I had a friend that lived in a Town in Georgia that banned Video games. They had one arcade and the owner refused to close its store down. They arrested him and fined him for every day he stayed open. The Charges were dropped but they locked him out of his store and he had a 10-year lease with the building owner. He sued in a local court but lost so he appealed it to the state supreme court and won. This took almost two years but the town had to not only pay money lost but two years of back rent plus interest. The building owner was very cool about waiting for the lawsuit to be settled.
"The electronics are changing so rapidly, and with each change in the electronics, it brings something new. So this is not a passing fad." - [Jack Mittle, Tatito America] The man could see the future. He was spot on accurate with his prediction. Game On.
That arcade had ALL the best games: --FroorF --Mouse Trouse --Frog Trap --Chand Grampion --Grand Dad --Grogger --Mouse Crap --Pogger --Chad Grandpa --Frog-Man --Mouse-Man --Man-Man --Hand In Ass Champion --Outhouse Poop Trap --Pog Champ
When you walk into an arcade, Don’t forget a bit of FRORF Or MOUSE TROUSE Or FROG TRAP Or CHAND GRAMPION Or GRAND DAD Or GROGGER Or MOUSE CRAP Or POGGER Or CHAD GRANDPA Or FROG-MAN Or MOUSE-MAN Or MAN-MAN Or HAND IN ASS CHAMPION Or OUTHOUSE POOP TRAP Or POG CHAMP
This is a super great behind the scenes look of video games as they were just coming into their own. Super cool and information look at the industry in the early years.
As a kid in the 80s I noticed my thumb knuckles were locking straight and it kind of hurt to make them bend again. My doctor made a joke in poor taste calling it "Nintendonitis". They still do it today but I've learned tricks to work around it and don't even notice anymore.
This is true. But what's unfortunate for me now..........I have EVERYTHING I'd ever want video game wise, but I don't turn on anything. Hell that PS5 might get sold and the XboX. You can buy material things, but a man can't buy a normal woman (grunt)
Ever since I started gaming on PC 23 years ago I dodged those problems when I learned how to use a mouse and keyboard. THAT started when a 12 year old kid back then owned me on Quake 2 multiplayer, when I was still using a game pad LOL. No stress on the hands with a mouse/keyboard combination.
I'm glad Genesis shook it up with their controller or i would likely have the same issue. I spent more time with my Atari and Genesis than with the Nintendo which was in between. But yeah, those paddles were NOT built well even for tiny hands lol.
I feel the reason why arcades where popular was because we had "cheap" imitations at home. The more you played your favorite at home, the more you hungered for the "real" thing, the arcade version. Eventually graphics at home caught up to and then far suppressed the arcades and it became a thing to now play with the same quality right at home. As for why it was so popular to start with I feel it was something the teens had the adults didn't. Playing as a ship blasting aliens on a screen to me is personally is far more exciting then bouncing a ball around, something that was outdated by then, fun but outdated. This was a whole new level of competition. Just like how pong is more exciting then a standard pinball game.
Honestly, I think it was the other way around. You landed at an arcade, popped all those quarters and then you yearned to have the same experience at home. We ended up with Atari 2600 and ColecoVision which kind of mimicked an Arcade game, which gave us at least a sort of arcade experience. It wouldn't be until many years later that we could effectively have those exact arcade games at home.
Well, then they came up with arcade games that included an entire frame with a seat inside of it, to where you had to go to the arcade to play those games, because you couldn't play them at home in any way similar to the arcade. Mech Warrior or T-Mech (or something like that) was one of my favourites, although my buddy would beat me out every time. lol I sucked at it, but it sure was fun and immersive.
@@-108-One of my favorites was a Star Wars arcade game where you sat inside of a sort of a cabinet. But I only saw the game in maybe two arcades in the whole state of Colorado. .
@@unclej3910 Yep. I loved playing that game too, but I was never very good at games, so I never made it very far before I died too many times, then ran out of $$. lol
I was born in 1981, got a NES in 1988 and borrowed an Atari 2600 approx 1992. The Atari plain sucked. Most games were one screen, graphics/music/sound sucked. Never really got into arcade games as they cost far too much when you suck at the games. I did like pinball though as I could play for 5-7 minutes on a quarter.
For anyone wondering about Taito's "Toasters and Chainsaws": It was a fake marquee and game title 😆 "In 1982, Keith Egging was the Director of Creativity (or some weird title like that). He always had a human skull on his desk which opened up on a hinge and was filled with Hershey's kisses. One day a TV news crew came over to do some interview, and Keith showed them around. He took them back into our area and really played it up (feed them some pretty thick bull which they really ate it up). He took them to the farthest office of cubicles and said that this was DEEP THOUGHT - where all the heaviest thinking took place. Of course this was just made up (the office being picked for it's distance only), but hey, they bought it. The main programmers (me, Mark Blazczyk and Rex Battenberg) took off on this and other of Keith's tall tales and frequently made up whoppers about everything under the sun to one up each other with our far fetched stories. Pretty cool for those days." - John Morgan of "Zoo Keeper" fame
@@ArcadeBritannia Keith would probably get a kick out of knowing people on the internet would possibly fall for some of these old gags if he was still alive. Toasters and Chainsaws with a fake marquee was a great one 🤣
A brief bit of searching shows what seems to be a real slot machine called Chainsaws & Toasters. It seems either someone involved in this prank went on to work on slots or was aware of their gag.
@@tbirddddd Oddly enough, in 2001, IGT (International Game Technology) developed a slot machine called "Chainsaws & Toasters". Despite the fact that Mark Blaszczyk had worked in the slot machine industry, neither Mark Blaszczyk nor Rex Battenberg have heard of this slot machine.
I'm so glad I scrolled through the comments and found this before I went off on a wild goose chase looking for Toasters and Chainsaws because I was totally going to try to find it! 😂 In other news, I see videogame journalism has not changed at all in the last 40 years. 🙄 Surf Wisely.
As a retrospective tomcat from Finland 🇫🇮 (born in June of 1983), I still love playing the old Arcade games of the 1970's and 1980's and pinballs. I even still have these compilations for my PlayStation 2: - MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURES - MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURES 2 - ATARI ANTHOLOGY - TAITO LEGENDS - TAITO LEGENDS 2 Also, i still own and play the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 (tapes and disks) and Amiga 500. And the old game consoles - such as Atari 2600, IntelliVision and Super Nintendo - are still retrospectively inspiring. 😺👍🕹️
@@Shantae-June22002 Oh, absolutely 😺👍. I just can't meow "NO" to the old retro games 😹👍🕹️. I rather meow "YES!" to the old retro games - especially the Commodore 64 and Amiga 😺👍🕹️.
GREAT video! If I was a parent back then and took that docs advice about checking out an arcade to see if it was suitable for my kid, I'd probably wind up staying there all day and coming home telling my kid we are going to spend the weekend there! LMAO
40 years later, arcade games have pretty much vanished from the places they typcially were at. Funny that Foosball, pool, Super Chexx, and the occasional pinball machine are still at those places. All thats left is Big Buck Hunter and Golden Tee.
They're still around, it's just the mall died off mostly. Do what i did, get a multicade and a virtual pinball table lol. It's 1989 up in here ALL DAYUM DAY SON!
@@EQOAnostalgia Most shopping malls died in North America due to their car-centric suburban design surrounded by a sea of parking lots, that's not the case in Europe, where most shopping malls are located in modified historical buildings in urban centers...some say Amazon (and other retailers) was to blame, but that's far from the truth, as both North America and Europe have Amazon, but they did little to damage brick and mortar, it was car dependency in North America starting in the 1950s and slowly dying off by the year 2000 that was the culprit...It was all about location...
The laundromat has a pinball machine and a few games which is nice to see. I'd rather play those than use my phone to kill time waiting. Sadly hotel game rooms have games that seem too expensive. I'm sure as a kid many of my quarters didn't last long . But there were games I was good at and I could get 5 minutes out of a quarter for arkanoid
So... People play video games: 1) To get a high score between 1 million and 9.99million instead of being limited to 999k like on a pinball machine. 2) To enjoy the Graphics 3) To enjoy the Sound 4) To build self-esteem
Don't forget a bit of FROORF Or Mouse-trouse Or Frog trap Or Chand Grampion Or Grand Dad Or Grogger Or Mouse-Cr*p Or Pogger Or Chad Grandpa Or Frog-Man Or Mouse-Man Or Man-Man Or Hand in @$$ Champion Or Out House Poop Trap Or Pog Champ (That's right, Cs188 sent me here)
I Loved Tron ( Movie and the Game!) but the following year I Loved Discs of Tron even more! Also Loved Galaga, Dig Dug, Pole Position 1 & 2, RoboTron 2084, Missile Command, Tempest and more that I can’t think of off the top of my head right now! 🙄😎😉🤩
@@JaredConnell Yeah, right. Sounds like a foolish person who doesn't understand the age difference at that time. Because I was much younger than this full-grown woman at the time. I was a juvenile, she was many years my superior. Don't be an idiot. Get some perspective.
You are out of your mind. I grew up with Atari . They were basic as hell. They were not more accurately portrayed or realistic or anything near the quality now. You can't be that dumb
It was a different era then. Arcade games gave rise to home video games. Today, the roles are reversed. Home game consoles now give rise to Arcade games.
Also while listing American-made games near the beginning they include Space Invaders, then a few episodes later they state that Space Invaders was made in Japan.
So true. Some of my all-time favorite games were the vector games. "Star Castle" "Asteroids" "Tempest" "Cosmic Chasm" ""Lunar Lander" "Star Wars" "Space Fury" "Eliminator" "Zektor" "Tac/Scan" "Star Trek". While I had some none vector favorites like "Venture" "Space Invaders" "Spiders" "Donkey Kong" "Juno First" etc, it was the vector games I enjoyed the most.
I also have a memory about when Mr. Mike Plesbert used to be the psychologist therapist. I didn't know that he wrote a small, thin, hardbound book about child psychology until now. It took me a long time to comprehend everything merely.
@troywright359 Yes, both of my parents had taken me to countless number of psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists. As a matter of fact, the county government decides who belongs to where. My parents have even mentioned to Dr. Donald Saposonek about how these things have grabbed my attention the most. These video games have grabbed my attention the most since the late 1970s, such as 1977. They definitely grabbed my attention the most during the entire 1980s and the entire 1990s, of course. By the time when the late 2000s and the early 2010s arrived, the video game industry had made some changes.
They talk like Pinball Machines and Pool Tables are getting replaced by arcade games. All the arcades in my city are 90% just pinball and pool tables :( I wish we had arcades so bad
So did Jack get zapped when Toaster and Chainsaws did not release? LOL Cool name though! Apparently they were BSing the reporter with a marquee for a fake game.
its from 1982 but i was still looking out for a Killer Instinct in this vid 😅 That was always the first machine i'd go round searching for entering any arcade throughout the 1990's
What at the sounds and graphics or all the microtransactions, lootboxes, nfts and drm? They would marvel at all incredible advancements, but equally horrified at all the rip-off monetary and anti-consumer business models.
8:27 Good ol David is a pre-teen, he does not know yet of the future hand pains ahead of him when he hits puberty. Breaking News update: David is now 51 and he says his hand is now indestructible, back to you Tom. :)
Videogame Industry was far more authentic and respected In a healthy way as an activity back then , guess that's just more proof how much healthier society as a whole used to be. Journalism here was so authentic too , people were articulate and reasonable about new things , and It was okay to have your own opinions. Scary how much society has went backwards.
I don't see it like that at all. The media were not more authentic back then. It's the same garbage as it is now. They are cooking up a story to generate views. Something so innocuous as coin-op amusement can be compared to most hobbies and most hobbies can cause injury and cost money to do. They may as well compare it to crack cocaine unless they already did. Even then if addiction occured, it's only the user that can remedy that. I don't think the video game corporations were far more authentic and respectful either. Back then there were a lot more people involved, technology cost more, more money was had and to be made. If anything they would have screwed over a lot more people since they were making billions. But that's the nature of a corporation, the modern day equivalent is Facebook, Google and Amazon - and they are pretty much doing exactly the same thing as Bally did back in the day.
@@goodday2760 all I have said were facts boy. Unless you believe everything on TV. When it comes to the entertainment industry it's the same shit it always was and that's the facts.
@@goodday2760Are you sure about that? Thats really bold statement. Did you not notice the Me Too movement or people having old ass comments dug up and used to have them lose jobs?
Imagine of pac man wrist and gaming gloves caught on. Gaming themed gloves is a good idea for cold weather , maybe SEGA should sell a pair of white sonic and knuckles gloves with the spikes on it 🤣🤣
We are already starting the transition to cloud gaming, in a decade or two you won't have any games in your pocket, but you'll have a 6G or 7G connection allowing you to play just about any game imaginable at a quality far beyond your phone's capability.
This fool around a minute and a half really talked like younger people never played pinball or pool. Silly considering plenty of bars had pinball, or at least one or two pool tables, so plenty of young adults would end up playing one or the other or both eventually just a few years after this report. But I get it...I love the history of machines and video games. Good stuff! ^
I had a friend that lived in a Town in Georgia that banned Video games. They had one arcade and the owner refused to close its store down. They arrested him and fined him for every day he stayed open. The Charges were dropped but they locked him out of his store and he had a 10-year lease with the building owner. He sued in a local court but lost so he appealed it to the state supreme court and won. This took almost two years but the town had to not only pay money lost but two years of back rent plus interest. The building owner was very cool about waiting for the lawsuit to be settled.
How can a town just ban games? And then try to shut down an arcade? That's wild! Glad to hear the owner won and the town paid for jt
How about Ben violent movies and music cuz that makes people violent too didn't a guy shoot Reagan over an actress he liked so much
That’s Ga, its a town in south Ga that still bands black ppl 😂
Because there is no unlimited ammo and invulnerability cheat IRL, unfortunately.
With how they handled the pandemic, I'm not surprised that the fascists treated video games like a global crisis.
"The electronics are changing so rapidly, and with each change in the electronics, it brings something new. So this is not a passing fad." - [Jack Mittle, Tatito America]
The man could see the future. He was spot on accurate with his prediction. Game On.
There will be a point in time people will be wondering why the comments section got weird at one specific point in time. Thank you CS188.
That arcade had ALL the best games:
--FroorF
--Mouse Trouse
--Frog Trap
--Chand Grampion
--Grand Dad
--Grogger
--Mouse Crap
--Pogger
--Chad Grandpa
--Frog-Man
--Mouse-Man
--Man-Man
--Hand In Ass Champion
--Outhouse Poop Trap
--Pog Champ
CS188's video not only brought you here but it also brought me here.
@Shantae-June22002 hey, me too.
Me 2
Don’t forget “Wario ware shove it up your ass game” where you shove the Wii-mote up your ass.
And now you can play 1000's of them on one handheld.
When you walk into an arcade,
Don’t forget a bit of FRORF
Or MOUSE TROUSE
Or FROG TRAP
Or CHAND GRAMPION
Or GRAND DAD
Or GROGGER
Or MOUSE CRAP
Or POGGER
Or CHAD GRANDPA
Or FROG-MAN
Or MOUSE-MAN
Or MAN-MAN
Or HAND IN ASS CHAMPION
Or OUTHOUSE POOP TRAP
Or POG CHAMP
*_WALK-A WALK-A WALK-A WALK-A_*
ᗧ···ᗣ···ᗣ··
Someone give the Doctor they spoke to at the end a medal! What a BOSS.
He was a psychiatrist, but still give him a medal.
The workers work in a room called “The Work Room”
Aren't they the same guys who gave us Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Jizz Sac-Man, Space Invaders, Jizz Defenders and Ass Invaders?
This is a super great behind the scenes look of video games as they were just coming into their own. Super cool and information look at the industry in the early years.
As a kid in the 80s I noticed my thumb knuckles were locking straight and it kind of hurt to make them bend again. My doctor made a joke in poor taste calling it "Nintendonitis". They still do it today but I've learned tricks to work around it and don't even notice anymore.
This is true.
But what's unfortunate for me now..........I have EVERYTHING I'd ever want video game wise, but I don't turn on anything. Hell that PS5 might get sold and the XboX. You can buy material things, but a man can't buy a normal woman (grunt)
Ever since I started gaming on PC 23 years ago I dodged those problems when I learned how to use a mouse and keyboard. THAT started when a 12 year old kid back then owned me on Quake 2 multiplayer, when I was still using a game pad LOL. No stress on the hands with a mouse/keyboard combination.
Nintendonitis was a term thrown around for a long time, even in marketing 3rd party controllers
I'm glad Genesis shook it up with their controller or i would likely have the same issue. I spent more time with my Atari and Genesis than with the Nintendo which was in between. But yeah, those paddles were NOT built well even for tiny hands lol.
@@EQOAnostalgia and tiny paddles hurt big hands (like the sears video arcade controller)
I feel the reason why arcades where popular was because we had "cheap" imitations at home. The more you played your favorite at home, the more you hungered for the "real" thing, the arcade version. Eventually graphics at home caught up to and then far suppressed the arcades and it became a thing to now play with the same quality right at home. As for why it was so popular to start with I feel it was something the teens had the adults didn't. Playing as a ship blasting aliens on a screen to me is personally is far more exciting then bouncing a ball around, something that was outdated by then, fun but outdated. This was a whole new level of competition. Just like how pong is more exciting then a standard pinball game.
Honestly, I think it was the other way around. You landed at an arcade, popped all those quarters and then you yearned to have the same experience at home. We ended up with Atari 2600 and ColecoVision which kind of mimicked an Arcade game, which gave us at least a sort of arcade experience. It wouldn't be until many years later that we could effectively have those exact arcade games at home.
Well, then they came up with arcade games that included an entire frame with a seat inside of it, to where you had to go to the arcade to play those games, because you couldn't play them at home in any way similar to the arcade. Mech Warrior or T-Mech (or something like that) was one of my favourites, although my buddy would beat me out every time. lol I sucked at it, but it sure was fun and immersive.
@@-108-One of my favorites was a Star Wars arcade game where you sat inside of a sort of a cabinet. But I only saw the game in maybe two arcades in the whole state of Colorado.
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@@unclej3910 Yep. I loved playing that game too, but I was never very good at games, so I never made it very far before I died too many times, then ran out of $$. lol
I was born in 1981, got a NES in 1988 and borrowed an Atari 2600 approx 1992. The Atari plain sucked. Most games were one screen, graphics/music/sound sucked. Never really got into arcade games as they cost far too much when you suck at the games. I did like pinball though as I could play for 5-7 minutes on a quarter.
When you walk into an arcade
Don't forget a bit of frorf
In Rhode Island, I rode a hamster to an eggplant factory.
I should consider trying to lay off of the drugs.
Hamster saddle, cheese puff on stick in front of hamster?
Eggplant Factory?
You are dialed in !
'should consider trying' more proof of concept
In mamachussets, calichussets, califoresk1n, georgiafornia, New Yorkshire and chode Island
@@timmay6634 nah it comes from a ytp, a parody video from cs188
@@gabrieleriva_bboykappside George Foreman, Intercourse Master, Lego Island, A$$hole Ma$$acre
For anyone wondering about Taito's "Toasters and Chainsaws":
It was a fake marquee and game title 😆
"In 1982, Keith Egging was the Director of Creativity (or some weird title like that). He always had a human skull on his desk which opened up on a hinge and was filled with Hershey's kisses. One day a TV news crew came over to do some interview, and Keith showed them around. He took them back into our area and really played it up (feed them some pretty thick bull which they really ate it up). He took them to the farthest office of cubicles and said that this was DEEP THOUGHT - where all the heaviest thinking took place. Of course this was just made up (the office being picked for it's distance only), but hey, they bought it. The main programmers (me, Mark Blazczyk and Rex Battenberg) took off on this and other of Keith's tall tales and frequently made up whoppers about everything under the sun to one up each other with our far fetched stories. Pretty cool for those days."
- John Morgan of "Zoo Keeper" fame
This is brilliant, thanks for sharing!
@@ArcadeBritannia Keith would probably get a kick out of knowing people on the internet would possibly fall for some of these old gags if he was still alive.
Toasters and Chainsaws with a fake marquee was a great one 🤣
A brief bit of searching shows what seems to be a real slot machine called Chainsaws & Toasters. It seems either someone involved in this prank went on to work on slots or was aware of their gag.
@@tbirddddd Oddly enough, in 2001, IGT (International Game Technology) developed a slot machine called "Chainsaws & Toasters". Despite the fact that Mark Blaszczyk had worked in the slot machine industry, neither Mark Blaszczyk nor Rex Battenberg have heard of this slot machine.
I'm so glad I scrolled through the comments and found this before I went off on a wild goose chase looking for Toasters and Chainsaws because I was totally going to try to find it! 😂
In other news, I see videogame journalism has not changed at all in the last 40 years. 🙄
Surf Wisely.
I'm very sorry in advance for all the cs188 comments from here on out. I'm sure it'll make you 100% unsatisfied.
jUsT bElIEvE mE dOn'T wAtCh.
jUsT bElIEvE mE dOn'T wAtCh.
I can't believe this has only been viewed 1.9K times (as of this comment). It's such an important piece of videogame history!
Glad you enjoyed it! What's odd is that in two weeks it has jumped to 4.4k views, whatever you did worked!
at 7.5K views now lol
@@HDbacon 7.5 thousand, and one! 😃
@@HDbacon That's crazy!
@@joekelley5121 8.2K views now since your comment 2 days ago
Don't forget to lick the joystick!
"I coulda done that longer. it's just that I lost all of my ships"
lol.. I believe that's how it works.
cant believe he didn't mention classics like FrooorF, Mouse Trouse or Hand In Ass Champion
Don't Forget The GOAT 'Pogger'.
Or Ass Invaders
Or Chand Grampion or Grand Dad
Pac-Man alone digested 200,000 Americans
No human could begin to compute how many children were g0bbl#d up
As a retrospective tomcat from Finland 🇫🇮
(born in June of 1983),
I still love playing the old Arcade games of the 1970's and 1980's and pinballs.
I even still have these compilations for my PlayStation 2:
- MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURES
- MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURES 2
- ATARI ANTHOLOGY
- TAITO LEGENDS
- TAITO LEGENDS 2
Also, i still own and play the original
hardwares of the Commodore 64
(tapes and disks) and Amiga 500.
And the old game consoles -
such as Atari 2600, IntelliVision and
Super Nintendo - are still retrospectively inspiring.
😺👍🕹️
That’s Awesome
@@Shantae-June22002 Oh, absolutely 😺👍.
I just can't meow "NO" to the old retro games 😹👍🕹️.
I rather meow "YES!" to the old retro games -
especially the Commodore 64 and Amiga 😺👍🕹️.
My mom recorded over my 'Intento tapes with Aerobics shows...
@@mikemulligan5731
WHAT?! No way 😹?!
“Chad Grandpa”
GREAT video! If I was a parent back then and took that docs advice about checking out an arcade to see if it was suitable for my kid, I'd probably wind up staying there all day and coming home telling my kid we are going to spend the weekend there! LMAO
40 years later, arcade games have pretty much vanished from the places they typcially were at. Funny that Foosball, pool, Super Chexx, and the occasional pinball machine are still at those places. All thats left is Big Buck Hunter and Golden Tee.
Japan has a lot of arcades still.
They're still around, it's just the mall died off mostly. Do what i did, get a multicade and a virtual pinball table lol. It's 1989 up in here ALL DAYUM DAY SON!
Places like Dave & Buster's, Round 1, bowling alleys, trampoline parks, etc. are keeping arcades alive these days...
@@EQOAnostalgia Most shopping malls died in North America due to their car-centric suburban design surrounded by a sea of parking lots, that's not the case in Europe, where most shopping malls are located in modified historical buildings in urban centers...some say Amazon (and other retailers) was to blame, but that's far from the truth, as both North America and Europe have Amazon, but they did little to damage brick and mortar, it was car dependency in North America starting in the 1950s and slowly dying off by the year 2000 that was the culprit...It was all about location...
The laundromat has a pinball machine and a few games which is nice to see. I'd rather play those than use my phone to kill time waiting. Sadly hotel game rooms have games that seem too expensive. I'm sure as a kid many of my quarters didn't last long . But there were games I was good at and I could get 5 minutes out of a quarter for arkanoid
CS188 sent me here
So... People play video games:
1) To get a high score between 1 million and 9.99million instead of being limited to 999k like on a pinball machine.
2) To enjoy the Graphics
3) To enjoy the Sound
4) To build self-esteem
“I passed gas!”
Well done putting this together! Thank you!
Thank you so much for uploading this.
Dont forget to lick the joystick
Thank You for posting that archival video!!!
Don't forget a bit of FROORF
Or Mouse-trouse
Or Frog trap
Or Chand Grampion
Or Grand Dad
Or Grogger
Or Mouse-Cr*p
Or Pogger
Or Chad Grandpa
Or Frog-Man
Or Mouse-Man
Or Man-Man
Or Hand in @$$ Champion
Or Out House Poop Trap
Or Pog Champ
(That's right, Cs188 sent me here)
Cs188
I Loved Tron ( Movie and the Game!) but the following year I Loved Discs of Tron even more!
Also Loved Galaga, Dig Dug, Pole Position 1 & 2, RoboTron 2084, Missile Command, Tempest and more that I can’t think of off the top of my head right now! 🙄😎😉🤩
What about Mappy?
'Tawny Little' is the best name for a hot young 80's local news reporter EVER.
Game wizard is the best name for a pervert commenting on how hot and young a news reporter is
@@JaredConnell Yeah, right. Sounds like a foolish person who doesn't understand the age difference at that time. Because I was much younger than this full-grown woman at the time. I was a juvenile, she was many years my superior. Don't be an idiot. Get some perspective.
@@JaredConnellHe didn't say anything perverted. She is indeed hot
She was Miss America 1976
@@JaredConnell Hope she sees this
love how he pronounced "Galaga" 😂😂
2:35 😏 hehe
guh-laah-guh
@@Flo_Resolution yup 😂
@@squidwardtentacles2736 do you own Galaga on PS4 ? Listen to how PS5 says it the same way other regions say it that way I agree that’s not to say it
@@bryancook6345 really? that's weird I've only heard it as "gaah-luh-guh" not "guh-lay-guh". Could be accents for other regions saying different
@ArcadeBritannia Thank you for preserving this documentary.
I should consider trying to lay off the drugs
What a shame Toasters and Chainsaws never saw the light of day.
This is the chronological period known as BDD (Before Dig Dug).
Ironically video games were more accurately portrayed back then than they are now.
The video-game market, societal mores have also changed quite a bit since the heyday of the arcade to be fair.
You are out of your mind. I grew up with Atari . They were basic as hell. They were not more accurately portrayed or realistic or anything near the quality now. You can't be that dumb
That's not ironic.
It was a different era then. Arcade games gave rise to home video games. Today, the roles are reversed. Home game consoles now give rise to Arcade games.
Ah yes, Toasters & Chainsaws. What a classic.
Tawney Little is foine. Great name too.
Toes and Chainsaws
Love how they keep crediting Bally for Pacman throughout all the reports without acknowledging Namco(t) even a slight bit.
Also while listing American-made games near the beginning they include Space Invaders, then a few episodes later they state that Space Invaders was made in Japan.
@@krashd I think they were giving credit for the arcade machines that were distributed in America being manufacturer in America
Wow. What a flashback!
Vector graphics was very impressive.
So true. Some of my all-time favorite games were the vector games. "Star Castle" "Asteroids" "Tempest" "Cosmic Chasm" ""Lunar Lander" "Star Wars" "Space Fury" "Eliminator" "Zektor" "Tac/Scan" "Star Trek". While I had some none vector favorites like "Venture" "Space Invaders" "Spiders" "Donkey Kong" "Juno First" etc, it was the vector games I enjoyed the most.
2:35 - I think that's the first time I've ever heard that game pronounced "Guh-lah-guh"
I would like to travel back in time to 1982, to tell Jack Mittle of Taito America to not roll the dice on Toasters and Chainsaws.
If that guy lost all of his ships, that means he could not do that any longer.
i remember playing that arcade game Goologa, it was such a classic
tawny little ❤ miss america '76
7:10 Jack's emphasis makes it sound very serious lol
Damn Tawney Litte ❤ Where have you been all my life .........🙄 back in the 80's
She’s beautiful
she was miss america 1976
@@Flint_Ironstagg I believe it. I miss 80's babes. 😔
She appeared in Rocky II in 1979 as a reporter who asked Rocky if he had brain damage and if he had any derogatory comments to say about Apollo Creed.
@@sjdrifter72 I'll have to go back and check it out.
I also have a memory about when Mr. Mike Plesbert used to be the psychologist therapist. I didn't know that he wrote a small, thin, hardbound book about child psychology until now. It took me a long time to comprehend everything merely.
Is that a reference?
@troywright359 Yes, both of my parents had taken me to countless number of psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists. As a matter of fact, the county government decides who belongs to where. My parents have even mentioned to Dr. Donald Saposonek about how these things have grabbed my attention the most. These video games have grabbed my attention the most since the late 1970s, such as 1977. They definitely grabbed my attention the most during the entire 1980s and the entire 1990s, of course. By the time when the late 2000s and the early 2010s arrived, the video game industry had made some changes.
@@georgeshelton6281 they did psycho therapy on you because you liked video games?
@troywright359 Even NORMAL PEOPLE HAVE been interested inPLAYING a GAME OR 2.
@@georgeshelton6281 i mean there is nothing wromg with videogames. The only reason they took you to the psychiatrist was because you like videogames?
They talk like Pinball Machines and Pool Tables are getting replaced by arcade games.
All the arcades in my city are 90% just pinball and pool tables :( I wish we had arcades so bad
So did Jack get zapped when Toaster and Chainsaws did not release? LOL Cool name though! Apparently they were BSing the reporter with a marquee for a fake game.
Lol half the comments are about Tawny. She was a looker that's for sure.
If it wasn't for her, I can imagine this video would probably have only several comments and maybe 1,500 views, maximum.
@@Galidorquest 😁
I would have watched the news every day to see Tawny.
She was a smokeshow
2:20 "These games would not be any fun at all if there were no sound" [CUT TO: Galaga without sound and my brain fills the rest it in]
its from 1982 but i was still looking out for a Killer Instinct in this vid 😅
That was always the first machine i'd go round searching for entering any arcade throughout the 1990's
5:06 What computer is that he's programming the game on ?
take any of those ppl and just plop them into todays games without the transition... heads would explode!!
What at the sounds and graphics or all the microtransactions, lootboxes, nfts and drm?
They would marvel at all incredible advancements, but equally horrified at all the rip-off monetary and anti-consumer business models.
With vr like quest 2 or pro
@Neb6 Where can I see this ad ?
I was about 2 years old in 1982.
I was there in the 80s in San Francisco California called the Game Zone I think it was at Market st.
8:27 Good ol David is a pre-teen, he does not know yet of the future hand pains ahead of him when he hits puberty. Breaking News update: David is now 51 and he says his hand is now indestructible, back to you Tom. :)
David said the new knobs made all the difference
So sad this industry died. But it died for one reason only.. we wanted this stuff at home.
finally found what thing botnit sampled in song '' hi-score''..
Video games are for fun and entertainment nothing wrong about enjoying the games
Arcades had the best games up until about 1986. Then everyone started playing Nintendo and Sega at home and that killed the arcades.
But you could still go to arcades to play games that weren't available at home.
This isn't true at all. Arcades thrived in the 90s thanks to fighting, shooting and beat em up games.
Finally some positive press at the end.
these clips seems to get cut off
And on Road Island I rode an hamster to an eggplant factory
So this is what Eyewitness News used to look like.
I wonder whatever happened with "Toasters and Chainsaws" :-)
Now those electronic images have a big market
Anybody know what that train game at 5:17 is called? I loved that game as a kid for some reason or another
Wild Western from 1982 by Taito
@@akxmedia0 thanks!
1982, man. This is from 1982.
And people today still can't help but repeat the same things they said back then. THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE can't help it.
'we go inside a video games factory' made me laugh.
Tron! woohoo!
Time capsule indeed.
I'm off to listen to some Alan Parsons immediately after this.
Wow, Tawny Littke is a stunner !
5:50 This is not a passing fad, This is not a pad, This is Cash Cab… 😂
gameos in the eighteos
Videogame Industry was far more authentic and respected In a healthy way as an activity back then , guess that's just more proof how much healthier society as a whole used to be. Journalism here was so authentic too , people were articulate and reasonable about new things , and It was okay to have your own opinions. Scary how much society has went backwards.
I don't see it like that at all. The media were not more authentic back then. It's the same garbage as it is now. They are cooking up a story to generate views. Something so innocuous as coin-op amusement can be compared to most hobbies and most hobbies can cause injury and cost money to do. They may as well compare it to crack cocaine unless they already did. Even then if addiction occured, it's only the user that can remedy that. I don't think the video game corporations were far more authentic and respectful either. Back then there were a lot more people involved, technology cost more, more money was had and to be made. If anything they would have screwed over a lot more people since they were making billions. But that's the nature of a corporation, the modern day equivalent is Facebook, Google and Amazon - and they are pretty much doing exactly the same thing as Bally did back in the day.
@@lancepage1914 It doesn't matter how you see it, son. Facts are facts.
@@goodday2760 all I have said were facts boy. Unless you believe everything on TV. When it comes to the entertainment industry it's the same shit it always was and that's the facts.
@@lancepage1914 There have always been crappy people. They just get away with more misdeeds now than they ever have gotten away with.
@@goodday2760Are you sure about that? Thats really bold statement. Did you not notice the Me Too movement or people having old ass comments dug up and used to have them lose jobs?
Imagine of pac man wrist and gaming gloves caught on. Gaming themed gloves is a good idea for cold weather , maybe SEGA should sell a pair of white sonic and knuckles gloves with the spikes on it 🤣🤣
2:38 "I lost my shit'
Funny how now we carry video games in our pocket. 😸My how times do change.
We are already starting the transition to cloud gaming, in a decade or two you won't have any games in your pocket, but you'll have a 6G or 7G connection allowing you to play just about any game imaginable at a quality far beyond your phone's capability.
Just one year before the notorious video game crash of 1983.
The best Pac-Man players got all the way to the "kill screen" level before breaking the game...
I got to the 7th key without losing a life and parked him in the safe corner, then walked out of the store.
Tawny Schneider, married to Tom. Jerry Dunphy was the anchorman of my childhood
2:46 Hey I always wondered what happen to the Glad Kitchen Cather commercial guy!
man-man
No mention of Custers revenge?
This fool around a minute and a half really talked like younger people never played pinball or pool. Silly considering plenty of bars had pinball, or at least one or two pool tables, so plenty of young adults would end up playing one or the other or both eventually just a few years after this report. But I get it...I love the history of machines and video games. Good stuff! ^
Defender, Rampage, Joust, FoodFight, 1942, TRON, PACMAN, MRSPACMAN, FROGGER, ASTEROIDS, STARCASTLE, MOONLANDER, OMG way too much time....
MISSILE COMMAND
CHAD GRANDPA was great too!
cs188 brought me here lol😂
Same.
I thought this was the report at the beginning of the midnight song
Well helloooo Tawny Little...
At least Frogger and the pac man series survived in the collective memory.
I'm surprised nobody talked about POLYBIUS.
POLYBIUS was a urban legend dreamed up in the 90s.
@@logsupermulti3921 I know, I was joking.