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My dad had a Space Invaders table cabinet in his fish and chip shop back in the early 80's in Australia. And one day he just brought it home and put it in our living room and there it stayed and played for years, serving as the "Kids" area of the hose. Being a glass table arcade, it garnered quite a bit attention until the game one day stopped working. Wish I still had it.
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I started playing video games with the first one Pong, and I've been playing them ever since. I aim to be the longest living video gamer. If I make it to 100, I would've been playing video games for 95 years.
I flunked out of college in ‘78 due to space invaders. Met my husband in ‘79. Been happily married 41+ years. Kids and grandkids. Go space invaders woooo!
Most of these were a bit before my time but I fondly remember the 80's games Moon Patrol, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Shinobi, Galaga...they were the ones that blew my mind as a kid.
I’m teaching a ‘retro gaming’ enrichment lesson at a college for adults with learning difficulties and of all the games we played, Pong was the one that captivated them the most! At first they were like ‘what is this?’ As they are used to XBox and PS4s but once they played it the gameplay is like no other! Simple, addictive and still a lot of fun!
I was born in 1990 and serveral of these still hold a place in my heart. Space Invaders is still one of the best games ever even 40 years on. Old games never die, they just ask for more coins!
From the 80's on, it would be necessary to make a list per year. 1980 started an arcade-revolution, and among the hundreds of classic you'll have many games to choose from. :-)
Totally forgot about Lunar Lander...and yeah, the difficulty level was ridiculous. It was probably easier to land the REAL lunar module on the moon than that game.
+lor b No, that's kind of cool! I have a worst comment: I like to take movie and game titles and turn them into porn parodic titles. There's some so ridiculous out there made into real porn movie! The Space Invaders song inspired me one: 'Space Invadnus' ! Feel better about your comment and scarf? :P
Well I don't have one of those, but I DO have a Asteroids poster in full color on my fridge. lol P.S. Oh yea I almost forgot. I also have the Space Invaders video game too. lol
Fun Fact: The increasing speed of Spacing Invaders was a unintentional bug that is a result of less sprites to render which meant the game made them move faster, the bug was never fixed as it made the game more fun.
A "Computer Space" cabinet can be seen in the movie _Soylent Green_ at the house of the millionaire who gets murdered (because he knows what Soylent Green is made of.... [SPOILER: It's people!]). It is played by Charlton Heston's love interest in the movie. It's easy to notice because of its very unique cabinet design.
I’m so old I remember being mind blown seeing Galaga for the first time. Today I played Inside on my PC with my 7 year old niece. Gaming is wonderful and brings generations together. I hate how some people look down on it.
I remember a game in the arcade in the 70's that had a 'black hole' in the centre of the screen (with gravity) and you piloted a ship around this battling enemys being careful not to be sucked in...it had wireframe graphics i wonder if anyone knows what it was called? Edit: It came back to me shortly after writing this...it was 'space war' circa 1977
@@SyntaX7777 Spacewar! appeared on the PDP-1 computer in 1962. But he was probably playing Space Wars, which was Cinematronics' arcade-cabinet version of Spacewar! from 1977, or Space War, which was Vectorbeam's release of the same game around the same time (the relationship between Cinematronics and Vectorbeam was complicated).
I remember, back in 1980, learning how to code in BASIC and machine language, that it only took 7 lines of code to make Pong. That game made MILLIONS of dollars by the time they stopped putting those arcade machines out.
Pretty much spot-on for the list. The sound of Space Invaders always instantly raises my heartbeat and I'm transported straight back to the cafe at my local pool in 1979...
I believe that Computer Space game can be seen in the film Soylent Green. Its in the rich guy's apartment and is supposed to symbolize future tech as well as wealth...
I was 13 and a small store opened near my home. It had pre-computer arcade games, before the first computer game, ping pong, appears. These games was in similar cabinets like the arcade computer games, but with real objects inside. There was a game where you drove a car with a steering wheel and you tried to avoid to crash with other cars. These cars was real miniatures and the game was mechanical. All the base of the game was in the hidden side, in the bottom of the box and you saw the cars and the whole thing through a mirror! A similar game was one with motorcycle race and some others with shooting. The first time I saw ping pong I was very impressed and I spend a lot of coins.
Man, if I had all the quarters I wasted in a video arcade back in the '70s I'd have, well a lot of quarters right now. I have to say I've played pretty much all of these at one time or another. Death Race was a favorite, so much so the arcade I went to ended up with 2 machines shortly after they got the first one.
A couple of clarifications re: Lunar Lander. This game used a realistic physics-based system incorporating thrust and gravity that was dropped for a while but became an essential part of modern gaming. Secondly, using quarters to continue a game did not become a mainstay in coin-op gaming until quarter-sucking games like Gauntlet made it a regular thing in the late 80s. Nobody could continue a game of Pac-Man, Frogger or Galaga, right?
I remember hearing on the radio in the late 1970s that Americans had spent more on Space Invaders than they had on the entire Space Shuttle program. I remember playing Pong for hours in a local computer store. No one had ever seen a computer game before. Games at that time were things like cards, dominoes, chess, checkers, Monpoly, and Parcheesi. Computer games were mesmerizing.
When video games were classified in the 80s. They were modelled after 4 types. The Pac-Man type, Asteroids type, Space Invaders, and the Miscellaneous type. Later came the Platform type and Player vs Player type games and Simulator types. I remember when Battlezone was considered the miscellaneous type, now it's viewed as one of the first simulator types. Crazy Climber, a miscellaneous type, would later form the platform type games.
Crazy Climbers were converted to other titles as soon as Conversion Kits came out. That, Armor Attack, and Exidy's Venture were about the poorest earning machines I ever had on route. True dogs. Could barely give them away back in the day.
I was there at the start. There was a special feeling you got playing these games as a kid excited by technology, back in the 70`s. Nowadays a video game is the implementation of a concept: you are rarely aware of the system generating the effect. But, back in the days when computing was primitive, graphics were blocky, and sound that actually sounded like it was electronically generated, the experience of gaming was like...communing with a computer, with electronic circuitry; the crackle of the cathode ray screen: a whiff of ozone. You felt like a space cadet.
Pretty solid list really! I was there for the later parts of the 70s as I was too young to play until at least 76 or so, but this brings back memories!
I remember playing a game in third grade, i think it was called Mr. Goodnight. I can't seem to find anything documented about it though. It was about a secret agent who had to had to save the world, kinda like James Bond. I can't remember everything but i remember it was only black and green and we would all stand around watching to see if the kid playing would get on to the next level, and getting so excited if they made it. Wish i could find out more about it now.
You have a point. Call of Duty is the best game of all time. It's super realistic, unlike most games like GTA. Better than Counter Strike because it has way better graphics! Call of duty required so much skill and teamwork to play, and the community and players are so friendly. Surprised WM didn't include it in the video. Unsubscribing and blocking on myspace
To me 1979-1983 was the golden age of the best video games ever. There’s some locations called Pinballz in Austin, Texas that has a whole section devoted solely to that era mostly with original consoles
I remember the TV ads for that, though we didn't buy one. It's kind of amazing that the first home console predated the first coin-op videogames. Pong was a knockoff of the Odyssey's table-tennis game.
A quarter then was like a dollar now. I pumped a lot of quarters into most of these games. Sometimes Asteroids and Lunar Lander was just a dime. That was a huge deal.
I was born a baby boomer and all these games in our area will never fade away they are still being played now and they will be played then in the future
2 games which were very good and I never saw again were: Asteroid 3D, and a certain type of Tank attack game that used 2 levers and had a function that you could zoom up vertical so that you can get an aerial peek of the battlefield.
I vote for Defender ! Man that game was one of the best arcade platform games ever !!! I grew up on Space Invaders and Pong and Asteroids. Then I got a job and a Sega and played Sonic 'til HE was tired of running lol
My step dad's job at the time was to fix these machines.... my mothers job was to collect the money. He would bring them home and I'd play them... I had a stand up Pack- Man ... a table top Galaxian .... pin ball machines..... they had to go back to the pubs and clubs etc after a while, but they were mine for a while lol....
I was born in the late 60's in NZ. My step father had a huge infulence in the arcade sence in NZ (timeout/timezone arcades that were popping up in the 90's here in NZ). But before that we always had arcades in our garage (late 70's) Some games that I really enjoyed in no order that wasnt in the list Moon Patrol Defender Galaga Championship Sprint (black and white 2 player) Dr Do Pac Man Moon Cresta The odd pinball machine - The Black Hole was a good one. I spend many years working in this industry building them, then taking on the importing of the pinball machines when the Black Rose and Fish Tales become popular pinball again =)
These games are still fun to play in emulation today, but a lot of them really do lose something in the translation. The super bright, super crisp vector graphics of Asteroids, the massive, beefy throttle control of Lunar Lander, and the deep bass of most of these games was all part of the experience.
Its a pity you used an emulator for Asteroids .. because one of the most memorable visuals was the super bright vector dot that the real machines produced on a CRT thats impossible on MAME !! Same goes for Space Invaders. If you had filmed a real TAITO upright cab you would have got the amazing UV lit colour backdrop with the B&W invaders floating in front of it, which was mesmerising, and the sound made it even more addictive because of the heavy bass thump-thump sound effect that gradually sped up as the level progressed.
i agree with this list, I was very young in the 70s, but remember how insanely popular Space Invaders was. I think Sea Wolf should have been higher on the list because there wasnt anything quite like it, and it did have the best sound of any video game at the time, I remember it was the audio that drew me to the game, just hearing it again in this video was a real treat! Thanks for that!......Now moving on, when you do your 80s list, Pacman must be #1, not Ms. Pacman.......I believe Pacman is solely responsible for taking what say Space Invaders did in the 70s, and propelling the video game industry over the top. Without a game like Pacman, video games never reach the popularity they are at today. So when coming up with your list, please give the credit where it is due....Thankyou!
SeaWolf was the first arcade game I ever played. Our local convenience store got one and I was 11 at the time. It got to the point where the store had to limit the number of unsupervised kids into the store at 3. We would wait our turn outside the store to get a chance to play. The owner finally opened an arcade a couple of blocks away about 4 months later. LOL
interesting piece of trivia. seawolf and space invaders run on the exact same hardware the only differences is that seawolf is a 3 card setup that has the sound card split up from the game specific interface card. the main processor card with memory cpu and video output only has to have the rom changed to play the other game
cool list, definitely my favorite in this list is galaxian....just played lunar rescue and lunar landing for the first time and they are awesome :) thanks for the video
After seeing another video agpbout the "golden age" of video games, I came across this one, and actually I love the games here (Asteroids, Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, and especially Breakout) along with a few select games from the the early 1980s. One of the defining qualities is that the game doesn't need to "cheat" to be a challenge (especially higher levels) by expanding the collision box, requiring pixel-perfect positioning, or having the enemies suddenly pop in beside your ship out of nowhere. If the controls aren't all wracked up, it's just you vs the rocks. :-)
I must have spent over £300 in a few short months in 1977 on playing this machine in the North Seaton Hotel, Ashington, Northumberland, United Kingdom (commonly called the "White Elephant" because of the huge framed painting of such in the entrance foyer) and still felt like an amateur compared to some of the other college students that I shared those times with.
good list. one of my personal favourites was 'gun fight,' (aka 'boot hill') and i pumped many quarters into atari's 'football.' midway's 'haunted house' always caught my eye, or anything with a light gun, lol.
I can't argue with the list, and glad "Death Race" was here, as it was the GTA of it's day for arousing (unfounded) concerns. I think "Galaxian" is the greatness; it's just so colorful and beepy bloopy!
I remember seeing space invaders for the first time.It ate up all the money my buddies and I have at the time. Asteroids I could play all day on one quarter. Get to the last rock and wait for the space ship too come out. Rack up 99 free plays as it would never let you have more then that. I would usually walk away and give it to whoever was watching. But damn you space invaders
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i played battlezone at the museum of play, it's an ok game.
space invaders are still able to play on the internet!
+Brody Cook They had better have a few SEGA Arcade game titles in there....
My dad had a Space Invaders table cabinet in his fish and chip shop back in the early 80's in Australia. And one day he just brought it home and put it in our living room and there it stayed and played for years, serving as the "Kids" area of the hose. Being a glass table arcade, it garnered quite a bit attention until the game one day stopped working. Wish I still had it.
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@@fredisausthevenision1071 yep, 20c with the platypus it was!
@@gusic709 Outlaw
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Nothing like the feeling of walking into a dark arcade full of these vintage games, a very distinct and great memory from Generation X.
For me, the mind blowing '70's arcade game was Tailgunner. Vector graphics with 3D ships flying at the screen blew my little mind!
loved that game especially the cockpit version. almost felt like shooting fighters from the falcons turrets
@@robertlipsett2535 YES!! It really added a lot to the experience!
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I started playing video games with the first one Pong, and I've been playing them ever since. I aim to be the longest living video gamer. If I make it to 100, I would've been playing video games for 95 years.
I flunked out of college in ‘78 due to space invaders. Met my husband in ‘79. Been happily married 41+ years. Kids and grandkids. Go space invaders woooo!
Most of these were a bit before my time but I fondly remember the 80's games Moon Patrol, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Shinobi, Galaga...they were the ones that blew my mind as a kid.
I’m teaching a ‘retro gaming’ enrichment lesson at a college for adults with learning difficulties and of all the games we played, Pong was the one that captivated them the most! At first they were like ‘what is this?’ As they are used to XBox and PS4s but once they played it the gameplay is like no other! Simple, addictive and still a lot of fun!
I'm still waiting for the release of Pong 2.
I released that last night... I had baked beans yesterday.
Wii tennis
I need 3D Pong
You can play pong 2 inside the arcade, in city 17, half life 3.
Well, it would probably be the same as the original Pong just like Tetris and Tetris 2
The first video game I remember playing in the 70s was Stratovox.
That one was from 1980.
The 70s produced few arcade games, and began the golden age of arcade games in 1979.
I would suggest Spacewar and Outlaw also as honorable mentions.
Space War! was from 1962
@@SyntaX7777 That was the first version written in a academic context, the arcade release was in 1971.
raspberry1440kb yeah, I know. Just saying the original was from 1962.
I was born in 1990 and serveral of these still hold a place in my heart. Space Invaders is still one of the best games ever even 40 years on. Old games never die, they just ask for more coins!
In the arcade fun centers they got the giant screen Space Invaders with the gattling gun. It's a total blast 🙂
This really takes me down memory lane. The one game I remember playing was Vanguard.
From the 80's on, it would be necessary to make a list per year.
1980 started an arcade-revolution, and among the hundreds of classic you'll have many games to choose from. :-)
Quargelbrot1, so true.
1980 - PacMan!
Notice how important and succesful spaceships games and movies were at the 70s
Probably the most retro Video Game list Watchmojo has ever done.
So is 'Death Race' the first movie to video game (Arcade Game) adaptation based on the 1975 movie 'Death Race 2000'? If so, that is mad cool.
gutz1981 lol
From Wikipedia: The 1976 video game Death Race was inspired by the film Death Race 2000.
You can bet it kicked up a right stink. The 70s GTA. Death Race 2000 is one of the best films ever made. One of Stallone’s first films
I think it wasn't actually a licensed adaptation, though the movie definitely inspired it.
i just down loaded it a few weeks ago its corney now to todays standards
I was addicted to Space Invaders in 1979!
These lists make me feel old. I remember Asteroids and Space Invaders when they were new. Exciting times.
Totally forgot about Lunar Lander...and yeah, the difficulty level was ridiculous. It was probably easier to land the REAL lunar module on the moon than that game.
I have a space invader's scarf. This isn't an important comment.. i just needed to share cause it's awesome lol
I have a space invaders Black and White silk tie
Brady Landers that's awesome.. and for some really odd reason I find that kind of hot lol
+lor b No, that's kind of cool! I have a worst comment: I like to take movie and game titles and turn them into porn parodic titles. There's some so ridiculous out there made into real porn movie! The Space Invaders song inspired me one: 'Space Invadnus' ! Feel better about your comment and scarf? :P
So cool..i'm looking for Space Invaders pajama pants !
Well I don't have one of those, but I DO have a Asteroids poster in full color on my fridge. lol P.S. Oh yea I almost forgot. I also have the Space Invaders video game too. lol
Fun Fact: The increasing speed of Spacing Invaders was a unintentional bug that is a result of less sprites to render which meant the game made them move faster, the bug was never fixed as it made the game more fun.
huh... the more you know!
The sound of space invaders rings fresh in my ears today !!
A "Computer Space" cabinet can be seen in the movie _Soylent Green_ at the house of the millionaire who gets murdered (because he knows what Soylent Green is made of.... [SPOILER: It's people!]). It is played by Charlton Heston's love interest in the movie. It's easy to notice because of its very unique cabinet design.
i like the sound of arcades game ..
I’m so old I remember being mind blown seeing Galaga for the first time. Today I played Inside on my PC with my 7 year old niece. Gaming is wonderful and brings generations together. I hate how some people look down on it.
I remember a game in the arcade in the 70's that had a 'black hole' in the centre of the screen (with gravity) and you piloted a ship around this battling enemys being careful not to be sucked in...it had wireframe graphics i wonder if anyone knows what it was called?
Edit: It came back to me shortly after writing this...it was 'space war' circa 1977
Space war was from 1962
@@SyntaX7777 Spacewar! appeared on the PDP-1 computer in 1962. But he was probably playing Space Wars, which was Cinematronics' arcade-cabinet version of Spacewar! from 1977, or Space War, which was Vectorbeam's release of the same game around the same time (the relationship between Cinematronics and Vectorbeam was complicated).
Matt McIrvin Yeah, probably
This takes me back, being born in 73, I remember these. Looking forward to the 80s list
I remember, back in 1980, learning how to code in BASIC and machine language, that it only took 7 lines of code to make Pong. That game made MILLIONS of dollars by the time they stopped putting those arcade machines out.
Compared to Facebook's 7 million lines of code
The original Pong had exactly 0 lines of code, because it was TTL based (no CPU, only discrete analog logic circuits)
Pretty much spot-on for the list. The sound of Space Invaders always instantly raises my heartbeat and I'm transported straight back to the cafe at my local pool in 1979...
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I believe that Computer Space game can be seen in the film Soylent Green. Its in the rich guy's apartment and is supposed to symbolize future tech as well as wealth...
I believe that arcade box is in a museum.
Its also in Jaws
Radar Scope,Night Driver,Monaco GP,Sheriff,Circus,Gun Fight,Side Trak,Rip Cord
Thanks for making this, it helped with my lab project about video games back in the second generation of video games (late 1970s)!!!
Pong is the definitive godfather of all video games.
We had a home version. My Dad got it for me and my siblings for Xmas back around '73 or '74. It was fun at first, but got boring pretty fast.
@IAN HEINE lol
I think you mean Computer Space, it was before Pong.
Very close, to me it's Space invaders, making Pong the granddaddy of them all and Computer Space as the Mother of its own invention.
I was 13 and a small store opened near my home. It had pre-computer arcade games, before the first computer game, ping pong, appears. These games was in similar cabinets like the arcade computer games, but with real objects inside. There was a game where you drove a car with a steering wheel and you tried to avoid to crash with other cars. These cars was real miniatures and the game was mechanical. All the base of the game was in the hidden side, in the bottom of the box and you saw the cars and the whole thing through a mirror! A similar game was one with motorcycle race and some others with shooting. The first time I saw ping pong I was very impressed and I spend a lot of coins.
Man, if I had all the quarters I wasted in a video arcade back in the '70s I'd have, well a lot of quarters right now. I have to say I've played pretty much all of these at one time or another. Death Race was a favorite, so much so the arcade I went to ended up with 2 machines shortly after they got the first one.
A couple of clarifications re: Lunar Lander. This game used a realistic physics-based system incorporating thrust and gravity that was dropped for a while but became an essential part of modern gaming. Secondly, using quarters to continue a game did not become a mainstay in coin-op gaming until quarter-sucking games like Gauntlet made it a regular thing in the late 80s. Nobody could continue a game of Pac-Man, Frogger or Galaga, right?
I remember hearing on the radio in the late 1970s that Americans had spent more on Space Invaders than they had on the entire Space Shuttle program.
I remember playing Pong for hours in a local computer store. No one had ever seen a computer game before. Games at that time were things like cards, dominoes, chess, checkers, Monpoly, and Parcheesi. Computer games were mesmerizing.
When video games were classified in the 80s. They were modelled after 4 types. The Pac-Man type, Asteroids type, Space Invaders, and the Miscellaneous type. Later came the Platform type and Player vs Player type games and Simulator types. I remember when Battlezone was considered the miscellaneous type, now it's viewed as one of the first simulator types. Crazy Climber, a miscellaneous type, would later form the platform type games.
Crazy Climbers were converted to other titles as soon as Conversion Kits came out. That, Armor Attack, and Exidy's Venture were about the poorest earning machines I ever had on route. True dogs. Could barely give them away back in the day.
I was there at the start. There was a special feeling you got playing these games as a kid excited by technology, back in the 70`s.
Nowadays a video game is the implementation of a concept: you are rarely aware of the system generating the effect. But, back in the days when computing was primitive, graphics were blocky, and sound that actually sounded like it was electronically generated, the experience of gaming was like...communing with a computer, with electronic circuitry; the crackle of the cathode ray screen: a whiff of ozone. You felt like a space cadet.
Me too. How video games have changed since 1he late 1970s is remarkable.
*when your the only millennial kid that prefers pong over call of duty*
damn u must get bored af
Grim's Retro Life Style ugh younging I play tennis for 2
Ok boomer
Crap of Duty is overrated shit
Relatable
Galaxian was my all-time favorite game. Great memories.
Pretty solid list really! I was there for the later parts of the 70s as I was too young to play until at least 76 or so, but this brings back memories!
Call me a noob, but unlike Pac Man Fever, I did NOT know there was a song for Space invaders. WOW!
I remember playing a game in third grade, i think it was called Mr. Goodnight. I can't seem to find anything documented about it though. It was about a secret agent who had to had to save the world, kinda like James Bond. I can't remember everything but i remember it was only black and green and we would all stand around watching to see if the kid playing would get on to the next level, and getting so excited if they made it. Wish i could find out more about it now.
I remember playing a lot of these games on my uncles computer back in the early 2000’s. I had a blast playing them!
Where's Call of Duty?
Lol
No, seriously. Call of Duty shits on these games easily.
You have a point. Call of Duty is the best game of all time. It's super realistic, unlike most games like GTA. Better than Counter Strike because it has way better graphics! Call of duty required so much skill and teamwork to play, and the community and players are so friendly. Surprised WM didn't include it in the video. Unsubscribing and blocking on myspace
+Dsworddance22 Call of duty is RUBBISH AND CRAP
+MyNameIsNidos Was call of duty out in 1970 NO SO BUGAR OF THESE AMAZING VIDS BRUH
The vector graphics introduced through Lunar Lander were awesome because they were later used to create a higly dynamic 3D illusion.
God I love the Space Invaders song so much
Even have it on a record.
To me 1979-1983 was the golden age of the best video games ever. There’s some locations called Pinballz in Austin, Texas that has a whole section devoted solely to that era mostly with original consoles
didn't know about pinballz, thanks
Magnavox Odyssey
I remember the TV ads for that, though we didn't buy one.
It's kind of amazing that the first home console predated the first coin-op videogames. Pong was a knockoff of the Odyssey's table-tennis game.
NOT AN ARCADE GAME
A quarter then was like a dollar now. I pumped a lot of quarters into most of these games.
Sometimes Asteroids and Lunar Lander was just a dime. That was a huge deal.
I was born a baby boomer and all these games in our area will never fade away they are still being played now and they will be played then in the future
Space Invaders at #1! HURRAH!
2 games which were very good and I never saw again were: Asteroid 3D, and a certain type of Tank attack game that used 2 levers and had a function that you could zoom up vertical so that you can get an aerial peek of the battlefield.
I vote for Defender ! Man that game was one of the best arcade platform games ever !!! I grew up on Space Invaders and Pong and Asteroids. Then I got a job and a Sega and played Sonic 'til HE was tired of running lol
Defender came out in 1980. 1980 = not a game from the 1970s
PS2 vs Xbox vs GameCube
+Tomás Delizia vs dreamcast
Considering they didn't include the Sega Saturn on the last video I doubt they will include the Dreamcast or even the GameCube in the next video
Tomás Delizia what last video?
Santi T PlayStation vs. N64
Tomás Delizia Ahhhhhhhhhh, i know!,youre right
the arcade games were a great impact in my life :)
I'm early, let me think of a joke
Why is this comment overused?
My step dad's job at the time was to fix these machines.... my mothers job was to collect the money.
He would bring them home and I'd play them... I had a stand up Pack- Man ... a table top Galaxian .... pin ball machines..... they had to go back to the pubs and clubs etc after a while, but they were mine for a while lol....
Sam Lawrence you lucky duck!
As the prisoner in Life of Brian said, "You lucky luck bastard".
Arkanoid is infinitely better than Breakout...
My childhood. If I was rich, I'd have a restored Sea Wolf, a classic arcade cabinet with multiple 80s/90s games, and a pinball machine.
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+Mystical Productions JEP
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Mystical Productions You are the first on this video, senpai teach me to be first
I was born in the late 60's in NZ.
My step father had a huge infulence in the arcade sence in NZ (timeout/timezone arcades that were popping up in the 90's here in NZ).
But before that we always had arcades in our garage (late 70's)
Some games that I really enjoyed in no order that wasnt in the list
Moon Patrol
Defender
Galaga
Championship Sprint (black and white 2 player)
Dr Do
Pac Man
Moon Cresta
The odd pinball machine - The Black Hole was a good one.
I spend many years working in this industry building them, then taking on the importing of the pinball machines when the Black Rose and Fish Tales become popular pinball again =)
For those of you wondering why there's no Pacman it's because the video is titled 1970's while Pacman came out in 1980
These games are still fun to play in emulation today, but a lot of them really do lose something in the translation. The super bright, super crisp vector graphics of Asteroids, the massive, beefy throttle control of Lunar Lander, and the deep bass of most of these games was all part of the experience.
I grew up with these games and trust me, Sea Wolf and Battle zone were the most fun.
Its a pity you used an emulator for Asteroids .. because one of the most memorable visuals was the super bright vector dot that the real machines produced on a CRT thats impossible on MAME !! Same goes for Space Invaders. If you had filmed a real TAITO upright cab you would have got the amazing UV lit colour backdrop with the B&W invaders floating in front of it, which was mesmerising, and the sound made it even more addictive because of the heavy bass thump-thump sound effect that gradually sped up as the level progressed.
I would say the closest I've seen to the arcade version on a home system is probably MineStorm on the Vectrex
i agree with this list, I was very young in the 70s, but remember how insanely popular Space Invaders was. I think Sea Wolf should have been higher on the list because there wasnt anything quite like it, and it did have the best sound of any video game at the time, I remember it was the audio that drew me to the game, just hearing it again in this video was a real treat! Thanks for that!......Now moving on, when you do your 80s list, Pacman must be #1, not Ms. Pacman.......I believe Pacman is solely responsible for taking what say Space Invaders did in the 70s, and propelling the video game industry over the top. Without a game like Pacman, video games never reach the popularity they are at today. So when coming up with your list, please give the credit where it is due....Thankyou!
SeaWolf was the first arcade game I ever played. Our local convenience store got one and I was 11 at the time. It got to the point where the store had to limit the number of unsupervised kids into the store at 3. We would wait our turn outside the store to get a chance to play. The owner finally opened an arcade a couple of blocks away about 4 months later. LOL
interesting piece of trivia. seawolf and space invaders run on the exact same hardware the only differences is that seawolf is a 3 card setup that has the sound card split up from the game specific interface card. the main processor card with memory cpu and video output only has to have the rom changed to play the other game
I would have been beyond surprised if Space Invaders wasn't your top game.
My late Granny Mable for whatever reason had the Pong game, and she got me into gaming...
I played them all back in the day in the arcades. they were fantastic at that time.
cool list, definitely my favorite in this list is galaxian....just played lunar rescue and lunar landing for the first time and they are awesome :) thanks for the video
4:11 Didn't the Atari 2600 have color back in 1977? How is it then that arcade games didn't goto color till 2 years later?
"Spyhunter" was my all time fave that time
NOT AN 70S GAME, IDIOT
After seeing another video agpbout the "golden age" of video games, I came across this one, and actually I love the games here (Asteroids, Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, and especially Breakout) along with a few select games from the the early 1980s. One of the defining qualities is that the game doesn't need to "cheat" to be a challenge (especially higher levels) by expanding the collision box, requiring pixel-perfect positioning, or having the enemies suddenly pop in beside your ship out of nowhere. If the controls aren't all wracked up, it's just you vs the rocks. :-)
I have never stopped playing since pong. I'm 62. I'm now gaming with my grandson
I must have spent over £300 in a few short months in 1977 on playing this machine in the North Seaton Hotel, Ashington, Northumberland, United Kingdom (commonly called the "White Elephant" because of the huge framed painting of such in the entrance foyer) and still felt like an amateur compared to some of the other college students that I shared those times with.
If I remember right, we walked past PONG at the local bowling alley when I was a little kid.
Tank was also added into a Wii game that had lots of other games (forgot the name) but it even had a single player mode that got very difficult
the Wii game also had a pong type game
+MageNick G Wii Play?
I remember playing #4 long ago^^
That was fun at the arcade
Forgot the fact Space Invaders was so wildly-popular in its home country of Japan, that a shortage of ¥100 coins had happened.
How about the baseball game where the silver ball rolls towards you from under a flap?
That crack noise at the end of the videos get me all the time
Starship 1 and Star Hawk come to mind......
I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who remembers both of those!
I'm glad Space Invaders was number one I remember playing it on my brand new Atari 2600 in 1977 for Christmas
Who remembers when the video games at the mall in the video arcade had built in cup holders and cigarette ashtrays on them.
No one?
LOL. Yes
Pong was such an addicting game, I’m still trying beat that damn computer
as they say for everything in life has its beginning and would not be different for the arcades, because these games were classic for the time.
good list.
one of my personal favourites was 'gun fight,' (aka 'boot hill') and i pumped many quarters into atari's 'football.' midway's 'haunted house' always caught my eye, or anything with a light gun, lol.
Belive it or not these games are still mind blowing.
I can't argue with the list, and glad "Death Race" was here, as it was the GTA of it's day for arousing (unfounded) concerns. I think "Galaxian" is the greatness; it's just so colorful and beepy bloopy!
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+CpDude03 Thanks!
Santi T That's Okay!
+CpDude03 Well, it WAS a productive day for me...Breakout is one of my all-time favorite arcade games. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks a lot.....another 2 hours of my life I won't get back............what was that again......atari breakout???? LOL
exept for Pong and Computer Space i used to play these as a kid...very frustrating and fun at the same time.
I remember seeing space invaders for the first time.It ate up all the money my buddies and I have at the time. Asteroids I could play all day on one quarter. Get to the last rock and wait for the space ship too come out. Rack up 99 free plays as it would never let you have more then that. I would usually walk away and give it to whoever was watching. But damn you space invaders
The first time I saw an Asteroids machine, it was scary as the demo graphics were mesmerising ! only 10 at the time It was 1980
Galaxian and Space Invaders would be my favorite games from 70s