1981 Footage of Video and Computer Games

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  • Опубликовано: 30 янв 2025

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  • @michaelgenzale7537
    @michaelgenzale7537 Год назад +8

    in 1982 when I was 15. I was playing Pac man, frogger and space invaders

  • @kris78787
    @kris78787 Год назад +26

    Back when video games were simple and the graphics didn’t give you a headache. I miss the 80s

    • @michaelgenzale7537
      @michaelgenzale7537 Год назад +4

      And also the music

    • @cobaltmidnightoilamp6748
      @cobaltmidnightoilamp6748 Год назад +3

      My favorite Atari game was video tennis. 🕹 🎾
      And I still would love to play that and real-time tennis as well to get out for exercise and a break from the hectic of the complicated present.

    • @jeffkardosjr.3825
      @jeffkardosjr.3825 Год назад

      I wonder who has decent new turn based strategy games.

  • @mrjohntheo154
    @mrjohntheo154 Год назад +7

    I love watching the vintage video games on display. Especially the Mattel handheld games. thank you.

  • @apexone5502
    @apexone5502 Год назад +10

    Good ol’ “Speak & Read” and “Speak & Math.” Those “along with “Speak & Spell” were a part of my childhood. I turned 5 and started kindergarten back in ‘81.

    • @mistaman4638
      @mistaman4638 Год назад

      Speak & Read Now days if you land on the woman, It gets confused 🙈

    • @cobaltmidnightoilamp6748
      @cobaltmidnightoilamp6748 Год назад

      @apexone5502, I would have benefitted with a Speak n Math.

  • @daveidmarx8296
    @daveidmarx8296 Год назад +4

    Very cool seeing people playing Football on the Intellivision. It was a difficult game to learn (there were two instruction manuals that came with it, and one was just a playbook where you punched in number sequences to initiate various plays), but once you got into it, it was an incredibly fun and engaging game, especially for the time.

  • @mistaman4638
    @mistaman4638 Год назад +10

    Remember going to Radio Shack & Playing the new Comador 64😂😂.. It was Amazing!! 😊

    • @patb5266
      @patb5266 Год назад +2

      Lol, yup and the TRS 80. We had VIC 20's at school.

    • @daveidmarx8296
      @daveidmarx8296 Год назад

      I don't recall ever seeing Commodore computers. They only sold their own brand computers (Tandy) at the Radio Shacks I went to.

  • @Valkonnen
    @Valkonnen Год назад +7

    This was a great time to grow up! Everything was new and people weren't cynical and critical of everything.

  • @terryrollins1973
    @terryrollins1973 Год назад +8

    I had a Speak&Spell when I was a little kid, I never got less than an A on a spelling test in my life and won many spelling bees, thanks mom ❤

  • @suzukikawasaki5165
    @suzukikawasaki5165 Год назад +3

    I played the ever loving heck out of that hand held Football game at the end of the video. That thing went everywhere with me.

  • @bungeycord5971
    @bungeycord5971 Год назад +8

    Home computing was still primative and very expensive, the arcade games were way better that whats shown here.

  • @AdamsBrew78
    @AdamsBrew78 Год назад +10

    That first handheld was the very first home video game I ever played, around 81 or 82. . It was a very primitive football game, with single led for each of the players.

    • @SuperEtek
      @SuperEtek Год назад +3

      Coleco handheld football, got one for Christmas as a kid

    • @edjsjjsjsjeje3751
      @edjsjjsjsjeje3751 Год назад

      Boomers can't wait to dance on your graves

  • @Nightweaver1
    @Nightweaver1 Год назад +4

    The games are so old it's hard to even tell what's being played. This was back when the very idea of video games was a new one, and before the infamous crash of 1983.

  • @robwebnoid5763
    @robwebnoid5763 Год назад +7

    10:13 ... That's definitely an HP-85. I used those, or a similar model, like an HP-87, in the late 1980's at the university for electrical engineering classes, mainly to code out drawing & printing data measurement graphs (in HP-BASIC). I still have at least one handbook manual for it that I've kept all these decades later. I have the C-64, which came out a year later in 1982. But it would be nice to have an HP-85/87 just for nostalgia.

  • @gamingchinchilla7323
    @gamingchinchilla7323 Год назад +2

    this is one of them videos where I wish I could slap the cameraman silly and yell "FOCUS ON THE FULL SCREEN YA JACKASS!"
    he kept zooming in on the timer and score numbers and I just wanted to see what the actual gameplay looked like.
    The 80s were truly a time. Glad it was part of my childhood, having been born a year after this video was produced :P

  • @Lasaro7499
    @Lasaro7499 Год назад +12

    Damn thats even before hogan slammed andre the giant. Impressive.

  • @teresapflaumer5717
    @teresapflaumer5717 Год назад +4

    Star Raiders was my favorite Atari game. I mastered it quickly.

  • @purefoldnz3070
    @purefoldnz3070 Год назад +7

    They should make a movie out of the video game crash.

  • @markustairov4547
    @markustairov4547 Год назад +2

    oh cool Star Raiders on Atari 400, that was my absolute favourite game.

    • @philsmgb4393
      @philsmgb4393 Год назад +1

      Sounded like the exact sounds effects used in "Defender".

  • @mmille10
    @mmille10 Год назад

    13:37 - The book on the upper-left of the shelf was titled "Personal Programming." It was the manual I got from Texas Instruments for my TI-58 programmable calculator.
    14:26 - Ah, yes. "Compute!" Great magazine!

  • @Thespikedballofdoom
    @Thespikedballofdoom 2 года назад +10

    Why was btm's channel destroyed? I don't watch this old news but I am impressed and admire the archiving effort.

  • @benjammin7700
    @benjammin7700 Год назад +3

    I had Star Raiders and that Atari 400.

  • @nathandalke9318
    @nathandalke9318 2 года назад +4

    This is cool especially from 1981 this the same year I was born what a classic footage

  • @lcmi
    @lcmi Год назад +1

    Those were the days! 🥰

  • @steveferguson823
    @steveferguson823 Год назад

    ❤miss the. 80s ❤love 80s music. Was class ❤ of 1980 listen ❤ to 80s every. Day. Stlll got 80s clothes. Makeing 80s. Room ❤me and my ❤grilfriend. ❤ and two ❤ her grilfriend go to mall on Saturday. Play arcade. Games. Eat out. Go ❤to 80s clubs

  • @Ovalbugmann
    @Ovalbugmann Год назад

    nice video thanks!

  • @bardo0007
    @bardo0007 Год назад +4

    Wow an Atari 400!! Try to find one in working order today!

  • @teresapflaumer5717
    @teresapflaumer5717 Год назад +1

    Space Invaders, arcade and home versions, were quite hard. Spaceship moved too slow.

  • @preposterous23
    @preposterous23 Год назад +3

    Those worth bucks now.

  • @sa3270
    @sa3270 Год назад

    What a good find.

  • @Legend813a
    @Legend813a Год назад +2

    What is the self contained unit seen at 11:11 ?

    • @tomnoonan1655
      @tomnoonan1655 10 месяцев назад

      That is a Hewlett-Packard HP-85, pre PC era computer in all its glory. It used magnetic tape cartridges for apps and storage.

  • @WeSRT4
    @WeSRT4 Год назад +12

    The good old days when imagination played a role in video games. After the 16 bit era it was all downhill IMO.

    • @SnepperStepTV
      @SnepperStepTV Год назад +3

      There's a lot to like about the early 3D stuff, I find the N64 and GameCube still capture a LOT of the magic these earlier games had. And let's not forget about handhelds like the GameBoy and Gameboy Color which post-dated the SNES but retained the tech.
      Imo its when games left the cathode ray tube and tried to be too much like movies instead of themselves is when things got less interesting. But not EVERYTHING did; while the mundane lost the magic (no good real-life sports games since madden for n64 and if its about shooting its definitely a waste of time) there's still a lot of heart and love and creativity in games today if you know where to look....its just not on the surface anymore like this era.

  • @leonidaspetsakos9690
    @leonidaspetsakos9690 Год назад +20

    Those poor, unfortunate people of color at 11:44. How horrific that they had to endure the harsh reality of life in the racist, pre woke 1980s. Look at them suffer the indignity of not being bothered while they stand around playing video games....oh wait....

  • @barnesfam
    @barnesfam Год назад

    Fascinating

  • @coolcollectiblesar
    @coolcollectiblesar Год назад

    Los 80 son inigualables. En todo.

  • @TheAbandonedAccount7
    @TheAbandonedAccount7 Год назад

    lol I just sold that coleco vision football handheld a few wks ago

  • @flutebasket4294
    @flutebasket4294 Год назад +3

    Thank God the NES was only four short years away

  • @50shadesofbeige88
    @50shadesofbeige88 Год назад +3

    Atari 400!

  • @KatriceMetaluna
    @KatriceMetaluna Год назад

    Watching an Atari 400 demo Star Raiders!

  • @bfg9000d1
    @bfg9000d1 Год назад +3

    Games now have gotten to be to involved and consume way to much time to play. While the graphics are cool now, some (keyword being some) games really lack overall game play.

  • @ronniewest838
    @ronniewest838 Год назад

    Religiously Dope‼️

  • @eddie3426
    @eddie3426 Год назад

    Steve jobs @9:29

  • @ArmpitStudios
    @ArmpitStudios Год назад

    The sounds in the little Football game were so great. Time to sample some for my iPhone.