Hepburn Family Retro Arcade Gameroom
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2013
- Take a look at our newly built Retro Game Room. These Coin-op arcade games are mostly from the early 80s. The collection started when I left high school in 1991, with Crystal Castles. That game was followed by more and more games, most of which were stored in a U-Store-it, as the rest(25 games, all refurbished) were flooded in our house when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The U-Store-it survived untouched. This arcade is built on the slab from our neighbor's home, which was torn down after Katrina, and is now part of our yard/property. Enjoy!!!
Gosh that was like entering to heaven for me back in the 80's, i still remember all different sounds for the different games playing there at the arcade game place. The 80's were the best decade for me.
Hi Victor,
Yep nothing like the 80's and I don't think we'll ever see a decade like the 80's ever again in our time. The games, music, movies, TV shows, toys etc....
Exactly, the 80's were cool, lots of cool things were introduced to the public back then, awesome music, great tv shows and unforgettable movies, yes you are completely right, the 80's were awesome!.
This is my idea of heaven, when you die, you go back to when you were happy, and this is what I hope to happen when I perish.
Bless you I'm 48 and played most of these games back in the day
Never ending story in the background love it..born in 1982
I’m happy to know that this collection exists. Never let it die
Long live the 80's
Yep, it's still here, and even bigger, at 67 games now!!
im 10 years late! but ty so much for a peak into your world.
For the last 16 minutes and 59 seconds I was a kid again, so exciting to see all those games. Thank you! What a wonderful family arcade.
Thanks for the nice words. That's what it's all about for me, going back in time 30 years to when I was a kid and times were simple, and for my children to experience that as well.
The game room garage and attic also serve as a storage place for our x-mas decorations
@@ouidahepburn6987 looks well nice I don't think you ever match collping ghost arcade but your set up looks good
Wow, just wow! Heck even the carpet was just right.
I'm not usually impressed with people's game rooms because they all start to look the same after a while, but yours is more like a showroom. It looks exactly like the arcades I went to growing up. You could literally call this a museum and sell tickets. If you added anything it would be a skeeball or basketball game. Simply beautiful
Thanks Chris for the nice comments. My goal when we built this game room was two things:1) keep things simple and 2) Don't overcrowd the game room. I can't stand game rooms with walls covered in posters/beer neon signs/ memorabilia, as it takes away from the game room "feel". Now since this video, we have put blacklight reactive planets and stars on the ceiling, but it only goes with the space "vibe" we tried to create.
You probably won't see this because this video is very old. Your arcade is incredible thank you for sharing it.
The game room is still here. Added many more games to it since we made this video years ago. The 'snack room' , lol, has been expanded and is where I do PCB repair for other classic video game collectors.
So nice to see this as opposed to the crappy ArcadeOneUps.
I can't believe I just spent 16 minutes with you and it felt like 2 minutes in a time machine. You just brought me so many great memories when games were hard but fun the music was great.The carpet was like eye 🍬 candy too. Thanks for the time warp portal! Amazing
I felt like I was dreaming.
Literally nothing cooler than a dimly lit room with 30 arcade games playing attract mode to the duet of 80s music. The smell of all the hot PCBs in that room must be amazing...
Amazing arcade room!! The only sad thing is that it isn't filled with kids popping quarters and hanging out. Just a relic of the past. Amazing to see!!
The icing on the cake was the theme to Neverending Story playing in the background.
So many memories. Great to see a heavy focus on mid-80's only, and not newer stuff. Really keeps a certain vibe. And the SOUNDS! My god it's great to hear that cacophony again. I haven't heard that for so long. Just all the 80's machines singing together ;)
What a time capsule thanks for sharing BEAUTIFUL
If I had this arcade in my house I would never leave accept to make a beer run lol order pizzas
except*
If you had this arcade, chances are the person delivering your pizza isn't leaving either. 😂
Same. Sadly I'm stuck emulating arcade games with a $40 arcade stick. But, it works. One day, maybe I'll at least save up enough to buy an emulator cabinet so at least the feel will be there.
You would have your own keg though!
@@TXFDA I got the atgames one and it’s great for the price.
I’ve seen this video so many times in the past and always loved it. I’m glad I was able to rediscover it.
I can't believe those guys in hot tub time machine went to the ski resort, I would've went straight to the nice old arcades. You can still ski today but you cant play games like this everyday without travelling to a hiddem gem.
Great film! One of my favourites. And yeah, I'd have headed straight to our old mall arcade n food court. Glorious.
What kind of kids don't want to go to a home arcade but to watch a tv. Having a home arcade/amusement park is my biggest dream and just can't explain how lucky you are to me
My daughter's friends have come over and they just don't 'get' these older classic games. All they like is Minecraft, Sims, and newer games. It's the difference between the generations I guess!!
It's the Man Cave of my dreams. Love The NeverEnding Story theme playing in the background.
just imagine 80s music playing while your eating a snack sitting on a couch playing classic video games
That's how I live. The only thing is, I want to live with the arcade version of my game favorites and pinballs. Speaking of 80s, I'm watching Knight Rider now.
pinballs have always been my favorite
all you need is mame ui
That blew my heart.
i grew up in arcades in england. you've got it spot on. the sounds of the 80s even had the right music playing. love it
I cried while watching this. It transported me back in time to a simpler time, when all I needed was 20p in the uk.
I remember being in the arcades on the east coast of England in the late 80s. 10p a play for rampage, golden axe, and double dragon. I think after burner was the first 50p game I ever played.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage Yeah I remember when it went from 10p to 20p and its never stopped. After Burner is awesome.
Only thing missing are those old round stools. Excellent!
I love your room brother, it have a space age and galaxy theme going in that room! Very 80s! Awesome
Very cool.. As long as I see a stargate im happy. One day I will get one. By the sound of it were about the same age. I was playing in the arcades in the early 80's too
You have all my very favorite games here. Wow! Nice carpet!!!
Man, that is one hell of a "SNACK ROOM" Very Cool.
Your wife has incredible taste. I have discovered Gorf and Bosconian both in the last year and they are both some of my favorite games to play, early 80’s space gaming at their finest. The fact that Galaga is legendary and Bosconian is barely known is a horrible injustice in my opinion.
Phoenix rocks!🤟
It's my wifes favourite. She played it as a kid in the early 80's.
1up need to show it some love and get it in a partycade, atleast.
Great vintage arcade. Best I've seen. 👍👍
That bosconian arcade is awesome! It's my new favourite. I've been playing it constantly on the new galaga partycade.
I'm 44 and never jealous of anyone until I seen this video. 48 games! and the carpet! and the music in the background! I would be in heaven! And all available to play whenever Id want to. So impressive! thank you for sharing this. Feel free to check out all the crazy stuff I made. I am sure you'd like them
Very nice collection. Brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks.
The sudden sound of 80's arcade electronic sounds when he opens the door from the garage is so nostalgic! Brings back so many wonderful memories of friends and parting with sooo many quarters!
Awesome setup. Thanks for the time travel adventure !
Awesome! Do what you love. Imagine if you had a time machine and could take yourself on this tour. You'd be your own hero. Thanks for sharing. Also its nice that you share the facts that owning these machines take love or lots of TLC and know how. It's not just the games its the art of the work maintaining them. Please share some videos too of fixing these up as you clearly have the skill and knowledge.
Gosh damn I love me some dig dug hopefully I'll get a dig dug of my own some day
Awesome job keeping the magic alive
Wow, my childhood just came back to me....so many cool games...and the 80s music in the background was a nice touch.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. That is awesome.
Thanks for the kind words Andy!!
I've seen a lot of arcades and yours is by far the best. I think this sentiment is shared among many 80's enthusiasts.
You are a lucky, lucky, LUCKY man to be able to share this passion with your family!!!
My wife does enjoy playing the Quantum game, and my son is actually getting pretty good at Stargate. My oldest daughter can put up 300K on Crystal Castles.
Wow, so many PCBs. Blondie and Duran Duran playing in the background. Nice!
Just had this pop up on my recommended. Insanely jealous of this room!
So crazy that it takes a TV to get your kids to come out there, quite a different time to grow up in. I like that you had a little story about most of the games, clearly you have some fond memories about these machines as I'm sure a lot of us do. I can honestly say I've never played Crystal Castles but that cabinet looks amazing! Job well done.
Amazing room. Took me right back to my childhood. Now this is the home arcade of my dreams. Thanks for sharing. How I miss those best days of our lives!
Wow, that is an impressive setup and collection, Ouides.
I would say this is the best collection of arcade cabinets I've seen yet. There's a few missing like Elevator Action, Time Pilot '84, Zoo Keeper and Mr. Do! but damn. And there is no greater song than 48 video games playing attraction mode all at once!
The games the Never ending story song playing in the back, really took me back to 5 / 6 years old, wish I could go back
I can't handle the sheer awesomeness
The noises, heaven alone. You nailed it, even down to the carpet!
I loved Crystal Castles it was right next to the Ghosts n' Goblins cabinet.
Put a pizza oven and Pepsi machine in it and I'll pay you to live in it! So want to feel that magic again of walking into a room filled with the music from all those arcade machines!! Good god bro you literally have every game I loved with the exception of Mr. Do! That carpet is so killer perfect for an arcade room as well. Right down the road from where I went to high school was an arcade/pizza joint called the Bear's Cave because our mascot was the bears. Spent many a lunch there...and well you know several days when I *cough cough* wasn't feeling good enough to go to school. ;) This video took me right back there and to so many other great arcade experiences!
JEEZ!!!! That's alot of games! My dream place in my home.
So interesting and enjoyable video. So amazing stuffs. Thanks for the share. Keep safe and God bless 🙏 😊
If I were to close my eyes and imagine my perfect games room... this video is what it would look like. The details in the carpet is like the game changer.
I wouldn't imagine the multi screens playing 80's music video... v nice touch!
Lol gotta love the neverending story theme song playing in the background.you are so lucky
That drove me nuts. I hate that song. Love his arcade though. Mad jealousy.
Front Line was my "go-to" game especially when I only had a few quarters. It's pretty easy to get 20 minutes to a half hour of gameplay on a single credit. Surprised you got the "Bubbles" joystick to work. That machine used a VERY UNIQUE 49-way optical stick that doesn't age well. Easiest way to fix any machine that hums is to take the time and teach it all the words. Thanks for the tour my friend, game on! 👍 👍
Of all the home arcades Ive watched, this is my favorite. The carpeting and black lighting, plus the stereo playing 80s is just perfect
Thanks for the nice comment. The game room is almost years old, and it still sees regular play from the family at least 3-4 times a week.
😮 awesome
This was incredible and "The Neverending Story" song in the background was the cherry on top 😆
Wow! Amazing collection my friend!
Wow very nice collection ... I especially like the carpeting with the blacklighting ;-)
Thank you!!
Can't believe this is even possible to own in private hands; all the money, space, time in refurbishing-care, and electric consumption involved! WHOA! (the envy is barely letting me breathe ha, ha)
This is the best arcade room I’ve seen yet
VERY COOL! I’m so envious. Nostalgic overload. I’d be coming over all the time if I was your buddy. Of course if you’d have it. Too fun.
Amazing collection! 80s was the best decade ever …. Thanks for sharing. Great background music 🎶👍🏼
Hard to believe there is still war going on when there are all these somewhat kind of ok games to play!
Your arcade is better than the retro arcade near me that charges for the privliage to go in!
This is so awesome you are a lucky guy to have all these games.
Thanks for sharing your Awesome Gameroom. I have a few games in my small basement arcade room but nothing compared to yours. I love all the early eightys classics. Great Work.
Trust me, your collection will grow!!! I started with one game 23 years ago, and within 8 years I had over 200 full size arcade games, but down to 54 now. It's like Lay's potato chips - you can't have just one!!!
It's great you spent time actually making it feel like an 80's arcade with the arcade atmosphere. I see so many people stick a few old games in a room and call it a retro arcade. Great work!
This is absolutely amazing.
Here in Madison there are a couple of retro arcades popping up and bringing back a TON of memories of the old days. At this point I think I'd just build 20 cabinets with supercheap MAME machines and call it a week...but your arcade is truly something to behold!
Well done!!!
Thanks Jeremy!! It started with one machine in 1991, and has turned into what it is now. I do have the Mame cabinet in the game room, and it is a lot of fun to play the newer games on it.
That is one badass game room.
Great collection of games and awesome home arcade
A bathroom too wow this room is absolutely amazing you have a setup better than most arcades in the entire us I'm jealous yet optimistic I can do the same...you're living the dream man good job
MediCali951 Thanks man!! It's been many years in the making!!
This is a dream come true, I used to be obsessed with arcades and I guess I still am. But at 36yrs old, I think it makes sense.
You missed the golden years of arcades. You would have loved it.
I fell in love with these games in 1981 when I was 9 years old, and I never grew out of the love for those games!!!
Beautiful.I have my small arcade.6 games.2 or 3 are multi games but they look and function like original.i used wells dardner monitor original soundboards.and the games are exactly to the real ones.I went that way cause I don't have room.I am going to get 2 more games and with a total of 8 I will be the only one here in los Angeles that has a true functioning arcade.The multitudes are AWESOME
All you need is an unkempt surly guy sitting in a change booth to make it truly authentic!!
...but seriously this is awesome!
What a great Arcade and incredible collection of games!!!!! Add Super Pac-Man and fix your Star Castle and you would have all of my favorites minus a few fighting games.
Nice. Liked how we could hear 'Rio' in the background somewhere around the burgertime machine.
Very lucky. I wish to have half as many as you have one day
it's kinda sad...a place stuck in time,you see all those cabinets,the music and it looks empty,when I was kid i still kinda grew up with the 90's arcades, and seeing an empty arcade was kinda sad because it wasn't about the games anymore,was about the ppl,and evreything from fighting games to action games got in your face,it was a public place,you met people,now it seems like evreyone else hates each other and trash talk online,great work on that room.
Trust me, when the family goes in there on the weekends the place is quite busy. We try to have 'family night' on Friday nights in there. You are right about the trash talking online, quite sad indeed!!
Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
Putting Burger time back-to-back with the Food Fight cabinet is the only change I'd make. Love those dedicated cabs where the shape conformed to the side art, especially two games about food, lol. Very nice game room!
Wilhelm Beaston Thanks, the ones with the cool side art are among my favorites too!!
AMAZING that carpet i loveeeeee
Amazing!!!! So much work went into it.
I've played all of those when I was in my 20s. Very nice!!!!
Needs at least an MK 1 machine. Pac Man got the video game ball rolling in 1980/1981, and Mortal Kombat reignited the craze all over again in 1992, being the first game with digitized human graphics. Otherwise, this game room is a dream !!!!!!!!!
As I watch in complete awe... once again I feel like I am anywhere between 5-10 years old walking through the places I once loved so much. I have visited a few retro arcades, but none with as much attention to detail and well maintained/restored games as this work of art.
Thank you so much for posting this treasure, and please consider it far more of a museum than some of the constructs referred to as arcade museums around these days.
Just amazing!
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, as someone who was 10 years old when these games were reaching mainstream popularity, I wanted to create the atmosphere of an early 80's arcade. This included keeping the later 80's and 90's games out of the main game area, and also not plastering the walls with posters and stuff like that. Wanted to have a simple and clean game room. Also wanted to maintain some openness to the room, so we avoided cramming as many games as we could into the area, which meant selling/giving away several games when we moved the games into the room.
I love your arcade. I have been working on mine for a couple years. I need that carpet.
Love the carpeting!!!!!
Thank you!!!
WOW !!!!!! I still have a grin on my face after watching your video, thanks for sharing this with us !!
Thanks for watching!!
@@ouidahepburn6987 do you still have this
PLAYED THEM ALL! well except that one, but the rest of them OHHH YEAH! lots of quarters, thousands of hours, tons of fun! great looking gameroom! subd, alerts, favs, thanks! wish you lived nearby, id bring my sack of "found" quarters and play all night!
What a fantastic game room. I love how you have decorated it and laid it out. It looks like it has a great 80's feel to it.
Just stunning... love the sound of the room with everything running... music, carpet & lighting spot on.
Thanks!! Sometime we put on old 80's movies to make it feel more like that era!!
Impresionante!!!😀🐶👍🕹️🕹️🎮🎮 Te felicito por lo que tenés!!!😀🐶
Excellent playlist too.
Wow! Thank you for sharing this. Absolutely gave me a nostalgic feeling watching your tour of your magic time machine. The music, the dim lights, the flashing screens and sounds of the machines! I remember playing my first arcade game in 1980... a cocktail Pac-Man at Pizza hut! Thanks again!
Impressive home arcade!
Who needs a time machine? I just used TH-cam to do it. !!! Amazing arcade👍🏻
Fantastic! Very heartwarming to see. And you have both Galaga and Tempest! My love for those two goes back to the early 80's and have always been my favorites. Thank you so much for sharing this. And thanks for showing a bit of what goes into their maintenance.
Very cool...The kids will never know the struggle making $3 stretch to play all those cool games back then..lol