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http://www.PatrickScottPatterson.com - 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.
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My favorite game of all time was Pole Position.
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I can recall the smell the arcades had back then... the aroma of heated circuitry and new carpet. And the cacophony of sounds that never stopped, not just from the sound effects from the machines, but the sounds of levers and buttons and steering wheels being pulled, pushed, and twiddled. Quarters were the only important form of currency for kids back then. You always got your expendable money converted into quarters... I can remember my pockets being full of them.
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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.
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Awesome
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I miss the last starfighter game.
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Defender, Defender, Defender, Defender, Defender, Defender, Stargate, Defender...
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That brought back lots of teen memories. THANK YOU!
What was the name of everyone'a favorite 80's arcade. I can only recall the local ones in my town and the town next door. "The Landing" and "The Electric Connection". There were others but they are slipping my mind at the moment. -
FYI - I recognized parts of the first and last song in this video were used in the movie Wargames. Not the whole songs but just a part of them. I have watched Wargames many times so I recognized it as soon as I heard them.
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This was fuckin GREAT!! Who ever throws thumbs down CLEARLY didn't live it and don't know what the fuck they are doing . THANK YOU!!
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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"!
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why ya wana go back to the 80s games?? 2016 is is the best time now!! Ps4!! Xbox1! Insane graphics and sound!
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I was a video game junkie in the 80s, started in like 76 for real, in the 80s I once spent about 30 dollars on vids, What a mistake..that was in one afternoon....
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surely somewhere out there is a retro arcade where you play 8-bit games with quarters.
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Too bad the cities and towns pushed out arcade games. Was a time you could run into games in every pizza joint, convenience stores, etc. Then they started banning them and soon there were none.. like today.. :( what a shame... And yes, I lived in the late 70s and 80s as a kid so got to experience this first hand... It's what made going to the beaches so much fun, the arcades. :)
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excellent collection
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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.
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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.
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this is better than PAX EAST...
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Fantastic!