The Ultimate Early 80s Arcade Tribute
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- www.PatrickScot... - I recently took some footage I had in my archives and made a video of early 80s video game factories. The vid proved a big hit worldwide, so I thought I'd take clips of the early 80s arcades themselves and do another mash-up.
Enjoy 10 minutes of footage from the early 80s arcade boom and some arcade music along with it. Every scrap of this footage is from 1981-1983.
How many games in here can you recognize? Some famous locations to arcade history also shown in here, and some champion players, too.
Post who/what you spot in the comments section below.
Man. I miss this era. I would love to just spend a day in the 80s again in an arcade, fill up on pizza and the snack bar and check out the girls with big hair.
Word!
@@Sino_fr Covid 19
@@Sino_fr girls played hard to get back then. Now they play hard to want. Fat. Tattoos. Face Piercings. Nope.
Spend a day in the 80's and fill up on pizza and big hair? FORGET THAT! I'm putting thousands into Steve Jobs future!
I miss the arcade generation.
Oh its still around to this day. only they have Bars inside
+nightmuffin937 what do you mean
Rodney Johnson Barcade. Google the word.
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
I feel so sorry for those born after the 80's...they missed out on everything...clothes, tennis shoes, Boomboxes, Walkmans, Arcades, 80's Cartoons, TV shows, Music and Movies, shooting marbles, spinning tops, flying kites, building forts, Water wars(w/balloons and Super Soakers), playing video games with friends present and FRIENDS.
+KevySuavey Agreed. I was a teen in the 80's. Feel sorry for the kids today that have such shit culture(music, tv, etc).
on the flipside, a smartphone today can do a few thousand things that you needed a few thousand things of back then. gaming, tools (like a level or ruler or flashlight), music, videos, movies, video chat, a mobile phone itself, and thousands of apps. i loved the 80s but ONLY because the job market was much SAFER and better. no outsourcing on h1b visas. no risk of ppl. recording your life and putting it on the internet. privacy was better as was job security.
raydeen1 im not one of those kids i like anything from the 80's even though i wish i was born in the 80's 😔
......saturday morning cartoons and super sugary cereal!
guest They can have it. I'll take my childhood over theirs any day of the week.
Ahhh those were the days. I was young and my parents would drop me off at the arcade for a few hours while they shopped at the mall. That anxious feeling of adventure was amazing. Great video!!
Arrrrg I couldn't wait to burn some quarters at the Arcade. The best of times.
These young people of today 35 and under will never understand these times, sad and sickening!!!!!
Those were the days!!! The last great era that will never return. Im so privileged to have lived back in those days where life seem so simple compared to now. All the fashions, and the hype. The show's and movies that they are trying to remake now, we were there when all this started. People my age, please like if y'all agree.
We don't know ur age
@@daveyboy_ okay and
Can’t forget the pocket full of quarters 😂
Ok boomer
What happens when you get old. Lol.
I may only be 15 but I am crazy for these arcade machines
Going to an arcade with a pocket full of quarters was the ultimate joy back in the day
You my friend have great taste! 😁
I missed out too. Not as much I am 32 now born in 88 but when I played them they were at grocery stores. Malls places like that.. arcades were pretty much dying by the time I was old enough to remember 😔
Dan Da Gamer I was born the same year, we definitely had plenty of time growing up to enjoy the tail end of arcade machines being everywhere. Basically grew up with 8/16 bit machines...and I remember there being a lot of birthday parties at those pay one price and play all day arcade places. In the 90s I think these machines were being sold off to wherever would take them, so we ended up seeing a lot of the games from the golden era survive for years,
Dan Da Gamer im 12 and i live for things like this, like retro things 😭
I miss the 80s , I remember when you could walk into a 7-11 , Circle K or a Video Store and it would have arcade machines. It was such a magical time!
Yes, every gas station or convenience store had at least ONE video game or pinball machine back then.
Astroids and Centipede is what we had at the local mini-mart. All the rest could be found at the arcade in the mall, a 30min. drive away.
The 7- 11 around the corner had a Mr. Do game and a properly working Rygar machine. The overhead shooter on the bowling alley Rygar never worked.
@@williamhaynes4800 our games were at the bowling alley or at an arcade called Funway Freeway by the mall 3-5 mi away. Great times and like you guys said, every pizza shop and mini mart had them, it was Lawsons for us. Damn, to go back
80's kids forever!
We Rule! 😎💪🏽#IAMGenX
How about the Roller and Ice Skating Rinks from the the 70s and 80s that had arcades in them? I played Pinball and Video machines all day instead of skating! I had kids begging me to give them my machine with so many free games, WOW 😳😳😳
You'll Never Ever See days like this Ever Again Ever PERIOD!!!!!
Space Invaders, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, you name it it was a blast!
This is why I converted one of my bedrooms into a functional arcade and classic toy room!!! I'm an 80s kid and I enjoyed the arcade era so much I wanted to share it with my sons. I have Battlezone, Gorf, Missile Command, Pac Man, Mario Bros, a converted Pleiades game into a 412 in one jamma game, 2 cocktail pinball machines (Allied Take Five and Gottlieb Night Moves) 2 slot machines and a video poker machine. It was just a great era with great memories, thank you for keeping it alive with videos like this!!!
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Born in 1970 so blessed to experience the 70s and 80s awesome decade's
Right there with you, Kepi LEE! I may be turning 47 in a few weeks, but at least I got some fun memories of better times.
Turning 46 next week myself. I have 4 arcade machines and a MAME cabinet to play all the classics in my house! Those were awesome days. I probably played more games in the arcade at my local skating rink than anywhere because I would go with my two older sisters and they didn't mind giving me most of their spending money to use on the arcade machines so I would stay out of their hair. LOL! Remember playing Dig Dug, Frogger, Super Pac-Man, Donkey Kong jr., and I especially loved trying to play Karate Champ when the older kids would let me get a game in.
Do you remember Cyborg?
Me too,born in 72!we were the last free generation ;We weren't lazy spoiled internet kids we had friends ;went swimming ;riding around lol;and arcades;arcades were all the technology we had!!No phones!!better life then!
Lucky you i was born in the shitty 2004 thats sucks
I stole so many quarters from my dad's dresser in the early 80's! I remember leaving a few in his pile of change hoping he wouldn't notice! Every once in a while he'd ask me and my brothers who was taking his money. Nothing better than a bunch of quarters! :) Great times!
Haha same here. It was their laundry money.
I was taking my brothers money for arcade. My sis was taking his money for cigs. Not proudest moments. Early signs of a problem lol. Never stole again by way
That's why you'd simply go for the nickels and dimes! Always more of those, and you could change them for quarters easily enough. DID TAKE LONGER to sift them out of the pile though, increasing the risk of being caught!
Arcades converted every 80s kid into a thief lol
@@FightingCoward damn that’s true lol. My buddy’s parents owned a carry out, we would mug rolls of quarters and go to the bowling alley on our bikes, then to the pizza place. Boy we had a blast.
I like the part in the song where she sings "you'll never feel lonely anymore."
If only that were true.
My first memory about video games was with my dad at a video store in my hometown that had 1942. I was 5 years old and too short to play it, so he'd lift me up by the waist, I'd pop a quarter in and see how far I could get. From there I was hooked. It was the game that got me started.
Yeah, cool Dads!
My Mom bought me the Genesis as my first console on its release day... I've been a hardcore gamer and SEGA fan ever since.
My older brothers would hold me up when we first started going.
I still rock with Galaga, screw these new games that take all day to play..
CycleCruza I hear you man! It's nice to sit down and play a game for 15 to 30 minutes without having to dedicate a month of your life to finishing the damn thing! That's what was so great about these games. You could play them a lot and master them or you could just play them casually and still have a lot of fun. Even though I think some of the games today are nice and inventive it seems like you have to play them for hours.
CycleCruza I agree ☝️ with you bro 😎 bring back the 80’s please 👻👻🎃❤️🧟♀️🧟♀️💖🍿🪐🌌🎥🤣😎🥗🌯🌮🥙
@Lance Kendall I think I downloaded the wrong thing. Just keeps making these glowing blue circles everywhere. I'm scared to go in one.
for $60, I hope a game takes more than 1 day to play... Weird take on video games.
@@OzoneGamerStation what is $60?
Great video !!! Lovely memories. Miss those teenage days when everything was simpler. Hanging out with friends , spending all quarters , having fun. Feel sorry for todays kids not to experience that. THX for upload.
(R.I.P) arcades from 80s/90a
90s
Roger Fredriksson Well, some kids like me are still lucky to learn about the arcade era. I was born in 1997 and still an infant, but after curiosity when I saw arcade cabinets anywhere I go during 2007, I was desperate and wanted to know arcade works differently than home gaming like my Gamecube. One of my first and most favorite out of all arcades to this day was Sega’s House of the Dead. I heard that this game haunted the childhood of many arcade users, but to me, I was into it and smiling with joy at the gameplay in using a rail gun to shoot and eliminate zombies and monsters while saving survivors, along with some built-in action and intensity. I played and boy do I suck at aiming at the screen and learning how to reload, but as the years go by, I’ve gotten better. Also, that introduction lead me to play other arcade games like King of Fighters 10th Anniversary, Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur II, Marvel vs. Capcom, Tekken, Jurassic Park, etc., but also, I may be judged that those are somewhat modern arcades, but fear not, I have old classics I enjoy like Mario Bros. Galaga, Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Puzzle Bobble, and my favorite out of all, Donkey Kong. Now, I didn’t know them till I play em’ on home consoles since it was at the time before I knew arcade history. For example, I’ve played Mario Bros. since Super Mario Advance on Gameboy Advance; Dig-Dug, Pac-Man, and Galaga since Namco Museum for PS2, Puzzle Bobble on Taito Legends, and Donkey Kong as a Masterpiece demo in Super Smash Bros Brawl for Wii. To this day, as an adult, college student, I play these games along side with my home console games. I play em’ for childhood enjoyment and practice if I was to ever play it on an arcade cabinet. Now, you may ask why would I play them on a arcade cabinet if I could do it at home, well, #1 some games I have are extremely different compare to the arcade ones and #2 it wouldn’t hurt much to give my respect in payment as a support for what these cabinets taught its users throughout its history and spreading its message. Also, for the 1st time, during at Dave & Busters, I saw an arcade with a selection of Namco games and to make it better, each quarter inserted will all be donated to charity like Make-A-Wish foundation I just saw, so, thought I could share my support to not just these cabinets, but to the foundation as well. To this day, I am not only known as a gamer who plays Switch, Xbox One, PC, PS VITA, PS2, Wii, 3DS and PSP, but also, both a real arcade lover and gamer. 👍 (:
toss the xbox 1 for the ps4. i have a nes and gamecube duck hunt was fun i played in 2007 i was born in 2001
Codplayerz22 No lies as I say it, but I stupidly bought it cuz of the announcement of Dead Rising 3 being exclusive to Xbox One and TBH, I love the series ever since Dead Rising on the Xbox 360 and I find it thanks to Frank West in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom when I thought he was from a Megaman game with the Servbot Mask and Mega Buster special until I se his special move of spawning in zombies and zombies on shopping carts. Anyway, after hearing Dead Rising 3 later introduce a PC port, I start to feel that regret after getting the Xbox One and seeing little exclusives and some like Halo going far away from its original content. So, for now on, I’ll just stick with PlayStation, PC, and Nintendo products for now since they got better exclusives.
I was wearing a Loverboy painter cap, a vans tanktop, OP shorts, vans checkerboard shoes, and listening to Billy Squier on my boombox in the arcade, lol
Do you remember Victor Stone, aka Cyborg? If not, you're not a true 80s kid.
Haha totally!
RashandFierce whatevers Bobi
Growing up in this era was awesome, and in the 90's as we watched arcades wither and die out, so did a little bit of my soul.
wow... this was my time back then.. this is literally how I used to play video games back in the 80s. not everyone had ANY video games at home. they were worth playing back then and every quarter meant something.
Man, the Sears mall arcade during the late 70s and early 80s in El Monte CA! Underground, hot, dark, smelling of cigarettes and popcorn, that was the place to be. All kinds of lights flashing and the music playing beyond loud. Loved it. None of this, "oh i'm a gamer" business. Everyone played arcade games, and guess what? The best players were the junkies with their bottle of beer and endless quarter supply.
afa78djd sears not there no more huh? I went out there and seen Denny's there and longo Toyota and the Honda dealership.
And of course the posters, hopefully the famous Cyborg Pin-Up, as drawn by George Perez from 1981, was on one of those walls.
@@unwelldanny7108 Shut the fuck up
My local arcade was in a bowling alley. They had all the biggies: Tempest, Donkey Kong, Dragons Lair, etc. I moved to Georgia in 86 but last I heard it was still there.
I saw a kid complete dragon's lair on a single credit once... I wonder how much he'd spent to get to that level?!
@@FightingCoward had to be a shitload of $, that damn game was hard as hell
@@deborahchesser7375 I know, I couldn't get past the 4th or 5th screen.
Wow, Thank you for that blast from the past. I wish my kids could have the arcade experience. Dave and Busters just isn't the same.
I know what you mean steve I get so depressed how things changed and I don't like it because I don't feel happy anymore like I did as a kid
The first song is probably the coolest song ever
Whoa! For a brief moment I time traveled to a 13 year old again. The smell of circuity in the air, cigarettes and rock music of the day played over the area. The older dude behind the counter next to the door. Every now and then checking that you and your friends bicycles were still out front (no bike locks).
Thank you for producing this piece of history.
I'm 47, I grew as a kid in arcades, always loved arcade culture. I agree this is a real pop culture and anyone that take care about this and preserve such memories deserve all of my personal admiration. You made my day ! Thanks.
Happy 53 birthday
Man with a funny cookie hey thanks so much!
YO THIS IS SICK! i love arcades and the hole atmosphere so freaking much the music from the speakers to the art on the arcades cabinets the bright lights coming from the screen and the darkness of the arcade its self! its all so awesome to me 😆 sadly im only a teen and wasnt alive to witness this amazing time but i seem to have a heart of an old soul lol sadly there isn’t much arcades the focus on original games but theres this one arcade in Canada hours from where i live but it mainly focuses on the old school games from defenders to pacman to digdug and they have it all!. it feels like i step in a different time that i wish i was alive in when i step in :)
So pleased to have grown up in this era, life was good, I'd pay anything for a hot tub time machine to go back. Thank you for uploading this.
It's interesting, as this video was just a passion project I more did for myself... over a decade now at that. And yet it's manage to resonate and become one of my most consistently viewed videos still to this day. I'm glad I put together something that has taken people back to this era, even if just for ten minutes... and I thank you for taking the time to write this nice comment about that.
1986 was the year for me I started playing the majority of these legendary classics now at 40 years old I’m seeing players almost half my age today playing these games that are older than them and are loving em. That puts a smile on my face!
FUCK what I'd give to experience the 70s and 80s... If time travel ever were to exist I doubt it ever end up in the average person's hands though.
The early 80s arcade was truly something that had to be experienced to fully understand. Best that can be done is to tell those stories and try to get those who weren't there to get that :)
Yep..the sounds..the smells..the laughter..
Reading your comment makes me so happy I got to live my best years during that time period. I was born in 73 so the late 70s with Atari and all the arcades was just awesome. Once Nintendo hit I was addicted for life to gaming, the arcades were still around and still awesome. Personally I loved the 90s as well, I was still gaming, just not as much but the first five years of the 90s still felt like the 80s to me. It wasnt until around 98 or 99 when I finally decided to try growing up some. Lol
I was born in '80 so I got to experience the tail end of the old arcade, a lot of the old machines were still in use by the time I got old enough to play. quarters, the smell of warm electronics, the sound of the skiball machines, the funky colored carpets... man I miss those days
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I miss it too.
The good ol' days. Our local arcade was called "The Gold Mine" in an aging shopping mall by the back doors. The entry looked like something out of Indiana Jones & it was sheer joy! Every Saturday, after cartoons, mom would take me to the mall, give me a dollar in quarters & I could make that last an hour. She would go shopping & I'd play "Star Wars", "TMNT", "Indy & TOD", & "Pac-Man". If I ran out of quarters early, we'd all watch the 'big kids' play "Dragon's Lair". Afterwards, go to the snack bar for nachos. Then it was time to go home & I'd go outside to find neighbor kids to play with (believe it or not, we did that back then). Kids watch 'The Goonies" nowadays & don't understand, we were actually JUST LIKE THAT. We'd get our bikes & go out to find adventure. I miss it so much.
It don't matter how good the graphics are today on the new video games. Every time I look at this, I can remember what a wonderful feeling was meeting with my friends, counting coins to see how many games we had available and the amazing competitions created. Coming back every day just to see if someone was able to beat my score from the day before. I grew up to fast, I need to be 10 again and be back in 1988 to play like I have never plaid before.
Life moves to fast and for me was only a blink. Make me sad that we dont have more of this places available to recreate our amazing past. Their is things that should never change, and this is once of them.
Skyrim , halo and call of duty franchise is still better than any game in the 80s and 90s
Was between the ages of 8-12 then, you couldn't get on any of them because the teenagers had quarters all over the sides of the screen which meant they had next X 100.
Most popular was Pac Man, there were Pac Man t-shirts, scratch off wins, bubble gum, pillows, pens, pencils they even made a song about Pac Man that is burned into my brain forever.
I feel blessed to live my childhood on the 80s
Do you remember Cyborg?
@@unwelldanny7108 I remember when Pablo Escobar died
Wonderbowl in Downey, CA in the 70s-80s is where my childhood was infused with 'the arcade.'
9:44 Last, but not least, the Game Over screen from Missile Command.
THE END
I started playing video games at age 3 in 1981. Seeing this brings back childhood memories. I use to get something to stand on to play the old consoles in the arcade and got an Atari for x-mas 1982 (which I saved). Kids today who are use to high tech graphics and sound may laugh at this, but there was something special about these old games.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Nostalgia overload. Thank you!!
Being a kid in the 70s and graduating in ‘84...
Arcades and the first consoles and handhelds were awesome.
A friend of mine lent me Coleco Electronic Quarterback in ‘78. I played it all weekend mostly during the night.
Saving up quarters to hit the arcades... and the familiar sounds as you walked inside one.
Good memories :)
Awesome collection of clips here, I've been looking for a collection of 80's arcade footage for a few years. Nostalgia... Ahhh... :)
Was fun to cut it together. Thank you for your comment :)
It sucks that camcorders were a rare thing in the early '80s (and not something to be dragged to a mall arcade), as I'd love to see more footage like this - specifically of arcades from the Poughkeepsie-Fishkill, NY area (I'm looking at you, Dream Machine, Park Place + Twilight Zone!!)
@@daveidmarx8296 Do you remember the Xenon pinball game? I love that game. BTW, you know who Cyborg is, don't you? Every true early 80s kid knows who he is.
@@unwelldanny7108 I actually played Xenon less than five months ago, at Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ!
I’m 26, born in ‘97. Arcades as they were known before redemption became the business model we know today, a place to play video games for the sake of fun alone, were all but dead when I came into the world. Today I privately own 20 original classic machines, many of which are seen in this awesome tribute. This is what I never knew but for some reason try to keep alive. There is no experience quite like standing at the cabinet playing the greatest games ever made.
I liken it to certain films and the movie theater. Sure, I can always watch Ghostbusters or Star Wars or Die Hard at home on streaming via my 65" Smart TV and Bose speaker system. But nothing beats seeing it on the big screen as I did originally, so I'll always catch a screening if I can. Same thing here... I can always play Galaga or Donkey Kong or Asteroids on a computer or game console or even on a mini-cabinet made for home. But nothing can top playing it on an original coin-op arcade cabinet as I did back in the day. Nothing ever will.
Good Memories; My arcade was called 'Time Out' on the top floor of the Sherman Oaks Galleria near the food court. Circa early 80's (Jr. High for me). That was a great hangout.
Early 80s, you say? Do you remember Victor Stone, the literal Cyborg? If you don't remember him, you're not a true 80s kid.
Nice, at Roosevelt Field Mall in New York the arcade was also called Timeout! Miss those days and games!
video footage from authentic 80ties arcade is so rare....thx for preserving this for those who whitnessed this wonderful decade....when video games were magical
The whole ambience and feeling within arcades during the '80s was something that you can never really replicate now. I was lucky enough to grow up in the '80s where I played arcade games with a passion. My local arcade was called, 'Aladin's Palace, and I would often go there when I had nothing else to do. I used to spend literally HOURS in there playing my favourite arcades, like Mr Do, Donkey Kong, Berzerk, Gorf, Pole Position, Marble Madness, Galaxian, Galaga, Tron, and many others.
When you walked into an arcade, you were immediately hit with the different sounds, and colours and usually groups of lads stood looking over the shoulder of one particular player who was on a record high score. I think that arcades, back then, were absolutely great because they were not only places of entertainment, but it was were friendships were formed too. We will never again get those days back unfortunately.
This video must be included in the National Film Registry for being culturally, historically snd aesthetically significant.
Props to the songs PacMan Fever and soundtrack from the movie Wargames.
A shame I can only id Pac-Man Fever. I just need to know what the name of the other two songs are.
Epic compilation of coin-op's golden age (1981-83) in my opinion. At 10-12 years old, my local arcade and bowling alley were my second homes in those years, eating each and every single quarter I could scrounge up. Those were the days where my friends and I could just put our BMX bikes upside-down right outside the door and not worry about them getting stolen. Thanks so much for sharing such an unforgettable slice of life.
I Like the music! Lots of comments against it BUT it fits the time perfectly. I Guess all the haters would prefer "Take on me "by: ah ha. To That I say give me a break. That is the epitome of cliché 80s music. It is the one song I forbid in my arcade.
Another reason I like this video, It shows the arcades full . and full of young people. Thats the way it was... Never to be again. Now you see retro arcades and arcades that people have built as a labor of love but they are always empty or very few people in them. And the people in them are old fat guys. Oh wait ..,. I guess I now fall into that category. But its true. Most kids that are the ages in this video want nothing to do with this stuff now. I guess thats understandable... Its not nostalgic for them ,but thats a topic for another day
I was expecting Subdivisions by Rush
Wow what a great nostalgic video with amazing tunes! Love 80s music and I never heard any of these tunes before, but I made sure to Shazam them for my collection. Pac man fever, that's a real gem. Thanks a lot for this!
Excellent! Brings back memories! Forgot about some of these songs!
People who grew up in the 80s and 90s like me are the last generation to have it so good. Those growing up now have so much to think about. For us it was all fun and sunshine.
Amazing era!!! Everything was incredible. It´s like to see Stranger Things.
The places are so magic.
Strangers things is not real, you cannot emulate the spirit of an era.
Stranger Things is a poor facsimile of the real thing.
People may not know this but when you visit San Francisco and you go to the Wharf, there's Pier 39, The Riptide Arcade in the early 1980s was a huge go to place for kids, hell,for anybody with a video game craze on the weekend. There were bumper cars and ball games but the place was just wall to wall video games. Damn, miss those days!! : )
Wooohooo!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! I don't know why my memory failed for a moment, but I remember it now, one of my ultimate faves--SPACE HARRIER!!! : )
Great days.Got me into a lot of trouble.Manipulating people to feed that buzz.It started of with a ZX spectrum in 1982, then trips to skegness (uk) and the arcades were a new found love.I could hear Double Dragon from the otherside of a new arcade buzz, in amongst Pac Man,Shinobi,Choplifter,Operation Wolf,Out Run,Spy Hunter and many more.The arcade owners were also accomodating as in they would supply milk crates for you to stand on and be able to reach the gun on Operation wolf...I was even that desperate I drilled a hole in a ten pence piece and threaded fishing line onto it.I stuck in and out of robocop and got infinate lifes, but we got caught.Great days and a sadly missed experience.
Born in 63. I got to experience computers, video games and much more from the ground up.
I remember seeing a video game for the first time. Pong had been talked about in magazines and TV news. Then Pong was in a store lobby. What a time to be a teenager!
Maravilhosos anos 80. Epoca que jamais se repetirá
Arcade games were so popular they were in almost every grocery store, drug store and convenience store. Not to mention movie theater lobbies. I was addicted to these games. Being 9 years old in 1980 i was at a great age for the 80s decade. Its a shame that these arcade games and arcades are extinct. My buddy has a Mortal Kombat cabinet that he installed a board with a couple hundred old school arcade games. Its pretty sweet!
Amazing dude!... From where did you get this?, It's and Incredible History footage... THX!
Space Invaders was the first arcade machine I ever saw. The second one was Ghost Munchers. That's what Pac Man was called in Australia. They were both stand up arcade machines at a deli near my school. Later on, my local deli got a table-top version of Moon Patrol. That was a better idea for the location, because a bunch of kids could watch other people play, while lining up for their turn. The image on the screen would face player one, for their turn. Then it would face player two, for their turn.
Being born in 1972 and growing up in America in the 1980s is like winning the lottery. ✝️🇺🇸
Im 42 argentinian . So many memories of this part of my life. Love you
I miss those days. wish I knew then what I know now!
The experience growin up in the 80s and 90s was far more social... playing together in the arcades, Couch coop, skating and driving around streets ist with bikes vs today the Kids are more isolated and only connected through online media
Contrasts - All three songs play for me just fine on multiple browsers on my PC. Not sure why you wouldn't have audio.
THANKS!!! That me at Mothers pinball in Illinois. 6:33 playing defender on the far left. Thought I'd never see that again. It was on the news that night. Very cool. Thanks again.
What are the names of the songs on the video?
Thanks for the upload, this was great! The cameraman had a lot of light though cause most arcades I went to in the 1980s like at Nathan's or the local pizza shop or video rental store were like almost pitch black inside. Some bonus tidbits: it was almost as if the 1980s had a cockroach explosion cause they would be crawling around the machines no matter where I went in the 80s and don't forget the greasy joysticks and the smell of hot pizza in the air!
Wow ,thank you for the trip down memory lane:)I miss the arcades:(Kids these days have no clue:)
Buckner & Garcia. I was 7 years old and convinced my grandfather to buy me the album. Then my mom freaked out cuz it was Mother's Day and I didn't get her anything! Never made that mistake again... still loved the album!
So many quarters and so many hours spent ...... I would go back in a heartbeat !!!
WarGames + Pac-Man Fever soundtracks just bring complete perfection to your video. Thank you a lot for sharing it with everybody.
I started this in the late 80s (not early 80s) but that was the perfect time, as well, to get into gaming. I don't see many arcades open anywhere anymore.
First song is from Wargames the movie.
darklordojeda - So is the last one.
Sorry didn't watch the vid long enough. Had to hit the road. Going to watch it again now.
I was just about to say that too, darklord !!
Patrick Scott Patterson there doing a war games remake :(
Shall we play a game...
Loved the video! I can remember how much I loved that arcade smell... and the sound! I never will forget that magical feeling of walking into a crowded arcade, especially when all of the games were turned up and it was really loud. When my local arcade, Aladdin's Castle was shut down, my heart sank. I'd give anything to experience that feeling one more time. That video brings sooo many memories... thanx!!!
I would go every Sunday to the arcade in Westland mall in Hialeah Florida and I saved up all my quarters during the week to play on Sunday ! It was the best time in my childhood and today's kids will never relive those days. I had a Atari at home but nothing ever compared playing in the arcade! 1981-1983 were the best!
Man talk about a flashback !! This takes me back when i went to the arcade,timeout as a kid.I miss arcades they were a blast far as entertainment went.
Wargames (1983) music is great!
There is a place in Providence Rhode Island called 'Free Play Bar and Arcade ' You have to be 21 or over to get in and there is a $5 cover charge, but it is filled with classic 80s and 90s games, all free to play. I mean filled as in over 100 machines. If you live in the area or within a reasonable driving distance, you should check it out.
surely somewhere out there is a retro arcade where you play 8-bit games with quarters.
Not THAT hard to find some... but they aren't what they used to be.
The sad fact is that you could spend a few hours at a retro arcade, enjoying all the games, but when you walk out of there, you're right back in 2017 (or whatever year it now is)!
mcog 2006 in Berwyn IL there is an arcade where you can do that, but instead you pay 20$ and get to stay in there for as long as you want with unlimited games.
Gotta love the new adult arcades, if you have any near you look 'em up.
Not what you are thinking, but "adult" in the sense for those of us (now adults) who grew up in that era and wanting to play the classics that we have nostalgia for... with a beer.
There are a couple in my area, that have a lot of classics and serve alcohol which is perfect for socializing with the like-minded of that era.
Gallopin' Ghost
Wow! What great memories. I miss the 80's and the Arcade. Thank god for funspot. Thanks for the upload, awesome job!
LOTS!!! I can recognize LOTS of arcade games in this video:
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Pac-Man
Defender
Space Invaders
Frogger
Berzerk
Mouse Trap
Tempest
Satan's Hollow
Missile Command
Galaga
Grand Champion
Star Trek
Tron
Super Cobra
Asteroids
Phoenix
Super Breakout
...And Much, Much More!!!
That was major bad ass! Thanks so much! I almost wish had original audio. I miss all those sights and sounds. Great times!
Those early 80s kids are now working in major game studios.. Bethesda, Ubisoft, Rockstar, etc.
What a great collection of historic footage!
No emulator can beat going to an actual arcade and popping in a actual quarter,those were the days,swear if I ever win the powerball I'd open one up.
I can still remember the feel and smell of finding a great new arcade game and being with all your friends leaning on the side of the arcade watching your mate play and waiting for your turn....you'd allways do a lap of the arcade first to see what games were in and see if any of your friends were there.
We had a local arcade in central texas.
It was called GAMES GALAXY if I remember correctly.
So many people were lined up at ARCADES waiting to beat a HIGH SCORE!
There was always talk of NEW ARCADE Games that were CURRENT at the time.
Or you heard about it from a friend of a well known GAMER.
You could usually find out tips and strategies to win.
It was really the place to be!
A place to BeLong!
Yes! A place to BELONG!
DEFINITELY!
@@js6131979 Be Long!!! I could stay in this place for HOURS!!!
GATTITOWN has good games but not quite that good.
THINK LAUNDROMATS are the NEW ARCADES now.
I see a lot of CLASSIC ARCADE games from EIGHTIES to early NIGHTIES.
In Sweden we have the Arcade Association. Which basically is fighting for arcades not being classified as poker games here, you have to pay a fee of 300 USD (That is around 2870 Swedish crowns) to operate and own arcades in a public area, one of the major reasons arcades died out here before the 90's properly rolled in.
They always had these Arcades in the local malls . Next to Buster Brown & KB toy stores . Good times & probably the only time I was happy . 80s kid 😊
Cool video!
It was really cool to go to an arcade back then. There were new games just about every other week and it was the place to be on a Friday night. I miss Alladin's Castle.
Grab your quarters and let's ride our BMX bikes to the arcades. Good times.
I remember those sounds, I loved them. I was around maybe 4-5 years old, and the arcade was always the favorite part of "going shopping with my parents" lol
:( LIFE WAS BETTER
*_Y Eh_*
Yep
Jesus, Cyborg still exists. He's updated for a newer generation. Come to think of it, lots of things that started in the 80s, including arcade games, have been updated for a newer generation. So you can shut your trap, 80s kids, as you just feel old and are sick and tired of your hemorrhoids and shingles.
I'm glad to be 50. Because, at least I remember the world before it went batshit crazy.
@@unwelldanny7108 lol. Haha. We're not that old mate.
I born in 2002, but I always loved the retro things (20's to 90's); the style, fashion, cartoons, videogames, music, etc. My dad told me stories on those times, I wonder what feels playing on an arcade, it looks fun :3.
An era that can never fully be replicated. The retro arcades and barcades are cool, but the vibe just isn't the same in full because it simply can't be. The newness of an ongoing trend was as much a part of it as the games were.
These games were a great way to be somebody if you couldn't get girls.
Miss the old school arcades! When the PSX and Sega Saturn first came out I knew that was the writing on the wall for local arcades as a viable business. The beginning of the end so to speak. When home systems caught up and surpassed what arcades were getting many kids just stayed home to play the new games. The Late 70's to the mid 90's was a great time to be young and a gamer! The arcade experience at its prime was something else!!! Just one of those things where you had to be there to "get it"!
Refreshing to see someone who realizes the arcades didn't start to fade out until the PlayStation... that lines right up with reality. Yeah, there was the 1982-1984 arcade crash, but that was due to it's own weight more than anything else. Some historians claim the NES hurt the arcade, but it was very much the opposite.
Where the hell is POLYBIUS????????????
+Mary Pesik Nobody knows whether it's a myth or not. It could have just been a game that flopped hard and people made garbage up about it because they wanted to give this obscure game a weird story. You know those really obscure games like "Explorer" or "Stern's Journey" well my guess is that Polybius exists, it's just like Stern's Journey. There is not a lot of information it, but enough to make people curious. It just so happened that people wanted to turn this one into a urban tale.
Not real.
I remember Defender! Such a great game!
When there was NO coronavirus from the China.
I miss arcades. End of an amazing era. Nothing to look forward to now lol.
Great memories. I lived that life. I did an tribute installation at an art exhibit once for Arcades.
The 5 tokens for $1 dollar deal rocked.
🥲 Thanks for this here video! Brought great kick ass memories of playing arcades in the late 80s early 90s. #PlayLand #NYC
Thank you, I loved hanging out at an arcade after school!
It was cool because kids from other towns would go to the same bowling alley or Deli and hang out in the game room! Incredible times!
Thank you for this. Nostalgia maximum! The Arcades, the gas stations, the smells, the ppl, the feel, the attitude... Just a magic time.
The amount of money i spent as a kid on the Indians Jones temple of doom arcade, could probably suffice Harrison Ford's pension today lol..
Thank you for sharing 💕 💕 😇
P.S cudos for the WarGames music 🎶 🎶 ☺
Props for recognizing the WarGames music. A LOT of people come in here and ask where the songs are from, which makes me sad. Classic movie I'd hope they would have watched.