idk if it was the first game I played on intellivision but it was one of my favorites. Snafu, shark shark, bump n jump, tron deadly discs, are just a few of my favs. Intellivision was my early grade school fun. 👌
I've always considered the backstories of the various enemies of the game, as to give them reason to keep poor Pete Pepper from his job in completing the burgers. Here's my takes: Hot Dogs: long considered America's fave fast food item, from boardwalks to fairways, they became insanely jealous after being unseated (unbunned?) by burgers. No longer content to play second fiddle, they attack en masse any patty-flipper they see. Fried Egg: a steadfast believer in "The Most Important Meal of The Day", one could imagine the ova's offense at finding out that some people had taken a liking to using egg as a burger topping! Pickle: sick and tired of people often ordering "hold the pickles", has decided to take its briny revenge.
Arcade - Many people wonder why there's an egg in a game about making burgers. Apparently in Japan, a fried egg is a popular burger topping. Atari 2600 - I once read that the enemies looked like that because they used the dedicated missile graphics built into the 2600, I think to avoid flicker. Aquarius - The system didn't have sprites, so everything had to be done with redefined character graphics. C64 - As I recall, the biggest problem with the official port was that you didn't "throw" the pepper in front of you, you just dropped it. So instead of being able to hit an enemy with it as you walked toward them, you had to stop, press the button and then let the enemy walk into it. There was a much better version called Burger Time '97 published by Loadstar, but I don't know if it was an official license or not. Seems like if it was unauthorized, Loadstar would have gotten in legal hot water, though. NES - They used this version for the miniature arcade machine, rather than the arcade ROM. I was thinking of buying one just for the novelty until I found out that they put the NES ROM in it. Boo!
That's awesome about the Friday being a burger topping, that makes perfect sense. I had never heard that before. Good info on the Atari and Aquarius thanks Burger time 97 was unofficial which is why I didn't include it. It's really good though, and much better than the official version. I think it stinks that all of those portable arcade games use the NES ROM. I would have loved to have gotten a bad dudes mini but when I found out it was the NES version I passed.
I was always floored when I learned of the actual inner workings of Atari. You would think it’s some huge corporate entity but it was a bunch of dude drinking and eating pizza and sleeping in the offices!!
@@gamblincabbie9505 It is harder than it sounds, too. Especially in the later episodes where there are a lot more cars and faster and more unpredictable speeds.
Inspiration from an experienced fry cook! That is so sweet! Man, I was bad at this game in the arcades. Next paycheck, it will be full of quarters to practice on this treasure.
@@erickstanford519 It is very difficult. Multiple bloodthirsty enemies are chasing you wherever you go and the only weapon you have is limited amount of pepper.
Another TOP video thanks for being so comprehensive. Hey our beige Texas Instruments cartridge got much use by most all our family and the music really works
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Kippy's Nightmare on TI is great as is the Ernie & Bert speech demo, all sampled it was mindblowing at the time esp considering no speech synth dongle required :-) of course NOW we wish we hadnt sold it all to get the.... . . Geneve
Thats Ike Eisenmann in the TV advert (witch mountain, star trek the motion picture etc.) i love burger time. it was called mr wimpy on the commodore 64 in UK (either a copy or they did a deal with wimpy) it is one of those games where if iever see a machine of it in a arcade or pub i will play it. that doesnt happen any more, think last time would have been late 90s.
Mr. Wimpy was just a clone Although it looked exactly like burger time. There were so many clones of these arcade games available for the various home computers that there is no way for me to cover all of them. This is why I only include officially licensed versions in my videos
I just played the NES version earlier. One of the first games I ever played, I always loved it even though I'm not great at it. I've always found it rather difficult, but it's a lot of fun.
Peter Pepper in the Aquarius version looks like a can of beer with legs, which just reminds me of the Rainier Beer commercials I used to see on TV as a kid in the 80s.
What a fantastic video... Have subscribed and look forward to watching your other videos. For me, the first time I encountered Burger Time was through a clone... It was on the Spectrum and was called Bear Bovver. This had you play a bear who had to make the batteries drop to move the electric car along. It was a great version. Of all the versions though the Gameboy rendition is brilliant and has much better balance in difficulty. I have actually last weekend at Arcade Club (Bury near Manchester England) played the original arcade cab of Burger Time, and as much as I love the game,, boy is it hard... Consequently I ended up playing more of Atari Food Fight for my food themed gaming needs.
Thanks a lot, hope you enjoy the rest of the content. There were so many different clones especially in the late 70s and early 80s it's hard to keep track of what is what. I do know over in Europe that you guys had something called Mr. Wimpy Which from what I've seen looks to be a pretty competent clone. Burger time is a game that starts off fairly easy and then crank the difficulty up To a nasty degree really quick
Absolutely fun!... got it at K-Mart back in the day, had hours of fun in the back seat of our station wagon eating macs steak in the rough and playing this LCD port
I own the NES and Game Boy ports, as well as two homebrew ports. Beef Drop (Atari 5200) and Beef Drop VE (Atari 7800). VE doesn't include the Pokey Sound Chip, but it's also available with either the Pokey chip or the AtariAge compatible equivalent PokeyOne.
Super Burger time did get an arcade emulated port to the Nintendo Switch last year: www.nintendo.com/games/detail/johnny-turbos-arcade-super-burger-time-switch/
AQUARIOUS!!!! I have one!! My uncle Mike gave me one prob back in 1985. He wasn’t into ‘computers’. I was 12. I was like WOW a COMPUTER! Well, that’s what it WAS...back then. Thanks Uncle Mike!!!
I first played this on my cousin's Atari 2600 when I was 6 years old. I found it very hard. Then I saw it in arcades! I found it very hard. And I didn't know that you could "trap" evil food on a burger part and send it down! Now I have to find one again to try this tech out.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I've got an arcade cab in my office breakroom that has this game on it, as well as others and it is still kicking my ass
Loved the video and am excited to check out more. Random Question - do you know why there isn't a space in the title (e.g. 'Burger Time' vs 'BurgerTime')?
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I have many fond memories of playing my dad's Intellivision. I was so young when I started playing. I couldn't read yet. But I knew how to connect and disconnect the system from a t.v. and considering it used those old school RF switches that had the prongs that had to be screwed in. That's saying something.
There is a new chapter of burgertime history this year with the release of Heavy Burger. Play as Peter Pepper in this twin stick multiplayer shooter! On steam and switch and coming soon on ps4
@Me my opinion Sche : Just after the Home Console Gaming Crash of 1983, consoles were waning in favor of the new Home/Micro-Computers, and Atari's competitors Coleco (makers of the Coleco Vision) and Mattel (makers of the Intellivision) wanted to get on the new bandwagon (as Atari had already done with their 400/800 computers) with their Adam and Aquarius. But in my opinion at the time, the Coleco Adam and Mattel Aquarius were gimmicky "computer" products and not really serious computers (that play great games too!), such as the Commodore 64 and, say, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, either of which would've been greater buys than the Adam or Aquarius.
I'm starting to wonder if that game I thought I played once was a fever dream or what. I can't remember the title for certain but I always thought it was Burger Time Deluxe or some thing , any way , it had some new characters like a son or nephew - ( I can't remember which ) - and a female character you could either play as or she was just featured in the game for inclusion I guess , I want to say it was Big Fish or some other company that made it / had the game on their website. I can't remember any of the names unfortunately , I had them typed out or written down & sadly lost the paper or it was on my old laptop or some thing so I can't check since I don't know where some things are to set it up , haven't touched my lap top in several years. Unfortunately I don't remember much about it so I apologize for lack of details , like names & dates. 😅
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries ever play Battletoads 2 ? There was some video game show that was hard fo find where kids won stacks of games and it was always one.I picked it up loved it and was like wow thats hard.Had no idea how difficult it was overall till the age of internet.I rented it a few times and it was a controller spiker 😂
Peter Pepper’s Ice Cream Factory was released on the Wii on Data East Arcade Classics. Super Burger Time was released on the Switch. Do better research
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It was my very first computer. Basically it was a little downgraded Intellivision. Only graphics were the inbuilt characterset, which had a running man character and so on. Very plain and simple machine. I wrote some basic with it and had a couple of games. Tron - Deadly Discs I remember clearly. Maybe the best game for it would have been an D&D-game, don't remember if it was Treasure Of Tarmin, but Intellivision had the same game. If I remember correctly ;)
daveheel the intellevision was the first system we got in 80. I was 6 so I didn’t have any point of reference. But if I started out on a 2600 and then had to adapt to the disc I bet it would have sucked!
OMG, THANK YOU for including the TV ad for the home version (even though you said you wouldn't cover the myriad home versions available); I have been trying to tell people about this ad for years (especially because I often have occasion to use the "we are closed now" snippet in conversation), and no one remembers it or believes me! First time I've come across it in my search for evidence (I just knew the truth was out there!).
Diner did not come until 1987 long after the videogame crash in North America. It's entirely possible it was due to the crash but it's hard to say. Thanks the nice words
Of course the difficulty level ramps up fast - it’s an arcade game. It needed to steal a new quarter every few minutes to he worth arcade owners investing in it.
Loved this game had a Intellivision back then and yeah those disk controllers where harsh but man the memories of Video Game Saturdays after Saturday morning cartoons...ah childhood
In Intellivision, if you and an enemy are in the same level, and there's a ladder between you, the sausages always go down the ladder, and the egg and pickles go up. Interesting enough, in the arcades it's the opposite. This can be used to make the enemies walk overlapped, so we can drop them collectively with the burger ingredients. Burger Time was the game that made me want an Intellivision as my first console.
I can recall seeing the Atari version and then the intellivision version and was amazed at how much better it looked.Then came the Coleco vision and I was in seventh heaven :-)
I owned an Aquarius back in the 80s and I own one now. There's a game for it called Dungeons and Dragons Treasure of Tarmin that my brothers and I used to play all night after homework was done. It was one of the first 3D crawlers. You had layovers for the rubber keyboard and the controllers.
Thanks for another great video! I played it on my Commodore 64 and thought it was fun but then I had never played the original at the time. Not until today did I learn that the C64 version by Interceptor is apparently not an official conversion, which would explain why it's called Burger Time and not BurgerTime. I would assume this would have led to problems for Interceptor.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's amazing how they can get away with avoiding any sort of copyright infringement over in Europe. I don't think they can do it anymore back in the early 80s it was rampant
I remember being under six years old and playing this the arcades. I never got past the first level. Huge disappointment, but it must’ve been fun because I kept going back to it 😄
Thank you for the great documentary! I always loved this game though I was never that good at it. I had the Atari 2600 version. Few games converted very well to this system, so I have to give kudos to the programmers for giving it their best shot. I also had the C-64 version, which was (as you said) just okay. And, for the record, I have never heard of the Aquarius system. Judging from the graphics, sound, and gameplay, I wasn't missing much (it makes my old VIC-20 look like WOPR from Wargames by comparison, lol). Again, thanks for sharing this! I look forward to watching your other videos.
Thank you, wasn't very good at it either. The difficulty ramped up too quick for me. I had the Coleco vision which was one of the best ones and then later got the Commodore. The Aquarius was horrible, I had a friend buy one When they went on clearance At KB toys. I think for everything he paid around $30 back then. That's how low they were cutting the price to get rid of them. By the way, major kudos for mentioning WOPR From wargames :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I had the Apple II version growing up. I wasn't too shabby at it either then, if I do say so myself. Thing was, you had to make sure you knew how close you would be to the pepper-spawning site on the screen you were on (because every four pieces of hamburger you got on the plate gave you those needed ice cream cones, coffee mugs and French fries for valuable pepper shots). I remember the commercial for Burgertime too.
The key to scoring high, and completing numerous levels, is learning how to group enemies together. Once done, they act as one (because they occupy the same position). The enemies follow predictable patterns to head towards your location. So once you group them together, never give them an opportunity to split up (on high levels, that will get you killed). Also, you need to collect every pepper. The peppers should not be used on the lower levels (once you learn how to avoid the enemies without using peppers). You will need every last pepper, in order to survive on the higher levels (eventually the enemies get so fast that it is impossible to get anywhere without using a pepper). By grouping the enemies together, and carefully using them to build your burgers, you can flip the score (it flips at 999,999 -- there is no million). From 990,000 to 0, you receive a free life for every item that scores points. Those lives are not really helpful (because you will have already accumulated more lives than you can use). More important than lives is peppers. You can have 10,000 lives, and they will each die in a few seconds of each turn (on the higher levels), if you run out of peppers. It has been a while, but I have accumulated over 40 peppers (43 I believe was my best). I have reached level 22 (or maybe 23 -- hard to remember). The enemies are so fast -- they are running at breakneck speeds from the moment the level starts. It is at this point where zero peppers means the game is over (you will never reach anywhere to score another point). Once you learn how to group the enemies, and follow patterns to complete levels, the game can become a bit monotonous. But I love the game, in proper doses. Cheers!
@@erickstanford519 My posting is based on the coin operated, arcade version of the game, with the dip switches set for the maximum number of enemies (6). Forgive my pessimism, but level 38 is not possible. I doubt that level 25 is possible. Please record a session where you passed level 25. I would love to see it and I will eat my words. Thank you.
@@erickstanford519 No, I did not know. But to what end? You will be hard pressed to survive for 86 seconds on the fastest levels; probably tossing out peppers to stay alive. On what level do the enemies stop?
Awesome history and video pat! Once again u never dissapoint. Burger Time was the first NES game i owned as a kid aside from the mario/duck hunt pack. Great classic gameplay.
Peter Pepper might have been animated in "Wreck-It Ralph" but this wasn't the first time of sorts Burgertime was animated. The second season premiere of "Captain N: The Game Master" introduced new N-Team member "Game Boy" and the first world he brought Captain N, Simon Belmont and Mega Man was "Burgertime." Captain N got turned into Mr. Hot Dog (with his Zapper shooting ketchup), Simon was Mr. Egg (he bemoaned "I've got egg on my face!") while Mega Man was Mr. Pickle ("At least YOU'RE not in a Mega-Pickle!" replied Mega Man). Game Boy took the role of Peter Pepper.
Theodore Hsu Funny enough, that episode predated the idea of players choosing to play as the bad guys in BurgerTime Party rather than just color swaps of Peter Pepper.
I owned an Aquarius. It was either that or a Vectrex for Christmas. I had Snafu, Biorhythm, Tron Deadly Disk and Burger Time. I enjoyed the hell out of those games.
I owned Aquarius and I used to make a bunch a games on it, the characters pallet of 256 had unique characters in it to make games for, I had lots of fun making games on it, Till I got my Commodore 64
This is my grandpa’s favorite game can’t remember which version game he had I just know it had wired controller with a number pad and slide in plastic to go over it
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Burgertime is literally the first videogame I ever played on the Intellivision. Good times, good times!
It was a pretty good conversion on that system
Back when video games were simpler and Fun
idk if it was the first game I played on intellivision but it was one of my favorites. Snafu, shark shark, bump n jump, tron deadly discs, are just a few of my favs. Intellivision was my early grade school fun. 👌
Donkey Kong on Colecovision for me.
Nothing like a good helping of Burger Time, washed down with a generous amount of Tapper's.
LOL, those are two classic games
I've always considered the backstories of the various enemies of the game, as to give them reason to keep poor Pete Pepper from his job in completing the burgers. Here's my takes:
Hot Dogs: long considered America's fave fast food item, from boardwalks to fairways, they became insanely jealous after being unseated (unbunned?) by burgers. No longer content to play second fiddle, they attack en masse any patty-flipper they see.
Fried Egg: a steadfast believer in "The Most Important Meal of The Day", one could imagine the ova's offense at finding out that some people had taken a liking to using egg as a burger topping!
Pickle: sick and tired of people often ordering "hold the pickles", has decided to take its briny revenge.
Pretty good.
Brilliant!!
Arcade - Many people wonder why there's an egg in a game about making burgers. Apparently in Japan, a fried egg is a popular burger topping.
Atari 2600 - I once read that the enemies looked like that because they used the dedicated missile graphics built into the 2600, I think to avoid flicker.
Aquarius - The system didn't have sprites, so everything had to be done with redefined character graphics.
C64 - As I recall, the biggest problem with the official port was that you didn't "throw" the pepper in front of you, you just dropped it. So instead of being able to hit an enemy with it as you walked toward them, you had to stop, press the button and then let the enemy walk into it. There was a much better version called Burger Time '97 published by Loadstar, but I don't know if it was an official license or not. Seems like if it was unauthorized, Loadstar would have gotten in legal hot water, though.
NES - They used this version for the miniature arcade machine, rather than the arcade ROM. I was thinking of buying one just for the novelty until I found out that they put the NES ROM in it. Boo!
That's awesome about the Friday being a burger topping, that makes perfect sense. I had never heard that before.
Good info on the Atari and Aquarius thanks
Burger time 97 was unofficial which is why I didn't include it. It's really good though, and much better than the official version.
I think it stinks that all of those portable arcade games use the NES ROM. I would have loved to have gotten a bad dudes mini but when I found out it was the NES version I passed.
Red Robin has a Burger that has a fried egg in it.
I was always floored when I learned of the actual inner workings of Atari. You would think it’s some huge corporate entity but it was a bunch of dude drinking and eating pizza and sleeping in the offices!!
Don't forget about doing massive amounts of drugs. At least they were creative :-)
In "Bump 'n Jump", if you can go the whole level without touching ANY cars at all you get a huge bonus. It's harder to do than it sounds though...
I didn't know that, I so love playing that in the arcade
You are correct, a 50,000 pt bonus per level you can do so.
@@gamblincabbie9505 It is harder than it sounds, too. Especially in the later episodes where there are a lot more cars and faster and more unpredictable speeds.
1:50 - I always wondered why I used to see so many arcade games that had nothing to do with the artwork on the outside of the cabinet. Now I know.
While I worked at Showbiz Pizza Place, I encountered one lady who could really play Burgertime.
I used to love showbiz, I saw dragons lair there for the first time
Loved this in the arcades, it's probably in my top 10. The art of the cabinet is great too. And you can't beat a good 🍔
I always enjoyed it But it got really difficult really fast
Inspiration from an experienced fry cook! That is so sweet!
Man, I was bad at this game in the arcades. Next paycheck, it will be full of quarters to practice on this treasure.
LOL, good luck. It's another one of those games that gets really hard really fast
this game was hard.... I'm still pissed off about the whole thing
Why does everyone think bugertime is hard.
@@erickstanford519 It is very difficult. Multiple bloodthirsty enemies are chasing you wherever you go and the only weapon you have is limited amount of pepper.
I lost track of how many quarters I dropped into this game as a kid. I also remember the commercial and the tag line "We are closed now!"
That commercial was a classic
Great video. And now there's also Burger Time Party on the Switch, which came out in 2019. It's for 1-4 players
Thank you, I was not aware of that
Another TOP video thanks for being so comprehensive. Hey our beige Texas Instruments cartridge got much use by most all our family and the music really works
Thank you, I had a TI growing up as well :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Kippy's Nightmare on TI is great as is the Ernie & Bert speech demo, all sampled it was mindblowing at the time esp considering no speech synth dongle required :-) of course NOW we wish we hadnt sold it all to get the.... . . Geneve
Super Burger Time. Is really fun. Love when arcade games have boss fights
It really is!
Thats Ike Eisenmann in the TV advert (witch mountain, star trek the motion picture etc.) i love burger time. it was called mr wimpy on the commodore 64 in UK (either a copy or they did a deal with wimpy) it is one of those games where if iever see a machine of it in a arcade or pub i will play it. that doesnt happen any more, think last time would have been late 90s.
Mr. Wimpy was just a clone Although it looked exactly like burger time. There were so many clones of these arcade games available for the various home computers that there is no way for me to cover all of them. This is why I only include officially licensed versions in my videos
Just discovered your channel and loving the content ! Thanks for your hard work !
Awesome, thank you!
I just played the NES version earlier. One of the first games I ever played, I always loved it even though I'm not great at it. I've always found it rather difficult, but it's a lot of fun.
Peter Pepper in the Aquarius version looks like a can of beer with legs, which just reminds me of the Rainier Beer commercials I used to see on TV as a kid in the 80s.
LOL good call
What a fantastic video... Have subscribed and look forward to watching your other videos. For me, the first time I encountered Burger Time was through a clone... It was on the Spectrum and was called Bear Bovver. This had you play a bear who had to make the batteries drop to move the electric car along. It was a great version. Of all the versions though the Gameboy rendition is brilliant and has much better balance in difficulty.
I have actually last weekend at Arcade Club (Bury near Manchester England) played the original arcade cab of Burger Time, and as much as I love the game,, boy is it hard... Consequently I ended up playing more of Atari Food Fight for my food themed gaming needs.
Thanks a lot, hope you enjoy the rest of the content. There were so many different clones especially in the late 70s and early 80s it's hard to keep track of what is what. I do know over in Europe that you guys had something called Mr. Wimpy Which from what I've seen looks to be a pretty competent clone. Burger time is a game that starts off fairly easy and then crank the difficulty up To a nasty degree really quick
Loved that game. That and Battlezone.
That was another favorite of mine
The Mattel handheld LCD version is also fun and well done imo.
I've never tried it
Absolutely fun!... got it at K-Mart back in the day, had hours of fun in the back seat of our station wagon eating macs steak in the rough and playing this LCD port
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Also a Bandai and Tandy BurgerTime. All the same game. Possibly my favorite, and I collect LCD games.
Thank you, Pat, for all your hard work. God bless.
Thanks for being a subscriber and supporter of mine for so long
I own the NES and Game Boy ports, as well as two homebrew ports. Beef Drop (Atari 5200) and Beef Drop VE (Atari 7800). VE doesn't include the Pokey Sound Chip, but it's also available with either the Pokey chip or the AtariAge compatible equivalent PokeyOne.
Great video! Spent many a hour playing Burgertime on my TI-99/4a!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Spent lots of time playing the IntelliVision port of this
It's a good conversion
Super Burger time did get an arcade emulated port to the Nintendo Switch last year:
www.nintendo.com/games/detail/johnny-turbos-arcade-super-burger-time-switch/
I wasn't aware that, thanks for the info
Intellivision was my favorite version. Diner was a heman game that was converted.
AQUARIOUS!!!! I have one!! My uncle Mike gave me one prob back in 1985. He wasn’t into ‘computers’. I was 12. I was like WOW a COMPUTER! Well, that’s what it WAS...back then. Thanks Uncle Mike!!!
Friend of mine who's also name was Mike bought one when KB toys put them on clearance for about $20. He thoroughly enjoyed it
Burger Time is one of my all time favorite video games.
It's fun but he gets really hard really quick :-)
Super Burgertime is available on the Nintendo Switch via Johnny Turbo's Arcade, along with a few other Data East classics.
Downloaded Burgertime for the PS4 yesterday. Woot! It’s under Arcade Classics.
Excellent, thanks for the info
I first played this on my cousin's Atari 2600 when I was 6 years old. I found it very hard. Then I saw it in arcades! I found it very hard. And I didn't know that you could "trap" evil food on a burger part and send it down! Now I have to find one again to try this tech out.
The game is really hard
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I've got an arcade cab in my office breakroom that has this game on it, as well as others and it is still kicking my ass
Loved the video and am excited to check out more. Random Question - do you know why there isn't a space in the title (e.g. 'Burger Time' vs 'BurgerTime')?
Thanks, no I don't know why they did that. Perhaps it was a marketing tool ?
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.
Who would've thought that making burgers would be so much fun
I loved playing this game when I was a kid on the Mattel Intellivision.
It turned out really good
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I have many fond memories of playing my dad's Intellivision. I was so young when I started playing. I couldn't read yet. But I knew how to connect and disconnect the system from a t.v. and considering it used those old school RF switches that had the prongs that had to be screwed in. That's saying something.
I hope I can get my hands on the burgertime arcade1up cabinet
It's a really cool little cabinet
The game could had been the inspiration behind the fictional Fix-It Felix, Jr. arcade game from Wreck-It Ralph.
It's entirely possible
That or Imagica's Beauty and the Beast.
There is a new chapter of burgertime history this year with the release of Heavy Burger. Play as Peter Pepper in this twin stick multiplayer shooter! On steam and switch and coming soon on ps4
That's cool, I did not know that
There were also a couple of handheld lcd ports. This one is surprisingly good:
archive.org/details/hh_bbtime
That's a pretty nice handheldRepresentation
I knew there was an age of Aquarius.
But never heard of the computer system.
LOL, take in an intelevision And add a keyboard to it you pretty much got an Aquarius
@Me my opinion Sche
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Just after the Home Console Gaming Crash of 1983, consoles were waning in favor of the new Home/Micro-Computers, and Atari's competitors Coleco (makers of the Coleco Vision) and Mattel (makers of the Intellivision) wanted to get on the new bandwagon (as Atari had already done with their 400/800 computers) with their Adam and Aquarius.
But in my opinion at the time, the Coleco Adam and Mattel Aquarius were gimmicky "computer" products and not really serious computers (that play great games too!), such as the Commodore 64 and, say, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, either of which would've been greater buys than the Adam or Aquarius.
I had an an Aquarius. I just never played it. I just remember seeing those disc controllers just laying around the house when I was 2
You forgot about Flintstones Burger Time.
Also, Super Burger Time came to the Nintendo switch via Johnny Turbo's arcade.
Thanks for the correction
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries you're welcome! Will you be we doing this episode, or not?
On the nes port of burger time, that is not green meat, that's lettuce
I'm starting to wonder if that game I thought I played once was a fever dream or what. I can't remember the title for certain but I always thought it was Burger Time Deluxe or some thing , any way , it had some new characters like a son or nephew - ( I can't remember which ) - and a female character you could either play as or she was just featured in the game for inclusion I guess , I want to say it was Big Fish or some other company that made it / had the game on their website. I can't remember any of the names unfortunately , I had them typed out or written down & sadly lost the paper or it was on my old laptop or some thing so I can't check since I don't know where some things are to set it up , haven't touched my lap top in several years. Unfortunately I don't remember much about it so I apologize for lack of details , like names & dates. 😅
Burgertime arcade is Legendary
6:38 It was, believe it or not, a 16 bit machine
The art and title kept me away from playing it but was pretty good I heard.Just seemed to goofy for my taste
I always enjoyed it it was just very difficult
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries ever play Battletoads 2 ? There was some video game show that was hard fo find where kids won stacks of games and it was always one.I picked it up loved it and was like wow thats hard.Had no idea how difficult it was overall till the age of internet.I rented it a few times and it was a controller spiker 😂
Who else is old enough to remember that commercial?
I am
The TI was a 16 bit computer.
Peter Pepper’s Ice Cream Factory was released on the Wii on Data East Arcade Classics. Super Burger Time was released on the Switch. Do better research
Thanks for the nice words
BurgerTime looks fun. I love burgers.
It is fun but it gets way too hard way too fast
Ordered my Burgertime arcade1up a few weeks ago and I can’t friggen wait till it comes in!!
I so sad that I didn't grow up in the 80's😔
The Golden age of arcades
I will have a supersized combo of Pac-ManQC
LOL thanks
Ah yes, Mr. Cheese and Mr. Breadstick in the Atari VCS (2600) version.
Whatever happened to predictability
Whatever happened to bleedin when I pee
Hello fun fact burger time on the gameboy was released in 1991 and the mix album came out in 1991
Excellent, thanks for the info
Hello @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I have been watching your video's since 2022
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed the content
Hello @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries right now I am playing burger time on the gameboy but a gameboy rom hack of burger time deluxe gbc version
@@FinnMikazukiVT-kl5lp Never heard of it, is it fun?
Greatness, love this game.
So do I, thank you
Is it me or does this sound and look fun
It's a lot of fun but it gets hard really quick
The green meat was just veggie burgers, lol! >_
Any one remember fast-food by Atari still have my intellivision with dk
what beatiful story 🫠
I agree
Peter Pepper falls down.
the MSX version is very good too!!!
I owned Aquarius, back at the day ;)
How did you like it?
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It was my very first computer. Basically it was a little downgraded Intellivision. Only graphics were the inbuilt characterset, which had a running man character and so on. Very plain and simple machine. I wrote some basic with it and had a couple of games. Tron - Deadly Discs I remember clearly. Maybe the best game for it would have been an D&D-game, don't remember if it was Treasure Of Tarmin, but Intellivision had the same game. If I remember correctly ;)
Isn't TI99 16bit?
This game is super weird!
Loved playing burgertime on the Intellivision as a kid
It was a very good conversion
That was the version I discovered it on too!!!
Yeah, this was the version I played first.
i had the cartridge too. very addicting but the controllers drove me up the wall.
daveheel the intellevision was the first system we got in 80. I was 6 so I didn’t have any point of reference. But if I started out on a 2600 and then had to adapt to the disc I bet it would have sucked!
OMG, THANK YOU for including the TV ad for the home version (even though you said you wouldn't cover the myriad home versions available); I have been trying to tell people about this ad for years (especially because I often have occasion to use the "we are closed now" snippet in conversation), and no one remembers it or believes me! First time I've come across it in my search for evidence (I just knew the truth was out there!).
Thanks for the nice words, I tried to include commercials when I can especially the Japanese ones which people usually haven't seen
Dude.... that is hiliarious!
Well, I remember the TV ad and that Electronic Games magazine ad Patman showed with it. I miss that magazine. =(
I guess he had to pull the TV Ad because it isnt there anymore. Not sure what happened
The Killer Hot Dog: "WE'RE CLOSE NOW‼"
Tapper meets Dig Dug meets Pitfall meets Pac Man.... meets lunch time
Fry-It Fred to the rescue!
Great summary! I never new about Diner - it would seem there was a bunch of Intellivision games that never saw wide distribution because of the crash?
Diner did not come until 1987 long after the videogame crash in North America. It's entirely possible it was due to the crash but it's hard to say. Thanks the nice words
The only time i have EVER even seen an Aquarius, was as a prize on Starcade! The kids that won it were always like...
"wut?"
LOL, I used to love that show watching it on WTBS
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries they're all on youtube, thankfully!
Super Burgertime has been on the Switch for awhile now
Seriously. Ok I'm buying it
And now there's BurgerTime Party!
Awesome documentary. You have a great voice for the art form and have clearly done your research. Subbed!
That's very nice of you to say, thank you. Also, thanks for subscribing
Well, I might as well stay home. I’m already super late from watching these vids!!!!
LOL, thanks for the complement
I don't know why but this has always been one of my favorites, if not my favorite arcade game from the 80s.
One of my favorites too, but I was never very good at it. The difficulty ramped up way too fast
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Agreed but thats where the coin gobbling nature came in =P
Just putting this out there, if you want to become a Master at this, let me know I got you.
Of course the difficulty level ramps up fast - it’s an arcade game. It needed to steal a new quarter every few minutes to he worth arcade owners investing in it.
Absolutely love this game, I’ve been playing it recently on an archive website cause i remembered it from when I was little. Good job man.
If you really want to master this, let me know. I got you.
Fun fact: the Texas Instruments computer was a 16-bit machine.
Loved this game had a Intellivision back then and yeah those disk controllers where harsh but man the memories of Video Game Saturdays after Saturday morning cartoons...ah childhood
Why is he called "Peter Pepper?" He could have easily been named "Salt Peter."
No idea but I like yours better :-)
Oh, you're good.
@@zoesdada8923 It would have made for arcade legend had he been named "Salt Peter" and protected himself from hot dogs with a shake of his salt, No?
Settle down there sparky
@@StarlightEater But, but so much fun!
In Intellivision, if you and an enemy are in the same level, and there's a ladder between you, the sausages always go down the ladder, and the egg and pickles go up. Interesting enough, in the arcades it's the opposite.
This can be used to make the enemies walk overlapped, so we can drop them collectively with the burger ingredients.
Burger Time was the game that made me want an Intellivision as my first console.
I can recall seeing the Atari version and then the intellivision version and was amazed at how much better it looked.Then came the Coleco vision and I was in seventh heaven :-)
Yeah the early release timing of Burgertime imho made sales for inteLLivision
Sad to say I'd never heard of this game. Closest thing I knew was Burger Boss from "Bob's Burgers".
Great commentary and history of all of these games. Thank you for doing this, great series to watch thanks to your presentations. Funny too.
Thank you very much,Glad you enjoyed the content and my sense of humor :-)
Yes. Your voice and personality shine in the narration. Great stuff.
I owned an Aquarius back in the 80s and I own one now. There's a game for it called Dungeons and Dragons Treasure of Tarmin that my brothers and I used to play all night after homework was done. It was one of the first 3D crawlers.
You had layovers for the rubber keyboard and the controllers.
Thanks for another great video! I played it on my Commodore 64 and thought it was fun but then I had never played the original at the time. Not until today did I learn that the C64 version by Interceptor is apparently not an official conversion, which would explain why it's called Burger Time and not BurgerTime. I would assume this would have led to problems for Interceptor.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's amazing how they can get away with avoiding any sort of copyright infringement over in Europe. I don't think they can do it anymore back in the early 80s it was rampant
I remember being under six years old and playing this the arcades. I never got past the first level. Huge disappointment, but it must’ve been fun because I kept going back to it 😄
Lol, if you ever want to master it, I can teach you. I'm here.
I think you used the wrong image at 0:57 unless he did look like that
Burgertime is an all-time favorite of mine that I play on the Multicade cabinet every time I get a chance
I love me some burger time that's for sure :-)
What's your all time Hi, I'm giving lessons to any who wants to learn.
Thank you for the great documentary! I always loved this game though I was never that good at it. I had the Atari 2600 version. Few games converted very well to this system, so I have to give kudos to the programmers for giving it their best shot. I also had the C-64 version, which was (as you said) just okay. And, for the record, I have never heard of the Aquarius system. Judging from the graphics, sound, and gameplay, I wasn't missing much (it makes my old VIC-20 look like WOPR from Wargames by comparison, lol). Again, thanks for sharing this! I look forward to watching your other videos.
Thank you, wasn't very good at it either. The difficulty ramped up too quick for me. I had the Coleco vision which was one of the best ones and then later got the Commodore.
The Aquarius was horrible, I had a friend buy one When they went on clearance At KB toys. I think for everything he paid around $30 back then. That's how low they were cutting the price to get rid of them.
By the way, major kudos for mentioning WOPR From wargames :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I had the Apple II version growing up. I wasn't too shabby at it either then, if I do say so myself. Thing was, you had to make sure you knew how close you would be to the pepper-spawning site on the screen you were on (because every four pieces of hamburger you got on the plate gave you those needed ice cream cones, coffee mugs and French fries for valuable pepper shots). I remember the commercial for Burgertime too.
This game kicked ass on the Coleco!
I had a Coleco growing up and I really enjoyed it
The key to scoring high, and completing numerous levels, is learning how to group enemies together. Once done, they act as one (because they occupy the same position).
The enemies follow predictable patterns to head towards your location. So once you group them together, never give them an opportunity to split up (on high levels, that will get you killed).
Also, you need to collect every pepper.
The peppers should not be used on the lower levels (once you learn how to avoid the enemies without using peppers). You will need every last pepper, in order to survive on the higher levels (eventually the enemies get so fast that it is impossible to get anywhere without using a pepper).
By grouping the enemies together, and carefully using them to build your burgers, you can flip the score (it flips at 999,999 -- there is no million). From 990,000 to 0, you receive a free life for every item that scores points. Those lives are not really helpful (because you will have already accumulated more lives than you can use). More important than lives is peppers. You can have 10,000 lives, and they will each die in a few seconds of each turn (on the higher levels), if you run out of peppers.
It has been a while, but I have accumulated over 40 peppers (43 I believe was my best).
I have reached level 22 (or maybe 23 -- hard to remember). The enemies are so fast -- they are running at breakneck speeds from the moment the level starts. It is at this point where zero peppers means the game is over (you will never reach anywhere to score another point).
Once you learn how to group the enemies, and follow patterns to complete levels, the game can become a bit monotonous. But I love the game, in proper doses.
Cheers!
I see someone knows what their talking about. 2-12-2020 I made it to level 38. Now I'm going for points. World record here I come.
@@erickstanford519 My posting is based on the coin operated, arcade version of the game, with the dip switches set for the maximum number of enemies (6).
Forgive my pessimism, but level 38 is not possible. I doubt that level 25 is possible.
Please record a session where you passed level 25. I would love to see it and I will eat my words.
Thank you.
217-433-2938 call me anytime. Your video gaming brother.
Did you know that on the fast boards, they stop at 1min 25 sec into the board
@@erickstanford519 No, I did not know.
But to what end?
You will be hard pressed to survive for 86 seconds on the fastest levels; probably tossing out peppers to stay alive.
On what level do the enemies stop?
I have a cafe (tabletop) sit down arcade game with 60+ games. I am HORRIBLE at this game!!!
LOL, the difficulty ramps up way too fast in my opinion
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries oh yeah!!!! Insanity!!!
Awesome history and video pat! Once again u never dissapoint. Burger Time was the first NES game i owned as a kid aside from the mario/duck hunt pack. Great classic gameplay.
Thanks Fredd, Is a classic right up there with donkey Kong and Pac-Man in my opinion. Thanks the nice words
Crying shame that burgertime never got a physical release on ps3 and Xbox 360
Peter Pepper might have been animated in "Wreck-It Ralph" but this wasn't the first time of sorts Burgertime was animated. The second season premiere of "Captain N: The Game Master" introduced new N-Team member "Game Boy" and the first world he brought Captain N, Simon Belmont and Mega Man was "Burgertime." Captain N got turned into Mr. Hot Dog (with his Zapper shooting ketchup), Simon was Mr. Egg (he bemoaned "I've got egg on my face!") while Mega Man was Mr. Pickle ("At least YOU'RE not in a Mega-Pickle!" replied Mega Man). Game Boy took the role of Peter Pepper.
LOL, that's pretty funny
Theodore Hsu Funny enough, that episode predated the idea of players choosing to play as the bad guys in BurgerTime Party rather than just color swaps of Peter Pepper.
I owned an Aquarius. It was either that or a Vectrex for Christmas. I had Snafu, Biorhythm, Tron Deadly Disk and Burger Time. I enjoyed the hell out of those games.
Those are all good games
I owned Aquarius and I used to make a bunch a games on it, the characters pallet of 256 had unique characters in it to make games for, I had lots of fun making games on it, Till I got my Commodore 64
I never had one but had a friend who did. He thoroughly enjoyed it
This is my grandpa’s favorite game can’t remember which version game he had I just know it had wired controller with a number pad and slide in plastic to go over it
Sounds like a handheld game and watch style version.
Your grandfather had an Intellivision 2 most likely.