I love this game. We use to live near a Ramada Inn where they had this game, but it was messed up. You put one quarter in and get 6 credits. They finally caught on and fixed it.
i played this game all of 1 or 2 times back when i was a kid..and i still ask the question: what's the point of the game? you got steve perry with a laser gun shooting at some blocks to clear his path to the top...and then you see the band playing...scratches head..but you know? i would buy this standup regardless of that fact..very interesting piece of gaming history.
I reded someshwere taht the machine was going to be able to take pics of the players when you input your initilas, but the idea was cancelled after some dude used the machine to take a pic of his little Steve Perry...
I was 8 maybe 9 years old in the arcade...and I can remember a big crowd came around me when I got to the concert level and the music was blasting....Just awesome !
BC Ferries has arcades in their ferries, and I wish they had this game... All they have is a bunch of driving games (like Crazy Taxi and Outrun) a couple fighting games, a first-person tank combat game, and a Namco arcade machine. I never get to use them because I never bring enough change. :(
Thank you so much for posting this! Seeing it makes me feel like I'm 8 years old again - eating a frozen Snickers bar on the boardwalk then running into the arcade to play this game a couple of times with the change. Good times :)
I remember this game back in 1987 when I was around thirteen. We were taking a trip to PEI on a ferry and they had this game which I played because, well, there wasn't much else to do on the ferry. It was possibly the weirdest, most obscure game I ever played and it made no sense, but I kept playing it. I'm surprised anyone else knows this game exists, lol. :-)
@FoxenBPerry You can still play this game. On your computer of course, & with an emulator. While it's not quite the same as the real thing, it is a decent substitute.
As a kid back in 82 I dumped so many coins into this game, in the arcade of Resorts International Hotel & Casino, in Atlantic City, NJ. My dad worked there in the summers, so I lived in the arcades of the boardwalk. Sadly it is no longer the same. Arcades are all gone now. They had 3-4 Journey machines side by side, & several Pacman, Donkey Kong and Frogger Machines too. They also put up extra monitors on top of the cabinets for other people to watch you play. God I really miss the 80's.
@gjc82071 Thanks for the comment, I always heard of the monitors on top of the games but never saw one myself. 3 or 4 side by side?? That truly must have been a spectacular sight to see.
@zfcamaro Hey, I forgot to ask you, do you have the original cassette that came with the Journey arcade game? If so/not, does it work, did you make a new 1?
@gjc82071 You and me both, brother...I did the same in Flagstaff, AZ, at Aladdin's Castle in Flagstaff Mall. I was always at the Journey, Gorf, and Defender: Stargate consoles :D Sure miss those days. Seems we experienced a very unique time in history.
@kirk1968 "Bally's" Aladdin's Castle, right? In the 80's, we had 1 here in a Niagara Falls, NY mall. Great games, & yes it was unique. I so loved the 80's. Great time to be a kid. I still love retro/classic gaming & I am totally into emulation. I have probably, 50+ emulators & 100,000+ ROMs for retro games. Literally every system+game up to & including Nintendo 64. You into emulators? I LOVE MAME & even have a $200 X-Arcade Controller. Also, have a collection of 14 real classic consoles
@gjc82071 Yep, the same franchise :) Have to admit, it really sucked when the big arcade crash came in 84 or 85 and many of them closed down. What a ride, though! I still have an original 2600, Genesis, and 520ST (modded to 1MB RAM, haha). Hang onto your consoles, those are worth gold...I've broken out both of mine for friends that are in their 20's, and they had a blast playing the old games on a ginormous flatscreen TV :D Proof that those games never get old.
@kirk1968 I Love Atari! Back in '77 I (5yo) was the 1st kid in my school to have 1. I use Stella emulator to play now & have EVERY rom. I also have a pre-2600 Atari Ultra Pong & Super Breakout/Pinball, the 2600, 5200, 7800, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey 1, 2, 3000,4000, Coleco Telstar Pong, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Sega Genesis, NES, & the fairly rare Fairchild Channel F, & Bally Astrocade (my pride & joy). I rarely use them, instead playing emulators. Got any emulators? Try MESS & MAME.
Wow! Thanks for posting this. Reminds me of playing this video game in the Arcade at the Volusia Mall in Daytona Beach, FL in 1982. Man they had great video arcades back then. I spent a lot of my cash in video arcades. Of course I got so good on the games I could play pretty much all night on $5 Great memories
Cool game. A buddy of mine is a gamer geek that made me a CD emulator of all these old 80s games & this one is on it. Along with asteroids, donkey kong & so on. I have only been able to get to the 2nd level twice. You definitely need a steady hand when playing it.
Man...I remember playing this in the arcades and being amazed. Hard to believe graphics like this and digital music in an arcade game were once considered hi-tech. I miss the days when games made your jaw drop. Real life graphics in games have pretty much become standard and graphics no longer wow you. Old school gamers like myself know what I'm talking about.
Wow, I never knew that the song in the stage select screen was "Lights".
The other songs were "Wheel In The Sky", "Chain Reaction" and "Keep On Runnin'" Kind of weird that they included so many album cuts and not as many of their more well-known hits.
There's a couple, actually... To my knowledge, there's the arcade game, and one for the Atari 2600 which isn't nearly as good but that didn't stop me from enjoying it anyway :<
wow! amazing...you own this thing? i cant believe i found this video.
I have a way-way-back memory of seeing this game in some place on the way to columbus for my uncle's wedding. probably around 20 years ago (or more). this is the first time I've seen it since!
zfcamaro, Thank you for sharing this! I love that Journey game! I used to play it in the 80s at an arcade here in Hawai'i. Great memories. I love that group. Saw them perform here with Steve Perry at least once. [I'm getting old so I can't remember if I saw them twice...] It was a great concert, though. I really miss that game. Looking forward to your newer video of it! Best wishes, sidemachine
Do you have any more footage that you can record? I was hoping to see all five band members collect their instruments and the bonus round. It's been over twenty years since I've seen or played this game. I believe that the background music for Steve Perry is Don't Stop Believin', for Neal Schon it is Chain Reaction, and for Steve Smith it is Wheel In The Sky. But I don't remember the background music for Jonathan Cain or Ross Valory. Any help or feedback would be appreciated.
Really? Nope never heard that. Too bad, that would have been a neat game I think. I've replaced the speakers and upgraded the tape deck since that video. Sounds a lot better now. I really like the game and Journey and it's fun to see the look on someones face when the music starts playing.
that was really good. did you know that originally there was going to be a pink floyd game based on the wall movie that had a similar tape deck system but was scrapped because it was a knockoff of Donkey Kong zfcamaro?
I love this game. We use to live near a Ramada Inn where they had this game, but it was messed up. You put one quarter in and get 6 credits. They finally caught on and fixed it.
steveshmeve 2 weeks ago
This game only runs in the real old version of MAME for some reason.
NiTRoGLLYCERiN 1 month ago
A game based off of one of my favorite bands. How the fuck did I miss this?
TheRealThreeP 3 months ago
i played this game all of 1 or 2 times back when i was a kid..and i still ask the question: what's the point of the game? you got steve perry with a laser gun shooting at some blocks to clear his path to the top...and then you see the band playing...scratches head..but you know? i would buy this standup regardless of that fact..very interesting piece of gaming history.
DjJohnnyM68 7 months ago
I bet Steve would like to shoot at the band like that for real now.
ltamodel 7 months ago
I reded someshwere taht the machine was going to be able to take pics of the players when you input your initilas, but the idea was cancelled after some dude used the machine to take a pic of his little Steve Perry...
Payasoplas 10 months ago 2
Y'know for the 80s, those graphics look amazing for its time.
bub777 11 months ago
I was 8 maybe 9 years old in the arcade...and I can remember a big crowd came around me when I got to the concert level and the music was blasting....Just awesome !
prbpino75 1 year ago
BC Ferries has arcades in their ferries, and I wish they had this game... All they have is a bunch of driving games (like Crazy Taxi and Outrun) a couple fighting games, a first-person tank combat game, and a Namco arcade machine. I never get to use them because I never bring enough change. :(
munchluxe63 1 year ago
OMG, no, really....OMG.... Thank you soo much for posting you crazy fuck gen x'er....... Love you, love you!
leftiedeb 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this! Seeing it makes me feel like I'm 8 years old again - eating a frozen Snickers bar on the boardwalk then running into the arcade to play this game a couple of times with the change. Good times :)
fantasticskwerl 1 year ago
Greatest. Video game. Ever.
WatchVenusSpa 1 year ago
I remember this game back in 1987 when I was around thirteen. We were taking a trip to PEI on a ferry and they had this game which I played because, well, there wasn't much else to do on the ferry. It was possibly the weirdest, most obscure game I ever played and it made no sense, but I kept playing it. I'm surprised anyone else knows this game exists, lol. :-)
loneshewolf74 1 year ago
@FoxenBPerry You can still play this game. On your computer of course, & with an emulator. While it's not quite the same as the real thing, it is a decent substitute.
gjc82071 1 year ago
seriously the fuck xD it seems awesome :D
Dannzio 1 year ago
As a kid back in 82 I dumped so many coins into this game, in the arcade of Resorts International Hotel & Casino, in Atlantic City, NJ. My dad worked there in the summers, so I lived in the arcades of the boardwalk. Sadly it is no longer the same. Arcades are all gone now. They had 3-4 Journey machines side by side, & several Pacman, Donkey Kong and Frogger Machines too. They also put up extra monitors on top of the cabinets for other people to watch you play. God I really miss the 80's.
gjc82071 2 years ago 7
@gjc82071 Thanks for the comment, I always heard of the monitors on top of the games but never saw one myself. 3 or 4 side by side?? That truly must have been a spectacular sight to see.
zfcamaro 2 years ago
@zfcamaro Hey, I forgot to ask you, do you have the original cassette that came with the Journey arcade game? If so/not, does it work, did you make a new 1?
gjc82071 1 year ago
@gjc82071 I still have it and yes it works but I don't use it. I recorded on a 3 minute looping cassette for the machine.
zfcamaro 1 year ago
@gjc82071 I miss the 90s, thinking back there was so many thngs that were very 80s inspired.
ObiTrev 1 year ago
@gjc82071 You and me both, brother...I did the same in Flagstaff, AZ, at Aladdin's Castle in Flagstaff Mall. I was always at the Journey, Gorf, and Defender: Stargate consoles :D Sure miss those days. Seems we experienced a very unique time in history.
kirk1968 1 year ago
@kirk1968 "Bally's" Aladdin's Castle, right? In the 80's, we had 1 here in a Niagara Falls, NY mall. Great games, & yes it was unique. I so loved the 80's. Great time to be a kid. I still love retro/classic gaming & I am totally into emulation. I have probably, 50+ emulators & 100,000+ ROMs for retro games. Literally every system+game up to & including Nintendo 64. You into emulators? I LOVE MAME & even have a $200 X-Arcade Controller. Also, have a collection of 14 real classic consoles
gjc82071 1 year ago
@gjc82071 Yep, the same franchise :) Have to admit, it really sucked when the big arcade crash came in 84 or 85 and many of them closed down. What a ride, though! I still have an original 2600, Genesis, and 520ST (modded to 1MB RAM, haha). Hang onto your consoles, those are worth gold...I've broken out both of mine for friends that are in their 20's, and they had a blast playing the old games on a ginormous flatscreen TV :D Proof that those games never get old.
kirk1968 1 year ago
@kirk1968 I Love Atari! Back in '77 I (5yo) was the 1st kid in my school to have 1. I use Stella emulator to play now & have EVERY rom. I also have a pre-2600 Atari Ultra Pong & Super Breakout/Pinball, the 2600, 5200, 7800, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey 1, 2, 3000,4000, Coleco Telstar Pong, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Sega Genesis, NES, & the fairly rare Fairchild Channel F, & Bally Astrocade (my pride & joy). I rarely use them, instead playing emulators. Got any emulators? Try MESS & MAME.
gjc82071 1 year ago
Wow! Thanks for posting this. Reminds me of playing this video game in the Arcade at the Volusia Mall in Daytona Beach, FL in 1982. Man they had great video arcades back then. I spent a lot of my cash in video arcades. Of course I got so good on the games I could play pretty much all night on $5 Great memories
joevs21001 2 years ago
the crazyist game you will ever play lol
it was awesome t hear dont stop beliving
in 8-bit
markdukes13 2 years ago
This game kinda freaked me out when I was a kid. It was hard as hell too lol.
nicotinaddict 2 years ago
lol journey with a gun
happyface4444 2 years ago
I know journy rocks, BUT DAMMNN!
Nazrat84 2 years ago
Cool game. A buddy of mine is a gamer geek that made me a CD emulator of all these old 80s games & this one is on it. Along with asteroids, donkey kong & so on. I have only been able to get to the 2nd level twice. You definitely need a steady hand when playing it.
p4horror 3 years ago
Where did you get this!!!!!!!!!??/(please answer)
HomieTheHomelessHero 3 years ago
This was the first Journey Arcade Game I had. I bought it from another Arcade Collector. I bought my second one off Ebay for $1600.
zfcamaro 3 years ago
@zfcamaro Could have gone up in value due to the popularity of the song Don't stop Believing ?
ninelivecat 1 year ago
Don't stop believin!
ElectricPineapple79 3 years ago
from the look and position of your camera the journey characters look like if they were from south park
guitarmagic95 3 years ago 2
lol!!! omg hillarious... yet awsome!
thehiphopzombie 3 years ago
I only played this game once way back in the 80's at Kings Dominion good to see it again
pav777tube 3 years ago
lol, this is awesome xDDD
detroittigersfan119 3 years ago
WOAH! badass! I didn't know Journey had there own video game!I gotta get this on cartrage!
JourneyStevePerryfan 3 years ago
Man...I remember playing this in the arcades and being amazed. Hard to believe graphics like this and digital music in an arcade game were once considered hi-tech. I miss the days when games made your jaw drop. Real life graphics in games have pretty much become standard and graphics no longer wow you. Old school gamers like myself know what I'm talking about.
evilzuma 3 years ago 7
i wonder if there is anywhere you can still play this in Las Vegas? If there is someone please message me
RockyFan1965 3 years ago
ZF showing off his inventory, awesome!
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beforethedarktimes 3 years ago
Now this is what I call a game!
acety79 4 years ago 3
This is hysterical. Rock On!
barrierband 4 years ago
This was at my local arcade for like 2 weeks, absolutely no one played it. Probably didnt help that it was in a redneck town.
duncan36 4 years ago 2
Where could I go on the web or otherwise to find a working copy. Any ideas?
dvlman500 4 years ago
lol..I remember when this came out!!
beakys 4 years ago
No, "Don't Stop Believin" and a little of "Separate Ways"
Dixie1947 4 years ago 2
You can also hear "Lights" and "Stone in Love"
richiebear1969 4 years ago
Wow, I never knew that the song in the stage select screen was "Lights".
The other songs were "Wheel In The Sky", "Chain Reaction" and "Keep On Runnin'" Kind of weird that they included so many album cuts and not as many of their more well-known hits.
ulij20 2 years ago
This was so neat. I loved it with Steve Perry singing. 5 stars thanks zfcamaro.
Dixie1947 4 years ago 2
Say wasn't Journey the 1st band to have there own video and/or arcade game?
GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID 4 years ago
I believe that you are right.
Dixie1947 4 years ago
:) Journey, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith(I think) & Britney all had there own video games.
GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID 4 years ago
i had NO IDEA they ever made an actual video game for this band. hahaha! just shows how HUGE they were back in the day.
smincer 4 years ago 2
There's a couple, actually... To my knowledge, there's the arcade game, and one for the Atari 2600 which isn't nearly as good but that didn't stop me from enjoying it anyway :<
TheCheezWizz 4 years ago
i used to have this game when i was little.....
then it broke. and i was soo good at it. i miss it so much. the best part is when your the big manager and you 'ave to fight off all the fans.
stereogravy 4 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! das tite
lohan570 4 years ago
I liked the part of the game where Steve Perry gets impaled on the asteroid.
kingsteak99 4 years ago
The second video is up.
zfcamaro 4 years ago
OMG.
isaypwnsj00 4 years ago
We should get this game!!!
hunt3r 4 years ago
wow! amazing...you own this thing? i cant believe i found this video.
I have a way-way-back memory of seeing this game in some place on the way to columbus for my uncle's wedding. probably around 20 years ago (or more). this is the first time I've seen it since!
mikemarshall88 4 years ago
Sorry for the delay, want the next video to be really good so I've been fine tuning it a little. Should be ready soon, I'll keep you posted.
zfcamaro 5 years ago
Excellent!
projectcyclopsrpv 5 years ago
zfcamaro, Thank you for sharing this! I love that Journey game! I used to play it in the 80s at an arcade here in Hawai'i. Great memories. I love that group. Saw them perform here with Steve Perry at least once. [I'm getting old so I can't remember if I saw them twice...] It was a great concert, though. I really miss that game. Looking forward to your newer video of it! Best wishes, sidemachine
sidemachine 5 years ago
I'm working on a new video, All 5 levels and then into the bonus round. Hope to have it up in a week or so.
zfcamaro 5 years ago
I can hardly wait.
Dixie1947 4 years ago 3
and i remember when we thought this game was SOOOO high tech.. lol
locksmithite 5 years ago
Do you have any more footage that you can record? I was hoping to see all five band members collect their instruments and the bonus round. It's been over twenty years since I've seen or played this game. I believe that the background music for Steve Perry is Don't Stop Believin', for Neal Schon it is Chain Reaction, and for Steve Smith it is Wheel In The Sky. But I don't remember the background music for Jonathan Cain or Ross Valory. Any help or feedback would be appreciated.
Kittyinboots 5 years ago
Really? Nope never heard that. Too bad, that would have been a neat game I think. I've replaced the speakers and upgraded the tape deck since that video. Sounds a lot better now. I really like the game and Journey and it's fun to see the look on someones face when the music starts playing.
zfcamaro 5 years ago
that was really good. did you know that originally there was going to be a pink floyd game based on the wall movie that had a similar tape deck system but was scrapped because it was a knockoff of Donkey Kong zfcamaro?
figment1988 5 years ago