This girl classmate of mine and I used to be the best players of this game back in the day in our neighborhood. Game was at a liquor store on our way to school and if either one of us was playing, we knew the other wasn't playing for a while. Hope life is treating you well Amy Mendoza.
When you made it to the higher levels on this game in the arcade - it was really pushing the limits of what the chip could do. So many animals to animate, you began to sense the refresh rate skipping frames to cope.
Loved the music and sounds of this so much. Good to see it wasn't my memory just thinking that this was an instantly-hard difficulty game after a certain level. And disappearing platforms... that's just WRONG.
My best game. Just burns me watching him play, one that it's set on invincible, and his technique. I dropped 9M on this once, most owed to a 4M point jump. But my best game was 6M where my highest jump was 250K. Start of a round, juke right about an inch, then move left, counterclockwise, that juke should bounce the first animal, and then you can get all the escaped animals moving the same direction. Way easier to jump when they are moving toward you. But that getting a free guy round, that's like being a tireman in a NASCAR crew. EVERYTHING has to go right, or it will go sideways.
My favorite arcade game of all time, really could of used that no die cheat back when it cost me a quarter to play a game lol. You also frustrated the hell out of me not setting up taking the massive point jumps. Good job.
We used to play this game so much at college back in 1983-4, at Penn State, that my dorm mates and I referred to quarters as "zookeepers". My wrist used to hurt from playing it so much..... although, come to think of it, maybe my wrist hurt for another reason. :-)
You can actually rack up a great score on this game by staying on the coconut board and just jumping on the platform left to right. There is no timer so you can rack up the points before finishing the level.
0:01-0:09: Title Screen and Introductions 0:50: Game Start 1:02: Stage Start 1:19: Part Clear 1:20: PERFECT! 2:05: Stage Clear 2:08: Next Stage 2:14: Life Lost 2:53: Another Life Lost (Dead Start) 3:54: Bonus Stage 4:12: Win #1 5:09-5:10: Lose / Too Bad (No Bonus and Stage Failed) 5:11-5:12: Boss Battle 6:11-6:12: Boss Defeated 7:04: Win #2 11:10: Win #3 12:46-12:47: Bonus Activated 12:53: Warning Incoming 15:30: Game Over 15:35: Name Entry
This game was always so damned loud in the arcades. As someone with autism whose ears were sensitive, I'd have to cover my ears if someone was playing it. Strangely, when I played it, my ears were fine...
Look at 0:16 -- The game specifically calls it a mug of root beer. If you want to find beer in an arcade game, search for the original version of "Tapper."
@@arnequis truth. and even Tapper was already modified and released as Root Beer Tapper in '83, so whatever point Adamohm was trying to make fell flat.
I always thought the title theme that plays at 0:46 sounds like Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice theme from Fantasia: ruclips.net/video/Gkj2QeogAsU/видео.html I wonder if Tom Fosha used it as his inspiration.
I hate to day it but i wouldn’t be surprised if those jumping segments were inspited from donkeykong,why else you do see a little money throwing cocenuts to zoo keeper who needs to rescue zelda,also that main character looks alot like mario in every way,so i wouldn’t be surprised that if nintendo used a lawsuit against that company behind this game but lost it and then eventually took revenge to use the name zelda in their own game,this is just pure speculation,but still,,,
@@MystiqEevee since the time i posted 1 yr ago i found raspberry pi and have retropie .you mentioned mame ,my favorite emulator next to arcade, now i ve been learning how to get my favorite roms and trying to build the best set of games ,themes ,music ,splashscreens,nyou name it just realized i barely played any yet starting right now im going to starty playing them thanks for the reply
there is a compilation game called 'Taito Legends', for original xbox, ps2 or PC on cd rom. that compilation has zoo keeper on it, and is more or less the only way to play it nowadays, unless you get lucky and find a zoo keeper cabinet in your city!!
As a current zookeeper, I must say this is one of the most realistic games I have come across that deal with my profession. All day the animals were trying to escape. The more fucking bricks we laid, the faster they took them down. I wish some days I just had a shotgun to deal with these beasts.
no damage in this game..you hit a animal..you die..you fall off ledge...you die..he was using something because he was just running thru them like nothing
![Zoo Keeper [Arcade Longplay] (1982) Taito America Corporation](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ljT1cLZuNq8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Zoo Keeper [Arcade Longplay] (1982) Taito America Corporation](/img/tr.png)
This girl classmate of mine and I used to be the best players of this game back in the day in our neighborhood. Game was at a liquor store on our way to school and if either one of us was playing, we knew the other wasn't playing for a while. Hope life is treating you well Amy Mendoza.
Uhhh... I dont think its a good idea to drop some persons full name on the internet like that.
This game has some of the most unique, bizarre and funniest sound effects I've ever heard in an arcade game.
Yup
Sorcerer's Apprentice!!
When you made it to the higher levels on this game in the arcade - it was really pushing the limits of what the chip could do. So many animals to animate, you began to sense the refresh rate skipping frames to cope.
Loved the music and sounds of this so much. Good to see it wasn't my memory just thinking that this was an instantly-hard difficulty game after a certain level. And disappearing platforms... that's just WRONG.
Ikr I guess they thought nobody wo7ld ever get that far
This is the best sounding game I have heard in ages!
One of my favorites when I was a kid! Kind of hard to find in arcades at the time, but it was worth it when you did!
My best game. Just burns me watching him play, one that it's set on invincible, and his technique. I dropped 9M on this once, most owed to a 4M point jump. But my best game was 6M where my highest jump was 250K. Start of a round, juke right about an inch, then move left, counterclockwise, that juke should bounce the first animal, and then you can get all the escaped animals moving the same direction. Way easier to jump when they are moving toward you. But that getting a free guy round, that's like being a tireman in a NASCAR crew. EVERYTHING has to go right, or it will go sideways.
My favorite arcade game of all time, really could of used that no die cheat back when it cost me a quarter to play a game lol. You also frustrated the hell out of me not setting up taking the massive point jumps. Good job.
We used to play this game so much at college back in 1983-4, at Penn State, that my dorm mates and I referred to quarters as "zookeepers". My wrist used to hurt from playing it so much..... although, come to think of it, maybe my wrist hurt for another reason. :-)
The sound of building the bricks is so satisfying in this game!
Despite the 1982 copyright, Zoo Keeper actually came out in May 1983 due to programming delays.
0:54 It makes some hilarious sounds!
I haven't seen this in ages and the noise from the lions motivated me to keep movin back then
Maan I loved this game it’s so simple yet challenging
Wow. I haven't seen this game in 30 years.
it's frickin loud
i love it
You can actually rack up a great score on this game by staying on the coconut board and just jumping on the platform left to right. There is no timer so you can rack up the points before finishing the level.
True but it gets harder as you linger
John Morgan, one of the game's designers, later went on to create Super Off-Road.
I TOTALLY love Zoo Keeper!
WOW , LOL..... Didnt see this game since the 80's, lol
0:01-0:09: Title Screen and Introductions
0:50: Game Start
1:02: Stage Start
1:19: Part Clear
1:20: PERFECT!
2:05: Stage Clear
2:08: Next Stage
2:14: Life Lost
2:53: Another Life Lost (Dead Start)
3:54: Bonus Stage
4:12: Win #1
5:09-5:10: Lose / Too Bad (No Bonus and Stage Failed)
5:11-5:12: Boss Battle
6:11-6:12: Boss Defeated
7:04: Win #2
11:10: Win #3
12:46-12:47: Bonus Activated
12:53: Warning Incoming
15:30: Game Over
15:35: Name Entry
Highly underrated arcade classic! Hoping it gets the Arcade Archives treatment in the near future. 🤞
Me too.
That was one of my favorite games.
Cant cheat with that invisible board LOL!!!
These game was like BEZERG. 1981 BEZERK: This game was so genious.
10:00 No room for the 1,000,000!!!!
I wonder if some DJ would scratch up these arcade sound effects to make it more original for of hybrid of a turntable and arcade style-machine
Zoo Keeper: the game where IMMUREMENT is used to keep animals at bay.
Looks like some weird hybrid of Donkey Kong and Robotron.
Loved this game when I was 7
What's the point if cheats are enable and you can't get killed?
To showcase the game
@@pookinaround2873 you should label it as such. Old school gamers hate cheaters.
@@turnertalking except I had nothing to do with this video?
What a masterful walkthrough. I only managed to get 1 000 000 points but beat the invincible level (to lose on the next one(
one freaky stressful game!
i kicked ass at this game when I was kid. was never one of the more popular ones but one of my faves.
I'll take "Games that would make PETA go apeshit" for $500 please, Alex.
I can see on the higher levels, the CPU is struggling to keep up with all of these numerous sprites on the screen.
This game was always so damned loud in the arcades. As someone with autism whose ears were sensitive, I'd have to cover my ears if someone was playing it. Strangely, when I played it, my ears were fine...
Starcade!
Kinda reminds me of Tempest, only with animals.
Me trae recuerdos de 1984-1985 en "el mundo feliz-autopista infantil" de San Salvador, El Salvador
Woah!
so what cheat was on when you were running thru all the animals?
I beat the world record for this game
In my youth I called the SFX of this game "electronic farts"...
This was the first video game I ever played. It was at a pizza place.
Damn what a way to kick off your gaming life awesome classic game
Not my first game but the zoo keeper I played was likewise at a pizza place. It was on Ave U in Brooklyn, NY.
I wish I could play this. Does anyone know of they have this available still Nintendo, playstation, Xbox ect.....?????
It is one of the games in the compilation "Taito Legends" for PS2
Haha. One of the powerups is a mug of beer. No way would an arcade game have that in today's PC culture.
Look at 0:16 -- The game specifically calls it a mug of root beer. If you want to find beer in an arcade game, search for the original version of "Tapper."
@@arnequis truth. and even Tapper was already modified and released as Root Beer Tapper in '83, so whatever point Adamohm was trying to make fell flat.
Did banco make this game like Pac-Man?
I always thought the title theme that plays at 0:46 sounds like Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice theme from Fantasia:
ruclips.net/video/Gkj2QeogAsU/видео.html
I wonder if Tom Fosha used it as his inspiration.
It actually is.
I hate to day it but i wouldn’t be surprised if those jumping segments were inspited from donkeykong,why else you do see a little money throwing cocenuts to zoo keeper who needs to rescue zelda,also that main character looks alot like mario in every way,so i wouldn’t be surprised that if nintendo used a lawsuit against that company behind this game but lost it and then eventually took revenge to use the name zelda in their own game,this is just pure speculation,but still,,,
How do I get this game i loved as a kid and played for the where can I get it?
Download mame emulator and a rom of it
@@MystiqEevee since the time i posted 1 yr ago i found raspberry pi and have retropie .you mentioned mame ,my favorite emulator next to arcade, now i ve been learning how to get my favorite roms and trying to build the best set of games ,themes ,music ,splashscreens,nyou name it just realized i barely played any yet starting right now im going to starty playing them thanks for the reply
This game was always loud af.
Is that fantasia's sorcerer's apprentice music playing as the theme tune?
Yes and it’s a classic music piece that both uses.
Is there a way to play it nowadays somewhere?
there is a compilation game called 'Taito Legends', for original xbox, ps2 or PC on cd rom. that compilation has zoo keeper on it, and is more or less the only way to play it nowadays, unless you get lucky and find a zoo keeper cabinet in your city!!
@@alexiszaninetti1387 Thank you
@@exelion1982galloping ghost arcade in Chicago has it. I just played it a day ago.
As a current zookeeper, I must say this is one of the most realistic games I have come across that deal with my profession.
All day the animals were trying to escape. The more fucking bricks we laid, the faster they took them down.
I wish some days I just had a shotgun to deal with these beasts.
Did you use a hack or something? He's taking so much damage.
That's a lotta damage!
no damage in this game..you hit a animal..you die..you fall off ledge...you die..he was using something because he was just running thru them like nothing
WHERE CAN I FIND THIS?????
The ad blocks everything.
cool
weird sounds
christ, there's actually a storyline to this game??!
Your final total is invalid because you cheated on the game.
0:00
CHEAT CODE PLEASE!!!
Thnx in advance!
Cheat was done on an emulator and used a cheat file to activate the cheats.
STR8 CHEATER
Cheater, use god mod, look at 14:26
Cheater
What a noob to play with cheat codes….
weird as sh**
wow. terrible. just terrible. why would you bother to post this?