My favorite Atari game was video tennis. 🕹 🎾 And I still would love to play that and real-time tennis as well to get out for exercise and a break from the hectic of the complicated present.
Very cool seeing people playing Football on the Intellivision. It was a difficult game to learn (there were two instruction manuals that came with it, and one was just a playbook where you punched in number sequences to initiate various plays), but once you got into it, it was an incredibly fun and engaging game, especially for the time.
Good ol’ “Speak & Read” and “Speak & Math.” Those “along with “Speak & Spell” were a part of my childhood. I turned 5 and started kindergarten back in ‘81.
The games are so old it's hard to even tell what's being played. This was back when the very idea of video games was a new one, and before the infamous crash of 1983.
That first handheld was the very first home video game I ever played, around 81 or 82. . It was a very primitive football game, with single led for each of the players.
this is one of them videos where I wish I could slap the cameraman silly and yell "FOCUS ON THE FULL SCREEN YA JACKASS!" he kept zooming in on the timer and score numbers and I just wanted to see what the actual gameplay looked like. The 80s were truly a time. Glad it was part of my childhood, having been born a year after this video was produced :P
10:13 ... That's definitely an HP-85. I used those, or a similar model, like an HP-87, in the late 1980's at the university for electrical engineering classes, mainly to code out drawing & printing data measurement graphs (in HP-BASIC). I still have at least one handbook manual for it that I've kept all these decades later. I have the C-64, which came out a year later in 1982. But it would be nice to have an HP-85/87 just for nostalgia.
13:37 - The book on the upper-left of the shelf was titled "Personal Programming." It was the manual I got from Texas Instruments for my TI-58 programmable calculator. 14:26 - Ah, yes. "Compute!" Great magazine!
There's a lot to like about the early 3D stuff, I find the N64 and GameCube still capture a LOT of the magic these earlier games had. And let's not forget about handhelds like the GameBoy and Gameboy Color which post-dated the SNES but retained the tech. Imo its when games left the cathode ray tube and tried to be too much like movies instead of themselves is when things got less interesting. But not EVERYTHING did; while the mundane lost the magic (no good real-life sports games since madden for n64 and if its about shooting its definitely a waste of time) there's still a lot of heart and love and creativity in games today if you know where to look....its just not on the surface anymore like this era.
❤miss the. 80s ❤love 80s music. Was class ❤ of 1980 listen ❤ to 80s every. Day. Stlll got 80s clothes. Makeing 80s. Room ❤me and my ❤grilfriend. ❤ and two ❤ her grilfriend go to mall on Saturday. Play arcade. Games. Eat out. Go ❤to 80s clubs
Those poor, unfortunate people of color at 11:44. How horrific that they had to endure the harsh reality of life in the racist, pre woke 1980s. Look at them suffer the indignity of not being bothered while they stand around playing video games....oh wait....
Games now have gotten to be to involved and consume way to much time to play. While the graphics are cool now, some (keyword being some) games really lack overall game play.
Back when video games were simple and the graphics didn’t give you a headache. I miss the 80s
And also the music
My favorite Atari game was video tennis. 🕹 🎾
And I still would love to play that and real-time tennis as well to get out for exercise and a break from the hectic of the complicated present.
I wonder who has decent new turn based strategy games.
in 1982 when I was 15. I was playing Pac man, frogger and space invaders
This was a great time to grow up! Everything was new and people weren't cynical and critical of everything.
I had a Speak&Spell when I was a little kid, I never got less than an A on a spelling test in my life and won many spelling bees, thanks mom ❤
Remember going to Radio Shack & Playing the new Comador 64😂😂.. It was Amazing!! 😊
Lol, yup and the TRS 80. We had VIC 20's at school.
I don't recall ever seeing Commodore computers. They only sold their own brand computers (Tandy) at the Radio Shacks I went to.
Very cool seeing people playing Football on the Intellivision. It was a difficult game to learn (there were two instruction manuals that came with it, and one was just a playbook where you punched in number sequences to initiate various plays), but once you got into it, it was an incredibly fun and engaging game, especially for the time.
Good ol’ “Speak & Read” and “Speak & Math.” Those “along with “Speak & Spell” were a part of my childhood. I turned 5 and started kindergarten back in ‘81.
Speak & Read Now days if you land on the woman, It gets confused 🙈
@apexone5502, I would have benefitted with a Speak n Math.
I love watching the vintage video games on display. Especially the Mattel handheld games. thank you.
Home computing was still primative and very expensive, the arcade games were way better that whats shown here.
The games are so old it's hard to even tell what's being played. This was back when the very idea of video games was a new one, and before the infamous crash of 1983.
That first handheld was the very first home video game I ever played, around 81 or 82. . It was a very primitive football game, with single led for each of the players.
Coleco handheld football, got one for Christmas as a kid
Boomers can't wait to dance on your graves
I played the ever loving heck out of that hand held Football game at the end of the video. That thing went everywhere with me.
this is one of them videos where I wish I could slap the cameraman silly and yell "FOCUS ON THE FULL SCREEN YA JACKASS!"
he kept zooming in on the timer and score numbers and I just wanted to see what the actual gameplay looked like.
The 80s were truly a time. Glad it was part of my childhood, having been born a year after this video was produced :P
Damn thats even before hogan slammed andre the giant. Impressive.
They should make a movie out of the video game crash.
Star Raiders was my favorite Atari game. I mastered it quickly.
10:13 ... That's definitely an HP-85. I used those, or a similar model, like an HP-87, in the late 1980's at the university for electrical engineering classes, mainly to code out drawing & printing data measurement graphs (in HP-BASIC). I still have at least one handbook manual for it that I've kept all these decades later. I have the C-64, which came out a year later in 1982. But it would be nice to have an HP-85/87 just for nostalgia.
This is cool especially from 1981 this the same year I was born what a classic footage
Why was btm's channel destroyed? I don't watch this old news but I am impressed and admire the archiving effort.
I'm not sure what happened.
oh cool Star Raiders on Atari 400, that was my absolute favourite game.
Sounded like the exact sounds effects used in "Defender".
The sounds in the little Football game were so great. Time to sample some for my iPhone.
I had Star Raiders and that Atari 400.
Flatest keyboard ever.
13:37 - The book on the upper-left of the shelf was titled "Personal Programming." It was the manual I got from Texas Instruments for my TI-58 programmable calculator.
14:26 - Ah, yes. "Compute!" Great magazine!
The good old days when imagination played a role in video games. After the 16 bit era it was all downhill IMO.
There's a lot to like about the early 3D stuff, I find the N64 and GameCube still capture a LOT of the magic these earlier games had. And let's not forget about handhelds like the GameBoy and Gameboy Color which post-dated the SNES but retained the tech.
Imo its when games left the cathode ray tube and tried to be too much like movies instead of themselves is when things got less interesting. But not EVERYTHING did; while the mundane lost the magic (no good real-life sports games since madden for n64 and if its about shooting its definitely a waste of time) there's still a lot of heart and love and creativity in games today if you know where to look....its just not on the surface anymore like this era.
Those were the days! 🥰
Those worth bucks now.
Thank God the NES was only four short years away
Wow an Atari 400!! Try to find one in working order today!
There tons actually…
Ebay
There are many still working today.
Yes many work today. Have a few here working =)
Space Invaders, arcade and home versions, were quite hard. Spaceship moved too slow.
❤miss the. 80s ❤love 80s music. Was class ❤ of 1980 listen ❤ to 80s every. Day. Stlll got 80s clothes. Makeing 80s. Room ❤me and my ❤grilfriend. ❤ and two ❤ her grilfriend go to mall on Saturday. Play arcade. Games. Eat out. Go ❤to 80s clubs
What a good find.
nice video thanks!
Fascinating
Los 80 son inigualables. En todo.
What is the self contained unit seen at 11:11 ?
That is a Hewlett-Packard HP-85, pre PC era computer in all its glory. It used magnetic tape cartridges for apps and storage.
Atari 400!
lol I just sold that coleco vision football handheld a few wks ago
Those poor, unfortunate people of color at 11:44. How horrific that they had to endure the harsh reality of life in the racist, pre woke 1980s. Look at them suffer the indignity of not being bothered while they stand around playing video games....oh wait....
What's wrong with you?
@@redmond9653 Nothing. Anything wrong with you?
😅😅 nice
@@redmond9653 cope😅
@@patb5266 Thanks
Watching an Atari 400 demo Star Raiders!
Games now have gotten to be to involved and consume way to much time to play. While the graphics are cool now, some (keyword being some) games really lack overall game play.
Religiously Dope‼️
Steve jobs @9:29