I was born in 1978. Discovering the world in the 80s is something I hold very close. These were the sounds of my childhood. The feeling of walking into an arcade, hearing the cacophony of all those great sound effects is something I’ll never forget. I miss it a lot. Those around my age know what I mean.
@@ياسروجزوع إسم اللعبة مكتوب وسنة الإنتاج كمان.. ماشفتهم ؟ قم ببحث عل كوكل كيف ممكن تشغلو بس لازم يكون عندك كمبيوتر بانتيوم 4 على الأقل مجهز ب ويندوز إكس بي ..
No Ms. Pac-Man? Or tie for #1? Honorable mention for me was maybe Rastan Saga or Punch Out and I am sure I am missing a few more. Robocop. Rally X. Frogger. Street Fighter 1.
Pasting my note above to a fellow gamer from those days: Also Rygar, Ms. Pacman, Qix, Spiders, Centipede, Asteroids (though that one may have come out a little earlier)... There were many great games. The memories... Plunking loads of quarters into the machines. Hitting one player or two player. Putting in your 3-letter initials at the end if you made the top scores of the day (which got wiped out when they turned the machines off at night). And if you died, you had to start over again (no saves) so to get to the end you had to be really good. Plus the sounds of other games all around you in the arcade. Your buddies standing beside you were you had your turn. The spontaneous and inevitable crowd that would gather around you when you got to a really high level or were about the "wrap" the game. Endless hours after school and on weekends wasted but never regretted, back in the days when you were young and had all the time in the world and thought you were going to live forever. Home gaming, Xbox, etc., is just not the same experience. Couldn't quite revive the excitement with MAME, X-Arcades, high end PCs and sound systems. But maybe that's due to age (and lack of babes that would gather if you were good). Yes. Babes. Cheers to all especially the ones from that awesome era.
Who could forget spending hours on a friday night playing games , eating hot pockets and drinking New York Seltzers and being convinced at one point a 16 bit video console was cheating against you and low-key trying to bend the controller or punching the buttons harder . . . Yea i'm talking to you Top Gun Punch Out and Gauntlet 🫤
When you see things that you haven't seen or really even thought of in 30+ years and it immediately brings a smile to your face. That's when you know it's something special.
Wolf Cry Especially if you're stoned and eating jellybeans that smell like the air freshener at the PuttPutt arcade you used to go to. Seriously, that's me right now.
What I remember most about arcade games in the 80s... 1. I never had enough quarters to finish the game. 2. There was always some toddler "playing" the game I wanted to play. 3. There was always some "expert" with unlimited quarters playing the game I wanted to play. 4. I always checked the coin return slots for unclaimed quarters.
@@23ofSeptember That goes to show that this thing WAS some kind of lottery. By the way, I once had this guy pop up and insert coins for me to play. He just entered the arcade, asked me if I wanted to play a game, then he paid. I don't think he was grooming me either, I think he left soon after this. Just this kind guy coming out of nowhere.
I remember going to an arcade in an amusement park in Sweden. I was probably eight or nine years old and I used to watch the big guys play. I wanted to get a look at a flipper game that some Swedish, mean-looking guy was playing. Unfortunately for him, I kind of interfered with his controls when I squeezed through to get by, and he missed the ball. He complained that I caused him to lose that ball. He looked a bit upset, I expected him to be mad at me, but I was relieved that he just kept on playing. The dude was probably 18, had long hair, black jeans and a leather jacket. I guess he realized getting angry with me would not get him that ball back. Thinking back on it, I wish that I could go back in time and compensate him for his loss. It's sad, I will probably never know who he was, much less be able to see him again. I miss the arcades.
This brings back so many memories, those games were the start of my video gaming journey, almost 40 years later and I am still an avid video gamer, I am 50 years old and I have just spent the last 20 mins thinking to myself "omg the last time I saw that screen I was 12 years old!". Where has the time gone!
That makes total sense Ed, you're not the only one bro. I agree with xzanthius...nostalgia can feel good in small doses, but making new memories is better for us. I think if we watch too much nostalgia based content we feel happy for a bit, then depressed bc no matter how many retro arcade games we play, & no matter how many times we watch our fav movies or shows from the '80s, we know we'll never get that time back... in my case, I had to cut back on most things retro, not saying you're like that. If 8yr old me with my 1st NES could see me now choosing 8 & 16 bit games over what we have now I'd think the older me was INSANE!🤣
@@xzanthius forget living in the now bro! I'm 40 and prefer living in the past. I don't think I ever left the 90s. I still only ever watch 80s/90s film n television shows. Same with music. I basically still dress the same lol. Acid wash Jean's, shell suit tracksuits, lots of neon, air jordans, Reebok pumps. Why would I ever want to leave those two decades. Just embrace it brother. If it makes you happy then do it. Ofcourse it's tinged with a little sadness, but that's ok. 🙏🏻👊
I was seriously hollering throughout the entire vid. I watched this with a big smile on my face. Thank you for putting this together. You unlocked so many childhood memories!!!
It was great standing around an arcade cabinet, watching one of your friends trying to get a top score. We’ll never get those days back again. I’m pretty sure I played a lot of Operation Wolf and Outrun was one of my favourites.
Then again, nowadays you can get an arcade cabinet for a few hundred emulating all the games. We'll never get back the time spent in the arcade cabinets, the mood, watching people play, talking to other kids you never met (Incidentally one of the things people at that age lost, actual going out and communicating), true. But hey, I'm writing this because I took a break while playing wonderboy on mine as I remembered I never finished that one :)
getting kicked out by the attendant cos you're watching and not paying and you have to wait outside for your friend who comes out and excitedly says he's just beat the high score but didn't have time to put his name in so he put it in as AAA.
Huge respect to the developers who created these games. Working with highly limited hardware, probably developing in assembler which is hard work and editing packages were presumably highly limited too. The games still looked awesome and were highly addictive. Bravo.
Master programmers. No sloppy code. Couldn't afford it due to hardware constraints. These guys invented it as they went along. Exciting, optimistic times.
What really strikes me with all these amazing classics, is the somewhat sad fact that very few people actually got to see the later levels or 'the end' of many of these beautifully made games.
i want to hear all these going off at once, in the black lights, on the cosmic carpeted floor, with all of us having a good time. The smells, sounds and sights, of an 80's arcade are something I will never forget...
The arcade was central to a lot of 80's teens. Back then coin-op arcade games still had better tech than the consoles & desktops. The arcade died when they couldn't keep up. People also got tired of pumping quarters into games.Most of us were there just to "hang out" and watch the one's who were really good play.
Thanks for spending the time to put snippets of these old classic arcade games online. Since I was around from the beginning of the video games craze that started with Space Invaders, I thought I'd let you know a bit of history... video games arcades sprang up all over the United States when games that could be played for a long time on one quarter came about. (Prior to Space Invaders, most of the games had a time limit.) The golden era, when arcades made money hand over fist, was 1979-1983 or so...after that the craze sort of dropped off and many arcades closed up. The big games we played back then besides Defender and Donkey Kong and Dig Dug and Pac Man were Centipede, Missile Command, Robotron, Millipede, Tempest, Ms. Pac Man, Stargate, and Joust. (Asteroids, Battle Zone, Frogger, and Galaxians were also huge, but I think they were 1979.) Q-Bert, Crystal Castles, Donkey Long Jr., Gravitar, Track and Field 1&2and Burger Time were also pretty big. Most of these had different controls to learn...track ball, joystick, double joystick, spinning knob, along with various buttons for firing or hyperspace, etc.. Once people had learned all the controls, the games themselves tended to be too closely related to earlier games, and so interest died off. In any case, there was also Tetris after that. But in any case, Ms. Pac Man far outlasted any other video game because until recently, no one managed to beat the game once Ms. Pac Man slowed down...so scores tended to Max out around 280,000...but then, after much research some of the experts managed to find a way to keep alive even after Ms. Pac Man slowed down, (which was total skills because there's no simple pattern like in Pac Man, as the ghosts did mostly random things from board to board.) And so about 20 years after Ms.Pac Man came.out, a few people managed to finally beat the game (get to the last board where the machine goes programming glitch crazy), at around 920,000. So Ms. Pac Man was the ultimate for people who were really good at video games. Defender and Robotron were also huge because the difficulty levels could be turned up, as well as the number of points needed for an extra man. And Centipede (only major "golden era" game that was written by a woman programmer) and Galaga lasted way longer in the arcades, ten years after most of the other video games above were gone from most arcades, they could still be found. Signed, A former late 70s, early 80s video game addict
Cheers. From a fellow arcade addict from those days (was in late teens when Space Invaders and Asteroids came out, so I saw the development of arcade gaming as it happened as well).
For me, it will always be the classics/legendary video games of the early days of gaming. Asteroids, Defender, Frogger, Dig Dug, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Dragon's Lair, Joust, and Missile Command. I spent way to much money trying to get the high score or getting to the end, only later did I realize that games like those could go on forever.
Arcades are amazing places... for those that love it, its like going to a basketball game or going to see a movie. Maybe even more fun than both. It's the people, the lights, the sounds, and the atmosphere...
Was a place u could go as a kid/preteen/teen to actually get out of your room. To be with friends & actually have something to “do”. Now they just get “salty” “triggered” “sweaty” etc over headphones with friends and end up arguing or feeling bad cause they “suck” lol. Wish I could give this kind of “arcade” experience to my 12 and 5 yr old. Taught u patience waiting for a turn, taught u how to manage money and time, how to be social and look other kids on the eye… N it taught u how to have fun (sigh) smh
I was well known around the arcades, was called the street fighter king. Years later out drinking with a few people, went back to someones house who i didnt really know and he pulled out the snes and whacked street fighter 2 on. He thinking he was all mustard, and i had never played it on console before. I still easily whooped his arse, so much so he got some serious rage and wanted to take it outside for real. 😂 Mutual friends had to step in, i was game tho.
As an 80s kid this Video gives me great childhood memories, when my friends and i were playing console together. Those days and memories are priceless.
Wow, that Was great, so many memories, me & my girlfriend would go to jokers every Friday night after Mr. Gatti's for a date for 3 yrs (1984-1987). I would play ikari warrior $20-$30 worth, that was .25 at a time. I was really expecting that game to be on here, but it's fine, still so many memories, by the way I married that girl in 1987. Yes still married.. 😉
Thanks for the upload.. Some of my favorites that didn't make the list... Centipede , Missile Command , Frogger , Duck Hunt , Star Wars, Track &Field , Tempest , and Rally X I'm sure I've forgotten some other games that I've loved as well. Time marches on but boy those were the good ol days.
used to get my finger`s nipped when I played Centipede, that ball you used to control it with had a slight gap where it fit in the machine, it knacked if it got ya fingers caught......Great game but!!
@@Oona707 sort of mate, I was born 74 so went through the eras also, 70s it was my Dads Grandstand console , then the 80s....sore fingers!! Zx Spectrum, commodore Vic 20 & 64,the 90s the Sega Mega Drive then ps1 man, 2019 ps4 pro
I was born in '69. We were the first generation to grow up on video games and Star Wars. What a great era. We still had tangible toys, and played outside, but also enjoyed our video games on rainy days. When gameplay and sound were of great importance. Let's not forget Robotron, Qix, Gun Smoke, Scramble & Joust. Oh, and TEMPEST! At home we had Commodore 64, a TRS80, Intellivision & the unique (and super cool) Vectrex.
Born in ‘67 and my brother born the same year as you, I definitely recall those times. Qix was one of my favorites at the skating rink. Crazy Climber, Defender, Missile Command were there, too, and also one of the first football games from 1978 called Football (aka Atari Football). It had big cabinet like a cocktail arcade game with the monitor flat facing upward and was a monochrome display with players as X’s and O’s that used a trackball. At the arcade next to the theater, I was playing Food Fight, Pole Position, Galaga, etc. At home, we only had an Atari 2600, although my aunt had bought an Atari 5200 and got to it also. My younger cousins had an Intellivision, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-16, and some of the Nintendo consoles. In ‘87, I had an Atari 520ST computer with some cool games, but it wasn’t something I played very much.
Brings back good memories of skipping school on a Friday to hang at the mall for 6-8 hours. Only needed a few bucks to have fun. Arcade, movie theatre, Spencer Gifts, Mc Donalds, Radio Shack, the high end stereo stores, the music stores, and eating soft pretzels and candy in front of the relaxing splash of the water fountain.
for sure, also Hyper Sports the sequel was just as good I remember going to an arcade as a kid and there were a couple of guys who must have been musicians of sorts as they could drum their fingers over the buttons and get incredible speed from their players, running the 100m in under 9.5 seconds, maybe even faster I can't remember that far back. They just sat on that machine playing the same game for hours all with the first coin they put into it.
I can still feel my adrenaline rising just watching the games, I could go to the arcade with $20 and completely lose track of time. I loved having a free Saturday night when I was younger and driving and when we used to have a 3 level arcade here in Omaha.
Played most of these at our local arcade and ten some. Personal favorite was the Track & Field arcade that had the roller ball instead of the buttons. set some crazy score with that one.
@@benjad92 YOU WILL LIKE THIS, I was lucky enough to have been born in Somerset England, a place full of woods and fields to fight rich kids from my neighbouring village of Wembdon (where I ended up living), we would build the best war forts and fight, it was straight trying to hurt each other, remember this is a time when films were nothing but violence), laughing out. A time when you would walk the Isles of video stores and pick your movie and then go to your local shop for chocolate bars (I always picked a crunchie bar) a time when you could play miles away because it was a time when you didn't have to worry about a thousand peado's chasing you. It was a time when the whole family would get together and enjoy worlds strongest man at Christmas, a time when we had lots of great shops, a time when sweet shops didn't sell condoms. It's a time when computer games 1st came out, I remember owning a commodor 64 going up to a Sega mega drive in the 90's, I remember hiphop from An early age and how it sounded, now it sounds rubbish. I remember decor in a house, now they look bleak, and my main thing I want you to know is, "IN THE 80'S PEOPLE HAD BALLS", look at the miners strikes and the poll tax riots. Bless you my dearest for asking, it took me a while to type as I am an old git. Hope your safe and sound.
@@MousePotato Especially in VR, it's an incredibly nostalgic experience. It's amazing that we now can play these games, feeling like you are in inside a life-size arcade again, from the comfort of our home.
One thing no one ever mentions is how loud an arcade was. Part of the experience was being hit with all that sound when you first walked in. It made a casino sound like a library.
Its a lot simpler to turn on your console or PC than to walk half a mile to the local arcade. I prefer the latter but we are lazy, us gamers. Hence arcades are now retro... unless you're in Japan.
I can remember when every video game in an arcade or back corner of a 7-11 store had ash trays mounted to the sides of the machines direct from the factory ,that kept people from hanging their smoke over the game edge & burning the shit out of it ,at the same time hospital patients could chain smoke from the comfort of their hospital bed & nurses were happy to empty your ash trays .
Great list! 👍 My top 10 would definitely be PacMan, Centipede, Dragons Lair, Gauntlet, Mortal kombat, Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, Qbert, Frogger, & BurgerTime. I guess it depends where you lived and what arcades the local spots had and were more popular and in demand etc. Oh yeah and Paperboy was big. Mrs. Pacman too! Early 90s I think ever spot had a Street Fighter 2 arcade from bodegas, supermarkets, laundromats, barbershops, music shops, bars, restaurants, etc. I'd spend my entire allowance challenging players lol 😆
Of the top of my head, and a few of my favs were featured. Just arcade games in genral, some ae probably more early 90s. Id go with Street fighter 2, New Zealand story, power drift, football champ, shinobi, ghost and goblins, Splatter house, R-type, wonder boy in monsterland, green beret.
😂🤣😂 Thanks for taking me back to the 80s when I was young 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 My favourite game will always be space invaders. The first consoles in ‘78 had black and white screens with coloured cellophane.
@@jamespgray6928 I thought it was 22, 14, 14 but my memory may be wrong for the 300 point spaceships. The one with the buttons, "The Invaders" was insanely hard, but I had a few 50,000 points on the table top games. Great days.
I was great at Space Invaders! And I played both versions! I also played the original Pong, as well as the original Sprint car racing game!!! They had these games in my local bowling alley in the Bronx next to pinball back then!
@@djhaynes99 over here in the states i remember seeing the sit down model in various arcades. they all had long lines and each game was like 5 bucks (3.72 Pounds Sterling)
I didn't realize until watching this video that when I quit playing arcade games, I quit completely. Pole Position is the most recent one I recognized, any newer than that and I have no memory of them at all.
Wherever it is we go to when we're done with here, and whoever it is we meet when we get there, I'm going to tell them thank you for letting me be a child in the 80's
Yes, nice video. Yes, debatable. He obviously has a love of fighter games as it seems more than half listed are. My personal list would have Donkey Kong somewhere in the top 10, and Dig Dug definitely belongs on the list (not an honorable mention). I can agree with Pac Man though, it started the whole craze.
Aside from all those greats anyone ever remember a machine called “marble madness” God I loved that simple but frustrating game haha spent hours playing it haha
Yeah by Atari with the giant ball to control the marble. I was hopeless at it but it was fun. My mate at the time could actually complete it; it took about 5mins!
Ahh what a trip down memory lane: lazy Melbourne days riding our bikes to the local 7-11 or bowling alley to spend our pocket money on 20 cent arcade games. Great list. 👍
Smash Revino - yeah Australia is a great place to live and Aussies are generally pretty chilled and hospitable. It’s a bit crazy at the moment in Victoria (my home state) with all the bushfires and crazy weather. Yeah, we always use the word “Mate” as a polite but friendly reference to both friends and strangers. It’s very much an Aussie thing. Hope you can visit Australia one day - the world is a much better place when we seek out and embrace other people and their cultures. 🍻
Played most of these...When you got to a high level, people started to circle around u and watch. No centipede, no sprint or super sprint ..2 of my favs..Spy hunter....
I only would have 1 or if I was lucky 2 quarters to play that when I was 9. I would ride my bike to the local grocery store and play that. Funny or ironic that you could also pick up a whip and hit the big black guy with it.
There are definitely some games on your list that I wouldn't rank in the top 25. I'm not sure when you were born, but you left out some of the true classics.
Great video. I remember them all. My favorite arcade game from the 80s I only ever saw once. It was in a local arcade for a few months, maybe 1988. It was 'Afterburner', I think a f14 flight game. The thing was, the seat, screen, and all the controls were built into a motorized gyroscope. It was really something else. Thanks for the memories 🙂
Thanks for the video , amazing memories and to me just shows the superiority of the arcade machines in many cases..... I have one gripe, Street Fighter a milestone in gaming!!!
I got a paper route, fished golf balls out of duck crap ponds and mowed lawns just to play arcade games... it taught me how to hustle. Saturday after football friends would meet up along the way to the arcade across town. Arcade games were an inadvertent life lesson of needs vs wants and how to achieve a goal with a little exercise. How is SPYHUNTER, Star Wars and Tron not in this list? Besides that great list.
Great list, but I think Spy Hunter, Centipede, Frogger should be on there, too. I was happy to see Gauntlet and Dragon's Lair on there somewhere, too. Golden Axe was an awesome game. Ghouls and Ghosts was crazy hard. 1943 took a lot of my quarters, too. Tron was awesome too. Some of these games couldn't keep the same nostalgia as the arcade when they went to console. Ring King was an awesome arcade game, but sucked on the NES. I thought you had too many racing games on the list and left off some more popular ones, but glad to see much of my favs getting a shout out. I was always too scared to play Dragon's Lair. It cost a whole $1 and always drew a crowd when someone played.
Wow....great video. Takes me back to when me and my mates used to spend all of our money in those arcades and even though we left with nothing we left with great memories. Absolutely loved double dragon and that blew me away at the time. Also loved operation wolf but remember beast busters that was a zombie version of op wolf? Street fighter 2 should have been on this list as it's genre defining.Thanks for taking the time to make this video and bring so much nostalgia back for everyone.
When my wife and I first started dating, we'd hit 'Aladdin's Castle' once a week at the Rhode Island mall. Our three go-to's: - TMNT - Bad Dudes (''We're Bad!'') - Wrestlemania 4 Now it's a giant 'At Home' store. 😑
I was born in '87. Can't say I've played many of these as arcade games, but 2 of the few I have stick out in particular for me. My uncle bought a Pac-Man arcade cabinet when he was much much younger, which is still in my grandma's basement and as far as I know, it still works. The other is probably the first arcade game I ever played (earliest I remember playing, at least, which makes it probably my first video game ever)--Outrun. A local pizza place in my hometown had the upright cabinet version for a few years. It's still one of my favorite video games overall; I have several ports of it as well as the soundtrack in my music collection.
I basically grew up with these games amazing videos, i thought these were the best when i was a kid in the mid 80s but look at the games now practically depicting real life visuals
Half of these I've never heard of or seen in all the time I spent in arcades in the '80's. Yet no mention of very big games like Centipede, Qbert, Galaxian, Missile Command, Frogger, Qix, Burgertime, Mrs. Pacman, Robotron, Joust, Tron, Berzerk, Sinistar...
This list is very geared toward the mid-to-late '80s rather than the early '80s, unfortunately. Donkey Kong should have been at least top 10 (it's my no. 1). Centipede, Dig Dug, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, TRON, Robotron, The Pit, and more would have made my list
Man I wish I had back all the quarters I put into Defender at the arcade back then. I’d be rich. How was it only ranked #19 on this?!? Also, Asteroids didn’t even make this list!
I'm 46 now , and those were the most innocent games of all time , a ton of fun , and you made great friends just by meeting people at arcades , there are a lot more to mention , but this is great list , here are some of my favorites from 1984 up , ( Flash girl , 1942 , phoenix , moon patrol , elevator action, kung fu master , western express , rygar , trojan , mighty bomb jack , green beret, karate champ 👍👍👍
I would add Punch Out and any of the MLB games from the 80's. Same with the NFL game with the ball in the middle of the console. Dragon's Lair seemed 20-30 years ahead of it's time. You would always see a long line watching someone play that game.
I think everyone who was a kid in the 80's would have their own unique list of favorites. I usually never had money to play the games, so I ended up watching others play. When I did have money to play it was usually games like Pole Position or Spy Hunter. I always dreamed of finding a treasure chest full of quarters so I could go play all the games at the arcade.
James, I loved Spy Hunter too!! I feel bad you didn’t have coins to play as a kid. If you’re ever over in Belfast, I’ll hook you up with an old skool gaming night 🙌🏻
Loved this video! So many memories of Smokey arcades and playing pool, Spy Hunter, Yi Ar King Fu, Paperboy, Kung Fu Master, Cabal, Double Dragon, Afterburner, Outrun and more. Still love gaming to this day! Thank you for bringing back some brilliant memories of an innovative time in gaming.❤
I played it in a hotel arcade on vacation when I was a kid, asked for (and got it) for NES. What a let down on the console...only when I got the NES Advantage stick was I able to do anything in that game as the NES controllers sucked for aim and shoot games
I was born in 1978. Discovering the world in the 80s is something I hold very close. These were the sounds of my childhood. The feeling of walking into an arcade, hearing the cacophony of all those great sound effects is something I’ll never forget. I miss it a lot. Those around my age know what I mean.
yea, segacameout in 90s bro....
Yes I do I was born 78 also 80s is my favorite decade n yes my friend I totally agree ❤❤❤
خاصة رقم 17 اللعبة المفضلة لدي
وين القاها وماهو إسمها😅
You remember a game called Chiller? It was like the first bloody horror game at thr arcades, with light guns and you shot people in torture chambers
@@ياسروجزوع إسم اللعبة مكتوب وسنة الإنتاج كمان.. ماشفتهم ؟
قم ببحث عل كوكل كيف ممكن تشغلو بس لازم يكون عندك كمبيوتر
بانتيوم 4 على الأقل مجهز ب ويندوز إكس بي ..
i wish i could bring back the time when i was sitting on the floor playing my games on console and didnt care about anything
Don't we all!🕹️📺🎮
If only we knew our time.
Do you think today's kids will think like that for the modern games in 20 years?
@Archer Hassan thats not what i was talking about but ok tho
@Archer Hassan "Hassan". That explains it.
0:12 super hang on
0:58 Zaxxon
01:45 Paperboy
02:33 Fantasy Zone
03:22 Pole Postion
04:11 rampage
05:00 defender
05:31 rainbow islands: the story of bubble bobble 2
06:19 Donkey Kong
07:07 shadow dancer
08:01 teenage mutant ninja turtles
08:47 Space Harrier
09:36 double dragon
10:26 chase H.Q.
11:14 shinobi
12:01 galaga
12:50 golden axe
13:42 bubble bobble
14:37 Ghouls n Ghosts
15:28 Operation Wolf
16:15 outrun
17:05 R-type
17:56 strider
18:42 final fight
20:55 pacman
Thanks !!!
what is the music from at the very start?
You my friend are a legend
thanks you saved me 20 min
No Ms. Pac-Man? Or tie for #1? Honorable mention for me was maybe Rastan Saga or Punch Out and I am sure I am missing a few more. Robocop. Rally X. Frogger. Street Fighter 1.
This is proper video gaming, best decade ever. Forget online gaming, if you lived to experience this like me then you're one of the lucky ones.
Pasting my note above to a fellow gamer from those days:
Also Rygar, Ms. Pacman, Qix, Spiders, Centipede, Asteroids (though that one may have come out a little earlier)... There were many great games. The memories... Plunking loads of quarters into the machines. Hitting one player or two player. Putting in your 3-letter initials at the end if you made the top scores of the day (which got wiped out when they turned the machines off at night). And if you died, you had to start over again (no saves) so to get to the end you had to be really good. Plus the sounds of other games all around you in the arcade. Your buddies standing beside you were you had your turn. The spontaneous and inevitable crowd that would gather around you when you got to a really high level or were about the "wrap" the game. Endless hours after school and on weekends wasted but never regretted, back in the days when you were young and had all the time in the world and thought you were going to live forever. Home gaming, Xbox, etc., is just not the same experience. Couldn't quite revive the excitement with MAME, X-Arcades, high end PCs and sound systems. But maybe that's due to age (and lack of babes that would gather if you were good). Yes. Babes. Cheers to all especially the ones from that awesome era.
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Who could forget spending hours on a friday night playing games , eating hot pockets and drinking New York Seltzers and being convinced at one point
a 16 bit video console was cheating against you and low-key trying to bend the controller or punching the buttons harder . . . Yea i'm talking to you Top Gun
Punch Out and Gauntlet 🫤
The nostalgia watching this truly warmed my heart, I was 10 in 1985 I'd go back to those times in a heartbeat
Oh yes me too!
Bro such fond memories of that period I couldn’t agree more.
the Alpha testers of the 21st Century is what us 80's kids were.....
my father was 10 in 85
When you see things that you haven't seen or really even thought of in 30+ years and it immediately brings a smile to your face. That's when you know it's something special.
Wolf Cry Especially if you're stoned and eating jellybeans that smell like the air freshener at the PuttPutt arcade you used to go to.
Seriously, that's me right now.
Si te gusta lo retro te gusta mi canal
The same for me, bro
You do know that when people romanticize previous decades that it spits in the face of the BLM movement and the LGBTQA+ movements right?
@richard nitsch Are you voting for Biden?
25) 0:08 *Super Hang-on (1987)*
24) 0:55 *Zaxxon (1982)*
23) 1:43 *Paperboy (1984)*
22) 2:32 *Fantasy Zone (1985)*
21) 3:20 *Pole Position (1982)*
20) 4:08 *Rampage (1986)*
19) 4:56 *Defender (1980)*
18) 5:30 *Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987)*
17) 6:17 *Donkey Kong (1981)*
16) 7:05 *Shadow Dancer (1989)*
15) 7:59 *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)*
14) 8:47 *Space Harrier (1985)*
13) 9:35 *Double Dragon (1987)*
12) 10:24 *Chase HQ (1988)*
11) 11:13 *Shinobi (1987)* [Thank you *ccentaur93* so much for providing the title... you're dope for helping!] 💗💗💗
10) 12:00 *Galaga (1981)*
9) 12:50 *Golden Axe (1989)*
8) 13:41 *Bubble Bobble (1986)*
7) 14:33 *Ghouls 'n Ghosts (1988)*
6) 15:27 *Operation Wolf (1987)*
5) 16:15 *Outrun (1986)*
4) 17:03 *R-Type (1987)*
3) 17:54 *Strider (1989)*
2) 18:42 *Final Fight (1989)*
19:31 "honorable mentions"... *Dig Dug, Rastan, Mario Bros, Dragon's Lair, Gauntlet, Altered Beast, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, and Vigilante.*
1) 20:53 *Pacman (1980)*
Copy/Paste this *wizzgamer* to your description of this upload. =)
Dragon's Lair should have been more than a HM in my opinion.
11) 11:13 Shinobi (1987)
@@ccentaur93 💗💗💗 thank you! I added it 💗💗💗
Yes because DL changed gaming! It was amazing!
Setting up my MAME now
That's technically the 2nd Pole Position, is it not? I remember playing one on ATARI that was nowhere near as pretty. I loved it though.
Life was simpler and so were our beloved old games... such a soothing 20min video. Thank you for bringing us all back in time to happy memories.
Where is 1942, i use Lot of coins on these gamer in the 80s.
Yeah for sure, loved that game, too bad it gets so hard
Same! Along with Raiden!
1943 was my jam. Ikari warriors too!
I'd say it's a glaring omission
or Indiana Jones
What I remember most about arcade games in the 80s...
1. I never had enough quarters to finish the game.
2. There was always some toddler "playing" the game I wanted to play.
3. There was always some "expert" with unlimited quarters playing the game I wanted to play.
4. I always checked the coin return slots for unclaimed quarters.
I remember creepy older guys walking in and checking the coin slots. Thinking back on it, not a good place for an 8 year old by himself.
Checking for unclaimed quarters was a nice sport. I actually got lucky more than once.
@@amundbisgaard7295 I remember finding like 3 dollars worth of quarters once in a pinball machine. I thought I won the lottery.
@@23ofSeptember That goes to show that this thing WAS some kind of lottery.
By the way, I once had this guy pop up and insert coins for me to play. He just entered the arcade, asked me if I wanted to play a game, then he paid.
I don't think he was grooming me either, I think he left soon after this. Just this kind guy coming out of nowhere.
I remember going to an arcade in an amusement park in Sweden. I was probably eight or nine years old and I used to watch the big guys play.
I wanted to get a look at a flipper game that some Swedish, mean-looking guy was playing. Unfortunately for him, I kind of interfered with his controls when I squeezed through to get by, and he missed the ball.
He complained that I caused him to lose that ball. He looked a bit upset, I expected him to be mad at me, but I was relieved that he just kept on playing.
The dude was probably 18, had long hair, black jeans and a leather jacket. I guess he realized getting angry with me would not get him that ball back.
Thinking back on it, I wish that I could go back in time and compensate him for his loss. It's sad, I will probably never know who he was, much less be able to see him again.
I miss the arcades.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. 80s and 90s were the best time to grow up in. Miss those days.
sorry you have to leave in this shitty time
Yes...yes it was
80s were the best time to grow up and 90s were the best time to be a young adult!
This brings back so many memories, those games were the start of my video gaming journey, almost 40 years later and I am still an avid video gamer, I am 50 years old and I have just spent the last 20 mins thinking to myself "omg the last time I saw that screen I was 12 years old!". Where has the time gone!
my son took me to the national video game museum in dallas last month. and it brought me here 😂😭 so i understand!
I love the way you can instantly remember some of the tunes even if you haven't heard them in 20+ years! Memory works in amazing ways.
20+...? I know it hurts, but try 35-40
(Yikes)
I know it's just amazing,those awesome music.
Sure it's more to do with music's subliminal ways.
@@IRequireMedication same haha
Yeah sure does love it 🤩
The sounds of Defender defined the ambient sound of a good arcade in the 80’s.
How is it possible I can watched this video with the biggest smile on my face and still be depressed from it at the same time? 😀😔😢
Nostalgia is a killer. I gotta get out a make me some new memories.
That makes total sense Ed, you're not the only one bro. I agree with xzanthius...nostalgia can feel good in small doses, but making new memories is better for us. I think if we watch too much nostalgia based content we feel happy for a bit, then depressed bc no matter how many retro arcade games we play, & no matter how many times we watch our fav movies or shows from the '80s, we know we'll never get that time back... in my case, I had to cut back on most things retro, not saying you're like that. If 8yr old me with my 1st NES could see me now choosing 8 & 16 bit games over what we have now I'd think the older me was INSANE!🤣
I've heard it said that to live in the past is to invite sadness and to live in the future, anxiety. It's tricky to remain in the here and now though.
@@xzanthius forget living in the now bro! I'm 40 and prefer living in the past. I don't think I ever left the 90s. I still only ever watch 80s/90s film n television shows. Same with music. I basically still dress the same lol. Acid wash Jean's, shell suit tracksuits, lots of neon, air jordans, Reebok pumps. Why would I ever want to leave those two decades. Just embrace it brother. If it makes you happy then do it.
Ofcourse it's tinged with a little sadness, but that's ok. 🙏🏻👊
Because you will never be able to replicate that experience again. Cheers!
Tron, Star Wars, Crystal Castles, Galaga, Centipede, Joust, Moon Patrol and Dragon's Lair were some of my favorites.
Joust on the Atari 800 XL for me. Magical time.
Narc and smash TV
Oh yeah Tron,what a great game for the day
If you need some competition... especially joust
I'll be around....
Kung Fu master and the boxing game
I was seriously hollering throughout the entire vid. I watched this with a big smile on my face. Thank you for putting this together. You unlocked so many childhood memories!!!
It was great standing around an arcade cabinet, watching one of your friends trying to get a top score. We’ll never get those days back again. I’m pretty sure I played a lot of Operation Wolf and Outrun was one of my favourites.
Then again, nowadays you can get an arcade cabinet for a few hundred emulating all the games. We'll never get back the time spent in the arcade cabinets, the mood, watching people play, talking to other kids you never met (Incidentally one of the things people at that age lost, actual going out and communicating), true. But hey, I'm writing this because I took a break while playing wonderboy on mine as I remembered I never finished that one :)
This generation will never enjoy the arcade experience that we grew up on. Oh the nostalgia. Aint nothing like it
@@Spontainiouz yeah I’m only 15 and paper boy and defender looks like some good games
getting kicked out by the attendant cos you're watching and not paying and you have to wait outside for your friend who comes out and excitedly says he's just beat the high score but didn't have time to put his name in so he put it in as AAA.
Arcades where such a great hangouts, I wonder if kids have any equivalent these days?
The 80's were simply the best.
The only decade I miss.
Have you read the book Ready Player One?
The 90's were awesome too
@@skyvader1238 ^ This
It was just so colourful. That's why these memories are so vivid.
The music was good, but gaming was not really there yet. 90s and 2000s were where it was.
Huge respect to the developers who created these games. Working with highly limited hardware, probably developing in assembler which is hard work and editing packages were presumably highly limited too. The games still looked awesome and were highly addictive. Bravo.
They’re only “highly limited” compared to today’s hardware.
Master programmers. No sloppy code. Couldn't afford it due to hardware constraints. These guys invented it as they went along. Exciting, optimistic times.
Spy Hunter was my first and favorite video games from the 80s. I'm surprised they didn't mention that video game. 80s Arcade royalty.
I learned how to Drive, Playing Spy Hunter, in the Arcade, on The Sitdown Version
I Own Pole Position and Galaga,Sonic,and Mario,All Digital copies
The best game dude
That was a huge omission from an otherwise solid list. An arcade by me growing up had the sit down version of Spy Hunter, loved that game.
I was waiting through this whole video for Spy Hunter
What really strikes me with all these amazing classics, is the somewhat sad fact that very few people actually got to see the later levels or 'the end' of many of these beautifully made games.
Without the Cheat code on the C64, i would never even see the other side of the water of Ghosts n Goblins in the first Level
well that's where emulators like MAME come in handy
@@maxwell5268 LOL I actually beat this game legit, super hard
Because they were designed to suck your money, so they were extra hard!
@@maxwell5268 Once you get past that gargoyle it gets easier, but that's a TOUGH challenge right off the bat before you figure his pattern out.
i want to hear all these going off at once, in the black lights, on the cosmic carpeted floor, with all of us having a good time. The smells, sounds and sights, of an 80's arcade are something I will never forget...
And the sound of quarters coming out of the change machine
@@striderflys that too!
The arcade was central to a lot of 80's teens. Back then coin-op arcade games still had better tech than the consoles & desktops. The arcade died when they couldn't keep up. People also got tired of pumping quarters into games.Most of us were there just to "hang out" and watch the one's who were really good play.
Thanks for spending the time to put snippets of these old classic arcade games online.
Since I was around from the beginning of the video games craze that started with Space Invaders, I thought I'd let you know a bit of history... video games arcades sprang up all over the United States when games that could be played for a long time on one quarter came about. (Prior to Space Invaders, most of the games had a time limit.)
The golden era, when arcades made money hand over fist, was 1979-1983 or so...after that the craze sort of dropped off and many arcades closed up.
The big games we played back then besides Defender and Donkey Kong and Dig Dug and Pac Man were Centipede, Missile Command, Robotron, Millipede, Tempest, Ms. Pac Man, Stargate, and Joust.
(Asteroids, Battle Zone, Frogger, and Galaxians were also huge, but I think they were 1979.)
Q-Bert, Crystal Castles, Donkey Long Jr., Gravitar, Track and Field 1&2and Burger Time were also pretty big.
Most of these had different controls to learn...track ball, joystick, double joystick, spinning knob, along with various buttons for firing or hyperspace, etc..
Once people had learned all the controls, the games themselves tended to be too closely related to earlier games, and so interest died off.
In any case, there was also Tetris after that.
But in any case, Ms. Pac Man far outlasted any other video game because until recently, no one managed to beat the game once Ms. Pac Man slowed down...so scores tended to Max out around 280,000...but then, after much research some of the experts managed to find a way to keep alive even after Ms. Pac Man slowed down, (which was total skills because there's no simple pattern like in Pac Man, as the ghosts did mostly random things from board to board.)
And so about 20 years after Ms.Pac Man came.out, a few people managed to finally beat the game (get to the last board where the machine goes programming glitch crazy), at around 920,000.
So Ms. Pac Man was the ultimate for people who were really good at video games.
Defender and Robotron were also huge because the difficulty levels could be turned up, as well as the number of points needed for an extra man.
And Centipede (only major "golden era" game that was written by a woman programmer) and Galaga lasted way longer in the arcades, ten years after most of the other video games above were gone from most arcades, they could still be found.
Signed, A former late 70s, early 80s video game addict
Cheers. From a fellow arcade addict from those days (was in late teens when Space Invaders and Asteroids came out, so I saw the development of arcade gaming as it happened as well).
Oh man this brought me back to my youth of hanging out in various arcades
For me, it will always be the classics/legendary video games of the early days of gaming.
Asteroids, Defender, Frogger, Dig Dug, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Dragon's Lair, Joust, and Missile Command. I spent way to much money trying to get the high score or getting to the end, only later did I realize that games like those could go on forever.
Asteroids & Defender, then the Rubic Cube
@@meluaufeet Moon Crester
You guys are all leaving off Robotron, my favorite game ever!!!
Robotron is class and should be in the list.
Space Invaders!
Arcades are amazing places... for those that love it, its like going to a basketball game or going to see a movie. Maybe even more fun than both. It's the people, the lights, the sounds, and the atmosphere...
Was a place u could go as a
kid/preteen/teen to actually get out of your room. To be with friends & actually have something to “do”. Now they just get “salty” “triggered” “sweaty” etc over headphones with friends and end up arguing or feeling bad cause they “suck” lol. Wish I could give this kind of “arcade” experience to my 12 and 5 yr old. Taught u patience waiting for a turn, taught u how to manage money and time, how to be social and look other kids on the eye… N it taught u how to have fun (sigh) smh
Yeah for sure!
I was well known around the arcades, was called the street fighter king. Years later out drinking with a few people, went back to someones house who i didnt really know and he pulled out the snes and whacked street fighter 2 on. He thinking he was all mustard, and i had never played it on console before. I still easily whooped his arse, so much so he got some serious rage and wanted to take it outside for real. 😂 Mutual friends had to step in, i was game tho.
@@butwhytho4858 Well said. Most children these days haven't been taught those lessons.
We used to play Pole Position for hours at the arcade. " Prepare to qualify." Donkey Kong and Asteroids was so addicting.
As an 80s kid this Video gives me great childhood memories, when my friends and i were playing console together.
Those days and memories are priceless.
Wow, that Was great, so many memories, me & my girlfriend would go to jokers every Friday night after Mr. Gatti's for a date for 3 yrs (1984-1987). I would play ikari warrior $20-$30 worth, that was .25 at a time. I was really expecting that game to be on here, but it's fine, still so many memories, by the way I married that girl in 1987. Yes still married.. 😉
Mr Gatti’s. Are you from Texas? I remember one close to where i used to live, but don’t see them around anymore.
@@paulmalhi5003 no I am from East Tennessee, we still have 1 or 2 gatti's around.
I've always notice that Ikari warrior never got its recognition 😪. My all time favorite game.
@Capri: Not even thought about a nice guy to share a home?
Mr Gattis pizza was the best
Thanks for the upload.. Some of my favorites that didn't make the list...
Centipede , Missile Command , Frogger , Duck Hunt , Star Wars, Track &Field , Tempest , and Rally X
I'm sure I've forgotten some other games that I've loved as well.
Time marches on but boy those were the good ol days.
used to get my finger`s nipped when I played Centipede, that ball you used to control it with had a slight gap where it fit in the machine, it knacked if it got ya fingers caught......Great game but!!
@@TheDebbiewallace lol you gotta be a serious gamer to be catching your fingers in the ball gap...lol 🤣
I was born in 73 and I was always in there watching people play lol I could never play these games. I freak out lol
@@Oona707 sort of mate, I was born 74 so went through the eras also, 70s it was my Dads Grandstand console , then the 80s....sore fingers!! Zx Spectrum, commodore Vic 20 & 64,the 90s the Sega Mega Drive then ps1 man, 2019 ps4 pro
Centipede for sure, Asteroids another. Tempest gave me stress
I was born in '69. We were the first generation to grow up on video games and Star Wars. What a great era. We still had tangible toys, and played outside, but also enjoyed our video games on rainy days. When gameplay and sound were of great importance. Let's not forget Robotron, Qix, Gun Smoke, Scramble & Joust. Oh, and TEMPEST! At home we had Commodore 64, a TRS80, Intellivision & the unique (and super cool) Vectrex.
Born in ‘67 and my brother born the same year as you, I definitely recall those times. Qix was one of my favorites at the skating rink. Crazy Climber, Defender, Missile Command were there, too, and also one of the first football games from 1978 called Football (aka Atari Football). It had big cabinet like a cocktail arcade game with the monitor flat facing upward and was a monochrome display with players as X’s and O’s that used a trackball.
At the arcade next to the theater, I was playing Food Fight, Pole Position, Galaga, etc. At home, we only had an Atari 2600, although my aunt had bought an Atari 5200 and got to it also. My younger cousins had an Intellivision, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-16, and some of the Nintendo consoles.
In ‘87, I had an Atari 520ST computer with some cool games, but it wasn’t something I played very much.
@@JohnnyUtah15 I also miss arcades, bowling alleys and roller rinks. The kids have nowhere to hang out now.
Asteroids, Defender,Pole Position
@@BrianK1022all awesome!
Brings back good memories of skipping school on a Friday to hang at the mall for 6-8 hours. Only needed a few bucks to have fun. Arcade, movie theatre, Spencer Gifts, Mc Donalds, Radio Shack, the high end stereo stores, the music stores, and eating soft pretzels and candy in front of the relaxing splash of the water fountain.
Sounds like the mall that was there where I live. Now it's something related to the local hospital.
Facts
Except for me it was burger King in the food court
Wow, lots of memories there! Surely 'Track and Field' should be in the top 25 at least?
On your mark, get set, bang!
Long jump and leave a turd in the sand.
And TRON! Dragons Lair looked great but had terrible gameplay and emptied your pocket
for sure, also Hyper Sports the sequel was just as good
I remember going to an arcade as a kid and there were a couple of guys who must have been musicians of sorts as they could drum their fingers over the buttons and get incredible speed from their players, running the 100m in under 9.5 seconds, maybe even faster I can't remember that far back. They just sat on that machine playing the same game for hours all with the first coin they put into it.
i use to bang the hell out of those buttons to run
Lies again? Motor Sports
I can still feel my adrenaline rising just watching the games, I could go to the arcade with $20 and completely lose track of time. I loved having a free Saturday night when I was younger and driving and when we used to have a 3 level arcade here in Omaha.
3 level arcade, wow!
Played most of these at our local arcade and ten some. Personal favorite was the Track & Field arcade that had the roller ball instead of the buttons. set some crazy score with that one.
I pretty much grew up in the arcades in the 80's and 90's. I remember many of these fondly.
I Worked in a Arcade in The 80s
Same here loved it 20p on double dragon played it for about an hour till game i finished the Game.
I was lucky to be born in 1979, damn being a kid in the 80's was special.
How was this time period ?
@@benjad92 YOU WILL LIKE THIS, I was lucky enough to have been born in Somerset England, a place full of woods and fields to fight rich kids from my neighbouring village of Wembdon (where I ended up living), we would build the best war forts and fight, it was straight trying to hurt each other, remember this is a time when films were nothing but violence), laughing out. A time when you would walk the Isles of video stores and pick your movie and then go to your local shop for chocolate bars (I always picked a crunchie bar) a time when you could play miles away because it was a time when you didn't have to worry about a thousand peado's chasing you. It was a time when the whole family would get together and enjoy worlds strongest man at Christmas, a time when we had lots of great shops, a time when sweet shops didn't sell condoms. It's a time when computer games 1st came out, I remember owning a commodor 64 going up to a Sega mega drive in the 90's, I remember hiphop from An early age and how it sounded, now it sounds rubbish. I remember decor in a house, now they look bleak, and my main thing I want you to know is, "IN THE 80'S PEOPLE HAD BALLS", look at the miners strikes and the poll tax riots. Bless you my dearest for asking, it took me a while to type as I am an old git. Hope your safe and sound.
@@ThehulkGreen I think social medias and mobile phones ruined our lives. Thanks
@@benjad92 tell that to 70% of the worlds population. Good luck. Hope your cool bruddah.
1978. Totally agree.
I miss the arcades of the early 80s. Wow! What a wonderful trip down memory lane. That was a great video. Thank you.
mccoy1369 Thanks for watching :)
You'd love NewRetroArcade Neon.
@@MousePotato Especially in VR, it's an incredibly nostalgic experience. It's amazing that we now can play these games, feeling like you are in inside a life-size arcade again, from the comfort of our home.
Mid 80s was the sweet spot for me, Ghost n Goblins, 1942, starforce, Kung fu master, shao lin roads, Bomb Jack, etc etc
Ah yeah... 1942! I'd forgotten about that.
One thing no one ever mentions is how loud an arcade was. Part of the experience was being hit with all that sound when you first walked in. It made a casino sound like a library.
Yes, and you could hear Defender in the parking lot is was always so loud..
Outrun has one of the best soundtracks ever!
It totally did...used to love when the car would shake when you'd drive in the sand on the beach😄
Magical Sound Shower was the one.
Why “one of the”?
Magical sound shower still rocks.
Splash Wave!!! In fact, all three tracks are phenomenal.
This video brought me to tears.
So much soul in those games.
Watching all these videos makes me realize one thing.. How wonderful my day was 😞
So many others worthy of this list.... everyone has their favorites. Mine was Robotron 2084...
Operation Wolf!!! The cabinet with the UZI! How many coins I spent there?? Loved this video so much!
I beat that in California cost me about 3 dollars
Operation Wolf was amazing in it's day. I was so happy when I completed it!
@tom carter Paperboy was 1985, Operation Wolf 1987. Do you not have Google?
@@24934637 could never play it bloody hard but wached older lads play in 1988 arcades
They've got OW3 in the gaming centre near my town.. can't wait to get in there! £10 entry and play all day
Still get chills when I hear Defender, the SFX are still awesome today.
Yep, Defender broke the mould at the time. Brilliant game.
@@SteTrax Defender was way too difficult for most mortals, my Top Three: 1.Moon cresta
2. Phoenix
3. Scramble
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road provided me the most hours of entertainment per quarter spent of any game produced in the 1980s.
I WAS ADDICTED TO HITTING THAT NITRO BUTTON!!!
Great F***in game
Loved playing with 3 others and all the wheels going. Great game!
Excellent games, I’d add Asteroids, Robotron, Digdug, Crystal Castles, and Discs of Tron… sooo many legendary games still fun to play today 😀
I'd forgotten Digdug, thanks!
Absolutely outstanding .. took me back to one of the most happiest time of my life .. thanks for that
Life was so much simpler back then
except racial injustice and AIDS...
@@Geoffrey___ which still exist today and always will...
@@Geoffrey___ get a life
Amen brother
Its a lot simpler to turn on your console or PC than to walk half a mile to the local arcade. I prefer the latter but we are lazy, us gamers. Hence arcades are now retro... unless you're in Japan.
The memories! Those sounds really took me back, couldn't stop smiling watching this.
what a time travel ... so many of those games were very near my house. Missing a lot that time
I can remember when every video game in an arcade or back corner of a 7-11 store had ash trays mounted to the sides of the machines direct from the factory ,that kept people from hanging their smoke over the game edge & burning the shit out of it ,at the same time hospital patients could chain smoke from the comfort of their hospital bed & nurses were happy to empty your ash trays .
Great List ! I also enjoyed Street Fighter ,Afterburner , Choplifter .What an awesome time it was to be a kid.
WTF! Wha cha know about Choplifter youngin???
Hda Super Hang On on the Megadrive and road rash
Fighting Street
Yeah Afterburner and Spaceharrier I played a lot , also Wonderboy2
@@TheRealBlackula choplifter was fun!
Great list! 👍 My top 10 would definitely be PacMan, Centipede, Dragons Lair, Gauntlet, Mortal kombat, Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, Qbert, Frogger, & BurgerTime. I guess it depends where you lived and what arcades the local spots had and were more popular and in demand etc. Oh yeah and Paperboy was big. Mrs. Pacman too! Early 90s I think ever spot had a Street Fighter 2 arcade from bodegas, supermarkets, laundromats, barbershops, music shops, bars, restaurants, etc. I'd spend my entire allowance challenging players lol 😆
im from Chicago. qbert, burger time, frogger..for sure.
BurgerTime!!!! I like your list better than this video👍
Have to exclude Mortal K, though. It's not an 80s game.
@@WakenerOne 1992
Of the top of my head, and a few of my favs were featured. Just arcade games in genral, some ae probably more early 90s. Id go with Street fighter 2, New Zealand story, power drift, football champ, shinobi, ghost and goblins, Splatter house, R-type, wonder boy in monsterland, green beret.
What a good time it was to be a kid in the 80s; not a care in the world. Excellent upload man! 👌😎✌️
Thanks Sam 😊
This video has taken me back
So many of these games I played and loved when they came out
😂🤣😂 Thanks for taking me back to the 80s when I was young 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 My favourite game will always be space invaders. The first consoles in ‘78 had black and white screens with coloured cellophane.
If you knew the shot count sequence to get 300 on the flying saucers, I'd be floored : )
It was 21, 15, 15.... per board.
@@jamespgray6928 I thought it was 22, 14, 14 but my memory may be wrong for the 300 point spaceships.
The one with the buttons, "The Invaders" was insanely hard, but I had a few 50,000 points on the table top games. Great days.
I was great at Space Invaders! And I played both versions! I also played the original Pong, as well as the original Sprint car racing game!!! They had these games in my local bowling alley in the Bronx next to pinball back then!
After Burner always had queues, even if it took longer to get in and out than you got playing the game.
I remember being in Poole in the UK summer 89, and there was a queue almost out the door for the sit down version of Afterburner.
I remember having a birthday party at the local arcade and they gave me 99 credits for After Burner. That was one intense game!
@@djhaynes99 over here in the states i remember seeing the sit down model in various arcades. they all had long lines and each game was like 5 bucks (3.72 Pounds Sterling)
Yeah i remember afterburners graphics outclassing everything at the time.
Yeah i remember the queues too. We had the stand up version, sit in one and the delux type one that moved and shook loads in my town... Good times
I didn't realize until watching this video that when I quit playing arcade games, I quit completely. Pole Position is the most recent one I recognized, any newer than that and I have no memory of them at all.
Thank you for the nostalgia. You can't beat the atmosphere and noise also the smoky air of the arcades.
Finally TH-cam recommendations actually recommended something good
Just this once
@@Noweee always for me
@@mattfahringer442 tells a lot about your tastes!
Wherever it is we go to when we're done with here, and whoever it is we meet when we get there, I'm going to tell them thank you for letting me be a child in the 80's
@@elijahfluw4347 Here here - yep, you had to be there. Great times.
Outrun will always be #1 to me. I played it in the arcades in 1987 and played it on the PS2 with my son 20 years later.
Agree 100 percent!
Right outrun was fantastic
I was a beast on Outrun. Loved the Splash Wave soundtrack!
The choices in videos like this are always debatable. I like the simple, to the point format, the variety and the pace. Nicely done.
Yes, nice video. Yes, debatable. He obviously has a love of fighter games as it seems more than half listed are. My personal list would have Donkey Kong somewhere in the top 10, and Dig Dug definitely belongs on the list (not an honorable mention). I can agree with Pac Man though, it started the whole craze.
Aside from all those greats anyone ever remember a machine called “marble madness”
God I loved that simple but frustrating game haha spent hours playing it haha
I remember Marble Madness. I sucked at it so I never bothered until I got on Arcade Classics disc for my PS2. Still sucked at it though.
I played it on NES
Yeah by Atari with the giant ball to control the marble. I was hopeless at it but it was fun. My mate at the time could actually complete it; it took about 5mins!
Ahh what a trip down memory lane: lazy Melbourne days riding our bikes to the local 7-11 or bowling alley to spend our pocket money on 20 cent arcade games. Great list. 👍
Smash Revino - Melbourne Australia!
Smash Revino - yeah Australia is a great place to live and Aussies are generally pretty chilled and hospitable. It’s a bit crazy at the moment in Victoria (my home state) with all the bushfires and crazy weather. Yeah, we always use the word “Mate” as a polite but friendly reference to both friends and strangers. It’s very much an Aussie thing. Hope you can visit Australia one day - the world is a much better place when we seek out and embrace other people and their cultures. 🍻
Played most of these...When you got to a high level, people started to circle around u and watch. No centipede, no sprint or super sprint ..2 of my favs..Spy hunter....
I remember vividly playing like 15 of this games: there was something magical about arcades.
It was like crack for kids, 😁
Same for me brings back so many good memories.
I remember playing Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when my parents bought an Atari.
... and then realising how shit the conversions were, lol
You were retro gaming already in the 80's :D
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Space Invaders was far from a shit conversion on the 2600 .Gameplay is always 9999999999% more important than graphics
Way better than "Asteroids"
& "Centipede" were "Blasteroids"
& "Millipede".
Man I remember how excited I got when I got that bat in double dragon
That reverse elbow was a killer move in the game!
I only would have 1 or if I was lucky 2 quarters to play that when I was 9. I would ride my bike to the local grocery store and play that. Funny or ironic that you could also pick up a whip and hit the big black guy with it.
There are definitely some games on your list that I wouldn't rank in the top 25. I'm not sure when you were born, but you left out some of the true classics.
Really Double Dragon that should be at least top 7 to top 4
Great video.
I remember them all.
My favorite arcade game from the 80s I only ever saw once.
It was in a local arcade for a few months, maybe 1988.
It was 'Afterburner', I think a f14 flight game.
The thing was, the seat, screen, and all the controls were built into a motorized gyroscope.
It was really something else.
Thanks for the memories 🙂
Love that Afterburner one of my all time favorites
They still had one of those at the Gameworks in Schaumburg Il. last time I was there a couple years ago and it still worked perfectly.
@@winstonwolf6791 That's really cool, thanks for sharing 🙂
what is the music from at the very start?
Thanks for the video , amazing memories and to me just shows the superiority of the arcade machines in many cases..... I have one gripe, Street Fighter a milestone in gaming!!!
I got a paper route, fished golf balls out of duck crap ponds and mowed lawns just to play arcade games... it taught me how to hustle. Saturday after football friends would meet up along the way to the arcade across town. Arcade games were an inadvertent life lesson of needs vs wants and how to achieve a goal with a little exercise.
How is SPYHUNTER, Star Wars and Tron not in this list? Besides that great list.
Great list, but I think Spy Hunter, Centipede, Frogger should be on there, too. I was happy to see Gauntlet and Dragon's Lair on there somewhere, too. Golden Axe was an awesome game. Ghouls and Ghosts was crazy hard. 1943 took a lot of my quarters, too. Tron was awesome too. Some of these games couldn't keep the same nostalgia as the arcade when they went to console. Ring King was an awesome arcade game, but sucked on the NES. I thought you had too many racing games on the list and left off some more popular ones, but glad to see much of my favs getting a shout out. I was always too scared to play Dragon's Lair. It cost a whole $1 and always drew a crowd when someone played.
Wow....great video. Takes me back to when me and my mates used to spend all of our money in those arcades and even though we left with nothing we left with great memories. Absolutely loved double dragon and that blew me away at the time. Also loved operation wolf but remember beast busters that was a zombie version of op wolf? Street fighter 2 should have been on this list as it's genre defining.Thanks for taking the time to make this video and bring so much nostalgia back for everyone.
Sf2 is a 90's game bud
When my wife and I first started dating, we'd hit 'Aladdin's Castle' once a week at the Rhode Island mall. Our three go-to's:
- TMNT
- Bad Dudes (''We're Bad!'')
- Wrestlemania 4
Now it's a giant 'At Home' store. 😑
We had an Aladdin's in weat towne mall Madison Wisconsin..I never knew it was a chain arcade lol
We had one in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.... before crime ruined the city.
I miss Aladdin's Castle. I had one in Jackson, MI under 10 miles from my house. Now, it's a nail salon. Ugh!
I’m from Rhode Island and remember that arcade. My grandfather would take me there. Good times!
I was born in '87. Can't say I've played many of these as arcade games, but 2 of the few I have stick out in particular for me.
My uncle bought a Pac-Man arcade cabinet when he was much much younger, which is still in my grandma's basement and as far as I know, it still works.
The other is probably the first arcade game I ever played (earliest I remember playing, at least, which makes it probably my first video game ever)--Outrun. A local pizza place in my hometown had the upright cabinet version for a few years. It's still one of my favorite video games overall; I have several ports of it as well as the soundtrack in my music collection.
One thing is for sure, all 25 games on this list were awesome!
I basically grew up with these games amazing videos, i thought these were the best when i was a kid in the mid 80s but look at the games now practically depicting real life visuals
They still are the best. They r the Originals. The classics:->
Half of these I've never heard of or seen in all the time I spent in arcades in the '80's.
Yet no mention of very big games like Centipede, Qbert, Galaxian, Missile Command, Frogger, Qix, Burgertime, Mrs. Pacman, Robotron, Joust, Tron, Berzerk, Sinistar...
Don't forget PAC Man Jr. Although it was the worst of the franchise.
Yeah, this list is very racing / fight and walk right game heavy, missing lots of classics.
This list is very geared toward the mid-to-late '80s rather than the early '80s, unfortunately. Donkey Kong should have been at least top 10 (it's my no. 1). Centipede, Dig Dug, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, TRON, Robotron, The Pit, and more would have made my list
Was addicted to Defender, spent all my money on it, skipped school to play it, never was any good at it. Love the sounds still do.
Defender was the most awesome sound in the arcade 👍
Truth, Yo!
Pole position wasn't. Lol
Defender is my all time favorite arcade game....second place goes to Time Pilot.
Takes me back in the 80s playing all arcade games thay was the years 13 in 87
Man I wish I had back all the quarters I put into Defender at the arcade back then. I’d be rich. How was it only ranked #19 on this?!? Also, Asteroids didn’t even make this list!
I like how Pole Position had Marlboro billboards. They were always out of focus but ou can clearly tell they were Marlboro signs.
Hell yeah you'd never see that in a modern game
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that, lol
Back in the day when people smoked everywhere - literally.
I'm 46 now , and those were the most innocent games of all time , a ton of fun , and you made great friends just by meeting people at arcades , there are a lot more to mention , but this is great list , here are some of my favorites from 1984 up , ( Flash girl , 1942 , phoenix , moon patrol , elevator action, kung fu master , western express , rygar , trojan , mighty bomb jack , green beret, karate champ 👍👍👍
I'm 40, from France, but I only know Rygar..
c Cylian never lived man
I always think of Green Beret as a shank simulator - not so innocent 😇
Zaxxon was my Favorite, brought back memeries of my old Colecovision games
Good collection; personally I would add Joust, Tempest and Battlezone to this list.
I would add Punch Out and any of the MLB games from the 80's. Same with the NFL game with the ball in the middle of the console.
Dragon's Lair seemed 20-30 years ahead of it's time. You would always see a long line watching someone play that game.
I would add Atari Star Wars.
Definitely
Yes. Several of these games I don’t even recall playing.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
the good ol days! I spent a lot of quarters on these games. Thanks for the memories 👊
Thank goodness you mentioned Gauntlet and Dragon’s Lair! Much money lost to those machines!
Outrun, Galaga, and R-Type. Had a lot of fun with those game's
I think everyone who was a kid in the 80's would have their own unique list of favorites. I usually never had money to play the games, so I ended up watching others play. When I did have money to play it was usually games like Pole Position or Spy Hunter. I always dreamed of finding a treasure chest full of quarters so I could go play all the games at the arcade.
James, I loved Spy Hunter too!! I feel bad you didn’t have coins to play as a kid. If you’re ever over in Belfast, I’ll hook you up with an old skool gaming night 🙌🏻
When all games from back in the day looked the same as each other! Nostalgia just came flooding back!!!
But they didn’t. They were all 8 bit.
theDuctapeUnion that was my point, I wasn’t comparing to games of today
W8rren D4vies No one is comparing 8bit to today’s games. Are you drinking?
theDuctapeUnion nah I think you been smoking something,
W8rren D4vies “I know you are but what am I?” Brilliant comeback partner. Keep trucking. Trump 2020 🇺🇸
These bring back memories when I was a little kid
Loved this video! So many memories of Smokey arcades and playing pool, Spy Hunter, Yi Ar King Fu, Paperboy, Kung Fu Master, Cabal, Double Dragon, Afterburner, Outrun and more. Still love gaming to this day! Thank you for bringing back some brilliant memories of an innovative time in gaming.❤
Yi Ar Kung Fu was awesome.
Double dragon, used to complete that just using elbows it was so easy lol
@@carnagevnp2979 Lol, yes i remember. Although i would say most games were much harder back in the day.
I want to thank this channel for bringing back some of my best childhood memories 😃
Aaah man operation wolf!!
One of my favorite!
I also played double dragon and golden axe a lot.
I miss those days :(
I played it in a hotel arcade on vacation when I was a kid, asked for (and got it) for NES. What a let down on the console...only when I got the NES Advantage stick was I able to do anything in that game as the NES controllers sucked for aim and shoot games
Great list. Enjoyed most of these games. I played spy hunter alot, sea wolf, ivan stewart off road and enduro racer
wow many of those brought back some good memories. I loved Outrun and pacman and totally forgot about Operation Wolf. Many thanks for sharing