Captain Cutaneum's Arcade '85 | A TIME PORTAL TO 1985! - Retail Archaeology Mini Documentary
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- This episode was filmed at Captain Cutaneum's Arcade '85. This place is a magical time portal that takes you to an arcade in 1985!
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Awesome!!
Hey Dan Bell, I keep buying your latest dead mall prints, and you take good shots, but can you please take more shots of 90's architecture?
+This is Dan Bell
Glad to see you here! You and others doing similar things should get together and do a live YT hangout...I'd love to see it!
Even some of the kids near the beginning of the video were dress in 1980's style. Can't tell if they dressed for the occasion or if its just fashionable again. Really awesome.
it's fashionable right now and i love it
Room needs to be much darker for an 80's arcade.
I remember places like that being packed to the door, only letting people in when somebody walked out.
I miss mall arcades. We have an arcade here that you play a set fee to enter and all the games are set to free play.
Theres an arcade near me like that too, but they don't take care of it, most of the games are broken, and theres only a few games I could enjoy. Its a trampoline park, and thats their main thing, and its a popular place, but the arcade is dead, it needs to be renovated and fast.
Could use some maroon and orange striping on the wall and a darker carpet!
I prefer the teal and hot pink combo for my 80's fix.
Only one detail of this arcade was missed. There was too much lighting. Arcades of the era were DARK and almost never had windows. Barrel of Fun and Aladdin's Castle were the biggest offenders, though some Red Baron's were the same way. The more well lit and windowed arcades didn't become common until the 90's with places like Cyberstation and newly built Chuck E. Cheese's. (I remember Showbiz being dark in parts, but well lit in others.)
That's not entirely accurate, yes there were many dark arcades. But just as many lit as well, I can remember about 4 or 5 of them before 85 in the Phoenix area. That would include 2 of the largest in town at the time. Golf N Stuff(Metrocenter) and what is now Sunsplash in Mesa. Most of the lit shops were little mom and pop establishments. There were a couple around Fiesta Mall(in Fiesta Village) that I used to frequent quite often.
DLWormwood A lot of them also had carpeted and/or dark walls. This just feels a little off to me.
That's the first thing that stood out to me -- this arcade is too well-lit to come off as "authentic". The only well-lit arcades that I recall were the small ones in supermarkets like Foodland and retail stores like Gem in Hawaii. Otherwise, they were all dark and stuffy.
My friends and I used to hang out in the arcade at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, TX back in the late eighties and early nineties and it was really dark, the music blaring, and everyone in there was elbow to elbow. It doesn't get any better than that.
What stood out to me was the amount of space. I remember those arcades being really dense, and having to kind of elbow past people. I also remember them being louder than this, with all the games turned up just a little too loud. Also, not only dark but sometimes even with neon signage on the walls. Anyone else remember arcades like this?
I'm surprised you didn't interview the owner(Dr. Lines), he is always up for that.
For some of us Arcade 85 was only the beginning, there is a very decent arcade collector community in Phoenix.
I missed out on this one, but would love to take my 6 year old daughter to an arcade night. Do you have any insight on the next event I can take her? We're in Deer Valley, but I'll drive anywhere for the experience.
Wow I am impressed by this arcade; this is just the way I remember arcades of the 80's. I could easily spend tons of quarters in there ( and since I"m not so good at playing this would be over quickly ). Thank you, Retail Archaeology - you have transported me to one of my favorite places/ times.
There needs to be more of these all across the country.
Oh man, that takes me back. Interesting to see so many young people in there.
7:51 what a classic image of the three boys hanging around one arcade game. One boy is playing the game the while the other two boys are watching over his shoulder as he plays the game. Reminds me of classic 80's movies with that iconic arcade scenes in it.
I graduated from high school in '83 and yes, these were fun places. In this arcade, I mastered the Tron & Kickman games. On Tron, I reached 1,450,000...found that each game within the levels would repeat. Then kickman, that game had a kill screen much like Pacman had. Now to make this place really complete...some late 70's & early 80's pinball machines. My favorite was 8-ball Deluxe! Other games I was good at was Pacman & Bank Panic.
The Tempest Cocktail Cabinet? Not only have I seen one, I played it. I remember back in the early 80s my father took me to the local skating rink where they had one. I had never seen anything like it before, and then my father gave me some quarters so I could play it! I also remember seeing a Berzerk upright arcade game there as well, but I didn't play it.
Looking at those modern kids' reactions said it all. Despite how good technology is for them nowadays. They can't resist walking round in awe, wondering what's going on in those screens. Just as it was for Us in our day.
I had flashbacks of GAMELAND Arcade in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Twisted Sister blaring through Kenwood speakers, so much smoke in there that light from the cabinets would make visible surreal swirling shapes in the air and teenage boys would try and gain the attention of huge haired girls by getting the highest score on Space Harrier, Joust or Gauntlet.
This was awesome and kudos to the owners of this place, folks should help them out by patronizing this establishment.
Such an incredible trip down memory lane!
The Popeye cabinet game was my favorite!!
Glad you got a video of this! I randomly saw this advertised on craigslist and was able to visit. It was cool that the guy even had a rack of Captain Cutaneum comic books there that he made. I haven't seen this guy open his arcade in a long time, but hope he comes back!
Valkyrie needs food badly!
OMG. I have the music in my head now.”Thor is about to die”. What a quarter suckage game.
I love seeing these arcades but I notice none of them are as big as the one in Syracuse, NY back in the day. It was called Buttons Arcade and it had a lot of games, pinball, pool tables, air hockey, foosball and a great snack bar. He went to tokens instead of quarters. 7 tokens for a dollar and 40 tokens for $5 and the games were still 1 token per play. Definitely the best arcade in America. Closed in 1998 after 20 plus years. Bob Button was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to see a 1993 version of this arcade. That part about having no music in an arcade and absorbing the ambiance is a major thing for me. Although a few arcades did have music playing in the background and had a jukebox that filled the whole arcade (and sent it to dead silence for a while after when the song you chose finished), the volume wasn't loud and certainaly did not overwhelm the arcade machines' sounds in attract mode. The fact that they had classical music in addition to hit music of the time also really helped class up the place.
my cousins owned a space invaders cocktail cabinet. it was always a treat to go over to their house, my brother and I would run downstairs and play either sonic the hedgehog on their Sega, or space invaders while my parents visited upstairs with the rest of the adults. good times.
.....Ah, the good ole days. Thanks man for uploading that. Great memories!
....I liked centipede, galaga, and sinistar........meeting up with friends and hanging out.
Thank you so much for teaching me the correct term for those tables with the arcade games in them -- now I'll know they're called "cocktail cabinets"! There used to be two of those cocktail cabinets at the Pizza Hut my family and I used to go to in the '80s: one of them had a Pac-Man and the other had a Centipede game. Rarely was I allowed to play arcade games because my parents were frugal and I only played games at birthday parties, but those two were the two games I would always elect to play, especially Centipede. I loved that game! I also remember how, while I never used to play Pole Position myself I did have fun watching other people play the game. Something else I always used to love playing at those arcade areas where birthday parties are held was Skee-Ball. That was always a MUST for me, even as a teenager attending younger cousins' birthday parties. Hell, even as I approach "midlife crisis" age, I would totally be down for playing Skee-Ball. Hmm. Think I should look into where I could go to play that game....
Wow, talk about bringing back memories...
I worked at a mall arcade for a couple of years back in '86. Fantastic times, I surely miss them. How I wish the time frame could be altered by even a couple of years to include games from '86-'88. Gauntlet 2, Out Run, Renegade... But then you would need a bigger room!
I freely admit my guilt for my love of pinball as well. What I wouldn't give to be able to play some of them one more time: Nip-it, Caveman, Xenon, Firepower 1 and 2, F-14 Tomcat, High Speed, Gorgar. I'm sure there are dozens more I could name if my brain worked as well as it used to...
Many, many thanks for posting this!
That "spy hunter" looked totally awesome. Had some good times playing that game on NES.
To complete the experience: after visiting here, go home and play an Atari 2600 and think how cool it would be if you could have arcade quality graphics on your home console lol
Great video! As a kid of the 80's, this really hits the sweet spot of nostalgia just right.
Awesome, loved it!
All these are great, just wish they could have fast forwarded the portal a few more years and throw circa 1992 in the mix for some TMNT and X Men cabinets.
I love this era. thinking about how times are now makes me depressed
Nothing was better then walking into an arcade with a pocket full of quarters
We once had a pizza place in town that had those tables. Closed not long ago. Now it's a bakery which has been the first successful business to be open in that location for more than 3 years since I was a little kid in the 80s
i was expecting Polybius to show!!...XD
Coin op in downtown sacramento is a bar/arcade. It's a great time for adults to drink and enjoy their childhood. Last Sunday of every month games are free.
Great to see an arcade around again! If you find another one or video this one again ,Please show every game so we can see all they have. I would have loved to see the big blue machine in the corner and what the other two cocktails were especially the little round one ..don't see those too often even in the 80's. Thanks for taking this video ,no matter what.. it's still very cool :)
What an awesome name for an arcade.
Cool as it was was, it was still missing the biggies of video arcades of the 80's. Space invaders, Asteroids, pacman..etc
Awesome vid man! Games seemes well preserved. Only like five people in there. Wow! Thanks for sharing
that star trek arcade game was sick! Will never forget the only time I ever saw one was at the back of a sears store (the captains chair version) I sucked at it but was blown away to the point I still remember
Toe Jam and Earl. Awesome.
Put an arcade beside a dispensary with a smoke area and bring back the arcade boom
I would most likely go there every week if I had one near me. Awesome.
Karate Champ was cool back in the day. I didn't see Dragon Slayer there, but Gauntlet was always a good standby.
Yeah, Awesome place for sure. Thanks for the upload.
we had quite. a few arcades in my town back then. i played just about everyone of these games in your vid. they had a booth Tron game as well. neon lights and all.
Thank you for sharing this experience and good to know most surviving arcades seem to have a steady customer stream and can envision museums of the future maintaining these machines although the environment and accessibility will differ greatly.
Wow, I had no idea Paperboy had specialized controls in the arcade! That changes everything about how the game is played!
super cool really enjoyed seeing the video
Tempest was my first favorite game, and your right about it not making a good transition to any platform due to the spin controller. You would have to build a heavy box just to hold a spin controller to play this in any home version, and the spinner would have to come off of one of the old Tempest Machine.
I also really liked Galaga, especially the version with chip setting that speeds up the rate of fire. Another game I miss was probably the very first I got proficient with was Astro Blaster. We used to have a convenience store that had a small separate arcade/pool hall. They had Defender, Pac-Man, Astro Blaster, Frogger and a cocktail Space invaders. After high school, I went to work for a franchise location of Showbiz Pizza Place. Video games, beer, beautiful high school girls and pizza. (What more could an 18-19-year-old need in 1986?)
Awesome video! Reminds me of being a kid in the early 90s
The table top arcade ones are cool. I love how those look. I remember a restaurant in my Canadian town in the 90's use to have one.
very cool. someday i hope to be open up a video arcade museum, so i'm all about things like this, lol. well, museum, restoration and sales.
my arcades while growing up were very dark at night, always had a funky carpet usually with some kind of pattern that glowed under dark or neon light, and, for some reason, often had music going on. they would also have bar stools because we would play for hours, and some even screwed cigarette trays on the side of the cabinet as shown.
Totally awesome!
HeadOn actually was on the Atari 2600 as "Dodge 'Em", and LeMan was on it as part of " Indy 500".
A temptest cocktail game!
I remember playing VS. Super Mario Bros. in 1985 before it was released on the NES. I had an N.E.S. super system with the R.O.B robot... back then the pack in games were Duck Hunt and Gyromite. I'm old, lol.
Pretty sweet! Not enough black lights and neons though. Zaxxon is an AWESOME game. I had it for ColecoVision as a kid and loved it.
Man, if I were ever wealthy enough...I'd love to do something like this. I'd probably have machines up to SNES era for X-Men, TMNT, Street Fighter 2, etc though.
I played all of those back in the day, and most are great.
But you missed talking about or showing Tank. It was the second hit by Atari after Pong in 1974, and was a landmark game for the era.
grew up with All of these
Fun Villa, Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1984. 🇨🇦🕹
Damnit, it's in Arizona!
Great 80s nostalgia!!
Body blow, body blow. Left, left. Uppercut!
Toejam and Earl has sick tunes.
It’d be really cool if you could cover the Lake Arrowhead Village in Southern California. It was once a thriving resort town shopping center but is now dying. Lake Arrowhead is in the middle of it. It is very beautiful there.
This reminds me of dam Diego when I was 6 years old ..it was cool then I came to Arizona witch it was cool too in 87 and back in those days there was arcades all over my home town of Douglas Az there was angies videos ..Giggles..zanadu..and all the circle ks in town about 5 of them..when the town was up and running ..couse of Phillips copper of dodge
SiniStar is a cool game. There's a devil who pops up and calls you a coward every time you mess up. I had a friend who was good at video games and SiniStar always got the better of him. A laundromat I went to in the early 80s had Berzerk and Galaga. Doing laundry was something I looked forward to. Video games then were for everyone, not just for whizzes and other eggheads. You could suck at them and still have fun.
Man very cool
Awesome thanks for sharing.. :) :D big LIKE.. ;)
I'll have to check to see if there's one in my area - I used to play most of what was shown there - I'm sure hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars were spent in quarters or from tokens by me back then. Now if they only had a working Dragon's Lair....
Cabal was my favourite 80s game by far. So addictive though. Dunno how much exactly i spent playing that but probably 70%+ of my pocket money would end up being handed over to that arcade. were rarely any other kids playing it either i think cos it cost more than other games there
If you go back try Anteater. Right next to the paperboy cabinet. Super cool game.
great video i would love to find something like that in my area
3:49, he must make his wife pretty happy.
Playing track and field was a workout
sinastar, all we need now is the late Geoff Edwards as he beat this game.
Theres an arcade near me called "Arcade oddessy" and its pretty 80s the windows are black, its dark, glow in the dark 80s carpet. Its an awesome place, but the only negative is there is an amount of games that break the 80s time machine atmosphere.
Speaking of vector-style games: What, no Battlezone? Other classics that I didn't see include Dragon's Lair, Moon Buggy, and Defender. No need to search for that last one, I have one of the 1982 full cabinet versions in my breakfast nook. It was an impulse buy back in the early 90s...
I'm jealous, I'd love a classic arcade machine in my breakfast nook. I've just got an old CRT in there hooked up to my NES.
'1985?! GREAT SCOTT!'
awsome..!!
so glad this arcade is a alive
There is a Star Wars Vector Game that is fun and really cool too!
What an awesome arcade, too bad they only open it randomly. If it was darker, smoky, and had neon lights, it would be a real blast from the past. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to your next videos.
Toe Jam and Earl music :)
wow soo cool I was 7 in 1985 and loved arcades I'm sure in UK they were just 10 or 20 pence a pop I was shocked when they went upto 50 pence then 1 pound!
# keep up the awesome !
Great video! what are the names of those two tunes that play in the beginning and the very end? They sound familiar to me but I can't remember where I heard them.
Needs some Tears for Fears playing and that thick smokey atmosphere, because its the 80s and everyone is smoking indoors. And this is something I secretly dream of doing.
Nice. The only thing that is different is 1. The place is too bright compared to the arcades I was used to.
2. Lack of cigarette smoke (which is a good thing)
3. 80’s mullets
Where is this joint located? I'd like to visit it myself
I would kill to find an arcade like this. Nowadays you have to go to Dave and Buster's. They barely have any old games. Now they're infested with app-turned-arcade games. No, I did not come here to play Fruit Ninja or Subway Surfer. That's for my phone!
I used to have a arcade like this at my local mall but all the arcade cabinets where removed... I have no idea what they are planning for there
Very cool. I graduated high school in '86 and we had a huge arcade in the bowling alley where I lived. Love all those games. I don't get it..is this owned by some eccentric rich guy that just randomly lets people come play with his collection? Are those gamea always in that spot, or does he move them in and out every time he decides to "open the portal" to 1985? If this was open all the time, I would literally plan a trip there from Seattle to visit.
Hi, You Missed the Best One: ANTEATER, it was next to Paperboy. When I played Anteater in the 90s it was a Very Old beaten down cabinet sitting in a dark corner of our local Arcade, nobody wanted to play it, but it was cheap and it was always there available. Anteater is an "acquired taste", the Graphics are boring but the Colors and Gameplay can be very addictive once you know what you're doing, the game is about trying to eat Ants, Worms and Spiders without getting bitten by the Bugs walking on the screen. You should try to play Anteater sometime. Thanx for the Video. 😎
When word of my demise is made known, I ask only that my ashes be placed there... 😂😂😂😂
I went on their website. Do they give any kind of heads up as to when they open? Or just check the site
Of the games in your video, I probably shoved the most quarters into Joust.
Joust is great. I really like the sequel too but that's a really hard game to find! Thanks for watching!
1985! The year i was born..
I would have loved to have seen a Qix arcade game, which was released in 1981. If you have never heard of it, look it up on UA-cam and watch some of the game play. The sound effects alone were fabulous. Also, a Super Pac-Man Would have been awesome, too.
Qix is a lot of fun, I used to play it on my Game Boy quite a bit. I have the Qix arcade game in my multicade in my own garage arcade :-) Thanks for watching!
Oh, awesome! One of my all-time favorite games for sure. And, you're welcome! :-)
Is that the music from Toejam and Earl??!!