I actually worked for Bally/Midway from 1977-1982. I was in the factory in Franklin Park, Il, at the end of the production line as a repair tech, and later lead tech repairing ckt boards that came off the line with problems. They did all the fab work there from board etching to drilling to component placement to wave soldering. Boards that passed initial tests went to the Belmont facility for installation in the cabinets. The failures came to my department for troubleshooting. I wrote the field service manual for Galaxian. So, Space invaders through Galaga and Burger Time and Rally-X I worked on. I left the company as the arcade crash was happening. I have many very fond memories of that period! Some, not so fond-The Home Video Arcade game, AKA Astrocade, from Nutting & Assoc was one not so fond memory. :-).

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

That is awesome. Sounds like a great time to be an arcade fan. Thank you so much for sharing your story:-)

@kensukadventures628

Жыл бұрын

were all the machines made in the usa then shipped worlwide, or did for example machines in teh uk get made closer to the uk?

@stevedodder490

Жыл бұрын

@@kensukadventures628 As I recall, the game boards at least were made in the USA. There were options for UK currency settings by DIP switches on board and chip sets to match. Since the cabinets were made here too, I can only assume they were assembled and shipped, but I'm not sure since the looked the same on the outside. But I don't know for sure. Wasn't my department. 🙂

@youarepredictable

7 ай бұрын

@stevedodder49 Wow, that's cool! Can I ask what you ended up doing career wise after those days?

@stevedodder490

7 ай бұрын

@@youarepredictable After Midway, I got another job as an electronics technician for a phone company in Arizona. I worked in the return/repair department for a bit, then in engineering where I worked on prototypes before product release. Worked there until I burned out, 20 years, and learned a new trade-Computer Aided Drafting, which I'm doing now.

We had Aladdin's Castle in our mall, so many happy memories..

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

So do I, I the ours closed up about 25 years ago

@kristopherfair3175

4 жыл бұрын

That's what we had. It started out great, then they turned it from an arcade to a family fun center. Ruined it

@mariobarrera420

3 жыл бұрын

I went to one as well in Corpus Christi at mall, and i recently found one of there coins in the street

@ManahManah77

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariobarrera420 cool. I guess it's one of those things that I've only found out recently were more widespread than I thought. I live about an hour west of the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina. We had ours in the mall here, right next to the food court.

@dreadlegend7365

3 жыл бұрын

The Aladdin's Castle i went to was at Northpark Mall in the Quad Cities, Iowa back in the 80s. I loved it every time i went.

Gorf is my favorite game of all time. I played this game for hours on end at a convenience store in our Texas town back in the day. I had been looking for a Gorf machine to restore for a while, but didn't have any luck locating one. I took matters into my own hands and scratch-built my own Gorf machine in 2015. Although it's not original, it's as close to the real thing as i am going to get. Very happy with it.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome, congratulations. It's amazing how arcade games were everywhere back in the early 80s. Convenience stores, department stores such as Kmart, restaurants, etc. people who didn't live through it wouldn't understand.

@rocconorth

4 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries so true...and every mall had, at least, one dedicated arcade room with a minimum of 30 machines. Some even with hundreds!

@LeoMidori

2 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It's true. As a little kid I remember playing Virtua Fighter for the first time in an A&P grocery store, of all places, back in the day.

@RafaKotarba1980

11 ай бұрын

Please! Take photos or make a video and post a link here. I would love to see your machine.

I didn't grow up with them, but I still love golden age arcade games. I love games like Asteroids, Galaga, Gorf, Pole position, Donkey Kong, Pac-man, Popeye, Mario Bros, Berserk, Centipede, Missle Command, Excite bike, and many others. Those games are timeless.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Those are all essential games if you are a retro gaming fan. Not a bad game in the bunch

@nmpltleopardi

Жыл бұрын

Tapper; Burger Time; Bomb Jack; Robotron 2082; Bubble Bobble; Joust; Defender; Dig Dug; Pooyan; DKong Jr.; Ms. Pacman; Spy Hunter; Mappy; Space Harrier; QBert; Mario Bros.; Millipede; Tron. Absolute insanity. Most kids I knew started doing errands in their neighborhoods just to spend it all in these machines. Some kids pretended to know the guys with the top scores hehe. Better to be a kid now in theory because you can load all these up for free in mame, but the magic is gone.

Just discovered your channel Taking me back to my youth in late 70s early 80s 🕹📻👍👍👍👍

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much glad you enjoyed it

I remember playing this game at my Grandad's gas station/bait shop in Texas when I was a kid. There is no telling how many quarters I dropped into that thing. Thanks for the video, it brought back some great memories.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, thanks for sharing your story

I fell in love with GORF thanks to the VIC-20. What amazing memories! Thank you for such a great review.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

So did I, thank you for watching

I remember playing this game many times over the years, and never getting much higher ranked than Space Cadet. Ah Gorf....you brutal brutal beast.

@sandal_thong8631

Жыл бұрын

I won one level but not two, I think.

I had it for my ColecoVision, I was floored by how bright and colorful it was.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

So was I, it was a really good conversion

@AIex_Kidd

4 жыл бұрын

Same here bro.... and almost 40 years later I can't forget the amazing sensation after beating the flag ship for the first time! That awesome explosion.... 💥 So Sweet...

@forgetyourlife

4 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Who was working at Colico? seems they had the best on looking games for awile. I remember the controller not being so great though.

Played the hell out of this back in the day! I realty like this "History of..." series, learning alot about the games I used to play growing up. Never knew this was supposed to be a tie-in to Star Trek.

I remember the arcade version saying things like "I am GORF" and "I'll eat your quarters"! Also, I've only done it a few times but it is totally possible to destroy the space ship with a single shot!

@jasonbell791

3 жыл бұрын

I think both my self and my mom did that once on the vic 20. It's also possible to "erase" the flag ship and not have any idea where the target is any more.

My uncles use to own a night club, WAY BACK IN THE DAY and they had a GORF machine in the club. When I'd spend weekends with my cousins, we'd go with my uncles in the morning while they cleaned up from the previous night and prepared for the upcoming evening. To keep my cousin's and I occupied and out of their hair while they did so, they would open the GORF machine and rack us up a ton of credits and we'd sit there for hour upon hours playing this masterpiece, over and over and over!! Love this game. :D

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

That is awesome, wish I had an uncle like that :-)

My absolute favorite game as a kid. It still holds up today IMO.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It absolutely does

Thanks for this! I, too had the Vic20 version, and played it so much that I would challenge myself to regularly destroy every sprite of the flag ship until only the final, flashing sprite was floating back and forth- The actual “target” sprite you had to hit to clear the level. One thing I will never forget- In the manual, I remember it saying something like “If you beat this game, expect a call from the Air Force- The REAL Air Force!” 7-year old me was disappointed... :)

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, I will recall that in the manual. Of course the manual was the last thing I looked at :-)

Another great choice to cover. Lots of historical context with this one, some of which I learnt from the video alone. Once again, excellent work.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate the nice words. I always enjoyed this game even as a kid

@theanomaly5228

4 жыл бұрын

No worries, I have enjoyed the choices as of late because of the nostalgia they bring

One of my favs and the first cabinet in my collection when I began a few years ago.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I always wanted to own an actual arcade game. Congrats

Played this when it came out.. spent many hours on it and have great memories from those days. 11 years old and hooked on Video games 😂 but life was good . Arcade1up what are you doing? This has to be a cabinet!

How have I not discovered this channel sooner? I've never played Gorf before, but it sounds very interesting. Awesome!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice words, hope you enjoy the rest of my content

Love your stuff man. Hope you do a video on Berzerk or Wizard of Wor in the future.

@scottbreon9448

4 жыл бұрын

@Marshall W Indeed. Although Stratovox was the very first arcade game to have digitized speech

Thankyou, even the sound brings me back! Thanks 👍

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

Gorf...the game that laughed at you dying...

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, you got that right

@footofjuniper8212

4 жыл бұрын

"Ha ha ha ha...too bad space cadet..."

@scottbreon9448

4 жыл бұрын

True, although Wizard of Wor did that as well. LOL

@footofjuniper8212

4 жыл бұрын

Also, Space Fury ("Sooo, a creature for my amusement! Prepare for battle!") and creepy Sinistar ("Beware! I live! Run, coward!").

@namco003

4 жыл бұрын

@@footofjuniper8212 "I HUNGER!" RON HOWARD!! RUN! RUN! RUN!

PatmanQC, I was just exposed to your channel approximately ten minutes ago. I came across the above video for GORF somewhere outside of KZread, recalled playing this game numerous times as a young whippersnapper, and decided to watch the video. Upon opening it up on the KZread website, I noticed your username, and I wondered if you were Quad Cities based, for Davenport is my hometown. At some point early in the video, I thought I might want to subscribe to the channel, and made a mental note to check it out after viewing. Then I discovered you had a Commodore VIC 20, just like I had, and GORF was one of your first games for the VIC 20, unlike my first game "Adventure", but I think I did eventually acquire it. So, a VIC 20, I then was more compelled to check out your channel. Eventually, I discovered in the comments that you have, or have had, some connection to the Quad Cities, so that settled the issue of subscribing to your channel which I will perform immediately upon completion of this comment. I am looking forward to viewing more of your videos.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I've been in the quad cities all my life. At least you attributed the QC as quad cities most people think I'm from Québec. Sounds like you may be my brother from another mother. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for subscribing. I've been here all my life currently reside in Moline. Always nice to speak to another local on here. Cheers.

@avonlady30

Жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries According to Bob Seger "it" happens there in Moline!

I always loved Gorf! Thanks for this video!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I first played Gorf in a bowling alley restaurant. Definitely liked the variety in one cabinet. You pack a lot of great info in your videos.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

First game I remember playing was the Vic-20 version of Gorf. Thank you very much for this

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, thanks for watching

Gorf was my favorite game in that that timeframe. Still love it!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

So do I it's a classic

I had this game on my Colecovision. It was so much fun! ... and the arcade cabinet, what a beauty!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 жыл бұрын

You are right, it was beautiful

Oh man you picked a good one this time :) They had Gorf at the Land of OZ in Duck Creek Plaza for most or all of that arcade's existence, was one of my regular games :)

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

You know as I was reading this I thought land of Oz? That sounds familiar. Then you mentioned Duck Creek Plaza and I knew exactly where that was at :-) The only game I can recall being there was APB but I love going to that arcade

i love GORF!! thanks for the history. I'm checking out more. The GORF was super fun to play especially in the arcade, the cabinet rocked.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

I've done a bit of coding for the SC-01, it's an interesting chip because it uses phonemes to form words. You select sounds from a register to form words, it takes a little work to make things sound "right" sometimes. That same chip was used by Gottlieb for Q*bert by the way.

Great video dude and i will sub as i love these old arcade games..

Well done sir -another great video! Thank you

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Thank you so much

You have a new fan,i am from Romania and i'm absolutely crazy about your videos. Verry good chanel. You are great bro 😎

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from the USA. You're the first person I've spoken with from Romania so cheers. Thanks for the nice words

"She felt that the plot of the movie ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture") would not make a very good arcade game." Amazingly, the plot of the movie didn't make a very good movie, either. =)

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more! LOL

@ballyastrocade5672

2 жыл бұрын

"Star Trek: The Motion(less) Picture", a.k.a. "Where Nomad Has Gone Before" :-D

I don't know how I missed this, Gorf has always been my goto machine for classic arcade games. GORF GORF GORF!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 жыл бұрын

For me as well when I was a kid because you get more bang for your buck. Hope you enjoyed it

The Flag Ship is the side view of the yellow Galaxian leaders.

I consider myself very lucky to be around at this great time. I was a student at the University of Georgia from 1979-1983, part of the Golden age of video games. We had arcades all over Athens, GA. There were “rock star” players whom students would gather around and watch. Space Invaders was huge and the best players knew how many shots it took before a spaceship zoomed overhead that you could shoot for extra points. I was best at Galaga and Gorf, but of course, not the best because I had a life beyond video games. I got pretty high on Gorf, definitely “Space Colonel” but maybe “Space General” but it could also be nerve wracking!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 жыл бұрын

I never got anywhere that High so kudos for that

Damn. Way more informative than I would've thought for such a simple game from the past. One thing in particular is..............The clothing styles back then. OMG. Seriously though. That part about the digitized speech was the bane of many of us. "BAD MOVE SPACE CADET! HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it

Loved this vid! I only saw the game in arcades once or twice, but both times it had a lot of people watching. :D

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

As ALWAYS very good mini docu's i began playng in 1983 (was a 10 year old) so i played all the arcades of the golden😇age... This brings back A LOT of good memories Thanks👍👍👍for posting & the time you put in these videos Thanks🙏😇again

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I started playing probably 1978 or 1979 so we are probably pretty close the same age. Thanks a lot, it is a lot of work but I enjoy what I do. If you could share my videos around I would appreciate it. Thanks

@jorgecuelar3391

4 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yeah i already shared the video (and others on your channel to my other oldschool gaming friends) i dont comment much but i do ENJOY the trips down memory lane😇 Thanks👍👍👍again Pd i AM suscribed to your channel😇

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome, thank you so much for sharing it around

I have one of these games in my basement. It actually is a weird arcade game because it has a card cage with a bunch of circuit boards which do different things. And it is not "digitized speech", it is "synthesized speech". It is generated on the fly by the SC-01 chip.

This was my favorite and I played this M-F after school when I stopped at the arcade on my way home. On a typical day I'd make it to Colonel, on a good day I would make it General... and one time I made it to Warrior and I held the #1 spot on the leaderboard. I wish I could afford to buy the arcade version, I see them being sold every so often.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

10 ай бұрын

One of my favorites as well

I miss GORF! I used to play it on the arcade in Barry Island Butlins as a child with it taunting me. I played it on the Colecovision last night at the Cambridge Museum of Computing History! I made it to SPACE COLONEL!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, good job. I would love to go to that exhibit, it sounds great

We have a Gorf cabinet at my local arcade, it's a fun little game and I always play it first when I go

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I always enjoyed it

Pacman came out in 80, gorf and galaga in 81 , and ms pac jan 82. Ms pac I think was the phenomenon. Most arcade games ever sold. :D I always thought until watching your video and checking dates that galaga came after ms pac in 81 since pacman was made in a wooden cabinet, about 1/2 of ms pacs seem to be wood and the other 1/2 was made from a particle board. Galaga was mostly made with the particle board. Awesome video as always. I learned more about Gorf watching this video than I never knew. I hardly ever got past the first and second stage.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you but Pac-Man was a worldwide phenomenon. I can recall going into an arcade and there being four or five of these cabinets side-by-side all being played.

@spunkybruiser

4 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Oh pacman was definitely a huge phenomenon, Probably the biggest in my opinion even though ms. pac sold more. You said in the video though gorf came out between asteroids and pacman. I thought you meant to say ms pac. Do not mind me though. I love the channel, the stories, and the information you research. You even taught me something about ms pac after I looked up a few dates. Truly a great channel. :) Keep it up. I thumb up every video.

I was playing this the other day on MAME. You went to the arcades because that's where the hardware was . Ports for home were invariably poor cousins albeit nice cousins you could play with. AFAIK those early 8 bit games were written in assembly language or even machine code . You can't explain those days to kids today - although my kids sort of get it.

Most of my home playing of Gorf was on 2600. Also on my must play when I see a arcade cab.

Gorf fascinated me when I was a kid and I discovered it back in 1981 because of the computerized speech. It was one reason that I developed an application that I still run today, a Voice internet Service that reads emails and web pages over the phone.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome that the game inspired you to do something like that. Thanks for sharing your story

I remember working at a Pizza Hutt back in the day and in the arcade room, Gorf would be blasting. It was so loud and when I was closing the place with a coworker, it would creep me out because it would go off during the "insert coin" screen.

Played this a lot early 80's in the Big Top Amusements (also known as rendevouz later) at Berwick Holiday caravan park in berwick upon tweed. Happy days indeed.

This was definitely my favorite space shooter due to the different levels.

I just played this some weeks back at the Silverball Museum in Asbury Park. Still fun today, and rather challenging! Busting up that flagship just makes you feel like a champion.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%,That was always really fun

I had the Vic20 version as a little kid and I probably haven't seen it since about 1980. Holy nostalgia, Batman!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, thanks

Only arcade game I ever became excellent at. It was a great feeling to have people gather around me as I reached "Space Avenger".

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

11 ай бұрын

Awesome.Kudos

The new Indy-developed 2600 game (GORF Arcade) is amazing. Plays great and has options for a few new variations.

Thanks Pat!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I mastered this game in the arcade back in the day. All I needed was 1 quarter to have my fill of Gorf ... though it cost me a fortune in quarters to get to that point🙂🙂🙂

Gorf is my absolute all-time favorite video arcade game.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It is definitely a classic

One of my favorites!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Mine as well it's a classic

Jamie released the source code to GORF a while back. GORF was written using TERSE which is based on the FORTH language, with some assembly for speed. I've been involved in some Gorf reverse engineering work, albeit not to a great extent.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Oh really? I didn't know that

Ah, remembering my old birthday parties at Aladdin's Castle with my friends, and a free $50 worth of tokens a piece.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 жыл бұрын

$50 apiece? Holy crap, I wish we were friends growing up

ALF stands for Alien Life Form. Great video! We had the 5200 version of Gorf.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct, my bad. Thank you

Gorf on Vic-20 was my first game and my favorite out of all the carts I had at the time.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I Owned it for the Vic 20 as well and it was really good

The local YMCA (Jordan in Indianapolis) had a console by the vending machines. I was enthused by the different modes of game play, but I was six and not good enough to get past the first stage.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, this was back when arcade games were literally everywhere :-)

People won’t understand how important GORF was unless they were around at the time. It was like having Captain Kirk in the Millennium Falcon because of it having already established games as levels, first crossover,first forbidden door. GORF should be in the conversation for genuine arcade legend that’s was so far ahead of it’s time we haven’t got to that time yet!

very much loved Gorf,first time ever playing it was at a discount store called "Hills" in Princeton,WV way before they moved to Mercer Mall and then later closed. Ah,the good ol' days.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

The Golden age of arcade, thanks for sharing your story

@1337penguinman

4 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I miss the 80s. Where every Pizza place and many restaurants in general had at least a couple Arcade machines.

One of the greatest arcade games ever! Shame my home cabinet doesn't have it. Must download pronto! Great video by the way very interesting thank you.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice word, glad you enjoyed it

I remember playing Gorf on out Vic 20 computer.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I had for my Vic 20 as well it was really good

OK.... I had NEVER even heard of this game until I saw your video here.... Now I actually have the game on the Defender 40th Anniversary arcade 1up..... So fricken cool!!!!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, it's a lot of fun

Fun Fact, many episodes of 80s tv series Silver Spoons showed Gorf, which was a game the kid in the show owned and was in his living room.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I can recall that,I thought he had the coolest living room ever :-)

I used to play this in a brasserie in Montreal after work, and I had the highest score possible on the machine. Eventually, I set the highest score on every GORF machine in town that I could find. I was really disappointed when they were taken out of circulation because GORF was the only game that I became really proficient on. LOL I miss those days!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

That's fantastic

Great game. People crowded around it in my neck of the woods because it was multiple games in one. And as always there were people that could play it endlessly.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I always played it as well

Gorf always seemed to give you value for money. If you knew where to sit for certain levels you could last quite a while. Thanks for this Space Cadet, all hail the supreme Gorfian Empire.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

That's why I liked it, it seemed I could get four games for the price of one

Quite an interesting game this. Had lots of variety. Played this a lot as a kid.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

So did I, it was a lot of fun

The voices are synthesized, not digitized.

One of my favorites! Showbiz Pizza standard, this became my quarter eater!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I used to love going there, that was the first place I saw it Dragon's lair

@matturban9103

4 жыл бұрын

Me and brother hung out/worked there. He played Billy Bob for birthday parties some. We loved the place.

@ThinkerOnTheBus

2 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries At the time, it was an awesome game, regardless of the simplistic, and minimalistic rudimentary control scheme it utilized, and it still remains an awesome game to this day. However, when it was first available to play, the people standing around the cabinet to watch the gameplay could get fairly crowded. If I recall correctly, I believe that may have been the first time I saw a secondary monitor mounted atop of a game cabinet so more people could watch the gameplay. I think Showbiz Pizza hurt themselves by lowering the number of games they had in their arcade. It seems the quantity of game cabinets dipped down to approximately twenty percent of what they offered previously.

There's a working cabinet of this downtown at 1984, a local arcade museum. First time I saw it in the wild was at a gas station in the 1980s.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how arcade games were literally everywhere back then. Gas stations, Kmart, Target, etc.

Had this for my c64, it was amazing

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it was

I remember seeing this back in the day and wondering just what in the world it was. I’d seen Vanguard in a laundromat, and the tiny amount of speech in that blew my mind. By comparison Gorf was like a book on tape! I never played it, though. That first screen with the blue just does not work with my eyes. Everything gets lost and muddled in it, like I’m watching a slow motion seizure from inside my brain.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I wasn't aware how much speech was in the game until I did this video. You are right, there is a ton in their

I owned this game at 14 years old. i could even get the big monsters that dance across the top.

Gorf was a great game. The multi game feature made it stand out, even if it was just cloning other games. I don’t recall any other games of that early era where a single quarter got you such a variety.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 жыл бұрын

This was always my go to game when I was low on quarters just for the fact that I had four different games I could play

@bobbyricigliano2799

2 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Man, I was always low on quarters!

It's always cool to hear about game developers who are women, especially in the early days. I can't imagine what kind of headwinds they faced back then, considering how it is even now. I hope she's very proud of Gorf!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I think she is, She always seems eager to talk about it from what I've seen

@ILoooooveCamels

4 жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries that's great! Thanks for sharing.

Loved Gorf! "Gorfian Empire"!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

So did I, it was a fun game to play

I found this in my orthodontist's office. I thought the speech was impressive but the game itself simple if difficult.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It was very innovative for its time

Favorite arcade game of my youth!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

6 ай бұрын

It's a classic

"Long live go-erf!" It's funny that there were and are SO many games that are very similar to Galaxians but they couldn't included one of those instead of "the" Galaxian to get around the Atari license.

Me and my cousin use to wear this game out. We would ride on our bikes a few blocks away to the local bowling alley to play this game.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like me :-)

I wasn’t able to play it in the arcades, but thoroughly enjoyed it on my Atari VCS.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Very good conversion but I missed the voices

I don't ever want to know how much money I spent on this game when I was 14 years old lol, thanks for the video :D

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, you and me both. Thank you

Loved this game, one of the many that ate all my pocket money back in the day !

I’ll never forget my parents got me ColecoVision for my birthday which came with Donkey Kong of course.. The other two games I got at first were Centipede(which I already was familiar with) and Gorf(which I requested because one of my neighbors said it was good..) I was surprised at just how good it was.. I was so in awe of the flag ship scene lol And the ranking system was a tremendous idea.. It was in retrospect like a greatest hits of shooters Galaga meets Space Invaders meets Gyruss..

@ThinkerOnTheBus

2 жыл бұрын

Did you have the Roller Controller for Centipede? I think it came with a different game than Centipede, although logically one would think Centipede to be a leading contender for inclusion. I always wanted it, but I don't recall why I never acquired one. I had most of the other expansions for my Colecovision: Expansion Module #1 - The Atari 2600 adapter; Expansion Module #2 - driving controller with steering wheel & gas pedal; Expansion Module #3 - The Adam Computer; and I even had the Super Action Controllers which were a much superior controller than the originals just based upon the joystick alone. They also were suppose to have that Super Game Module I had plan on getting that was a different format of game storage than cartridge, and it could holder more data than the cartridges, and it also added RAM to the console, but if I recall correctly, I believe it was canceled, and replaced by the Adam Computer Module.

Bite the dust, Space Cadet.

I play two or three three-life games almost every day. This game never gets boring!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

11 ай бұрын

It was always a lot of fun for me

I loved this game back in the day. Good times.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a classic

Played this a whole lot in the winter of '81. Never could make it to the flagship though.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

I did a few times but not very often

Am I mistaken or was GORF the one and only arcade game to feature the 'quark' shooter. It took a while to get used to but d@mn, it was nice to be able to shoot again without waiting for your on screen shot to reach the top of the screen. I loved this feature but I honestly can not think of another game that used this.

Gorf is a great game

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It's in my top 10 for sure

I only ever remember seeing this game one time ever.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 жыл бұрын

It was pretty popular here in the Midwest

Correction the 5200 is analog control so it moves at whatever speed you want. As long as you have the actual analog joystick and a steady hand it might be better than the A800. Most plays use emulation on youtube so controles arent accurate. The player TB303 on KZread has it if anyone wants to see. Only moves as fast as you move the stick. Thx

This game was at the 1/2 Price Store when I was a kid. I can still hear it saying INSERT COIN!!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 жыл бұрын

LOL