going pretty strong in 1993 when I was in Junior high, the Mortal Kombat, final fight and Street fighter games a lot of times had a line to play and of course I can remember playing the atari games as a kid in the 80's at the beaches and arcades.
Holy crap, Teeter Torture in the background at :39! Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of this game, it was never mass-produced; only one prototype is known to exist. I recognized it only because I played this very cabinet in 2016 at California Extreme. This arcade was probably a test location for pre-release games.
Great video!!! I remember visiting my cousin who was in the Air Force in Mt. View CA in the early to mid 90's and they had a nickel arcade, right near where he lived. I believe MK 3 had just come out and it was 3 nickels to play. Good times and a great town.
kinda like shopping now, in the 80s going to the mall was a social activity...now you have online shopping from your couch and gaming is done in the home...isolated society today vs then ...oh and besides gaming in the 80s all kids rode bikes and played outdoors with friends most of the day
Wow, Teeter Torture! That's an unreleased prototype. They only ever made one unit of that game. Fortunately, it's a regular at California Extreme each year, so many people have gotten to play it over the years. This arcade must have been a test location for Exidy back in the day.
god I miss this.. I got 174k on Defender once in Great America in Illinois back when I was 14 or 15 so 84ish.. I had a group of people around me at the end of the game.. lol. Felt great! Stargate was also my jam once it came out.. Yillabian dogfight with max inviso - oh yeah!! I once or twice got the ship with 10 in it.. saving four humans and warping ahead several times.. that was a great way to pile up points..
Defender tended to draw crowds as it was a technological showcase of its time, plus probably one of the toughest games out there; the pace of the action gets beyond insane after the 10th wave or so. Beginners lasted about 30 seconds on average, as the little girl here realises much to her bemusement. (I took it with less humour). I totally sucked at it but always hung around in the background, just in the off chance a pro was willing to step up and take challenge. Watching someone play really well was downright hypnotic, and we see that very look in the kids' eyes here (mouth agape). P.S. I still suck at it now in MAME, so nothing's changed. 😆
@@NuGanjaTron Yes for sure... the colors and sounds and side scrolling shooter style with a mini-map is what drew me in.. I pumped a ton of quarters into Defender.. and that control layout lol. I got used to it.. and I cannot play Defender any other way. The arcade1up cab which did a dual joystick Defender variant, and didn't add Robotron as the alt game.. a true fail! lol. At any rate, then here comes Stargate with MORE BUTTONS.. heh.. but I loved the changes they made with picking up 4x humaniods and hitting the gate, warping ahead several levels with a huge bonus for each humaniod! I did befriend a pro Defender player back in the 80s too.. watching him play was mesmerizing. Just on another levels... He would be there for three hours! It really inspired me to try and be a great gamer.. I did manage 1mil on Robotron finally in the 90s.. IV Arcade, Isla Vista, CA. I also got 986k on Gyrus in 84 (Williamsburg, VA - William and Mary Student Union).. That did take 3 hours. And I had people around me. That was pretty awesome. Idk what it is about Galaga in a circle but I got very good at it lol! Anyways I digress. Happy holidays!
@@NuGanjaTron You are most welcome. Yes galaga. Another with iconic sounds and visuals. I bought a mini one. the arcade1up cabinet is pretty good. Take care and ho ho ho :)
@@NuGanjaTron Ok, bonus round here.. one more memory... in Williamsburg VA at the car wash they had a Galaga machine, and I got the Joystik mag which listed the no-fire-cheat where you leave two bees on the left on the first or second wave.. let them come down until they don't fire at you like 10 times in a row.. well I had to try this. I gathered up my pal Ross and we went to the car wash. Well, it worked, and we rolled the machine to 2.5mil stage 256 came up and no bees came out.. just our ship the stack of extra ships that scrolled into the level icons... it took hours, we traded off every 15 mins or so tag team style.. talk about a crowd around us LOL! only one person got it that the bees weren't firing. For the record, I am not a cheater per say, but I had to try that. That was a really fun afternoon. They had to unplug the machine finally to reset it, le sigh. Here's the article ...GOD I WISH i had saved the actual mag... archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-10/page/n39/mode/2up
As more and more time goes on, these relics of the past keep disappearing one by one. In Los Angeles, many of my favorites closed down in the 2010s, only the arcade in Santa Monica Pier and Family Arcade by Los Angeles City College remain. I'm not hating on the new bar-arcades of these days but the vibe is totally different.
@@ZiggyCashmere That and it's probably a 3/4" U-matic tape this came from as well, broadcast quality equipment was always going to shine over consumer stuff.
Don't listen to the mainstream media telling you what 80s technology was like. - Cassette Tapes sound better than you remember. - Video equipement wasn't just Beta-looking garbage.
Los arcades de los 80 eran tan popular esos juegos hoy sigue recuerdo que jugaba pero los jóvenes ya no están y hoy no saben dónde están por esto muchos fue felices de su infancia
Someone's a real cameraman. Unlike the jokers of today that can't wait let ANYTHING be drawn out, the way he pans slowly and just lets the moment sink in tells you a lot.
All these lucky kids getting to grow up in Mountain View, ground zero of the computer revolution. Let's say 10 years old in 1982. If they played their cards right, they would grow up to have really good careers, coming of age just in time to get in on the ground floor of the Internet boom, right about as they graduate from college, let's say 22 years old in 1994, and ride that Internet wave all the way up to a successful career. Now they're probably just starting to become grandparents! Generation X was a magical and pivotal moment in time.
Most of these games came out in 1981, so what you see here are brand new games with, probably, still not a scratch on them. I miss that brand new and original arcade cabinet smell.
I miss Games On The Avenue and Long John Silver’s and Saratoga, but at least Sugar Mountain and Bourbon Street Billiards have some arcade machines still!
My mom use to drop me off at the mall when I was 10 yrs old in the early 90’s All I would have was 5$ and I’d be at the arcade all day killin it on street fighter. Good ole days..
Did you ever go to the arcades that had the batting cages and the go-kart race track I think it was called Scandia I know they had one in Sacramento I went to
For years we wanted the arcade at home. It's only now that I realise that the atmosphere of the arcades were as, or maybe more important than the games themselves. I miss these times.
that, and the hydraulics
Yup excatly
Well said
Yeah you're pretty naive huh
@@lavenderflowersfall280go away miserable
Heartwarming, seriously. It's like somebody time-travelled just to capture a totally normal 5 minutes from this place and era -- wicked quality. Even a zoom-in on the blue Nikes! Everybody's happy. Love it.
1981 i was 2 years old. I started play arcade in 1985
I love the Asian grandma and granddaughter laughing together. They look so happy. That little girl is probably in her early 40s now and her grandmother probably passed away. I bet this is a treasured memory of hers and she probably has no idea this video exists. I hope she finds it someday.
actually she's probably in her 50s now
@@Hjex64 50s!? Man time flies.
@@Hjex64 nah, she is probably late 40's or just turned 50.
@@chewey3rd early 50s
XD
Most of these kids are in their 50s now or close to it. I was 11/12 in ‘81. Turning 50 in less than 2 weeks
I was 8 going on 9 years old. Yeah 50 is not too far away. Great time to be a kid.
That's actually crazy. In my mind, 80's kids are like in their 35-40s. Time flies
Yeah me to that year was a blast for me I was 12 and was finding ways to acquire quarters back doing odd jobs like having a newspaper route and found out that Sleep was a necessary thing in my young life back then and having a pickle about what a job really is by reality.
god bless man
*Born on 10 August 1967 and Yes, i am 53 ;)*
*For a Christmas-Retro-Flashback, i just installing MAME v0.226 now ;)*
*Much Arcade-Greetings from Hamburg !!*
I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this blonde lady in a white fur coat came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and a drink, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it
Lucky you. Never had that accolade.
@1:00 can clearly see the kid putting his quarter on the Defender game to claim next game. Back in the day when you could put money on a game, could go walk around, it would still be there and people honored your place in line. I so loved hanging out in the arcades back in the day.
That kid playing had no clue what he was doing lol.
So true. A real honor system at work! Then there was that one guy (usually a lot older) that was a total ace at the game, so you had to wait forever ...but the dibs still held!
I wrote this very thing into one of my novels recently. Great memories.
This is true and was very much alive in the 1990's as well. I grew up in the arcades in the 90's and saying "I got downs" while slapping a quarter down actually meant something. We (gamers) were fiercely protective of everyone playing games in our home arcades. Even if we didn't know you...we watched out for you.
I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this blonde lady in a white fur coat came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and a drink, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it
Can't believe those days are gone😢. Teen years went by so fast.
I wish I could walk into this video!
This has got to be the best arcade footage I've ever seen. It totally captures everything from that era, especially the whole universal arcade "dibs" action of putting the quarter on the bottom of the marquee ledge (@1:00 as mentioned by corn1971). Just that capture alone makes the clip a priceless time capsule. This had to be filmed by a broadcast-quality camera. Look how pristine the footage is! Amazing.
@13randon 13axter I thought they did it at the bottom of the bezel here
I remember going to the neighborhood arcade as a 7 year old back in 1980 with Pink Floyd being played at full blast doesn't get any better than that!
eeww
God, I miss the 80s.
We need to find components to build a time machine.
The height of the arcade era, the same year Pac-Man, Galaga and Donkey Kong were the real big time quarter eaters. I was only 2 years old. I played in an arcade back in the day, filled with classic games, but that was like the mid to late 80s. The golden age was over by then. Still, good times.
This video is GOLD. It has it all. The atmosphere, sounds, feel, the person recording not talking over everybody. The way it should be to show how it really was back in the golden arcade era.
I used to go to this arcade as a kid during this time. Brought back memories. THX!
The video quality is very, very crisp and clear for a camcorder video from back then.
Beautiful moments captured in time and preserved perfectly.
Thank you for sharing.
Awesome. Brings happy childhood memories back watching this...
Not bad. I turned 9yrs old that year. I remember The Quarters dibs & respect such well.
Arcade games weren't limited to just arcades at the time...they were nearly EVERYWHERE...Bowling Alleys, Pizza Joints...Pizza Hut especially featured table top based gaming cabinets for Pac-Man, Galaga & Mr. Do to name a few. You could eat off them too. I remember playing Phoenix at a Safeway Grocery store back in my native Silver Spring MD less than a mile from my house there in my pre-teens. I finally beat it last decade at a local laundromat here in Durham NC where I currently reside. It took me 3 decades later but...🥳.
Moving on, arcade games were also in in roller rinks & 7-11's. People's Drug had 1 at most of their stores, including 1 2 blocks from My Grandparents House in DC. It since became a CVS...😪No games there.
Thanks for the nostalgia &
GAME ON WELL🎮👊🏿.
Watching that kid place his quarter in the marquee on d
Defender, claiming next, took me back big time!
Oh boy, I had a good childhood. The sound of the arcade triggered all kind of emotions.
@2:33 note the comment "Watch his hand, Mickey. His firing hand." Defender's fire buttons were super-sensitive, and experienced, adept players took full advantage of its action. With just the right wrist control one could flutter their fingertips over the button (like this player was doing) and unleash a solid barrage of needle-thin laser death on those enemies.
That reminds me of Hyper Olympic, the game where you tapped furiously to run. Someone had the idea of rubbing the edge of a coin over the button. The high scores quadrupled and a groove appeared through the buttons on machines all over town. Fun times
@@tenmillionvolts oh man yup, we knew it as _Track and Field_ here in LA. I'm convinced this was the only arcade game that people discovered how to "hack" to their advantage. When we first got the game installed at our local bowling alley, you could hear people from miles away furiously thumping away at the buttons during gameplay. That cab took so much wear/abuse from that action that the deck plate surrounding the buttons totally got worn away to the bone where people's fingers hit it. Then after awhile, I'm not sure who started it, but someone got the idea that you could position a pencil between your fingers, using the middle two fingers as a fulcrum to create a sort of "see-saw" motion where you only had to tap one button to reciprocate the action to the other one. It worked like a charm; those of us who honed our skills at this method would totally sweep the game.
Then there was one day where this older guy (in his mid-'20s) came up with some crazy hack that involved an electric toothbrush. I wasn't there to witness it in person, but supposedly his hack worked so well that the players would zip across the screen at light speed. I wish I'd seen it.
Either way, what's crazy is I guess the cab owner caught onto our hacks, and installed these new raised button bezels that prevented us from "cheating." The game's popularity totally fell off after that, lol.
That's cool about using a coin-I'd never seen that! Funny how you could tell how prevalent the hack was, with those tell-tale grooves haha ...good times.
This was before I was born but I still remember enough of the 80s to know that there were arcade machines everywhere, and when you think about it you really are traveling back in time, but those arcade games were ahead of their time when they first came out.
I was quite a bit younger than these kids were back in '81 but I still remember these Arcades very well. Awesome video!
Awesome Totally Awesome. This so captures that feeling, I was 8 years old and loved to "play" pac man LOL
Excellent footage, very well shot, great sound. And people looked good for that time!
people looked good for that time?
Yeah, ppl did in general look better then; not like today's inflatable, tattooed and pierced Ken and Barbie dolls.
And yeah, _mostly_ well shot except for random, annoying closeups on wall art. I'm not sure the guy operating the camera knew what he was doing. At some point we hear somebody say, "what are you doing, man?", probably to the camera guy.
The 80's so many great times had, and the Arcades back then just the best of times in my book.
I remember being a Kid when Sears had its own Arcade.
Memory serves that there was a decent amount of machines to play.
I remember Sears had Super-PAC-Man,first time I saw & played it!
Disney World had me addicted to the game Tron!
My brother used to work for Atari HQ in San Jose Ca. they literally had a break room like this with games of all different kinds. sometimes they had games before they hit arcade places. I forget which NHL game it was, but my brother and all his co workers altered the game and added themselves to the game.
I remember the arcades were so much fun , they were still going pretty strong in 1993 when I was in Junior high, the Mortal Kombat, final fight and Street fighter games a lot of times had a line to play and of course I can remember playing the atari games as a kid in the 80's at the beaches and arcades.
It was cool to get console ports of those games, the arcade versions were always superior.
@@bigballzmcdrawz2921 one thing consoles never and will never duplicate is the atmosphere of an arcade. simply magical it was.
this was great time...people were nice...
Nice piece of arcade history there. Great quality too. Who knew video clips from 1981 could be HD? lol
Great quality for 1981 😯
Holy crap, Teeter Torture in the background at :39! Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of this game, it was never mass-produced; only one prototype is known to exist. I recognized it only because I played this very cabinet in 2016 at California Extreme. This arcade was probably a test location for pre-release games.
funny to think there were so few games back then that you could have multiple copies of one cabinet in an arcade
They were so popular/profitable, they ordered multiple of the most popular games. There were plenty of game titles around.
@@IhateyourstupidmusicPretty much.
Very cool clip. Must have been shot for a news broadcast.
That’s probably why there is no music playing.
Great video!!! I remember visiting my cousin who was in the Air Force in Mt. View CA in the early to mid 90's and they had a nickel arcade, right near where he lived. I believe MK 3 had just come out and it was 3 nickels to play. Good times and a great town.
I fucking miss the 80s, damn it.
Wow, two Defenders and two Centipedes. The place must have had big crowds at times. Most arcades didn't have duplicates like that.
Thank you! It's surprisingly hard to find raw footage of arcades from back in the day.
I agree. Such majestic times :)
In 2022 I gotta say I love this stuff
Fitting that this was filmed in Mountain View, CA since it's part of the main hub of the computer revolution, Silicon Valley.
I used to play here and at Time Zone all the time back then!
I wish I could've been there. I love gaming now, and I love that its at home, but I really wish I could've experienced this.
kinda like shopping now, in the 80s going to the mall was a social activity...now you have online shopping from your couch and gaming is done in the home...isolated society today vs then ...oh and besides gaming in the 80s all kids rode bikes and played outdoors with friends most of the day
The arcades by me never had multiple games like this one seems to have, at least for Defender...pretty sweet
The quality of the video is stunning
Wow, Teeter Torture! That's an unreleased prototype. They only ever made one unit of that game. Fortunately, it's a regular at California Extreme each year, so many people have gotten to play it over the years. This arcade must have been a test location for Exidy back in the day.
god I miss this.. I got 174k on Defender once in Great America in Illinois back when I was 14 or 15 so 84ish.. I had a group of people around me at the end of the game.. lol. Felt great! Stargate was also my jam once it came out.. Yillabian dogfight with max inviso - oh yeah!! I once or twice got the ship with 10 in it.. saving four humans and warping ahead several times.. that was a great way to pile up points..
Defender tended to draw crowds as it was a technological showcase of its time, plus probably one of the toughest games out there; the pace of the action gets beyond insane after the 10th wave or so. Beginners lasted about 30 seconds on average, as the little girl here realises much to her bemusement. (I took it with less humour).
I totally sucked at it but always hung around in the background, just in the off chance a pro was willing to step up and take challenge. Watching someone play really well was downright hypnotic, and we see that very look in the kids' eyes here (mouth agape).
P.S. I still suck at it now in MAME, so nothing's changed. 😆
@@NuGanjaTron Yes for sure... the colors and sounds and side scrolling shooter style with a mini-map is what drew me in.. I pumped a ton of quarters into Defender.. and that control layout lol. I got used to it.. and I cannot play Defender any other way. The arcade1up cab which did a dual joystick Defender variant, and didn't add Robotron as the alt game.. a true fail! lol. At any rate, then here comes Stargate with MORE BUTTONS.. heh.. but I loved the changes they made with picking up 4x humaniods and hitting the gate, warping ahead several levels with a huge bonus for each humaniod!
I did befriend a pro Defender player back in the 80s too.. watching him play was mesmerizing. Just on another levels... He would be there for three hours! It really inspired me to try and be a great gamer.. I did manage 1mil on Robotron finally in the 90s.. IV Arcade, Isla Vista, CA. I also got 986k on Gyrus in 84 (Williamsburg, VA - William and Mary Student Union).. That did take 3 hours. And I had people around me. That was pretty awesome. Idk what it is about Galaga in a circle but I got very good at it lol!
Anyways I digress. Happy holidays!
@@adambgunn Great memories, thanks for the anecdotes! (Ok, I did get reasonably good at Galaga).
@@NuGanjaTron You are most welcome. Yes galaga. Another with iconic sounds and visuals. I bought a mini one. the arcade1up cabinet is pretty good. Take care and ho ho ho :)
@@NuGanjaTron Ok, bonus round here.. one more memory... in Williamsburg VA at the car wash they had a Galaga machine, and I got the Joystik mag which listed the no-fire-cheat where you leave two bees on the left on the first or second wave.. let them come down until they don't fire at you like 10 times in a row.. well I had to try this. I gathered up my pal Ross and we went to the car wash. Well, it worked, and we rolled the machine to 2.5mil stage 256 came up and no bees came out.. just our ship the stack of extra ships that scrolled into the level icons... it took hours, we traded off every 15 mins or so tag team style.. talk about a crowd around us LOL! only one person got it that the bees weren't firing. For the record, I am not a cheater per say, but I had to try that. That was a really fun afternoon. They had to unplug the machine finally to reset it, le sigh.
Here's the article ...GOD I WISH i had saved the actual mag...
archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-10/page/n39/mode/2up
I see polybius in the background.
Must be a joke... where in timestamp it's on a video?
Timestamp?
Vdeo games are humankind’s greatest accomplishment.
This is 41 years ago. At 1:36 that dude is probably in his 60s by now. If not late 50s. Crazy. 4:41 I hear Donkey Kong in the background.
Now I feel back in time right now
I was 16 then and I can say with 100% conviction THE 80S WERE FUCKING AMAZING!
As more and more time goes on, these relics of the past keep disappearing one by one. In Los Angeles, many of my favorites closed down in the 2010s, only the arcade in Santa Monica Pier and Family Arcade by Los Angeles City College remain. I'm not hating on the new bar-arcades of these days but the vibe is totally different.
This was life pulsating.
Good times indeed. Everyone is having fun
How is the video quality so good for the 1980s?
professional camera
They had high def cameras bro.... Long before this.
@@ZiggyCashmere That and it's probably a 3/4" U-matic tape this came from as well, broadcast quality equipment was always going to shine over consumer stuff.
Don't listen to the mainstream media telling you what 80s technology was like.
- Cassette Tapes sound better than you remember.
- Video equipement wasn't just Beta-looking garbage.
I guess a rich kid took this video 🤣
Los arcades de los 80 eran tan popular esos juegos hoy sigue recuerdo que jugaba pero los jóvenes ya no están y hoy no saben dónde están por esto muchos fue felices de su infancia
When video gaming was new! good times.
I was 4 years old back then I was born in 77
I was born in '77 too. This was the world I saw firsthand.
Someone's a real cameraman. Unlike the jokers of today that can't wait let ANYTHING be drawn out, the way he pans slowly and just lets the moment sink in tells you a lot.
I'm sure this was a professional news crew that filmed this. Those people would have the credentials and expertise to do this type of stuff.
All these lucky kids getting to grow up in Mountain View, ground zero of the computer revolution. Let's say 10 years old in 1982. If they played their cards right, they would grow up to have really good careers, coming of age just in time to get in on the ground floor of the Internet boom, right about as they graduate from college, let's say 22 years old in 1994, and ride that Internet wave all the way up to a successful career. Now they're probably just starting to become grandparents! Generation X was a magical and pivotal moment in time.
I saw Frisky Tom in the background!
Man this was great and also Malibu Castle and golf
Most of these games came out in 1981, so what you see here are brand new games with, probably, still not a scratch on them. I miss that brand new and original arcade cabinet smell.
Ha ha back when every boy looked like Elliot from E.T. and every girl sported the Dorothy Hamil haircut 😉
Watched this with my uncle. I had no idea what an arcade machine is until he told me. He laments that the pandemic devastated the remaining arcades.
Awesome nostalgia! Same in British arcades in those days!
I miss Games On The Avenue and Long John Silver’s and Saratoga, but at least Sugar Mountain and Bourbon Street Billiards have some arcade machines still!
I see lots of Defender machines..lol
Defender must have been the game back then.
God bless that silent generation gradma
Perhaps this was Atari archive footage capturing what was afoot in their relative neighborhood...?!?
I would think this was unedited footage for a news report on video arcades.
Born in 82. 🇺🇲👍🏻🇺🇲👍🏻
I can hear donkey Kong in the background surprised I don't remember that place I've played video games all through that area
rip arcades
Dead but not forgotten.For Some.
My mom use to drop me off at the mall when I was 10 yrs old in the early 90’s All I would have was 5$ and I’d be at the arcade all day killin it on street fighter. Good ole days..
Thanks for sharing this.
Excelent! Good times! LIKE!
This is great.
i wonder where these ppl are at
Did you ever go to the arcades that had the batting cages and the go-kart race track I think it was called Scandia I know they had one in Sacramento I went to
Great quality video 😳
Defender is my favorite game
The movie (PIXELS) is based on this Video
00:55 = WOW! Look in the background, there's a Teeter Torture!
really? that would date this as 1982 not 1981 then
0:55 I spy Omega Race (1981) marquee in the upper right corner of the screen :).
Where’s Spicolli?
for 1981 this is a really good video camera! What did you use? No way it was VHS.. quality is so clear.
And "eons" before stupid cell phones!
SWEET!!!!
Epic!
This is great, thanks
Wow!
The quality is too good for home camcorder footage. This must have been shot by an experienced cameraman for some media coverage on Arcades
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filmed? Did you use 8 or 16mm film to record this?
Looks like vsh recorder quality video.
Defender was always the best!
is that richard ramirez gaming on defender?
My kind of video.
Nice.
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