Had the time of my life being a teen in the 80’s. Played video games all day. Turned all my allowance into quarters for the arcade. Lol Turned 13 in 1980💪
Here in the UK arcades are/were all at the seaside, mostly along the seafronts, and I always remember going to them being a treat. Far from being harmful, they were very social and helped my hand-eye coordination to a great degree. Now though, kids mostly sit in their rooms playing them in social isolation, which isn't at all good.
Was one of the first generation of kids to play arcade machines. As a kid I remember playing Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, etc at the bowling alley. I had an Atari 2600 at home. It's some of my best memories.
Haha. I have a "Vader" 2600 and an old school CRT television (Sony Trinitron) which is still one of my favorite consoles of all time. Nothing like the Paddle controller and games like Kaboom!. Many of the games are still compelling and addictive despite many games being over 50 years old. Now excuse me while I play a hardware accurate FPGA (MiSTer) versions of all the games you mentioned plus Wizard of Wor and Time Pilot. You don't need to relive the memories. You can play the same games today.
@@privateprivate1865 The non-centering controller which easily broke was the chief problem of the 5200. For a lot of people the 7800 was the better choice since it could play 2600 games which the 5200 couldn't.
These were great times. I was 10-11 in 1981. I loved all the classic arcade games and spent a fortune having so much fun. Now I have cabinets at home: Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, Asteroids, Centipede, Dig Dug and many more classics. Good times.
I was one of the first generations of kids that grew up with video games 👶🏻 I was 7 years old in 1981. There were at least a dozen arcades within bike riding distance of where I lived. Plus a whole bunch of little corner stores that had arcade games too. They were everywhere! 😮 And of course, me and my buddies loved spending time and money at the arcade 😍 Good times!
I was born 1980 and my memory of 1980's very vivid and Im still old school 100%. I miss these days the 80's Era. My first video game in 1986 was Sega Master System and my first video game was "Alex the Kidd'' . Wow thanks Hezakya for this rare upload. This bring tears to my eyes :-( Wow so much memories and I'll admit, Im very emotional because I feel like Im a kid again watching this and going back in time in the 1980's.
I agree. Thanks to youtube, we can relieve older times. With uploads like this one, retro will never die. I am working on a history of beat em up series on my channel. I think someone like you will appreciate it. Part 1 is already uploaded.
That is freaking awesome man! I started gaming back in 1986 as well with the Nes and Master System (divorced parents). I never got into Alex Kidd but I became a huge Sega fan because of my Master System and the amazing arcade games. However, it wasn't until 1989 that I became a hard core gamer for life when I got my Sega Genesis.
I was 9 going on 10 years old in 1981 , and I can relate to this Video 100% , because i myself was a VIDEO GAME JUNKIE lol...… And now im 47 going on 48 in 2019 , and after all these years IM STILL A VIDEO GAME JUNKIE !!!!!! :(
I am exactly like you. Spent all my money in arcades and after consoles, in the 80s and 90s. I played on PC for more than a decade before coming back to consoles (2006). Even worked as game programmer for 7 years at Ubisoft. I still play up to this day, enjoying new games but still playing old games. I will be a gamer until I die I guess.
I miss old news that used to just report what was going on and didn't try to spin every little thing constantly. They interviewed kids, parents, game makers, city officials. They brought up pros and cons of video games. They just let the facts and people involved speak for themselves. Our video games have gotten amazing since 1981, our news reporting? Not so much.
We've gone full circle with the retro gaming phenomena. The games that started the video game industry are hugely popular again today. I'm having a blast playing all the classics again. I just don't have to ride my bike to the arcade anymore, I have a homemade console with several hundred classic games loaded on SD cards.
Nah it's different emulators will never let you experience the social aspect of arcades and sadly arcades are now dead or dying. Also the retro games economy is messed up.
6:55: I love it when they played "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" in the arcade place with the thing lighting or kinda dark era inside of the arcade, and also. I never thot that music came out in the early 80's and specially in 1981, that's insane to me
When I was young, I was obsessed with video games, spending all my money in arcade in early 80s, spending all my money on consoles until early 90s (switched to PC after that). I wonder if these young people in the report still play games like me.
yeah the 80s sucked, so did the 90s and beyond. It was also good, so was the 90s and beyond. Nostalgia is a disease. Tell me what social media, internet or mobile phones ruined that wasn’t already ruined back in the 80s?
The very name I'm using right now came from my days in the Arcades! I entered for the first time an Arcade in July of 1982 I'll never forget it. I started with Pac Man but got hooked on Galaga. If you remember, you had to get really creative with your user name. It was the old 8 dot 3 days where you only had 8 digits so your name had to be something catchy that no one else would think of or use. I thought mine up on the spot and I'm still using it for my TH-cam account today. "Lordcron" It was perfect! I miss those days.
In 1981 I was 14 going on 15. What a great time to be a teenager. I played Space Invaders in ‘79 at a hotel on Oahu. Arcades were magical. Even at my university in the mid to late 80s, I spend many a quarter at the university arcade. Although I sucked at Defender, I loved plunking quarter after quarter into it. The graphics and sound effects will haunt me in a good way for a long time yet.
This was before my time since I was born around the late 90's, but I can imagine how much hype there was around these retro games at the time, it's fascinating.
Yea it was awesome growing up in that time. Going to an arcade was like an event. Yea you could play games at home, but you could play the best, most advanced games of the time and get to see your friends and maybe even meet a chick. Which were also plenty of those at the arcades.
Today “Greg,” the kid who had the highest score in the arcade, would likely be making millions as a gamer, where as “Bill Herman,” the arcade owner, would be broke.
At that time, it was just 25 cents to play the game, if I remember right. That's not terribly expensive, even for the time. By the mid 90s, I remember some games were $2-4 bucks to play, even sometimes 5 and the games were hard enough that you could play maybe 15 minutes if you're lucky. You could just buy the game on a ps1 or n64 for a fraction of the cost. So yeah, arcades were on the out due to the expense and how cheap it was to get a home console instead.
Christopher Glenn ? Oh my gosh. He was a news anchor on CBS , Channel 5 Medford Oregon back in the late 60's ,. Every once in a while we watched cartoons when I was very young, news break, for 60 seconds, you heard his voice, that's it , after all of these years I wonder if he still is a news anchor??
My cousin rented a small building near a high school back in the early 80s and put several arcade games in it. He ran it after school 4pm to 10pm. He was able to retire and move to Hawaii 4 years later.
I was 16 in '81, but was too busy delivering chinese food in one of 3 Toyota Tercels the restaurant I worked for owned.. Of course, I knew of Space Invaders and Pac Man, but I guess I didn't think I was coordinated enough to get very far with them. I had forgotten about Asteroids and that Dinky Donuts ad until watching this
I got in trouble for stealing quarters from the empty ice cream tub of change my parents kept on top of the kitchen cabinets SO many times. There were 4 or 5 stores I could ride my bike to and play arcade games. There were always lots of other kids' bikes piled up outside. It was a great time to be a kid.
I was born in 1980. I also missed the first wave, but my goodness was it a great time to be a child during the second arcade boom and Nintendo hitting the scene.
Galaga, Ms Pacman and later came Gladiator. The Omni's Goldmine in Atlanta was the best spot. I was 12 and a wiz at Ms Pacman. My highest score was 350,000
Crazy that those people were trying to pass an ordinance to limit the number of operational arcade machines in the county, because a shop across the street from school had installed three of them. When I was in high school, a few years ago, people were playing on their cellphones, inside school. Some of them were audacious enough to play during class. That's why I love watching these videos, they're a trip.
I love watching these kinds of videos to hype myself up before playing any modern games. It really puts where we are now into perspective. Seeing these and then playing Cyberpunk is wild.
Nice video. I was 19 when they made this story. I try to tell younger people how weirded out old people would get about Video Games back in the golden age. I was told many, many times that "Video Games are a Fad, like Pet Rocks and Mood Rings". No matter how hard I tried, Most of them could not comprehend why Video Games would last more than a few years. Awesome piece of history for me, Thanks! ( I actually own 12 coin op original Arcade Machines. 2 Full sized Gorfs, 1 Cabarat Gorf, 2 Stargate Machines, an Asteroids, a Scramble Cocktail, a Tron and, I own a Computer Space, the first Commercial, Coin Op Arcade machine). I am old and retired, and I bought most of them years ago. Pain the the Backside to keep them running, but it is really, really cool for me!!
Would you happen to have the other segment mentioned in opening *Cameron Crowe interview about going back to High School at 26 and writing Fast Times at Ridgemont High Would love to see that
I was around in '81 and I have zero memory of Dinky Donut cereal(wasn't this where Joe DiMaggio dunked his donuts), that madcap marathon game, or that quick& thick shake milk shake machine. I'm in shock because of have a great memory for 80's stuff.
Weren't we lucky to experience this time period. Double Dragon and Rastan hooked me the most part. I was a bit too young to be any good at the likes of Donkey Kong or Joust, but I'd still happily slot the coins in knowing I'd lose quickly. Some of the fondest memories where in the arcades.
I was born in 1981. I was introduced to the arcade and game centers by older boys around 1990, and I slowly became addicted. The interesting thing is that I wasn't even 10 years old yet but there was no problem with little boys like me going to the game centers alone because it was so safe that it wasn't dangerous for me to be around older boys and adults. The only danger was me spending money on the machines almost everyday 😁 Sometimes my mother wouldn't give any money but I still had to go to the game centers. At least watching the older boys play was fun too.
I get the feeling that you also went around the empty games checking for left behind quarters in the coin return slot, lol! I would know- it takes one to know one! Ha!
@@thundercracker900 on Ms Pacman, I learned from the older kids how to "jam" a penny upwards into the coin return slot for a free credit. This worked at nearly every Ms Pacman game anywhere. Also, there was this ancient video game, even from 80's standards, I remember that was of a "life-size" machine gun where you shot at the screen at airplanes. All you had to do was hit the coin slot area hard for a free credit. In fact, that shooter game was so ancient in the arcade that no one ever played it, and me being the cheapskate kid, liked playing free video games! Lol!
Seeing "Space Invaders" at 2:30 & "Star Castle" at 4:01 put a big smile on my face. I remember them well. In fact I think I recognized every game shown in this video. Such fun times. Can't believe that all pinball machines were banned & destroyed in 1938 Ney York. There was no way that was going to happen in early 1980's with arcade games. Video arcades might not be the sensation they once were, but video games are alive & well in the 21st Century & we have so many old school classics to thank for the start of it all.
I was born in '86, a little late to the party I know, but I remember loving the arcade games that came out before I was born and the arcade game's of the 1990's to this day.
I just hope one day soon or sooner. I bring back arcades, so people can socialize alot an fun with each other like back in the early 80's, like a hang out place, were alot of great time's happened alot, like on the weekends especially, bringing the arcade back in the 2020's era after the epidemic is over so people can get out n hang out, like in the arcades
I remember arcades in the malls in the 1970s. I was really good at Ms Pac Man and Centipede. I could play for hours on a single quarter. I played a little Donkey Kong too
I remember playing Pac Man and Donkey Kong at the 7-Eleven on Nordhoff & Orion in Sepulveda, California between 1981-1983. All these years later, that same convenience store is still there!
The memories of going to Arcades in the 80's was something that I will always cherish. Besides the Arcades, my Mom bought my Siblings and I The Intellivision and Atari 2600 and 5200, from there she bought us just about every game console she could even though money was tight. I still have them to this day. Been Gaming most of my life.
I couldn't help laughing, sometimes, at all those bicentennial quarters that we were feeding into machines. I kept telling myself, "These are going to be valuable, someday, and won't you feel dumb?"
30 minutes was the saturday morning kid's version of 60 minutes christopher glenn also was the narator/anchor for "in the news", a news magazine directed at kids these were the golden days of kids programming
i knew that was his voice from in the news, thanx for confirming, before i went in search of info.,....i loved in the news and its intro sounds/graphics,......a great time for TV in those days
I think this is the first time I've ever seen Christoper Glenn's face. Yet I remember "In The News" on Saturdand his radio coverage of the Challenger eplosion in 1986. He was one of CBS's best journalists, yet CBS seemed to always keep him behind the scenes for some reason. And it's funny they interview Steve Ritchie about video games, and now he's known as the kind of pinball
I was in preschool in 1984, and each day we would have these series of activity stations where you could play for 20 minutes or so before rotating to the next station. One of the stations featured video games. Well, I was a Space Invaders master. And one day, I got on such a good run that I lost track of time and missed two station rotations. I was so embarrassed when I realized it, but fortunately no one else (including the teacher) seemed to notice.
I enjoy going to the arcades and playing video games. I prefer arcades instead of home systems, because you get to choose and go from one arcade to another, challenge other players, and try new games before they hit for home platforms. My brother and I had an Atari 2600 for Christmas 1978, and then I sold it for a VCR. By the mid 2000's his family and I now own Xbox platforms.
That's right...I'm a video addict and proud of it. Unlike back then (after the 1983-1984 fallout) when one's gaming habit was something to be hidden, I wear it like a badge of honor. I even lucked out and landed an amazing fiancee who is just as diehard about gaming as I. We have a full sized arcade in our living room complete with full stand-up coin-op cabinets. We play everything across all platforms, genre's, and generations of gaming. From the very old (Gen 3) through the 9th generation we love it all. Long live gaming and the gamers that play them! Now, I'm off to play Ghosts of Tsushima Directors Cut on our PS5.
I used to love going to the arcade with my friends. I didn't play a ton of games because I liked to save my allowance for comic books (Action Comics cost about as much as 2 or 3 games-and it seemed a much better buy for me) I did like playing Galaga, and Qix though
The first arcade game I played was Asteroids in a table style cabinet where you had to sit down to play. It was on a black and white screen with white lines forming the ship, the asteroids and the occasional UFO. The second game was a knock off Star Wars game called Starhawk. The third, fourth and fifth were Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
I think it’s more complicated today. With games being much more complicated in general, they require more tools and programming knowledge to create. Still cool to see dev kits in use.
@@gamingquarterly6353 The machines are more complex for sure. And if you want to know everything about every piece of them, then yeah it's more complicated. But there are so many tools today that handle some of the load that a lot of the job is done for you. For example, there are so many game engines that are available even to beginners. Back in those days, developers would generally have to build their own engine and most of their own tools. Today I think one of the biggest challenges is navigating the dizzying amount of options out there. And the problem of how to work through the obstacle when there is some issue with your tool. That's when having deep knowledge helps. But gaining that degree of knowledge is something that devs often forego when they use these ready-made tools. I think that is the real downside to having all these tools today.
Because when I dream we are melting together synchronized in a mass embrace, beads of water forming together like an ocean wave, how strange with parts of each other, I'll never even know your name.
I played 2 arcade games in the early to mid 80s called Popeye and Zaxxon and was an expert. I'd hate to think how much money I spent. Today my son plays Fortnite and even though he plays too much he doesn't spend anywhere near as much time and money on it as I did in the arcade!!
@@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 I lived in a small town and there were only two games. Popeye and Zaxxon. However, they had pinball and a pool table & I was pretty good at those too!
I could play Excitebike INDEFINTLEY on one quarter. I got to FOUR HOURS before they kicked me out...lol I'd play + beat: Heavy Barrel, 720, Yei Air Kung Fu, Contra, Out Run, EDOT, then Excitebike.
Had the time of my life being a teen in the 80’s. Played video games all day. Turned all my allowance into quarters for the arcade. Lol Turned 13 in 1980💪
Here in the UK arcades are/were all at the seaside, mostly along the seafronts, and I always remember going to them being a treat. Far from being harmful, they were very social and helped my hand-eye coordination to a great degree. Now though, kids mostly sit in their rooms playing them in social isolation, which isn't at all good.
then 1986, home consoles are the thing, then around 2003, consoles goes online.
Same here! I often wonder how much money I spent at arcades back then 😅
Was one of the first generation of kids to play arcade machines. As a kid I remember playing Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, etc at the bowling alley. I had an Atari 2600 at home. It's some of my best memories.
I had the Atari 5200 .. it gets a lot of negativity.. but imo it was one hell of a system compared to the 2600, all the way up to the 7800.
@privateprivate1865 - Those were great days indeed. E.T almost ruined everything, but glad it didn't.
@@privateprivate1865Same here, I had a 5200, remember Joust? That was an awesome game, I used to play that like crazy, one of my favorite games.
Haha. I have a "Vader" 2600 and an old school CRT television (Sony Trinitron) which is still one of my favorite consoles of all time. Nothing like the Paddle controller and games like Kaboom!. Many of the games are still compelling and addictive despite many games being over 50 years old. Now excuse me while I play a hardware accurate FPGA (MiSTer) versions of all the games you mentioned plus Wizard of Wor and Time Pilot. You don't need to relive the memories. You can play the same games today.
@@privateprivate1865 The non-centering controller which easily broke was the chief problem of the 5200. For a lot of people the 7800 was the better choice since it could play 2600 games which the 5200 couldn't.
These were great times. I was 10-11 in 1981. I loved all the classic arcade games and spent a fortune having so much fun. Now I have cabinets at home: Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, Asteroids, Centipede, Dig Dug and many more classics. Good times.
Likewise...I want that dig dug
I used to love Joust, that was a fun game.
I was one of the first generations of kids that grew up with video games 👶🏻 I was 7 years old in 1981. There were at least a dozen arcades within bike riding distance of where I lived. Plus a whole bunch of little corner stores that had arcade games too. They were everywhere! 😮 And of course, me and my buddies loved spending time and money at the arcade 😍
Good times!
I was born 1980 and my memory of 1980's very vivid and Im still old school 100%. I miss these days the 80's Era. My first video game in 1986 was Sega Master System and my first video game was "Alex the Kidd'' . Wow thanks Hezakya for this rare upload. This bring tears to my eyes :-( Wow so much memories and I'll admit, Im very emotional because I feel like Im a kid again watching this and going back in time in the 1980's.
I agree. Thanks to youtube, we can relieve older times. With uploads like this one, retro will never die.
I am working on a history of beat em up series on my channel. I think someone like you will appreciate it. Part 1 is already uploaded.
That is freaking awesome man! I started gaming back in 1986 as well with the Nes and Master System (divorced parents). I never got into Alex Kidd but I became a huge Sega fan because of my Master System and the amazing arcade games. However, it wasn't until 1989 that I became a hard core gamer for life when I got my Sega Genesis.
"Alex the Kidd" 🤣
@@LeonardoVarini For real Yo !!!
How you feel games of Nowdays.
The Midnight brought me here.
Thanks for letting us know?
Like the band? What song?
@@FloppyDiskMaster Parts of this broadcast were used in 'Wave' and a few other tracks as well (from the EP 'Kids').
The midnight climax
🎵“We are not a sentimental age
We don’t want our parent’s china or their ticker-tape parades.
We are not a sentimental age.”
I was 9 going on 10 years old in 1981 , and I can relate to this Video 100% , because i myself was a VIDEO GAME JUNKIE lol...… And now im 47 going on 48 in 2019 , and after all these years IM STILL A VIDEO GAME JUNKIE !!!!!! :(
IRON MIKE you and me both and I’m 42
I am exactly like you. Spent all my money in arcades and after consoles, in the 80s and 90s. I played on PC for more than a decade before coming back to consoles (2006). Even worked as game programmer for 7 years at Ubisoft. I still play up to this day, enjoying new games but still playing old games. I will be a gamer until I die I guess.
@@madjoe8622 what new games you like ?
Nobody cares FJB
@@Jwdude123 don't insult old pepole they old relics they must be protected
I miss old news that used to just report what was going on and didn't try to spin every little thing constantly. They interviewed kids, parents, game makers, city officials. They brought up pros and cons of video games. They just let the facts and people involved speak for themselves. Our video games have gotten amazing since 1981, our news reporting? Not so much.
Well said.
you dont like constant reminders like ORANGE MAN BAD?
It's so bad now. Watching news reports from the 70's is shocking.
@@an0therdimensi0n99 bro it's been literal years since that, stop letting trump media coverage live rent free in your brain
@an0therdimensi0n99 yall obsessed with trump just like how the right was obsessed with obama..both the left and right suck
We've gone full circle with the retro gaming phenomena. The games that started the video game industry are hugely popular again today. I'm having a blast playing all the classics again. I just don't have to ride my bike to the arcade anymore, I have a homemade console with several hundred classic games loaded on SD cards.
@@TD75 that’s what people don’t seem to remember was everything else that was going on around them at the time.
Nah it's different emulators will never let you experience the social aspect of arcades and sadly arcades are now dead or dying. Also the retro games economy is messed up.
6:55: I love it when they played "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" in the arcade place with the thing lighting or kinda dark era inside of the arcade, and also. I never thot that music came out in the early 80's and specially in 1981, that's insane to me
Funny that played while you're shooting aliens with a blaster in a video game-arcade machine! xD
Yeah, lol
Thot?!!! Thought!!!😂😂😂 I’m so weak you spelled it like that’s how it’s supposed to be spelled!
@@dipsetny9291 Bru why the fuck your making fun of me for spelling it wrong? I can't spell short sentences or what?
@@DarkCrueDethAngel ggegeteyehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe e dheuwueri🎉😮
I always loved playing arcade games at local pizza joints and at roller rinks.
When I was young, I was obsessed with video games, spending all my money in arcade in early 80s, spending all my money on consoles until early 90s (switched to PC after that). I wonder if these young people in the report still play games like me.
The days of no social media, internet or mobile phones... Thank Christ I grew up in the 80's, you had to be there to understand.
yeah the 80s sucked, so did the 90s and beyond. It was also good, so was the 90s and beyond. Nostalgia is a disease. Tell me what social media, internet or mobile phones ruined that wasn’t already ruined back in the 80s?
The very name I'm using right now came from my days in the Arcades! I entered for the first time an Arcade in July of 1982 I'll never forget it. I started with Pac Man but got hooked on Galaga. If you remember, you had to get really creative with your user name. It was the old 8 dot 3 days where you only had 8 digits so your name had to be something catchy that no one else would think of or use. I thought mine up on the spot and I'm still using it for my TH-cam account today. "Lordcron" It was perfect! I miss those days.
In 1981 I was 14 going on 15. What a great time to be a teenager.
I played Space Invaders in ‘79 at a hotel on Oahu.
Arcades were magical. Even at my university in the mid to late 80s, I spend many a quarter at the university arcade.
Although I sucked at Defender, I loved plunking quarter after quarter into it. The graphics and sound effects will haunt me in a good way for a long time yet.
The Asteroids record eventually fell to me later in 1981. I think I went over 38 hours.
Wow. That's some dedication!! Did you ever have to go to the bathroom?! Did you starve or get tired?!
This was before my time since I was born around the late 90's, but I can imagine how much hype there was around these retro games at the time, it's fascinating.
Yea it was awesome growing up in that time. Going to an arcade was like an event. Yea you could play games at home, but you could play the best, most advanced games of the time and get to see your friends and maybe even meet a chick. Which were also plenty of those at the arcades.
Today “Greg,” the kid who had the highest score in the arcade, would likely be making millions as a gamer, where as “Bill Herman,” the arcade owner, would be broke.
At that time, it was just 25 cents to play the game, if I remember right. That's not terribly expensive, even for the time. By the mid 90s, I remember some games were $2-4 bucks to play, even sometimes 5 and the games were hard enough that you could play maybe 15 minutes if you're lucky. You could just buy the game on a ps1 or n64 for a fraction of the cost. So yeah, arcades were on the out due to the expense and how cheap it was to get a home console instead.
Christopher Glenn ? Oh my gosh. He was a news anchor on CBS , Channel 5 Medford Oregon back in the late 60's ,. Every once in a while we watched cartoons when I was very young, news break, for 60 seconds, you heard his voice, that's it , after all of these years I wonder if he still is a news anchor??
Check out the dev kit at 11:19. Asteroids Deluxe being made, caught on film.
My cousin rented a small building near a high school back in the early 80s and put several arcade games in it. He ran it after school 4pm to 10pm. He was able to retire and move to Hawaii 4 years later.
THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN
Lies
@@panscrank Why so pessimistic? How do you know it didn't happen huh? were you there?
That's awesome
I was 16 in '81, but was too busy delivering chinese food in one of 3 Toyota Tercels the restaurant I worked for owned.. Of course, I knew of Space Invaders and Pac Man, but I guess I didn't think I was coordinated enough to get very far with them. I had forgotten about Asteroids and that Dinky Donuts ad until watching this
I was too! Can't remember where I worked.
Thank you so much for uploading. This is arcades i remember.
Love Round Table Pizza... Miss that place! 😀
I got in trouble for stealing quarters from the empty ice cream tub of change my parents kept on top of the kitchen cabinets SO many times. There were 4 or 5 stores I could ride my bike to and play arcade games. There were always lots of other kids' bikes piled up outside. It was a great time to be a kid.
Sounds awesome, I grew up in bad neighborhoods and there is no way we could leave our bikes outside unattended without them being stolen.
I was born in 1982 but i only have memories from 1990 until now. I had the best childhood ever ❤
I was born in 1980. I also missed the first wave, but my goodness was it a great time to be a child during the second arcade boom and Nintendo hitting the scene.
70s born allowed only🤨
I was born in 75 so I remember all of this
@@kingsaintides7227 Lol!
I was too young too play arcades when this was going on i.started in 84 85. It would been fun too be part of this !!
Galaga, Ms Pacman and later came Gladiator. The Omni's Goldmine in Atlanta was the best spot. I was 12 and a wiz at Ms Pacman. My highest score was 350,000
I was there in 1987. Good times.
The year I was born. 40 years later and I’m still playing video games.
37 years old here and I'll never stop playing video games ❤️ lol
Wait! I want to know more about the guy going back to high school.
Yeah, I wanted to know how they pulled that off.
"how do you do fellow kids?"
Was it Cameron Crowe? He wrote “ Fast Times at Ridgemont High”… it was a book before it became a movie
@@nicolehenninger9874 Yes it was Cameron Crowe - would love to see that interview *book was awesome much more detailed than the movie
Crazy that those people were trying to pass an ordinance to limit the number of operational arcade machines in the county, because a shop across the street from school had installed three of them.
When I was in high school, a few years ago, people were playing on their cellphones, inside school. Some of them were audacious enough to play during class.
That's why I love watching these videos, they're a trip.
Boomers are going to boom - They cause problems even today and they are like 60-80 years old now.
I was hooked on galaga!
If you are a fan of synth retrowave, there is a song by Mitch Murder that uses this interview. It's called Palmer's Arcade. Awesome track.
I had an Atari in 1985, now I have the PlayStation consoles 1-5.
I love watching these kinds of videos to hype myself up before playing any modern games. It really puts where we are now into perspective. Seeing these and then playing Cyberpunk is wild.
Nice video. I was 19 when they made this story. I try to tell younger people how weirded out old people would get about Video Games back in the golden age. I was told many, many times that "Video Games are a Fad, like Pet Rocks and Mood Rings". No matter how hard I tried, Most of them could not comprehend why Video Games would last more than a few years. Awesome piece of history for me, Thanks! ( I actually own 12 coin op original Arcade Machines. 2 Full sized Gorfs, 1 Cabarat Gorf, 2 Stargate Machines, an Asteroids, a Scramble Cocktail, a Tron and, I own a Computer Space, the first Commercial, Coin Op Arcade machine). I am old and retired, and I bought most of them years ago. Pain the the Backside to keep them running, but it is really, really cool for me!!
Would you happen to have the other segment mentioned in opening *Cameron Crowe interview about going back to High School at 26 and writing Fast Times at Ridgemont High Would love to see that
I was around in '81 and I have zero memory of Dinky Donut cereal(wasn't this where Joe DiMaggio dunked his donuts), that madcap marathon game, or that quick& thick shake milk shake machine. I'm in shock because of have a great memory for 80's stuff.
Weren't we lucky to experience this time period. Double Dragon and Rastan hooked me the most part. I was a bit too young to be any good at the likes of Donkey Kong or Joust, but I'd still happily slot the coins in knowing I'd lose quickly. Some of the fondest memories where in the arcades.
I was born in 1981.
I was introduced to the arcade and game centers by older boys around 1990, and I slowly became addicted. The interesting thing is that I wasn't even 10 years old yet but there was no problem with little boys like me going to the game centers alone because it was so safe that it wasn't dangerous for me to be around older boys and adults. The only danger was me spending money on the machines almost everyday 😁 Sometimes my mother wouldn't give any money but I still had to go to the game centers. At least watching the older boys play was fun too.
I was also born in 1981. I was going since around 1988. Mostly pretending to play them without coins
I get the feeling that you also went around the empty games checking for left behind quarters in the coin return slot, lol! I would know- it takes one to know one! Ha!
Coin and and string worked well too get free credits pacman and ms were easy too pull off 🤣🤣
@@thundercracker900 on Ms Pacman, I learned from the older kids how to "jam" a penny upwards into the coin return slot for a free credit. This worked at nearly every Ms Pacman game anywhere. Also, there was this ancient video game, even from 80's standards, I remember that was of a "life-size" machine gun where you shot at the screen at airplanes. All you had to do was hit the coin slot area hard for a free credit. In fact, that shooter game was so ancient in the arcade that no one ever played it, and me being the cheapskate kid, liked playing free video games! Lol!
This video is brilliant and a good look back to how things were and how they started
Gorf, Galaga, Joust. What a great time to be a kid.
Seeing "Space Invaders" at 2:30 & "Star Castle" at 4:01 put a big smile on my face. I remember them well. In fact I think I recognized every game shown in this video. Such fun times. Can't believe that all pinball machines were banned & destroyed in 1938 Ney York. There was no way that was going to happen in early 1980's with arcade games. Video arcades might not be the sensation they once were, but video games are alive & well in the 21st Century & we have so many old school classics to thank for the start of it all.
What a cool and interesting retrospective. Thanks for posting!
I was born in '86, a little late to the party I know, but I remember loving the arcade games that came out before I was born and the arcade game's of the 1990's to this day.
I miss the 80s the arcade kept kids outta trouble
Debatable
I just hope one day soon or sooner. I bring back arcades, so people can socialize alot an fun with each other like back in the early 80's, like a hang out place, were alot of great time's happened alot, like on the weekends especially, bringing the arcade back in the 2020's era after the epidemic is over so people can get out n hang out, like in the arcades
They'd have to make arcade machines $10,000 and make games that only run on hardware that good
@@cheapmovies25 Not at all. They already have those games at arcades in Japan or at a Dave & Buster's.....
This is from October 3, 1981
I like how it also shows the commercials
I remember arcades in the malls in the 1970s. I was really good at Ms Pac Man and Centipede. I could play for hours on a single quarter. I played a little Donkey Kong too
I first heard this on a Mitch Murder song. Glad I finally found the clip!
31 HOURS playing Asteroids?! 😨
I remember playing Pac Man and Donkey Kong at the 7-Eleven on Nordhoff & Orion in Sepulveda, California between 1981-1983. All these years later, that same convenience store is still there!
6:26 sample used in "Palmer's Arcade" by Mitch Murder
Remember those days, playing video games at the small mom and pop Pizza place. And the big game arcades.
The memories of going to Arcades in the 80's was something that I will always cherish. Besides the Arcades, my Mom bought my Siblings and I The Intellivision and Atari 2600 and 5200, from there she bought us just about every game console she could even though money was tight. I still have them to this day. Been Gaming most of my life.
I couldn't help laughing, sometimes, at all those bicentennial quarters that we were feeding into machines. I kept telling myself, "These are going to be valuable, someday, and won't you feel dumb?"
Never mind the quarters. Heck, having those original cabinets are true treasures.
Was brought here by the song Wave by The Midnight.
30 minutes was the saturday morning kid's version of 60 minutes
christopher glenn also was the narator/anchor for "in the news", a news magazine directed at kids
these were the golden days of kids programming
i knew that was his voice from in the news, thanx for confirming, before i went in search of info.,....i loved in the news and its intro sounds/graphics,......a great time for TV in those days
thanks very much for uploading
I wonder where are these arcade people now.
hooked on smack
I was born in 80 but they still had most of these games in the mid and late 80s arcades and pizza shops when I was old enough to go.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen Christoper Glenn's face. Yet I remember "In The News" on Saturdand his radio coverage of the Challenger eplosion in 1986. He was one of CBS's best journalists, yet CBS seemed to always keep him behind the scenes for some reason.
And it's funny they interview Steve Ritchie about video games, and now he's known as the kind of pinball
I was in preschool in 1984, and each day we would have these series of activity stations where you could play for 20 minutes or so before rotating to the next station. One of the stations featured video games.
Well, I was a Space Invaders master. And one day, I got on such a good run that I lost track of time and missed two station rotations. I was so embarrassed when I realized it, but fortunately no one else (including the teacher) seemed to notice.
I enjoy going to the arcades and playing video games. I prefer arcades instead of home systems, because you get to choose and go from one arcade to another, challenge other players, and try new games before they hit for home platforms. My brother and I had an Atari 2600 for Christmas 1978, and then I sold it for a VCR. By the mid 2000's his family and I now own Xbox platforms.
That's right...I'm a video addict and proud of it. Unlike back then (after the 1983-1984 fallout) when one's gaming habit was something to be hidden, I wear it like a badge of honor. I even lucked out and landed an amazing fiancee who is just as diehard about gaming as I.
We have a full sized arcade in our living room complete with full stand-up coin-op cabinets. We play everything across all platforms, genre's, and generations of gaming. From the very old (Gen 3) through the 9th generation we love it all. Long live gaming and the gamers that play them! Now, I'm off to play Ghosts of Tsushima Directors Cut on our PS5.
I loved madcap marathon
I used to love going to the arcade with my friends. I didn't play a ton of games because I liked to save my allowance for comic books (Action Comics cost about as much as 2 or 3 games-and it seemed a much better buy for me) I did like playing Galaga, and Qix though
Star Castle was my favorite back in those days 4:01
I played them alot,then learned how to break into them & take the big boxes of quarters..We got so good,we cleaned out entire cities & traveled states
'The Midnight - Waves' used this conversation in the beginning of the song:
0:22 - 0:39
The first arcade game I played was Asteroids in a table style cabinet where you had to sit down to play. It was on a black and white screen with white lines forming the ship, the asteroids and the occasional UFO.
The second game was a knock off Star Wars game called Starhawk.
The third, fourth and fifth were Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
11:19 Wow... So this is what video game development looked like back then. We have it so easy today.
I think it’s more complicated today. With games being much more complicated in general, they require more tools and programming knowledge to create. Still cool to see dev kits in use.
@@gamingquarterly6353 The machines are more complex for sure. And if you want to know everything about every piece of them, then yeah it's more complicated. But there are so many tools today that handle some of the load that a lot of the job is done for you. For example, there are so many game engines that are available even to beginners. Back in those days, developers would generally have to build their own engine and most of their own tools. Today I think one of the biggest challenges is navigating the dizzying amount of options out there. And the problem of how to work through the obstacle when there is some issue with your tool. That's when having deep knowledge helps. But gaining that degree of knowledge is something that devs often forego when they use these ready-made tools. I think that is the real downside to having all these tools today.
@@reoire843 You make a great point.
Mother's Pinball was rockin.
I miss playing Battleship and Dragon's Lair...well when my brother and sister would let me play.
Back in 81 I was only 5 years old but I remember playing DIG DUG , PAC MAN THOSE GAMES TO ME WERE AWESOME LOLOLOLOL 😆
Did you play in arcades during the fighting game era? aka the 90s?
And here we are in 2023. Games still going stronger than ever 💪
6:28 oh my god Greg is so COOL!
At the 5:15 minute mark check out the girly poster on the wall that the nerd put up LOL.
I love this days ❤️ phoenix and galaga my favourite arcade game !
I don't think anyone back then would imagine there would be many pro gamers making 6 figures from playing in videogame tournaments.
I wonder where Greg Davies is today? If he's still alive, I'm sure he has an Astroids video game cabinet in his garage.
A world gone away. 😢
beautiful era
I thought the Muppet show aired on Saturdays nights
I stumbled across this video and whispered... the midnight 😳
0:20 Betty Anne B-B-B-BOWSER?!
7:00 see if you can spot the NARC lol.
"A 26 year old married man poses as a teenager and goes back to highschool"
Mmmm not sure that would be accepted quite so readily today
Sounds suspiciously like Cameron Crowe and "Fast Times...".
"How do you do, fellow kids!"
isnt that the plot of that drew barrymore movie never been kissed lmao
"No seriously Honey...I just want to go back to highschool and pretend to be a teenager for research purposes"!!!
Dang... now I want to see the Cameron Crowe segment...
1981 had two kinds of addictions- cocaine and video games
I remeber the episode of "Taxi" where Louie installed a Pac Man machine and hooked Ignatowski on it. Louie gave Jim his pay in quarters.
Because when I dream we are melting together synchronized in a mass embrace, beads of water forming together like an ocean wave, how strange with parts of each other, I'll never even know your name.
I played 2 arcade games in the early to mid 80s called Popeye and Zaxxon and was an expert. I'd hate to think how much money I spent. Today my son plays Fortnite and even though he plays too much he doesn't spend anywhere near as much time and money on it as I did in the arcade!!
Damn, you was only an expert at 2 Video Games in the 80s ?? lol...… I was an expert in like 50 video games back in the 80s
@@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 I lived in a small town and there were only two games. Popeye and Zaxxon. However, they had pinball and a pool table & I was pretty good at those too!
So much nostalgia
The commercials are a riot.
Gotta love the 80’s, when a regular ass blender was packaged as a girl’s toy.
Long Live Old School 😎🎸🥁🎸🤘✌️🕹️🎮😎
I could play Excitebike INDEFINTLEY on one quarter. I got to FOUR HOURS before they kicked me out...lol
I'd play + beat: Heavy Barrel, 720, Yei Air Kung Fu, Contra, Out Run, EDOT, then Excitebike.
1981 was still the seventies!
In Soviet America, you don't watch video game, video game watch you...