The Video Game Years 1980 - Full Gaming History Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Video Game Years is here -- the acclaimed show that examines the fun, culture, and oddities of video game history. In this episode: The Rise of Arcades, Pac-Man, Centipede, Atari breaks out, Sierra, and much more!
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0:00 Intro
1:21 Pac-Man
7:07 Random Promo
7:40 Monaco GP
8:32 Atari Breaks Out
11:10 The Legend of Mr Atari
12:23 Pinball Games of 1980
13:00 Centipede
16:10 Battlezone
17:41 Sierra Online
21:22 Berzerk
23:05 Other Arcade Games of 1980
24:00 Broderbund
26:51 Missile Command
30:10 Rogue
31:43 Tempest
33:22 Gaming Innovation of 1980
34:10 Forgotten Games of 1980
34:46 Nintendo Game & Watch
39:65 Warlords
40:56 Zork & Infocom
45:10 Rally X
46:22 Cocktail Arcade Games
48:42 Credits - เกม
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Tommy Tallarico? Frank being confused? LGR with terrible facial hair? This episode has it all!
Oh man look at all the retired content creators.
This itself is a time capsule.
@@xenos_n. so cool so so cool. 😎
RIP CGR
I miss Let’s GET!
Missing CGR because it was ahead of its time. But some of the others disappeared for a reason: it's incredible how unfunny they were.
It would have been great if they carried this on. I'm nostalgic for a video series about gaming history/nostalgia 😂
Agreed. What year did they stop at? it's been like 7 years since I watched these piece meal.
I think they stopped at 89
@@mickael486 agreed. I wish they had did the 90s as well
Now it's not even possible to do a 90s one with all of them. Justin is dead, CGR is gone, Pat and Tommy have their issues with each other, etc. This whole series is like a who's who of the classic gamers.
Just yesterday I went to find this series on Amazon Prime and it was GONE! I used to watch it repeatedly on Amazon. Always cheered me up when I was down. Tried a few days ago and... nothing. Glad to see it uploaded here!
Wow, back when LGR looked like Rasputin
Came out in 2012. I watched it on Retroware’s channel when it used to be there.
Ian and LGR kind of traded looks lol
@@adamkatt you didn't watch the episode where Gaming Historian was on it in much younger form as well...?
he was actually Lazy Game Reviews until only a few years ago
Oh crap! Even though they have name cards I didn't even realize that was him. Lol
As a child of the 80s I approve of this video.
The format seems to exactly mimic VH1's "I Love The..." series.
That was their idea, they didn’t quite cut it into 22 minute episodes when they we went to sell, but pat talks about this on the cupodcast a long time ago
That was definitely the point. Needless to say, I think Patt perfected the format for game nerds like us.
Yeah, regardless this is done really well. Fun to watch
I like that you know exactly what you're getting with these.
The production quality on this series mega top tier quality. Better than the VH1 docs from back in the day.
I know that it's not financially worth it, but I would absolutely love it, if Mark would put out even one CGR review a year, just as a quick surprise, it wouldn't even have to be a long video. Mark, we need you during these crazy times. Just a simple, goofy game review with your humor, would really go such a long way.
Yesss
Thank you for bringing these out again Pat! Been one of my favorite shows... and the HD treatment/re-up is great to see.
2:46 - Well played, Norm, well played. 😂
Norm is by far the only person here i call a historian.
It's so weird seeing people like Goemon047 and Clan Of The Grey Wolf again. RIP whatever happened to them.
They are both still active on Twitter, probably just moved on to other things.
Someone on another video said Roo got addicted to heroin…. Not sure if they were trolling or not
Pat’s boy Tommy Talricco even featured.
Bruh :D
I was 13 and 1980 what a great time to be a teenager
Was that Tommy T from the Amico I saw?!
Yes, before the fallout.
I've talked with David crane a couple times ,he is such a world of video game history.
Awesome
Cool!
Combining I love the decades from VH1 and video games.. perfection!!
Subbed yo
@36:10 they are talking about the Game & Watch's alarm feature.
*Fun Fact:* The Nintendo DS and DS Lite have this alarm feature also.
I had the best childhood thanks to the Atari. Were the golden generation of gamers.
Great video of this documentary 💝
The end thing from Missile Command makes me think of Fast Times At Ridgemont High. They show it at the very end after telling you what happened to the characters.
Billy Mitchell. LoL
Ian’s sporting the John Lennon bob, and wearing it well. Ian’s cool AF
Another great episode!
Thanks for posting.
Love this series!!!!!
I didn't know CGR was here. Neat.
Holy hell, Ian's hair.
Loving this!!!
2:10 it's Pat and Ian's favorite! Mr Clown Shoes himself!!
another great year to learn about
Love those old commercials! Oh and the story of Mr Atari!
i love ians amish haircut
Wish roo still made videos.
Wu-Tang is forever, but roo is not
Nice Pat!
This is a good documentary!! I still got my PAC MAN FEVER LP!
The reason why Atari VCS Space Invaders worked was 1) WELL... it was close enough to the arcade and 2) OMG - you could play it a little different than the arcade. The fact that you could bring a game home and it felt "right" and then you could play it different?... THAT was awesome. Um, yeah... game modes.
What’s with the “Sheldon” haircuts? 😁😆
God DAMN, do I miss Mark, and CGR....
The R-Zone...
Shout out to my homeboy Tommy T for that wicked cameo. Big ups, Playa!
There was a first "perfect Pac-Man" long before the Billy Mitchell. Proven in a number ways.
Wow Ian looked so clean and well kept
Everybody looks so young in this series. Now I feel old. Also, shout out to long haired LGR! What a boss.
That opening ljm and contri code thing always looks like “this video has been blocked yadda yadda”. 3 times it’s got me now 🤣
i just want someone to look at me the same way Ian looks at Pat
really enjoying this series. tempest was late '81, though.
I’m supporting you
Great year to come out
Is that Joe rod desani in the blue grey coat a member of devo??? Sure looks like it. I had a jacket like that in my Jr high days early 80s. And is that the riddler in the black skeletal horse t-shirt? Love to look for these retro gaming docs where I can find them. Great work sir....
"Yeah I remember it... it seemed inane to me." Put it on a shirt and take my money! It works on so many levels.
I'm so jealous I wasn't around during the 80s.
Only got to play in a few arcades in the mid 90s to early 00s.
I think my first arcade game experiences was a cocktail version of dig dug in the little alcove of the lesser slave lake, Alberta single screen movie theater back in the early 90s.
FINALLY! thank you. I've done a lot of work and fallen asleep to this series many times. I know its a lot of work and the returns aren't worth it but this is really good stuff. The intro is nostalgic for me by this point.
1990???
Love the series... Having Tommy Tallarico on is priceless!
It looks like a good time. Do you have some of those setup as multi game?
"That's pocket power!" God, Nintendo was using "power" in its slogans even before the NES?
Get the power...Nintendo powerrrr
Bro I loved you in If looks could kill!
How bizarre; I was just thinking about this show less than 24 hours ago.
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Hell yes, the year I was born, let's see this.
That random promo with the Atari ad featured Leon Askin, who was most famous at the time for playing General Burkhalter on the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
If i were Pat i would keep this going. Thats right, everything. All the way to the 90s to today with Tears of the Kingdom. Anyways, please make more vgy!
The praise of Billy Mitchell in the doc has aged like milk. Feel free to clip that part out.
2:17 Was that Ian or a John Lennon impersonator?
My one wish is for a Centipede remake with Knife Party doing the music.
Did someone know the name of the music on the minute 46:42?
Pac Man was so essential because in most other big games of the time the world and foes were indifferent. Asteroids just float around, Space Invaders pattern just descends, Frogger was all about the world's indifference to your life and actions, you had to ride along. But in Pac Man, they're chasing YOU. Your choices determine the enemy's actions, and that has become so fundamental in game design. It started right there.
Aka survival horror
@@broken1394 When you're a little kid playing an NES or Atari game where you die in one hit, every game is survival horror.
41 Years Ago
I 💗 these. Is there a reason why it's taking so long to put the rest together?
and is there a fundraiser to keep the years going?
They already have them through 89 on the retroware site. He said he's never doing the 90's
@@MrJholshouser41 that's such a shame. That was my decade.
I strongly wish for many of these retro classic games, but even more so I want Roo's cobalt blue Member's Only jacket. Styles change, but STYLE does not.
For a guy who doesnt like the beatles, ian sure does look like john lennon during this time
You know these was not filmed yesterday when LGR has a beard
I finished my beer when I saw Lord Karnage
All these people are too young to have actually experienced this stuff as it happened.
Ian at a young age looks like one of the Beatles from a side view. This is a compliment 👍🏼
Ian's hair is just crazy. Damn I miss this series.
He's straight outta Compton in the first view vids, now he's John Lennon
Why did this series end?
Too much work with not enough return, if I recall correctly.
7:24 Is that Leon Askin?
it's so weird seeing younger Pat and Ian
The greatest thing about Sierra was Metal Jesus.
Berzerk is the game the Infamously 3 people that have played this game or got a high score coincidentally Had a Heart And Died which is kind of scary
Clint is adorable, with his high-pitched voice.
Do a video on that, eh LGR!
2:07 The Chase is from Ms Pac Man :/
Hate to be "that guy", but Pac-Man didn't "burst out into the scene" in 1980. "Pac-Man Fever" didn't occur until the Summer of 1981 which is why the song "Pac-Man Fever" didn't hit airwaves until 1982. In fact, Pac-Man's first two test sites in Chicago in early 1980 didn't yield good results at all. This is because, in the arcades populated by teens, the nationwide phenomena of chasing marathon scores on Atari Asteroids was the current craze. It was legion. Massive. This was followed by the marathon craze on William's Defender which was equally as bombastic. Teens weren't interested in Pac-Man...at least not initially. However, once Pac-Man went into bars and nightclubs it began to steadily generate a large adult following which eventually spilled over into teen culture in and around August 1981 after the press revealed that owning a Pac-Man machine had become a status symbol among certain popculture celebrities. It's worth noting that the first split-screens and scores of over 2M all occured in bars in mid-1981 which indicates that a lot of practice had been going on by adults over 21 for at least 4 months.
I admit to being shocked that this video has so many historical errors in it on arcade culture, and doubly shocked that they come from noted historians who seem to be parroting industry marketing myths rather than relating actual history.
Although I love and admire what many of these voices have to say about console history in general, they almost always fall short on arcade history. This is because, I think they're not as familiar with arcade culture as they like to let on. Sorry, but that deficit in knowledge is more than just a little obvious in this video.
BTW girls and women were playing video games regularly in the arcade long before Pac-Man and Centipede came along. Space Invaders in 1978 was exceedingly popular with both sexes. So was Battlezone. So was Galaga. It's not true that Pac-Man "suddenly attracted women players". That's an industry myth. One of many in this video.
That's because all these guys are too young to remember 1980 well. I was born in 1976, and i had no idea there was a video game crash in 1983 until quite recently (even though i've loved video games since i can remember).
@@DeathToTheDictators yeah I was thinking that also, I was born in '79 and didn't know a thing about a crash for many years.
You shouldn't expect professionalism or research from Pat
they are using the japanese release of 1980
my birth year.
clint is also amish!
Oh lord,look at Ian’s whoop doopdy hairdo!
When will we get the 90s???
This format was dated when you made this, BUT, you did an excellent job at it and I missed the format after the "I love the" series. I'd absolutely love to see a 90's series with this treatment. I think I remember you saying that you would unfortunately never do that because this was a lot of hard work.
Dated? It's the exact same structure of those other "I love the" series shows. Wasn't this made around the same time? Even though there is style and structure to follow which helps its still done really well and I'd be proud of I had a hand in creating it.
Oof that short Billy Michel part didn't age well.
How do you spell FRANK's name wrong on his name line in
his interview? FranH
A wild Rasputin LGR appears!!
Is it sad I’ve never played Radar Scope? I always wanted to growing up
So, was tank! the first simulator game?
this could also be the youtube years, 2013, 2012?
How could you not mention the Vic 20?
Good point
No one is cooler than Willow
Ians' hair
Hey what up tommy telea.... whats his name.
Pat
This is the same series that was on Prime for all those years, right? Nothing new. I just watched 1978 & 1979….wasn’t sure if this had new footage in it. I know it’s old considering Tallerico is on it. 🤷🏽♂️
18:05 Oh dear. It is a shame that Clint was going through his big ugly beard phase when this was being made. I don't know what he was thinking with that thing lol
"A lot of women played Centipede"... This was the first video game programmed by a woman and coincidentally doesn't have a kill screen - you can play it as long as you're good enough to.