The most amazing time to be a kid was the early 80s with all the incredible arcade games that came out. Space Invaders was the first big time game i remember in 1978 when i was 8 years ago. Its truly remarkable all the classic arcade games that came out from 79 to 82. If you look at that 3 year period from 79 to 82, that's when all the best arcade games came out. The only great game i remember from 83 is Dragon's Lair.
Dan Livni, I believe Dragon's Lair created in 1983 by spin off of Disney company and Don Bluth was the illustrator for Dragon's Lair. His illustration work was epynonymous with Disney pictures and animated features such a "Secret of NIHM " , " Iron Giant", and sequels of the former film.
That's really cool! Thanks for letting me know! I was searching for 80s arcade footage, but only find new arcades that are basically calling themselves retro. It's really a nostalgia trip for me having grown up in that era. Arcades back then were like little pieces of heaven. ;D
There is a certain evil to that concept. ("Stealing their quarters, and kicking them off as soon as possible.") And in his own words, he says: "You want to create something addicting." I really feel there is a bit of justice in the fact that home video games have knocked the arcades into obscurity. And after people buy the video game once, they don't have to cough up quarters only to keep getting knocked off.
2:05 "Does anyone dare challenge my imperial fleet?" In case if anyone's wondering about the music at the beginning and ending of this video: 0:11 Vangelis: Himalaya 3:14 Tangerine Dream: Horizon I might be mistaken on the Tangerine Dream one.
She has a point though. Back then it was the drive-ins, then the skating rings, then the arcades (for a good 20+ years, too...). Now, it seems like most congregation is over online applications and online gaming. Also, everyone's a lot more scared of everyone else around them than they used to be...
I wish things like that would still be happening today... But today it's everyone is on his/her smartphone/tablet... But rare are those on portable consoles though.
@Jorbz150 Oh man so glad to hear you say that. Kids today don't know what an arcade was. They either don't exist anymore or are places like gattiland [yuck, ticket games, dance revolution, dumbed down no voilence/shooting games]. Its the end of an era. Interest is great for gaming but no personal interaction. We had some killer arcades in louisville, ky in the early to mid 1990's.
To all who think he A2600 is dead: Head over to Atariage. There are games still being developed today and I guarantee there will be more than a few games in the list you have never had the chance to play yet alone heard of.
Yea. I remember the options. (Moving shields, zig-zag bombs, fast bombs, and as you mentioned, the invisible invaders.) I didn't have a problem with fast bombs, but the zig-zag bomb option was my nemesis. Missle Command...A true classic. Simple, but exciting. I believe in the later years of the Atari 2600, the trackball did come out. It's ironic that one of the last great games for the A26 came out so soon before it died. "Solaris" But at least they went out with a bang.
Well, it wasn't the rule, but I have seen it happen. One reason to have your own system (besdes what we talked about) was that the arcade games always seemed put at the higher levels so you would of course dump more quarters in. Even as far back as Atari, one nice thing was that you had different levels. And you could learn to play the game on the easier levels and work your way up.
This is true too. Remember all the variations that you could select on games like Space Invaders for the Atari 2600? The one with invisible space invaders was my nemesis; don't play that one unless you have something to prove. Missile Command had a ton of difficulties and variations too: slow missiles, fast missiles, smart bombs, dumb bombs and so on. Didn't the 2600 have an optional trackball controller for playing games like that?
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What is the name of the video game where the talking cyclops alien at the 2:06mark asking to challenge his imperial fleet? I only seen this game once in the early 80's at Showbiz Pizza Place and haven't seen it since
OK, trivia question: What kind of system is Jay Fention (the video game designer at 2:01) using? It looks a little bit like a televideo terminal, with a keyboard in a metal case, but I'm not sure.
That would be Space Fury, produced by Sega during their springtime years. What's more, Space Fury came out in 1981--a year before Sinistar did--and like you said, Space Fury's synth speech was pretty good. So the people who programmed Wizard of Wor and all those other video games which were still using monotone speech after 1981 were just being lazy. (...not that that stopped Wizard of Wor from being a great game, of course.)
I never saw Space Fury in the arcades. The first time I played it was on the Colecovision (where the alien wasn't so angular and its harsh voice was replaced by a musical theme): ua-cam.com/video/OyfNiBXPlzs/v-deo.html I didn't play arcade Space Fury until MAME.
Little did they know how video games would up today... Pay even more money, after you've bought a certain game, to be able to access stuff already on the disc that should have been included but has been retain to as a DLC.
I would like to find the episodes to this show. Or was this only a pilot? do you have the full show? I would like to buy or view the whole episode/ episodes.
I remember Solaris too! For as simple as the graphics on the 2600 were by today's standards, I'd always jump whenever a planet got conquered by the invaders while I was zipping around on it. o_o The two Swordquest games were fun too, albeit hard to figure out in some parts. Too bad the other two games in the series never got released. But after the travesties that were Pac-Man and E.T. (both of which I had the dubious honor of playing), it's good that the 2600 went out on a high note. :)
Yea. You have a point. The most I recall paying for a videogame was $70. But of course, I was sure I liked it before I bought it. Ha ha. True, there were some games that could last (as you put it) 30 or 40 minutes if you were good. But then of course you risked the aracade owners getting angry at you. One time, I saw someone pull the plug on a game because someone played about an hour on one quarter. Another reason to have your own system at home. :)
Then again, you didn't have to feed an arcade game $40 or $50 in quarters before you realized that you didn't like it. Besides, there were games like Black Tiger, with which you could easily chew up 30 or 40 minutes at the cost of one quarter...as long as you were good, of course.
II was at a store that had a game I liked. I was playing the game and I guess the employee wanted to go home. He pulled the plug on me. I bever went back!
2:22 Funny to hear someone say that they wanted the kids to all get together to hang out. Now they jump on their Iphones and pretend to play together and never leave the house.
There was an arcade game in the 80s, which I thought was Black Widow, and in between levels a woman would appear. I remember that she would wink at you and do other things. She was sort of Gothic and a bit creepy. Does anyone know what game this was?
I am nearly certain that the memory is real. I remember not having much money and only playing the game a few times, but being very intrigued by the woman. I probably got to level three and all she was doing was winking, but in my teenage imagination, I was hoping that she would start showing skin in the later levels. As I said before, she looked Gothic like she could be a member of the Adams Family.
Oh, god...why did they have to include the Atari 2600's version of Pac-Man in this clip? That's like taking a 50-pound drum full of human feces and setting it in the middle of a gorgeous Japanese rock garden! I swear, I love and miss the 80's as much as anyone my age, but everytime someone starts spouting off about how PERFECT the 80's were, I just remind them that the 2600's E.T., Pac-Man and Zaxxon games existed. Yeah, I'm a bastard for pissing on people's parades like that.
well its a matter of just not putting in money till your broke but now we have mame and nes,genesis,n64,etc emu's so we dont have to go buy older games or go play in a arcade i would like to own then tho like a segacdx rare or a nes top loader also rare a mame cabinet i have lots of older game's and i like them more but some new ones are fantastic like the half life games or most steam/valve games.
"In one sense, we are trying to create an addictive device. It's like we are trying to invent drugs or something. It's a very a delicate balance between letting them play forever and just stealing their quarters and kicking them off as quickly as possible." (Remember, it all starts with a harmless quarter, but it can turn to tragedy, *Snap*, just like that.)
The business model changed from keeping kids feeding in quarters to keeping kids and overgrown kids buying $60 games. Finish one, on to the other. Same basic mentality though. Can't let the player get too satisfied with a game's replay value.
@Torus202 Well, I'll admit that the "pukyooup!" sound from eating one of the ghosts was amusing, but the music was a horrible disappointment to anyone who had ever played the arcade original. And I still vastly prefer the arcade's "wakka wakka" dot-eating sound to the 2600's "BONK!" noise. As for Zaxxon, I apologize for dredging up bad memories like that. My bad. :(
Yea. Solaris was their last big hurrah. My "favorites" were the red skull ships. They always seemed to show up when you wanted them the least. Good luck getting through one of those rounds without losing a life. Well, in all fairness Ms. Pac-Man was MUCH better than Pac-Man. . I know ET got a lot of bad things said about it. And many people see it as the start of the end for Atari. But I didn't think it was so bad. I kind of liked it.
Suddenly it come to mind, that time was also that grandma nit a sweather of goat/sheep fur for little childeren:D AND WE HATED THOOSE:D haha. Don't see that anymore:D
at 1:35 was that guy shitting himself how bad of a game that was? the way he said he making noise of his own. he is just saying that soo that game doesn't look bad. well then
Hello all! Fellow vintage/retro gaming lover here. I am looking for other retro gamers interested in doing some retro gaming online, via Kaillera client. I love MAME, Atari (all 8-bit) Intellivision, MSX, S/NES, etc. I am flexible & open to most gaming genres, but I prefer games that offer 2 player team/simultaneous & co-op play. Anybody who's interested, please feel free to let me know. We can set something up & do a little retro gaming! :-)
The most amazing time to be a kid was the early 80s with all the incredible arcade games that came out. Space Invaders was the first big time game i remember in 1978 when i was 8 years ago. Its truly remarkable all the classic arcade games that came out from 79 to 82. If you look at that 3 year period from 79 to 82, that's when all the best arcade games came out. The only great game i remember from 83 is Dragon's Lair.
Dan Livni, I believe Dragon's Lair created in 1983 by spin off of Disney company and Don Bluth was the illustrator for Dragon's Lair. His illustration work was epynonymous with Disney pictures and animated features such a "Secret of NIHM " , " Iron Giant", and sequels of the former film.
I wish classic arcades were more common still.
That's really cool! Thanks for letting me know! I was searching for 80s arcade footage, but only find new arcades that are basically calling themselves retro. It's really a nostalgia trip for me having grown up in that era. Arcades back then were like little pieces of heaven. ;D
@seanncory It was called Space Fury. It had a monitor that had a propensity to fail in a thermally epic manner.
There is a certain evil to that concept. ("Stealing their quarters, and kicking them off as soon as possible.") And in his own words, he says: "You want to create something addicting."
I really feel there is a bit of justice in the fact that home video games have knocked the arcades into obscurity. And after people buy the video game once, they don't have to cough up quarters only to keep getting knocked off.
2:05 "Does anyone dare challenge my imperial fleet?"
In case if anyone's wondering about the music at the beginning and ending of this video:
0:11 Vangelis: Himalaya
3:14 Tangerine Dream: Horizon
I might be mistaken on the Tangerine Dream one.
She has a point though. Back then it was the drive-ins, then the skating rings, then the arcades (for a good 20+ years, too...).
Now, it seems like most congregation is over online applications and online gaming. Also, everyone's a lot more scared of everyone else around them than they used to be...
I wish things like that would still be happening today...
But today it's everyone is on his/her smartphone/tablet... But rare are those on portable consoles though.
@Jorbz150
Oh man so glad to hear you say that. Kids today don't know what an arcade was. They either don't exist anymore or are places like gattiland [yuck, ticket games, dance revolution, dumbed down no voilence/shooting games].
Its the end of an era. Interest is great for gaming but no personal interaction. We had some killer arcades in louisville, ky in the early to mid 1990's.
I wish i was there in the 1980s!
To all who think he A2600 is dead: Head over to Atariage. There are games still being developed today and I guarantee there will be more than a few games in the list you have never had the chance to play yet alone heard of.
All perfect games.
Yea. I remember the options. (Moving shields, zig-zag bombs, fast bombs, and as you mentioned, the invisible invaders.) I didn't have a problem with fast bombs, but the zig-zag bomb option was my nemesis.
Missle Command...A true classic. Simple, but exciting.
I believe in the later years of the Atari 2600, the trackball did come out.
It's ironic that one of the last great games for the A26 came out so soon before it died.
"Solaris"
But at least they went out with a bang.
1:50
That analogy though
ahhh yes, games. they are the best.
we've evolved so much over such a short period of time.
I like playing Call of Duty a lot when im winning sometimes. Modern Warfare 2 and Blackops. I'm really excited for Modern Warfare 3 this November.
Well, it wasn't the rule, but I have seen it happen.
One reason to have your own system (besdes what we talked about) was that the arcade games always seemed put at the higher levels so you would of course dump more quarters in.
Even as far back as Atari, one nice thing was that you had different levels. And you could learn to play the game on the easier levels and work your way up.
That's Space Fury. It's known as either the first color vector game or first vector with speech... something like that.
Just found out it was Space Fury by SEGA.
This is true too. Remember all the variations that you could select on games like Space Invaders for the Atari 2600? The one with invisible space invaders was my nemesis; don't play that one unless you have something to prove.
Missile Command had a ton of difficulties and variations too: slow missiles, fast missiles, smart bombs, dumb bombs and so on. Didn't the 2600 have an optional trackball controller for playing games like that?
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What is the name of the video game where the talking cyclops alien at the 2:06mark asking to challenge his imperial fleet? I only seen this game once in the early 80's at Showbiz Pizza Place and haven't seen it since
That game was Gorf. And back in its day, Gorf was the awesomesauce. It would kick your ass and laugh at you. "Bite the dust, spaaaaaace cadet!"
OK, trivia question: What kind of system is Jay Fention (the video game designer at 2:01) using? It looks a little bit like a televideo terminal, with a keyboard in a metal case, but I'm not sure.
@markydkiehl
I do see it now, but what different gameplay! It looks like Robotron with Gorfs.
@uniteduniverse I think it's called "Space Fury" by Sega.
@MediaBurnArchive
If you can find more footage of arcades in the 80s, that would be awesome.
What was the game Jay Fenton was working on where he was "making his own sound effects"?
@ProfessorIgor
Indeed, thanks to the ever reliable Electrohome G08 monitor! :P
@RalphHyre this video was in the 80s i think look how far we've come since they flying cars coming soon
I liked that Bill Murray did the intro!
That would be Space Fury, produced by Sega during their springtime years. What's more, Space Fury came out in 1981--a year before Sinistar did--and like you said, Space Fury's synth speech was pretty good. So the people who programmed Wizard of Wor and all those other video games which were still using monotone speech after 1981 were just being lazy.
(...not that that stopped Wizard of Wor from being a great game, of course.)
back in the day they recorded in mono if your speaks are in stereo then it'll only be out of one speaker
"hi im lilly tomlin, im a pacman freek...."............ lmao
glad i was born just after these came out lol
It's called Space Fury. There are vids on UA-cam for it too!
wow i luv 80s
The good old days
Finally there some footage of Ms. Gorf
I wish vector games would had caught on more.
The talking alien in Space Fury used to scare the shit outta me as a kid.
Ah yes. I remember him.
That didn't scare me but I can totally understand. I was a bit of a mess as a kid and I scared easily.
ReverendSyn So, a creature for my amusement. Prepare for battle.
You are starting to annoy me.
Is the no one in the universe mightier than I??
Yeah, but nothing was scarier that than that damn Sinistar. I hunger!
Space Fury... the infamous spontaneously combusting game !!
@TheGanstaben Wondering too...never seen that one.
I never saw Space Fury in the arcades. The first time I played it was on the Colecovision (where the alien wasn't so angular and its harsh voice was replaced by a musical theme): ua-cam.com/video/OyfNiBXPlzs/v-deo.html
I didn't play arcade Space Fury until MAME.
I would like to know what this wired in show was. I would like to see the whole show.
Little did they know how video games would up today... Pay even more money, after you've bought a certain game, to be able to access stuff already on the disc that should have been included but has been retain to as a DLC.
the analogy that it was like Las Vegas was spot on.. random payouts etc..
Great video. What is the name of the game with the one-eyed alien? I forget.
I would like to find the episodes to this show. Or was this only a pilot? do you have the full show? I would like to buy or view the whole episode/ episodes.
I remember Solaris too! For as simple as the graphics on the 2600 were by today's standards, I'd always jump whenever a planet got conquered by the invaders while I was zipping around on it. o_o
The two Swordquest games were fun too, albeit hard to figure out in some parts. Too bad the other two games in the series never got released.
But after the travesties that were Pac-Man and E.T. (both of which I had the dubious honor of playing), it's good that the 2600 went out on a high note. :)
1:32 "Its a sport... In alot of ways."
Hmmm 30 years later...
guy at 2:45 probably had a heart attack when E.T. game was released...
I have no idea this is where that Bill Murray outtakes thing was from...
Wait...was that Space Fury in development before they had the classic phrase "IS THERE NO WARRIOR MIGHTIER THAN I?"
Yea. You have a point.
The most I recall paying for a videogame was $70. But of course, I was sure I liked it before I bought it. Ha ha.
True, there were some games that could last (as you put it) 30 or 40 minutes if you were good.
But then of course you risked the aracade owners getting angry at you. One time, I saw someone pull the plug on a game because someone played about an hour on one quarter.
Another reason to have your own system at home. :)
eternalhalloween1 I remember that Atari 2600 games were 30 or 40 bucks in 1982
Then again, you didn't have to feed an arcade game $40 or $50 in quarters before you realized that you didn't like it.
Besides, there were games like Black Tiger, with which you could easily chew up 30 or 40 minutes at the cost of one quarter...as long as you were good, of course.
why is the volume panned all to the left?
Prepare to Joust--buzzard bait. I just love 80s video games.
hmmm I saw her starring in miami vice... one of the early series
@MediaBurnArchive Why was it never completed? Was it because of the Video Game Crash of '84?
II was at a store that had a game I liked. I was playing the game and I guess the employee wanted to go home. He pulled the plug on me. I bever went back!
@bjsparntz Oh, I dunno.....she was pretty good in "I Heart Huckabees."
2:22
Funny to hear someone say that they wanted the kids to all get together to hang out. Now they jump on their Iphones and pretend to play together and never leave the house.
Hmmmm. Haven't seen a dark arcade in a long,long time. Bad behavior in the arcades caused the arcade owners to add regular lighting.
doctor i think i have pacman fever
doc: take 2 quatret to the arcade and call me in the morning
and they did. the media networks have always had short attention spans and thickle way about them.
I don't think we'll ever see Lily Tomlin do a humorous video clip about Minecraft. And therein lies all the difference between 1981 and 2011.
There was an arcade game in the 80s, which I thought was Black Widow, and in between levels a woman would appear. I remember that she would wink at you and do other things. She was sort of Gothic and a bit creepy. Does anyone know what game this was?
Words of Cheresie No such game. You're dreaming.
I am nearly certain that the memory is real. I remember not having much money and only playing the game a few times, but being very intrigued by the woman. I probably got to level three and all she was doing was winking, but in my teenage imagination, I was hoping that she would start showing skin in the later levels. As I said before, she looked Gothic like she could be a member of the Adams Family.
hahahah addict on PAc-man :)))
@lordtalon69 dance revolution is pretty fun and i like wii games id rather play ddr on wii or arcade than halo on xbox
@bladekiller990 Your site needs more stuff.
@DJCandyManMike that was a prototype for a game that was never developed...Ms. Gorf...seriously.
Silver Sue was hot
Damn, I love Lily Tomlin! XD
2:05 what’s this arcade game?
Ah, what memories. Pity the Arcade has gone the way of the pay phone.
I've been saying it wrong. It's a Sony Walk - Man.
Oh, god...why did they have to include the Atari 2600's version of Pac-Man in this clip? That's like taking a 50-pound drum full of human feces and setting it in the middle of a gorgeous Japanese rock garden! I swear, I love and miss the 80's as much as anyone my age, but everytime someone starts spouting off about how PERFECT the 80's were, I just remind them that the 2600's E.T., Pac-Man and Zaxxon games existed.
Yeah, I'm a bastard for pissing on people's parades like that.
I've never seen that game the developer was playing, but the characters he is fighting are GORF aliens... weird.
I was a video arcade junkie!!
well its a matter of just not putting in money till your broke but now we have mame and nes,genesis,n64,etc emu's so we dont have to go buy older games or go play in a arcade i would like to own then tho like a segacdx rare or a nes top loader also rare a mame cabinet i have lots of older game's and i like them more but some new ones are fantastic like the half life games or most steam/valve games.
"In one sense, we are trying to create an addictive device. It's like we are trying to invent drugs or something. It's a very a delicate balance between letting them play forever and just stealing their quarters and kicking them off as quickly as possible."
(Remember, it all starts with a harmless quarter, but it can turn to tragedy, *Snap*, just like that.)
The business model changed from keeping kids feeding in quarters to keeping kids and overgrown kids buying $60 games. Finish one, on to the other. Same basic mentality though. Can't let the player get too satisfied with a game's replay value.
@Torus202 Well, I'll admit that the "pukyooup!" sound from eating one of the ghosts was amusing, but the music was a horrible disappointment to anyone who had ever played the arcade original. And I still vastly prefer the arcade's "wakka wakka" dot-eating sound to the 2600's "BONK!" noise.
As for Zaxxon, I apologize for dredging up bad memories like that. My bad. :(
Helicopter game with loot......Super Cobra
funny thing is lily tomlin was kidding where as people like Jack Thompson are just a Joke
My right ear is feeling alone.
Yea. Solaris was their last big hurrah. My "favorites" were the red skull ships. They always seemed to show up when you wanted them the least. Good luck getting through one of those rounds without losing a life.
Well, in all fairness Ms. Pac-Man was MUCH better than Pac-Man. .
I know ET got a lot of bad things said about it. And many people see it as the start of the end for Atari. But I didn't think it was so bad. I kind of liked it.
Suddenly it come to mind, that time was also that grandma nit a sweather of goat/sheep fur for little childeren:D AND WE HATED THOOSE:D haha.
Don't see that anymore:D
Run Bill Murray, run!
What's the game at 2:05?
Man, those arcade owners sound like World Class jerks. I never had anyone treat me like that. I would have found another arcade if they did. :-/
lilly was actually good looking then.
WebVMan, get a Mac. (Mac OS X has this last I knew)
at 1:35 was that guy shitting himself how bad of a game that was? the way he said he making noise of his own. he is just saying that soo that game doesn't look bad. well then
@philiptwood Space Fury
Just before the great video game crash. "Where all the teenagers congregate." I hope history doesn't repeat itself.
Hello all! Fellow vintage/retro gaming lover here. I am looking for other retro gamers interested in doing some retro gaming online, via Kaillera client. I love MAME, Atari (all 8-bit) Intellivision, MSX, S/NES, etc. I am flexible & open to most gaming genres, but I prefer games that offer 2 player team/simultaneous & co-op play. Anybody who's interested, please feel free to let me know. We can set something up & do a little retro gaming! :-)
That PacMan cabinet is all painted black, what a shame...
@brycezimmer Space Fury
space fury
or major havok
right ear. why all the troutble?! just a few genrations of leaders. paid as top five of our genratrion. quizshow 2.