Hanging out with your best friends at the arcade in 1982
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- Footage of a group of kids playing at a local arcade in the state of New York.
The hot title in this one appears to be "Berzerk".
This short little video last around 4 minutes.
#bezerk
#arcade
this was my favorite time in life....12 years old no cares or worries...going to the arcade!!!1982 was a great year all around...music movies and life was much better than todays...miss it badly....
Everything was better!!!💯
@@sturmgewehr70 agreed
I was 12 also. Agree 110%.
@mgratk thanks ..I'm glad that you know how good it was then........things seem really bad in today's world....
@@sturmgewehr70 yep!
Youth would benefit from modern arcades. Heck, adults would too.
They’re still out there. I love going to the arcade to blow off some steam
There's this one arcade near me that's super gnarly. Basically it's $10 entry fee and all the arcades are in free play mode. You can stay as long as you want. They got classic arcades, fighting cabinets, and pinball.
Went to one last weekend 💚
@@rugbyplayer9100 It looks like there are a few near me. They're all bars though, not exactly made for teens
@@vertiianHeck, adults would too.
That kid was rocking at Berzerk. Great skills.
At one point these graphics looked futuristic to us lol
They WERE, for the time anyways...
I can see how 😅 The neoness of the colors maybe
🔥 🔥 🔥 one of the reasons the 80s rocked
Plus people were nicer especially in public and kids were mostly a lot of fun !!!!!
They filled girls full of cream a few years later.
I miss arcades! I played a lot of Gauntlet back in the day!
This is easily one of the best channels when it comes to documenting and archiving these historical moments of mankind.
Keep the preservation coming.
And truly terrific work.
Thank you 😊
name a better one
Yeah this channel is phenomenal. I’m absolutely enamored watching old videos from waaay back then. Very cool 👍
Plus I’m MAD curious what life was like back in the 70s-90s (the best three decades tbh, with the 90s being the peak of civilization).
Thank you very much for sharing this video.
I still play the original Berserk on my Arcade cabinet. It's hard, this guy was awesome!
He really had the levels down.
Smooth operator. No wonder he was the star of the show.
He probably spent hours at the arcade playing this game lol
This video came up in my feed. The best of times visiting arcades for hours. 👍
"Coins Detected in Pocket"!! 😆😁
Remember the etiquette when we'd out a quarter up on the panel to "reserve" your place. That was used as a hint to the player and others watching, "hey bud, I'm next" 😎
I do, and it was awful. Occasionally you get some jerks who'd take the quarter and then say "what quarter?" or just straight up put it in and continue playing and have goon friends stop you from messing with your stolen game. The machines were cool themselves. The people, lines, and etiquette were kinda trash.
@@Elektribe i remember those types 😄 they weren't the majority but they definitely were always there somewhere
I turned 12 that year and I just loved being in the arcade. I would just spend hours there playing games and watching others play games. Dragon's Lair and Space Ace were my favorites. What I also really loved was sounds of all the machines going at the same time. Loved that time in life. This clip takes me back. Berserk was a fun game too.
yes!!
Berserk was my favorite game back then.
That’s where beastie boys got the idea for the song intergalactic 😮
1982, age 10. I was already video game addict, playing Asteroids at the local diner, getting an Atari 2600 and spending hours on it. 1982 was the year I finally had access to an arcade. The Burlington Center Mall debuted that year and their arcade was The Space Port. Centipede, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man.. I was in heaven!
Great flashback. Was 17 that year and loved going to the arcade with my friends. The 80's was an awesome decade to live through.
yep!
“Intruder Alert” ha ha! I remember this so well.
Really hope that arcades can make a comeback even though I didn’t grow up in the eighties.
They have. Barcades have been popping up a lot over the last few years. Dave and busters is popular too.
@@pacmancdi Here’s hoping there are some that will pop up in my area.
In Sweden, arcades are still de facto illegal. The law (from 1982, in fact) stipulates that no establishment can make the majority of its revenue through arcade machines, which relegated machines to one-offs at the odd pizza place or bar. The Swedish word for "gaming" is the same as for "gambling" unless a seldom-used qualifier for gambling is applied, and politicians conflated the two-equating Asteroids and mechanical pinball with Blackjack and slot machines.
Its surreal to see this, having been there. Almost seems like a dream. So long ago.
Oh wow. "INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT"...I just realized that the same sound sample (or very similar) was used in Season 1 Episode 5 of Futurama "Fear of a Robot Planet," when they detected Fry and Leela. Had no idea.
That's why the show is so great, it loves to make little Easter Egg references to things like this.
It's a great game and the 'Intruder Alert' sample was also used in a nice track by Combichrist: ruclips.net/video/UnxqgcO1Iv0/видео.htmlsi=7YxRhiX7rgZ52MjY
Remember Space Invaders Donkey Kong,and Dig Dug ?????
Dang! The memories!!
I honestly prefer the older video games like this where the graphics were plain and simple. Some of these newer virtual reality type games give me motion sickness and headaches.
Totally agree….and don’t get me started on the cut scenes you have to watch to get to the gameplay!! If I wanted to watch a movie I’d watch a movie. Game developers are more concerned about the story the game tells than the gameplay itself. There used to be something called imagination. Give me Pitfall!, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Sinsistar, Centipede,etc.. over any of these modern games.
@@thecomicdrill so true. My favorite games are Tetris and Dr. Mario, LOL
@@thecomicdrillplay indies. Triple A has sucked for a while 😂
@@thecomicdrill Many of the retro games had really long intro's too that could not be skipped. You had to stand there and press a button about 100 times to read the intro story. Usually for console RPG's but I have even seen them for simple shmups as well.
True that. I've literally only played Beat Saber and SuperHot on VR (great games with minimalist graphics) but after a couple years, I put my headset on and I felt like I was gonna faint. I have an acute seizure disorder, so I'm not taking further risks.
Kid had serious skills!
You can tell he's played this a lot
Berzerk is harder than it looks to play. Dude did well.
Agreed.
I love this. I played Mortal Kombat and street fighter ❤
awesome!
arcades with nice bright CRTs and fully working controls!
Another great game that came out a few years later that was similar to Berzerk was Robotron 2084.
You probably get this question a lot, but where do you get these videos from?
😂 Kid has a nicer watch than me at age 40. Well played youngster.
That's funny
After baseball games, my parents would meet up with other parents at Spanky's, local pizza joint. I loved Castlevania. The 80s were truly better than now, by a country mile.
If you had a functioning time machine in your house . . .
And there was only 2 button choices . . .
The left button was BACK 40 years . .
The right button was FORWARD 40 years. . .
[ Back you can't bring anybody though, just a solo mission ]
Which would you pick and why ?
Me personally, back 40.. for an insurmountable amount of reasons!
What a time.
Your basing this on wanting to be young again,embrace your age, i would never want to go thru school years and the worry of being a youth and all that comes with it again, have you forgoten all the rules back then, the homework the no freedom the worry of what do i want to be when i get older. No matter how fun it was im happy in the present.
back 40 years, so I could warn everyone!
@@Shogunwario I hear ya. I guess I meant more in terms of LIFE back then, Vs now. Not... going back to school, no freedom, parents dictating your moves, no financial freedom, no driving..Etc. I meant, how you are in the NOW , with the knowledge you currently have, and having an option of going back to this ^^ Era.
I'd go back 40 years. My parents would be alive, I haven't yet become bitter and disillusioned, and the best years of my life were still ahead of me. The "40 years from now" button would just bring me to a barren wasteland.
@@tchildresI wish I was the age I am now living in the 80s
Great Robotron skills! Making it look easy. My bad, Berzerk skills.
Robotron isn't too far off though. The game style is quite similar. I had Berzerk on my Vectrex in the eightees :) Now i play Berzerk and Robotron on my homebuilt bartop arcade. The sound-fx in these two games are like the 80's in a box.
I hate that arcades are now owned by bars and you have to drive far out just to enjoy one. This should be at every corner.
The market is not what it used to be. Consoles and phones can now do pretty much anything an arcade cabinet can do.
@@keithfulkersonExcept bring people together.
Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Following Taito's Stratovox, it is one of the first arcade video games with speech synthesis. Berzerk places the player in a series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots. Home ports were published for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Vectrex.
When i worked on the mall back then, we combined our two breaks with our lunch and get a whole hour. Id soend 10 min to eat, and 50 min in Aladdin's Castle !!
Why does this look so fun
Because it was. :)
Just proof that simple can be fun
@@kris78787And that technological advancements doesn't always equal "better"
I got Berzerk on Atari 2600 a couple of years later. The game was exactly the same but without the voices.
The Atari version was considerably slower since it didn't have the clockspeed to match this pace. It was similar enough to be a good port.
what a time to be an eleven year old 😁miss those days alot good times 🤙🏼
Vampire Robot, you've got to be a gamer!
Dark days for those of us who loved pinball machines.
I love pinball too.....and in 82 my arcade in ohio had a bunch of pinball machines...caveman...xeon....kiss ...and many more....
@@miked4377 I owned a Williams Pinbot. Hanks had one in the movie Big. Spent many hours with my stereo cranked up playing it. Had a 4x8 air hockey table too.
@paulhare662 very cool ....I know I played pinbot somewhere... and air hockey was great fun as well!
@@miked4377 Two levels, four balls in play at times, cool machine.
@paulhare662 definitely cool!
1982 was such a fantastic year in so many regards, especially film, some great movies were released that year , Poltergeist , Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan, ET, Tron , etc
Awe hell yeah!!!! 25 cents a play. That's like a buck and a half in today's money. The stakes were high!
Thanks to the cows smokin all that reefer.
These videos are amazing, all of them! It's like seeing my childhood all overa gain. Thank you so much. ♥
You couldn’t hide behind Ethernet and talk trash at the arcade. You had to deal with the consequences.
Tru dat. My brother beat the shit out of some kid who tried to punk him at an arcade in '83.
@@daveidmarx8296 hell yeah
More like you give people a digital beat down and they talk trash and try to jump your shit cuz they got mad at losing. That happened way more often than "dealing with the consequences".
Internet is way better than potentially getting shiv'd or battered by some a handful of creeps just cuz you wanted to play a game and got good at it.
@@Elektribe Keep telling yourself that as you hide in your "safe space" while the rest of us are living life to its fullest.
@@Elektribe we didn't have internet back then buddy. we did this thing called "going outside". There were a lot more instances than just "digital beatdowns". We rode around everywhere on our bikes back then, and were way more tough than these kids today will ever be.
Can confirm, those kids look like 1982
I was 20 in 1982, but Berzerk was great fun to play. There was at least one guy who had a heart attack and died playing the game, which created a bit of notoriety around it, but I'm pretty sure people still played it. I certainly did, and here I am about to turn 62 in a few days :)
Hell, even the Atari 2600 version is great fun (though without the voice chip). And I'm guessin' the kid playing that machine didn't realize you can't kill Evil Otto :)
Awesome! I was 7 in 1982.
Exactly as it was like back in the early 1980s at my local mall arcade back in early 1980s! Brings back AWESOME memories of my childhood then. I remember this game and I think I remember the name of this game as well.
Thanks for the memories! i haven't thought of "intruder alert" in years but its still stored in my brain somewhere.
cool, reminds me of my friends watching me play Tempest and Galaga at the arcades at the mall. and i'd check it once a week or so, and play, and i'd get pissed when i'd saw that someone had taken over my score! hehe.. good times back then ☮
I was never able to find that game, but I knew about it.
Interesting to finally hear the audio. I suspect it's based on Battlestar Galactica, at least loosely.
I wonder if it's a programming limitation or intentional that they appear to die if they hit the edge of a wall or each other.
Tron was always my favorite game.
When I played Berzerk on my Vectrex in 1982 i did not know how it was the exact port from the arcade 😱🤗
Man, I remember leaving my initials when making it into the top 10. Those days were better than today. Do young kids even leave their houses?
Their parents won't let em. 🤣
Nope. Abduction scares and stranger danger 😢
@@RinaShinomiyaVal More like needless paranoia that has polluted the brains of society. When I was eight, I used to walk the mile or so to the local record store BY MYSELF, in NYC no less. Never had any issues. Now, I live in a cul-de-sac in the middle of nowhere and see parents lining their cars up at the entry point to pick up their kids off the school bus every day so they don't have to walk the 200 or so feet to their house. Fucking insanity.
You had me at Berzerk!
Kid literally had ALL the high scores. Legend.
Uh not literally all, he had five of them ..
@@ulrap1202 Thanks for taking the bait... *NERD!*
@@whiskeymonk4085You must have a lot of free time on your hands...
@@ulrap1202 Retired at 50. Life is good.
Goldmine arcade at Northcross Mall in Texas was the best!
Historical Footage
Fuckin' good old days 🫡
I was never able to go to an arcade when I was young, even now I have never been to one but man does this look like fun
I used to love going to this huge arcade in CA back in the early 90s called Scandia. My favorite game was called Toobin.
Make Arcades GREAT AGAIN!
I was only a baby at this point in time, but I did experience this sort of thing 15 years later in 1997 at a friend's birthday party when we went to Time Zone(Arcade chain) here in Australia.
It was a very similar vibe, with maybe some more modern graphics.
I was never really a gamer, but did enjoy an occasional short go at it.
That kid was doing great until he tried to have a go at Evil Otto…
Well this sure brought back memories!
Intruder alert, intruder alert!
BERZERK! 1980's! 🤘🏻👍🏻🇺🇲
Before gaming got corrupted.
I used to play Berzerk a lot. I never saw anyone this good though. Matt Mahoney is a legend. But ELM had the highest score, almost 4000 points higher than MAT.
I loved arcades. My favorite game was - and still is - Ms. Pac Man.
I didn't know there was an arcade version of Berzerk .I had the Atari 2600 version. There was a similar game called Frenzy
I own 30 arcade machines and Berzerk happens to be one of my favorites,it is a shame that Berzerk does not have "the bat " joystick way back in 1982,so happy mine does.
You got Pac Man? Nah. You got Space Invaders? No. You got Asteroids? No, but my dad does. Cant even sit on the toilet some days.
That movie was made around the time this footage was shot! 😆
so Dale, what do you do around here? well I got a stack of nudie magazines this high! lol
Good ole 25 cents arcade games
I don’t know if it’s because I was a kid however, the 80s seemed like absolute magic
Take me back. Its just not the same playing on an emulator.
Killin it on Robotron! (If I remember the name correctly!)
Berserk was an inspiration for Eugene Jarvis to Create Robotron:2084 along with Larry Demar of Vid Kidz and Williams Electronics Games Inc.
I loved this game and the spooky sci fi sound effects but I always thought the bouncy happy face was a little out of place.
The guy is pretty good!
Had this on my Vectrex. Best game.
Blast to the past, I remember watching my uncle play pacman or jr pacman for an entire day on 1 quarter, it was an incredibly boring day but I was just amazed how he stretched a quarter for an entire day an still be entertaining.
😊Detect quarter in pocket.Thx for bringing us humanoids some Berserk. Makes me wanna bring out the 2600.
Is there anyway you could try to find any videos of the Glens Falls, Fort Edward, Lake George, Hudson Falls area?
Played Defender and Gorf back then.
Even back then we watched other people play video games,lol
Had that game at a nearby pizza restaurant. My buddy and I would ride our bikes there whenever we could scrape up a few quarters
This is an experience that I wish I was alive for. While I like that I don’t have to spend a fortune to play these games for a decent period of time because “free play” is always on on most arcade compilations, I still wish I could at least be there to watch or play maybe a couple of rounds of Outrun or Space Harrier
My first game console was Coleco Vision in the early 80s. I had Frenzy which was the sequel to Berzerk. 👍🏻
I remember I had to write my initials for the high score. I was so proud!
The 80s were the best
I see they found the Cylon vocoder.
lol...2 funny again!
Used to play this at the Fox Hills Mall back in the day or play it at the Village near USC.
The new call of duty finally looks good.
In my times it was mortal kombat, street fighter, some I cant remember. Later on the arcade close up and in that place a computer LAN center was estabilished...so we played LAN parties in quake3 or unreal turnament...good times with buddies that were sitting close to you screaming and raging.
I N T R U D E R A L E R T !
I N T R U D E R A L E R T !
MAT really took over the score board.
This game actually looks pretty fun
And today, retro gamers have it made because you can carry around a handheld that has 20,000 retro games or if you're like me and want only the best, then *only* 2000 games.
A wonderful time in the world that we will never ever see again Ever, The 1980s, great kids, great friends, Ronald Reagan, safety in our suburban streets, walking to school and riding your bike alone or with your friends, and nothing to really worry about!!!!!
The closeups of the screen would make great vaporware visuals.
..........does anyone still make vaporwave?😅