The video games, and arcades, of the early 80's, generally promoted social interaction. Mrs. Lamm brilliantly predicted the future. Her concerns were/are spot on!
@WonderWhaz really? In 1982? I was a 13 year old 'back then'. I don't recall adults/parents articulating the dangers of video games, quite like this lady! In fact, most parents played right along side with their kids!
Younger generation seldom understand what it was like. The sound was a major factor when it came to arcade. It's how most of the discovered Mortal Kombat. The sound of punches and wailing was so unique, you had to follow where it came from. Once you found it, there were crowd of people watching people play. It was basically a precursor to twitch.
Reminds me of the Killer Instinct machines yelling “Combo Breaker” as it was programmed to be louder than the entire arcade (regardless of colume settings) in order to reel in players :)
Yeah though he was a little too early with his call that it would be happening by 1984 when it would be not for another two decades or so when wireless game competition would become a thing.
The 1980's looked like fun and wonderful times. I love arcades and arcade games. Frogger is amazing especially on the Sony PlayStation 1. Cool video. ^_^
Mrs. Lamm moves from a today where kids are briefly locked into video games to a future where “our kids can’t speak with one another.” A bit of a stretch. Hysterical in both senses of the word.
I used to play Pong at Penn station when I moved to Long Island. The first video games I ever played were banned. One game you directed nuclear missiles toward cities. The other one you tried to run over humanoids with your car. They were sick. They were fun.
I completely forgot about that back when these came out at the start of the '80s there were local laws that regulated when children could be in the arcades and I remember police going through and asking to see IDs to make sure that you were 18 if you were in the arcades during school hours and after 8:00 p.m. at night It is crazy how much control and regulation we have put on every aspect of our lives and to look back now I didn't remember that we did this with video games and it totally left my mind
In the 20s,30s,40s,50s,even the 70s you could be under 18 and go into bars. You could not drink alcohol but I saw kids and I was a kid in a bar. Before WW2 America and the world was a much different place. When I was doing research in the 70s studying American history, I visited many mill towns and coal towns in the northeast and mid Atlantic states These companies kept incredible records and when they went out of business they literally just left everything there. I was able to comb through hundreds of thousands of records and one of the most shocking things was the family employment records and the ledgers Every family had an UD number assigned to them and they had their own company ID number even before they had SS numbers. The majority of the employees were housed in company row apartments The companies took yearly family photos and documented the family name. Each family member, the age and their employee ID number. I saw folder after folder of 3 and 4 year olds assigned to dig the stones in the mine. 5 and 6 year olds were " breakers " these boys ran alongside the carts as they came out of the mine and jammed branches in the spikes to stop the cars. Most of these boys had their arms ripped off by age 8. The families consisted of a male and female, married, usually around age 10. Each year they would have a new child. I actually spoke with some of these people in the photos who were in their 70s and 80s and still alive in the town. The ledgers kept an exact record of payment and costs each family was charged for housing, food, phone calls, etc The value of the employees were less than a mine mule. In many of these towns in my conversations with the people that were alive in the 20s and 30s and 40s, they told of the traveling carnivals. These were a lot of con artists that picked pockets and ripped off people in other ways. These carnivals always had staples. Like the Fortune Teller and the Ferris Wheel. And 2 of the other attractions that the old men talked about after quite a few beers were the strippers tent and the penny arcade. There were no age restrictions, but the stripper tent admission was usually 25 cents at a time that minimum wage was 5 cents. So, many of the kids under 10 did not have a quarter to spend on that tent. But all the kids had a penny or two they could spend in the penny arcade. These were wooden boxes with a sight glass and a slot to drop in the penny and a crank on the side The crank turned a little generator inside the box that powered a light bulb. This bulb was behind the film and the sight glass was like binoculars that enlarged the images of the film loop. The film inside was run around a series of wheels and usually gave 10 or 15 seconds of a woman undressing or doing a sex act. The penny slot had a release for the stop that prevented the crank from turning. The penny provided 30 seconds of turning the crank and watching the show At the start of WW2 most of these carnivals went out of business. A few converted into Religious Revivals traveling and preaching or setting up shop in a remote area outside of a town. These penny arcades were not illegal but the post WW2 America wanted a clean upstanding family life and these didn't fit with that model. The 1960 and 70s saw a huge amount of freedom and many cities had adult businesses and adult theaters. The hypocritical religious zealots of the early 80s made the adult businesses their white whale and the boggie man to the American people. There was a very clear division and it still exists today, of the people who believe in free speech and those who don't. It has really gotten bad in the last 6 years with more speech being made illegal every year. It is not the America we grew up in. I think back to what it must have been like to be 5 years old in 1930 working on a coal mine and going to see the adult loops in the penny arcade when the carnival came to town. And I was lucky enough to see all the company photos before they were destroyed showing kids in the mines covered in coal and kids in the textile mills working by candle light America's history has been erased and whitewashed and it should be taught by the old to the next generation so no one forgets what really happened
Some friendships started at the arcades while others solidified them. Today's kids are the ones stunting their oral communication skills by texting and living their daily lives through social media apps.
yes, you're right. WHY are we allowing it? This is criminal.. and the people of tomorrow are just going to continue to decline because the developmental milestones are NOT BEING MET.
Thank God our culture moved on from the video game fad, and that teenagers no longer have addictive games to stop them from developing "communicative skills."
no, they didn't make it better. parents just bought their kids consoles because it made them feel like a better parent, knowing where their children were. We kids used to be free.. we went anywhere we wanted. You can't see the puppet strings? Those that own everything, has everyone addicted to something. Once yo'ure there, you can't imagine wanting life differently.
Mrs. Ronnie Lamm...one of the very first examples of a Karen. She is so out of her depth it's not even funny. She claims arcade games ruin kid's social skills...right. Arcades were places that were generally packed. Quite often you would find a sense of community in arcades especially since gamers were always targets for these know-it-all jackasses that always want to tear down what they refuse to understand. She thinks video games are a waste of time. .why don't you? It's emotional drivel that is designed to control everyone around them. Addendum- I missed gaming in arcades during this time period as I was too young. However, by the late 1980's all the way through the 1990's and early 2000's I was there.
Who the hell even BUYS Playboy any more, especially now that they've done away with nudity? Hell, who buys physical magazines anymore? What is this, 1982?
he called it obsession, but it's more addiction behavior. And, that INDUSTRY, managed to harness the youth.. all the youthful energy... *gone*. That energy is now being lived indoors, on screens, going absolutely nowhere.
I wouldn't mind going to a place where I lived by gas lamps and candles with someone I love so much. Far away from all this gender crap and other BS tbays going on today
ok. but the same problems existed then, as these days. We are at the end of it though. So hold on to yourself.. the one you know. Listen to your heart. xo
Mrs Lamm described todays kids with their phones ....................
The video games, and arcades, of the early 80's, generally promoted social interaction. Mrs. Lamm brilliantly predicted the future. Her concerns were/are spot on!
@WonderWhaz really? In 1982? I was a 13 year old 'back then'. I don't recall adults/parents articulating the dangers of video games, quite like this lady! In fact, most parents played right along side with their kids!
Younger generation seldom understand what it was like. The sound was a major factor when it came to arcade. It's how most of the discovered Mortal Kombat. The sound of punches and wailing was so unique, you had to follow where it came from. Once you found it, there were crowd of people watching people play. It was basically a precursor to twitch.
Yeah there was always something special about going into an arcade and hearing all the sounds of each game playing around the arcade.
Reminds me of the Killer Instinct machines yelling “Combo Breaker” as it was programmed to be louder than the entire arcade (regardless of colume settings) in order to reel in players :)
Yeah but back then people didn’t PAY to watch someone else play a video game .. I’m still shocked there are grown men that do this
@@brianmeen2158 that does seem sad, my local video store had a cab and we'd go on there to play games and socialise
The 80's were great! Going to an arcade was an event. Double Dragon, Donkey Kong, and Galaga. Lots of fun.
They were the movie theatres of video games, play all these great games at an arcade, and hope you get a decent home version in the next 12-18 months.
Now parents are worrying about their kids on texting..or sexting, rather :)
Man I used to love going to the arcade
3:32 this dude just single handedly predicted e-sports wth
Too bad those e-sport communities won't remember his name
Yeah though he was a little too early with his call that it would be happening by 1984 when it would be not for another two decades or so when wireless game competition would become a thing.
The 1980's looked like fun and wonderful times. I love arcades and arcade games. Frogger is amazing especially on the Sony PlayStation 1. Cool video. ^_^
What would the lady speaking at 2:39 think about today’s kids?
The last time I played GTA online and 10 year old kid told me to go F myself.
Mrs. Lamm moves from a today where kids are briefly locked into video games to a future where “our kids can’t speak with one another.” A bit of a stretch. Hysterical in both senses of the word.
I used to play Pong at Penn station when I moved to Long Island. The first video games I ever played were banned. One game you directed nuclear missiles toward cities. The other one you tried to run over humanoids with your car. They were sick. They were fun.
I completely forgot about that back when these came out at the start of the '80s there were local laws that regulated when children could be in the arcades and I remember police going through and asking to see IDs to make sure that you were 18 if you were in the arcades during school hours and after 8:00 p.m. at night
It is crazy how much control and regulation we have put on every aspect of our lives and to look back now I didn't remember that we did this with video games and it totally left my mind
My friends and I got kicked out of an arcade for being 14. The pool hall next door no problem.
We have regulated ourselves into a corner and literally into losing our freedom.
ya as a homeless teen it was nuts and when you saw a cop go in you slowly and surreptitiously made your way out
In Germany it is still outlawed since mid of 1980th to place any coin operated arcade machines in public places accessible under 18 years. 😡
In the 20s,30s,40s,50s,even the 70s you could be under 18 and go into bars.
You could not drink alcohol but I saw kids and I was a kid in a bar.
Before WW2 America and the world was a much different place.
When I was doing research in the 70s studying American history, I visited many mill towns and coal towns in the northeast and mid Atlantic states
These companies kept incredible records and when they went out of business they literally just left everything there.
I was able to comb through hundreds of thousands of records and one of the most shocking things was the family employment records and the ledgers
Every family had an UD number assigned to them and they had their own company ID number even before they had SS numbers.
The majority of the employees were housed in company row apartments
The companies took yearly family photos and documented the family name. Each family member, the age and their employee ID number.
I saw folder after folder of 3 and 4 year olds assigned to dig the stones in the mine.
5 and 6 year olds were " breakers " these boys ran alongside the carts as they came out of the mine and jammed branches in the spikes to stop the cars.
Most of these boys had their arms ripped off by age 8.
The families consisted of a male and female, married, usually around age 10.
Each year they would have a new child.
I actually spoke with some of these people in the photos who were in their 70s and 80s and still alive in the town.
The ledgers kept an exact record of payment and costs each family was charged for housing, food, phone calls, etc
The value of the employees were less than a mine mule.
In many of these towns in my conversations with the people that were alive in the 20s and 30s and 40s, they told of the traveling carnivals.
These were a lot of con artists that picked pockets and ripped off people in other ways.
These carnivals always had staples. Like the Fortune Teller and the Ferris Wheel.
And 2 of the other attractions that the old men talked about after quite a few beers were the strippers tent and the penny arcade.
There were no age restrictions, but the stripper tent admission was usually 25 cents at a time that minimum wage was 5 cents.
So, many of the kids under 10 did not have a quarter to spend on that tent.
But all the kids had a penny or two they could spend in the penny arcade.
These were wooden boxes with a sight glass and a slot to drop in the penny and a crank on the side
The crank turned a little generator inside the box that powered a light bulb.
This bulb was behind the film and the sight glass was like binoculars that enlarged the images of the film loop.
The film inside was run around a series of wheels and usually gave 10 or 15 seconds of a woman undressing or doing a sex act.
The penny slot had a release for the stop that prevented the crank from turning.
The penny provided 30 seconds of turning the crank and watching the show
At the start of WW2 most of these carnivals went out of business.
A few converted into Religious Revivals traveling and preaching or setting up shop in a remote area outside of a town.
These penny arcades were not illegal but the post WW2 America wanted a clean upstanding family life and these didn't fit with that model.
The 1960 and 70s saw a huge amount of freedom and many cities had adult businesses and adult theaters.
The hypocritical religious zealots of the early 80s made the adult businesses their white whale and the boggie man to the American people.
There was a very clear division and it still exists today, of the people who believe in free speech and those who don't.
It has really gotten bad in the last 6 years with more speech being made illegal every year.
It is not the America we grew up in.
I think back to what it must have been like to be 5 years old in 1930 working on a coal mine and going to see the adult loops in the penny arcade when the carnival came to town.
And I was lucky enough to see all the company photos before they were destroyed showing kids in the mines covered in coal and kids in the textile mills working by candle light
America's history has been erased and whitewashed and it should be taught by the old to the next generation so no one forgets what really happened
Cool stuff, Thank you Alan Meades for uploading!
Some friendships started at the arcades while others solidified them. Today's kids are the ones stunting their oral communication skills by texting and living their daily lives through social media apps.
yes, you're right. WHY are we allowing it? This is criminal.. and the people of tomorrow are just going to continue to decline because the developmental milestones are NOT BEING MET.
0:14 sample used in the song Wave from The Midnight
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Not sure why you used an O
@@Evdafawth it's a typ-O :)
Subscribed! I love these old news reports about gaming! ^
Somethings never change....
"What is the future world going to be like if our children can't speak to each other?"
OMEGALUL
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Oooh if only they could see how the world is now
Nice video
Didn't think they considered Video Games as "entertainment". 👾
I can only imagine what vinyl one could have picked up in that record store and saved them for todays places like ebay!!!!
Records were meant to be played not kept for sale.
I really like these American accents, which region of the USA are they from?
Likely midwest accents.
The guy at 1:45 sounds sort of like a mild Italian mafia accent. The reporters were typical media accents from the time.
I think Polybius was a great game.
blips n chips
Thank God our culture moved on from the video game fad, and that teenagers no longer have addictive games to stop them from developing "communicative skills."
LOL LOL LOL !!!😂😂😂
Yes. In fact, the video game boom went bust in '83, and sadly never recovered.😋
people saw this coming 40 years ago. That didn't make it any better though or even decelerate our descent into a sedentary, screen-addicted lot.
no, they didn't make it better. parents just bought their kids consoles because it made them feel like a better parent, knowing where their children were. We kids used to be free.. we went anywhere we wanted. You can't see the puppet strings? Those that own everything, has everyone addicted to something. Once yo'ure there, you can't imagine wanting life differently.
What if you could have video games based on music or movies?
I always spend all my aloud
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running every red light
LOL, what a shift. Went from video game to drug addiction as the main thing. Good times then!
Naw, social media addiction is the main main thing.
Mrs. Ronnie Lamm...one of the very first examples of a Karen. She is so out of her depth it's not even funny. She claims arcade games ruin kid's social skills...right. Arcades were places that were generally packed. Quite often you would find a sense of community in arcades especially since gamers were always targets for these know-it-all jackasses that always want to tear down what they refuse to understand. She thinks video games are a waste of time. .why don't you? It's emotional drivel that is designed to control everyone around them.
Addendum- I missed gaming in arcades during this time period as I was too young. However, by the late 1980's all the way through the 1990's and early 2000's I was there.
Maybe moms need to play video games
1:48 Who the hell reads Playboy?
Who the hell even BUYS Playboy any more, especially now that they've done away with nudity? Hell, who buys physical magazines anymore? What is this, 1982?
he called it obsession, but it's more addiction behavior. And, that INDUSTRY, managed to harness the youth.. all the youthful energy... *gone*. That energy is now being lived indoors, on screens, going absolutely nowhere.
Such an awesome time in my life
I wouldn't mind going to a place where I lived by gas lamps and candles with someone I love so much. Far away from all this gender crap and other BS tbays going on today
I totally agree with you! However, I remember my great grandmother back in the 60's saying something very similar!
Something just as bad would have replaced it, there are always going to be bad times ahead.
ok. but the same problems existed then, as these days. We are at the end of it though. So hold on to yourself.. the one you know. Listen to your heart. xo
hilarious. this is where the downfall of society started I guess haha.
2:43 That Karen was spot on though