"It was long ago and it was far away, and it was so much better than it is today" I'm so happy I lived it. :)

@kramalerav

Жыл бұрын

Our minds are wired to remember good memories as being better than they actually.

@matthewallenblack

3 ай бұрын

Still would've been ridiculously cool to be a kid when these games were coming out.

I had a Galaxan 'ex rental' tabletop pub game as my kitchen table, in 1981-82 got it for £60, my Dad loved it too.

Wow Galaxians, not seen that for years. That was a childhood favourite of mine on days out to the seaside. Thanks for upload.

Galaxian is by far my favorite. Not only is it so fun, but I just think the sounds and the way the aliens swoop down is so awesome. Also I strangely love Death Race.

@horusplaysgames6384

Жыл бұрын

I was a big fan of asteroids, breakout and Space Invaders, but when I met Galaxian... That was it. Galaga was fun too, but I still miss Galaxian.

Was always impressed with Lunar Lander and the way the landscape zoomed in or panned out … made it feel larger and more epic than it was. Lots of fond 70s memories with many of these games.

always loved that Galaxian sound....many good memories

I remember Defender being massively popular too. Mind you, I think that was 1981. The sounds and the visual effects were spectacular, and they often had the volume pumped up nice and loud in the arcades. The gameplay was fast and furious. ...and of course notoriously hard.

Breakout was so addicting.

I remember playing lunar lander at science museum in San Francisco. Loved the sub game at locals Fiesta mart. Also had many versions of the home pong and breakout/super breakout. Now I have Moon Alien cocktail. Love playing it.

Defender, missile command and Galaxian is where my dinner money went 🙄

@hopebgood

2 жыл бұрын

I was really very, VERY good with Defender. Galaxian not so good and tbh I was rubbish with Missile Command.

brings back lots of memories

Great vid pal and some nice nostalgia. Obviously Space Invaders set the benchmark for all arcade games to come, but still my favourite even to this day is Galaxian.. 😁

Great Top 3 spot on, True classics ,

I'm glad that someone finally gave Radar Scope some love. I loved that game.

@finisher3x

2 жыл бұрын

I had never seen that Radar Scope game before. I would've played the hell out of that game as a young kid.

my all time favorite on arcade and atari 2600 is galaxian - masterpiece

Kids these days "I'm not gonna play those dumb boring outdated games" Parents "Fine, you can do the dishes" Kid "Like I said, there's nothing like the classics...................how do I turn this thing on?"

When the Magnavox Odyssey came out, non of us kids could believe it. Pong came out shortly. Then Tank/Tanks, Gun Fight, Boot Hill, Biplanes, etc. Space invaders and Asteroids Blew up and it was Established in Stone. The Adults proclaimed in the late 70's/early 80's that The Video Game Fad had died....(they would proclaim this over and over till the mid/late 80's). I Was blessed with being Video Gamer 1.0.. Everyone involve from Creator to Consumer, Thanks what the hell!! I Love Video Games!!! (I define that as Coin Op, Console, and of course Computer! (C64/Amiga Guy!).

3:09 Before Mortal Kombat, there was THIS. Death Race was a hated arcade back in 1976. They're very hard to find these days.

Just as the 80s video the No1 Space Invaders and No 2 Asteroids are correct. I remember seeing Space Invaders for the first time after going swimming and I was completely mesmerized as it was all new technology.

@wizzgamer

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching glad it brought back happy memories 😊

I lived in a rural area and arcade games did not get there till around 79 or 80. It was the Table Tennis game. But the early 80s the bowling alley got Donkey Kong and Pac-Man.

Have most of these (including Lunar Lander and Sea Wolf!) on my AtLegends Arcade Ultimate machine! Lunar Lander had a cool thrust level on the original arcade machine. Oh with asteroids you're meant to leave a couple of asteroids flying around but not clear them - just keep shooting the spaceships/UFOs and get lots of points.

No Tailgunner? 1979. LOVED THAT GAME.

I really liked the video. I played a lot of space invaders. Congratulations.

@wizzgamer

5 жыл бұрын

Game Genie Thanks :)

The true classics here, all "easy to play, but hard to master".

The crazy thing about Space Invaders is how it is a deeper superior game than all the games it inspired. Galaga would set a new paradigm which emphasized memorization of enemy attack patterns. But the original Space Invaders had something the successors lacked - an excitement level that ramped up do to speeding up as the level progressed. You had to strategically plan how you were going to deal with that. The way the game made you think about the interaction of speedup and the width of the attacking formation ... you just didn't get any of that from Galaxian onward.

@donovanweber6059

2 жыл бұрын

That was/is a good observation and an intelligent assessment of the facts. Speaking of facts, the fact that we happen to be talking video games changes nothing!

@sovietonion72

Жыл бұрын

Number 3 should be Number 1

@barryguff6893

11 ай бұрын

I totally disagree. As an 8-year-old (born in 1970) I found Space Invaders to be totally slow, boring and repetitive. Galaxian, on the other hand, was far superior with its faster speed, random dive bombs, colors, and sounds. My friends and I always used to say how Galaxian was what Space Invaders wished it was. :) Like Space Invaders 2.0, if you will.

#5 : "It attracted a great deal of controversy". Me : Sees it for the first time... " *YA THINK?!???!?* " LOL

If I owned a video arcade I'd call it "Arcadia's Gladiators".

Good video, and nice selection of games. I think Sea Wolf may have been the first coin-op I ever played. I'd also suggest Space Wars (1977, Cinematronics), an improved Computer Space type game. It was 2-player only, unfortunately; but a lot of fun.

@wizzgamer

5 жыл бұрын

Classic Doom Thanks :)

@timothysmith5111

3 жыл бұрын

Space Wars was very fun

Class x Breakout is one of my favourites from this time. Had Alleyway on GB as a kid and didn't lnow it wasn't the original for ages

Love Sea wolf back in the 70s. I was a natural then, now I can easilyget to the second block from the top on Stacker sometimes the top but there is something fishy about the last block.

I like the classic video games from the 70's and the 80's.

Great video.

@wizzgamer

5 жыл бұрын

Canal Win Thanks buddy :)

Wow , yeah , I remember all but 2 of these cabinets in smoky pizza joints and gas stations , incredible , less was just more back then .

You know that your getting old, when you regularly played these when they first came out! 🤔☹️😋

another game I saw often enough was Sprint 2 -1976 with the 2 steering wheels etc , it stood out

cool 👍

Takes me back

Searching for the name of a shooter game i used to, and loved, playing in the late 80s/90s. It was a galaxy shooter, but the background had constellations and we used to play the second version, so something II. Anyone?

2020 now,these bring back a flood of memories of a great time in American history.Very good post

Asteroids is #1! Space Invaders, Pong, and Breakout are classics

Galaxian!

The first game I played was pong when my parents would go to the pub they would give my Brother and I a pocket full of 20c pieces and we would sit at one of those coffee table machines and play pong sipping on cokes all day while my oldies got pissed.. I would have been perhaps 5 or 6 years old at the time. We then grew up with space invaders and asteroids and mastered them until the Atari came out which was just the ants pants in gaming at the time. Im 52 now and still play console with my sons. Never too old.

@peterquinn8419

4 ай бұрын

@retrospectivej5718 There are 2 games Im right into at the moment. One is a game called Generation Zero. Its a lesser known game but I think hugely missed. Sort of game you can sit there grinding on for hours. The other one is Conan Age of War. Its more a survival type game. I know there is still a place for the old retro games I grew up on but games of today I do think are so much better than in my day. I still get a mind blow when I think that I am actually playing a game in real time with other people who are on the other side of the planet while also being able to talk to them at the same time. The world has got so much more advanced and games certainly have kept up with the ride. I also play or have played things like GTA, 7 days to die, Need for speed and used to love all the Zombie games from the Black Ops set. I even loved the one that had the zombie one called I think Colosseum. What about yourself? What games do you like and play?

I played all of these, except the Lunar Lander one, which I never saw....

The only problem with these games isn’t because if how dated they are (if anything, they’re actually TIMELESS), but because half of these games (except for Galaxian (which might as well be the predecessor of Galaga and like Pac-Man and Klonoa, Galaga is a gaming series that makes Namco a really underrated gaming company compared to the likes of Nintendo and Sega), Pong, Breakout and Space Invaders, which are also timeless!) are too underrated for their own good.

My favorite was Space Invaders & then Galaxians. I never liked Asteroids.

3:37 It was actually written by Steve Wozniac - Jobs' co-founder of Apple. Jobs actually conned Woz by telling him he was only getting paid a small amount for the game, and paid him half that amount, when Woz actually designed all of the hardware and wrote the entire game himself. Jobs did literally nothing. Woz found out that Jobs had stiffed him years later.

I liked all those games but I would have to have a top 15 to include starship1, Boot Hill ,star fire ,space wars and star hawk, and I was surprised that none of the driving games where there like lemans or fire truck or night driver just to name a few

Space invaders at first place ? Like, of course.

Lunar Rescue, Defender and Phoenix my favs💥💥

I've just bought a bar top arcade machine I can't keep off galaxian 800 points for 2 reds and a yellow whoosh

Pong defined the 70s, and Breakout (and its variations) were merely variations of it. Asteroids was built on the Lunar Lander platform and totally overshadowed Space Invaders. Galaxian was popular, but was considered more difficult. We all preferred Galaga when it came out. Tempest is not mentioned in this or the 80s video, but it was an important game that doesn't get enough mention.

I love computer space 1:55 1971 best year ever

My favorite game got 1st :D.

Space Invaders at 7 11 all night long! 👍

Completely unrelated, but what's the name of the song at the end of the video (6:07)?

Computer Space is freaking me out

It's all I had as a kid

FACT: Death race is one of the first ever video games to include screaming

Can't believe i forgot about super breakout. That was one of my favorites

I have seen that Atari is now also active in other areas. Has anyone ever read or found out anything about it?

lunar lander was outta this world back then

My childhood

Can you pliz make top 10 16bit open world games.Awesome video

@wizzgamer

5 жыл бұрын

Rep tail Studio Thanks I will make a Top 10 16-bit open world games sometime in the future.

@the-notorius

5 жыл бұрын

@@wizzgamer thanks

I can get extra life & six flags on Galaxian

44 anniversary of space invaders

50 anniversary of pong

I have played them all. If you mastered the Lunar Lander, you could include it in your resume to join NASA.

@nickpellatt

3 жыл бұрын

Lunar Lander was very difficult for me, cant remember ever landing. I would have been about 8 years old tho

@isaaccuenca3429

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickpellatt I never got it either XDXD. I would have about 10.

@jamessullivan4391

3 жыл бұрын

It was harder than shit. More sophisticated than games of its time. I would play It now.

You were playing the labyrinth zone theme at the start

1:30 Let me see whether I can trade some folded movie posters for that game!

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I really loved this game.could anyone please tell me,the cheapest way possible how I could get it and what game console vintage to buy.thanks

@harrycallahan3391

3 жыл бұрын

I would say the vintage Atari console would get you as close to some of the games shown here..

@lunes-1

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrycallahan3391 thanks.will look at it🤗

Easy guess for #1, the all time classic

I figured I'd correct some history of breakout. Steve Jobs only involvement, was he had another dude named Steve Wozniak, that was the genius hardware and software engineer that actually built breakout when it was all done in circuitry and jobs lied to him stating he would split the '$800' Atari payed him for when it was really $8000. Jobs was a douche and Woz was the real genius behind Apple, and a classic little video game named Breakout.

Era como vivir un momento en rayos X ......🥺

Music at the start sounded more like mid eighties Nintendo.

I imagine arcades during this time were a license to make money

wizzgamer, i'm afraid you're incorrect with radar scope. That game was released in 1980, not 1979. You probably don't care though, because you might have already known that.

Galaxian the best! 1

1. Space Invaders

Name of track pls

where's tank commander?

☝️ HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN YEAH THE COACH FREED IT ALRIGHT THE POLTERGEIST DIDN'T HE !!!!

4:25 resembles galaga

That Sonic 'Labyrinth Zone' filler music was a big mistake. Should have used something less annoying and more akined to Atari to match your video.

Atari apparently brings out a crypto currency or it is already on the market. Did anyone notice anything about it?

Need help with the title of an F1 arcade game in the 80's, it's a top down racing game like Road Fighter but probably much older and it's back and white as far as I remember. In the arcade you play it with a steering wheel and one gas pedal. The arcades here used to lined up with these in the 80's, can't believe that I can't even find a photo of it in Google image.

@tastetherainbow9643

3 жыл бұрын

Gran Trak 10 perhaps

How about that Pong hey

You might get a better game for your quarter from the mechanical sea devil game than the video sea would game s version).hown. There were a lot of examples in Rheobeth(so?) DE around 198 (including what must have been customized extra large units). Not sure we need computer space and pong, but what do you replace them with? Boot Hill or night driver (early 3dish driving game. So early the 2600 port closely resembles the arcade version).

You can tell the footage was taken from MAME and not from a cabinet. For example, the asteroids game looks totally different on cabinet then on MAME, with the shots glowing, and their being an outline on all objects on the screen when moving. Not a negative, its best to see that actual footage as opposed to the emulated version to see what it was really like

Death race attracted controversy?? So even back then i guess there were already those who complained about everything.

I didn't know that there was arcade games in the 70s thought it was only for 80s and 90s

@MrBruh281

3 жыл бұрын

Sahra Somaliland dumbass

gunfight