All us folks who have poured our entire lives into creating these games that have enhanced so many lives over the years are all struggling to find work now due to AI. Things that took us a lifetime to learn, years of college and subsequent debt, all the insane amount of work, sacrificed life balance, pouring ourselves into this craft of passion...GPT could fart out any one of these games in seconds with perfect code and simultaneously send us the email informing us we've been laid off and generate a legitimately impressive picture of a middle finger with a tattoo of Mario peeing on your mom...all at the same time. For free. Hello Burger King! I never worked a drive-thru before! This ought to be exciting and I'm totally going to able to pay my bills with this napkin with a $ sign drawn on it! F!#%!@*&!!!
@licoricewhip2 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing. I'm a fly on the wall of pinball history!
@joannysantiagolopez103310 күн бұрын
Lyza
@m2svirtual38411 күн бұрын
I used to endlessly play Bonzai Run at the Balboa Fun Zone (I think, the Bay Arcade?) near Newport Beach CA. Probably circa 1990. Hundreds of hours of play time over the entire summer. Every sound that game made is embedded in my head lol... Seems crazy to run across this video, but thank you so much for it! I really wish I could play it again.. it's definitely near the top of my bucket list!
@dimwit81814 күн бұрын
and to think that attractive model is now collecting social security. How'd that happen? :O
@screwthenet16 күн бұрын
So amazing to see 3 dimensional games back in the early mid 1980s that looked so good and cool. I never got to play some of those show, but wow would I have liked to have if I could go back ^<^
@screwthenet16 күн бұрын
SHE WILL ALWAYS BE AWESOME AND HAWT! I think I played that pinball machine a few times long long LONG ago. ^<^
@screwthenet16 күн бұрын
A pinball machine that gives you tokens as winnings is AWESOME!I Never heard of that, but I wish more had that feature throughout the years. NICE! ^<^ BE WELL!
@rocznik8318 күн бұрын
Arcade games in the eighties seem to have been more varied and appealing to a much broader audience. Pretty much every game had somethin new and origiinal going on. Fast forward to the nineghties and it's all Street Fighter 2 clones and pay-per-race driving games. Bleh...
@illyth6323 күн бұрын
The voiceover guy sounds like the Codex reader from Mass Effect.
@DemonDriver3123 күн бұрын
Xion cooper said it best"I dont want reality I want fun". Thats whats missing in games today too much real not enough fun.
@IndycarArgentina26 күн бұрын
thank you for video...
@g1234538Ай бұрын
Found your channel from your comment on the high speed camera teardown, all your footage from high speed and normal speed cameras is great! You seem to be a big enthusiast in them - and pinball! Just wondering, why does the mirror move back and forth? Did Arri patent the mirror shutter or something and they had to do something else? I figured splitting it up like this wouldn't be desirable at all, especially since this camera was made with a mechanism so silent it didn't need a blimp. But this adds another thing that spins and moves back and forth.
@duncanfbrownАй бұрын
Well it's possible this helps make it even more quiet, but I think really the biggest advantage is that it is way more compact. Compare an ACL to the Arri 16S, for instance,. That angled spinning mirror takes up a lot of room. Secondary benefit: when an ACL shutter is closed, no light reaches the film. When an Arri 16S shutter is "closed" light can still leak around the mirror and expose the frame of film sitting there. (Really only a critical issue in things like time lapse and stop motion.)
@polycube868Ай бұрын
I thought for a second it was Techdweeb in the beginning.
@PresidentChristopherАй бұрын
Awwwww, the girl playing Stargate IS ADORABLE! I wish I could touch her head in real life (because she is so cute)!
@owlnonymous2 ай бұрын
A prototype Whirlwind and a young Python. Cool!
@captainkevski5662 ай бұрын
Those were the days. ❤❤
@brendanjamieson2 ай бұрын
So good. Thank you so much for archiving this.
@1940limited2 ай бұрын
Seems he's single clutching the range stick. How is he doing that?
@lifewater9892 ай бұрын
Reading about Steve’s career and his impact on pinball makes me feel like he should be the world record holder as the provider of more hours of fun and enjoyment than any one else in history. What a legend.
@Legend813a3 ай бұрын
Williams got major mileage out of their sound chip, scame sound effects from pinball tables to video games
@jiving00783 ай бұрын
Would you have any for sale?
@eckteckteckk1713 ай бұрын
How ironic WB news
@QuadriderFMX3 ай бұрын
Just picked up a RFM, and this is so cool to relive the moment and excitement when it was released. Thanks for sharing Duncan!
@bbfrancis233 ай бұрын
6 months to a year? Lol people are still playing these games
@marty6393 ай бұрын
Babe ruth
@tarstarkusz4 ай бұрын
Saying 1990 was the 60th anniversary of pinball is a bit disingenuous for the guy in the video to say. The first pinball machine was in 1931, so there's that. But really, early Pinball machines were not pinball. These were not games of skill for the purpose of entertainment, they were games of chance played for the gambling aspect. It's not the gambling part that makes them not pinball. You can gamble based on any modern pinball machine. It's the game of chance aspect. Unlike Pinball, it is not a game of skill. There is little to no skill involved. Even when the machines had flippers, they so far apart that it was just luck if you could hit the ball using the flipper.
@tarstarkusz4 ай бұрын
Where were they supposed to be viewed? Did they send this on VHS to anyone who happened to write to them for some reason?
@logan-el6hl4 ай бұрын
0:00 a battle alien shi- (cuts it out completely)
@Interstellar-in5wb4 ай бұрын
Her voice is amazing. If Lt. Jae had ever had a speaking part on TNG, it would have upstaged everything ..
@Krellan5 ай бұрын
Wow, this is a great snapshot in time. Sinistar is the only hit game here, the rest were flops, unfortunately for Williams. Played Mystic Marathon, Inferno, Bubbles, and Blaster at California Extreme. Never played Turkey Shoot, Splat, Speed Ball, Devastator, or Star Rider. Played Sinistar everywhere else I could find it! Interesting to see the pinball cameos as well. Inferno is built around the Grand Lizard, and Red Hot (from Banzai Run) is one of your motorcycle opponents here in Star Rider as well.
@PinballBrendan5 ай бұрын
For the degenerate pinball trivia nerds out there, at :06 you can hear the very uncommon European prototype music from Rollergames (despite them showing Whirlwind's playfield).
@Zehcnas895 ай бұрын
wtf was that ending LMAO
@mad30075 ай бұрын
Love that voice.
@davidnazario66465 ай бұрын
Mack Attack!👍😎
@spedslojp33535 ай бұрын
Are you able to repair the ACL motor ?
@spedslojp33535 ай бұрын
I have the same motor that doesn’t run. How did you fix yours?
@garypranzo93345 ай бұрын
I like seeing how we used to react to cameras.
@billkeithchannel6 ай бұрын
That isn't a skull and crossbones. It is a person with their hands up with an X through their body.
@billkeithchannel6 ай бұрын
I still own my copy of Robotron:2084 that I bought off of eBay back in 1999.
@TheRealLizardKing6 ай бұрын
Cool piece of pinball history, thanks for sharing!
@supersmallchibiwolf8727 ай бұрын
I love these classic gaming news covers to see how everything was represented back then. I love many o these wonderful arcade games especially Pac-Man. Thanks for sharing such a fantastic news cover from the 1980's. Cool video. ^_^
@jarvisjackson48337 ай бұрын
The feminists were going after them from the very beginning.
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All us folks who have poured our entire lives into creating these games that have enhanced so many lives over the years are all struggling to find work now due to AI. Things that took us a lifetime to learn, years of college and subsequent debt, all the insane amount of work, sacrificed life balance, pouring ourselves into this craft of passion...GPT could fart out any one of these games in seconds with perfect code and simultaneously send us the email informing us we've been laid off and generate a legitimately impressive picture of a middle finger with a tattoo of Mario peeing on your mom...all at the same time. For free. Hello Burger King! I never worked a drive-thru before! This ought to be exciting and I'm totally going to able to pay my bills with this napkin with a $ sign drawn on it! F!#%!@*&!!!
Thank you so much for sharing. I'm a fly on the wall of pinball history!
Lyza
I used to endlessly play Bonzai Run at the Balboa Fun Zone (I think, the Bay Arcade?) near Newport Beach CA. Probably circa 1990. Hundreds of hours of play time over the entire summer. Every sound that game made is embedded in my head lol... Seems crazy to run across this video, but thank you so much for it! I really wish I could play it again.. it's definitely near the top of my bucket list!
and to think that attractive model is now collecting social security. How'd that happen? :O
So amazing to see 3 dimensional games back in the early mid 1980s that looked so good and cool. I never got to play some of those show, but wow would I have liked to have if I could go back ^<^
SHE WILL ALWAYS BE AWESOME AND HAWT! I think I played that pinball machine a few times long long LONG ago. ^<^
A pinball machine that gives you tokens as winnings is AWESOME!I Never heard of that, but I wish more had that feature throughout the years. NICE! ^<^ BE WELL!
Arcade games in the eighties seem to have been more varied and appealing to a much broader audience. Pretty much every game had somethin new and origiinal going on. Fast forward to the nineghties and it's all Street Fighter 2 clones and pay-per-race driving games. Bleh...
The voiceover guy sounds like the Codex reader from Mass Effect.
Xion cooper said it best"I dont want reality I want fun". Thats whats missing in games today too much real not enough fun.
thank you for video...
Found your channel from your comment on the high speed camera teardown, all your footage from high speed and normal speed cameras is great! You seem to be a big enthusiast in them - and pinball! Just wondering, why does the mirror move back and forth? Did Arri patent the mirror shutter or something and they had to do something else? I figured splitting it up like this wouldn't be desirable at all, especially since this camera was made with a mechanism so silent it didn't need a blimp. But this adds another thing that spins and moves back and forth.
Well it's possible this helps make it even more quiet, but I think really the biggest advantage is that it is way more compact. Compare an ACL to the Arri 16S, for instance,. That angled spinning mirror takes up a lot of room. Secondary benefit: when an ACL shutter is closed, no light reaches the film. When an Arri 16S shutter is "closed" light can still leak around the mirror and expose the frame of film sitting there. (Really only a critical issue in things like time lapse and stop motion.)
I thought for a second it was Techdweeb in the beginning.
Awwwww, the girl playing Stargate IS ADORABLE! I wish I could touch her head in real life (because she is so cute)!
A prototype Whirlwind and a young Python. Cool!
Those were the days. ❤❤
So good. Thank you so much for archiving this.
Seems he's single clutching the range stick. How is he doing that?
Reading about Steve’s career and his impact on pinball makes me feel like he should be the world record holder as the provider of more hours of fun and enjoyment than any one else in history. What a legend.
Williams got major mileage out of their sound chip, scame sound effects from pinball tables to video games
Would you have any for sale?
How ironic WB news
Just picked up a RFM, and this is so cool to relive the moment and excitement when it was released. Thanks for sharing Duncan!
6 months to a year? Lol people are still playing these games
Babe ruth
Saying 1990 was the 60th anniversary of pinball is a bit disingenuous for the guy in the video to say. The first pinball machine was in 1931, so there's that. But really, early Pinball machines were not pinball. These were not games of skill for the purpose of entertainment, they were games of chance played for the gambling aspect. It's not the gambling part that makes them not pinball. You can gamble based on any modern pinball machine. It's the game of chance aspect. Unlike Pinball, it is not a game of skill. There is little to no skill involved. Even when the machines had flippers, they so far apart that it was just luck if you could hit the ball using the flipper.
Where were they supposed to be viewed? Did they send this on VHS to anyone who happened to write to them for some reason?
0:00 a battle alien shi- (cuts it out completely)
Her voice is amazing. If Lt. Jae had ever had a speaking part on TNG, it would have upstaged everything ..
Wow, this is a great snapshot in time. Sinistar is the only hit game here, the rest were flops, unfortunately for Williams. Played Mystic Marathon, Inferno, Bubbles, and Blaster at California Extreme. Never played Turkey Shoot, Splat, Speed Ball, Devastator, or Star Rider. Played Sinistar everywhere else I could find it! Interesting to see the pinball cameos as well. Inferno is built around the Grand Lizard, and Red Hot (from Banzai Run) is one of your motorcycle opponents here in Star Rider as well.
For the degenerate pinball trivia nerds out there, at :06 you can hear the very uncommon European prototype music from Rollergames (despite them showing Whirlwind's playfield).
wtf was that ending LMAO
Love that voice.
Mack Attack!👍😎
Are you able to repair the ACL motor ?
I have the same motor that doesn’t run. How did you fix yours?
I like seeing how we used to react to cameras.
That isn't a skull and crossbones. It is a person with their hands up with an X through their body.
I still own my copy of Robotron:2084 that I bought off of eBay back in 1999.
Cool piece of pinball history, thanks for sharing!
I love these classic gaming news covers to see how everything was represented back then. I love many o these wonderful arcade games especially Pac-Man. Thanks for sharing such a fantastic news cover from the 1980's. Cool video. ^_^
The feminists were going after them from the very beginning.
Hurry, hurry, step right up! 😁 Williams' attract modes always grabbed ya....
seems like that fever dream was looking for a dreamer way before 1984 lol
alderman quimby
5:42 - Out of touch moron politician.
Cleavage
🙌🏾🙌🏾
Damn Midway was Gold back then just like Rare I remember these being in the Arcade but I also wanted the Game when they got Announced for N64 too!
Well, he meant, "Step" family. It's all good. Lol