Early 1980s Video Arcade Games
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A humorous glimpse at the video game boom in the early 1980s, when Pac Man and arcades were popular. This clip is an excerpt from a demo for the television show "Wired In." You can watch the full video here:
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I wish classic arcades were more common still.
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.
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.
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.
@seanncory It was called Space Fury. It had a monitor that had a propensity to fail in a thermally epic manner.
Just found out it was Space Fury by SEGA.
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.
Silver Sue was hot
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.
I wish i was there in the 1980s!
Damn, I love Lily Tomlin! XD
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.
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.)
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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.
@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. :(
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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. :-/
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!"
@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.
1:50
That analogy though
so what has this brought us? A bunch of shit games that try to be movies. I'm looking at you heavy rain and every other game now. Games used to have charm. They have nothing now. The graphics don't even look good. They are ugly and try to be realistic; the faces don't look right and CERTAINLY don't move right. And everyhting just has that bland, sterile 3d feel.
ive been an adict since the 89 and i never looked back................god i need a life i would gladly trade my wife for a life.
"hi im lilly tomlin, im a pacman freek...."............ lmao
glad i was born just after these came out lol
Wait...was that Space Fury in development before they had the classic phrase "IS THERE NO WARRIOR MIGHTIER THAN I?"
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.
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.
where do the kids congregate nowdays?
the world lost alot when the arcades started going downhill
a girl arcade owner wow
my mom use to kick my ass at spaceinvaders
and i was and still am a pacman fiend id rather play pacman joust centipede than halo gta r call of duty
The Bally/Midway developer interviewed here had a sex change surgery back in 1998...gross...
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.
@markydkiehl
I do see it now, but what different gameplay! It looks like Robotron with Gorfs.
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.
funny thing is lily tomlin was kidding where as people like Jack Thompson are just a Joke
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.
What was the game Jay Fenton was working on where he was "making his own sound effects"?
That's Space Fury. It's known as either the first color vector game or first vector with speech... something like that.
@lordtalon69 dance revolution is pretty fun and i like wii games id rather play ddr on wii or arcade than halo on xbox
Just before the great video game crash. "Where all the teenagers congregate." I hope history doesn't repeat itself.
I've never seen that game the developer was playing, but the characters he is fighting are GORF aliens... weird.
Great video. What is the name of the game with the one-eyed alien? I forget.
back in the day they recorded in mono if your speaks are in stereo then it'll only be out of one speaker
@RalphHyre this video was in the 80s i think look how far we've come since they flying cars coming soon
and they did. the media networks have always had short attention spans and thickle way about them.
ahhh yes, games. they are the best.
we've evolved so much over such a short period of time.
@MediaBurnArchive
If you can find more footage of arcades in the 80s, that would be awesome.
doctor i think i have pacman fever
doc: take 2 quatret to the arcade and call me in the morning
guy at 2:45 probably had a heart attack when E.T. game was released...
@MediaBurnArchive Why was it never completed? Was it because of the Video Game Crash of '84?
@bjsparntz I liked Lily Tomlin. Heck I used to have a thing for her. I guess I still may.
hmmm I saw her starring in miami vice... one of the early series
I would like to know what this wired in show was. I would like to see the whole show.
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Space Fury... the infamous spontaneously combusting game !!
trying to invent drugs......isn't this about the same time crack came out too?
That PacMan cabinet is all painted black, what a shame...
@uniteduniverse I think it's called "Space Fury" by Sega.
The white michael winslow? lol. Silver sue is sexy for an early 80's chick.
I have no idea this is where that Bill Murray outtakes thing was from...
@bjsparntz Oh, I dunno.....she was pretty good in "I Heart Huckabees."
I've been saying it wrong. It's a Sony Walk - Man.
@TheGanstaben Wondering too...never seen that one.
I wish vector games would had caught on more.
Prepare to Joust--buzzard bait. I just love 80s video games.
@bladekiller990 Your site needs more stuff.
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
1:35 what’s this arcade game?
why is the volume panned all to the left?
I liked that Bill Murray did the intro!
WebVMan, get a Mac. (Mac OS X has this last I knew)
OMG amazing.....the new drug is still making money!
Remember when Lily Tomlin was funny?
I don't.
2:05 what’s this arcade game?
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?
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. :)
Play too much and ull end up with crooked lilly tomlin eyes
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
my pc has more computing power than an arcade
hahahah addict on PAc-man :)))
1:32 "Its a sport... In alot of ways."
Hmmm 30 years later...
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!
All perfect games.
Helicopter game with loot......Super Cobra
lol now is computers mmo freaks like me XP
Pacm............ Crysis.
lilly was actually good looking then.
@TheGanstaben hell fucking no. lol.
No more congregating in the arcade.
@ 2:22 kids still dress like this.
1:45 - Jay Fenton: Now a woman.
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.
right ear. why all the troutble?! just a few genrations of leaders. paid as top five of our genratrion. quizshow 2.
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.
"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.)