Born in 1974. The arcade was heaven. Living in shermanoaks los angeles at the time. The Mall was the place to be. If you have a roll of quarters, you were king for the day. I don't even remember how I got to the mall. And if that game said, insert for extended play. Of course you did. Hotdog on a stick, defender, Tron,roller rinks, op shorts, surf clothes. As I look back, the 80's were the best. New techonalogy that simply made everyday as a kid exciting and new. Am 37 now. Can I go back please.
My father told me about the times he went to see bands like possessed , exodus , sodom . he told me about ditching school getting high and going to the arcade . he made the 80s seem like a paradise if you were young . he told me that he feels bad for all the youth now cause these times suck lol
i was born in 75 and the arcade was a wonderland,i wish i had a time machine so i could live in the 80s again,adulthood sucks compared to childhood in the 80s!!!
awasom job who ever made this video...the music from eddy money and all the snap shots who ever did this did a great and awasome job i wish there were more like this!!!!!!!!!!!
Born in 73, the arcades were the magical wonderland of my childhood. In the dying days of the industry, I even got to work in a Time Out; it was 2000-03 or so. Last time I "went back" to that mall, it had been replaced by a massage parlor; not the fun sexy kind either.
I went looking for a video like this because I had a dream of the "good old days" last night; so real that it hurt.
Sadly, BloodyBay is wrong; we still have all the jerks from those days; they're internet trolls now.
for all of you born after 1985 - you really have no idea what you missed out on. The arcade boom and bust. Playing Atari. The birth of cable TV. The birth of home video. The birth of the home computer. AWESOME music. New Coke. MTV before it was ruined by Viacom. Playing Dungeons & Dragons on P&P until the dungeon master, or all the members of your party fell asleep at 4 in the morning. TALKING on the phone...
@Diskoboy1974 ...people lining up with anticipation for movies like 'Star Wars' etc. when they made their return rounds to theatres, Saturday morning cartoons, new TV and toy franchises that were demonstrably cool (proven by their durability for over 30 years), vinyl records w/ great artwork...thanks for the memories- your list is ENDLESS!
@ChristmasMagic - I remember standing in line for 2 hours waiting to get in the theater when Return Of The Jedi came out! That's NOT including the half hour wait to buy the tickets.
i loved everything about this...except the memories of the assholes who would put quarters in the game while you were playing and distract you into dying and say "next game is mine"..i usually threw them a quarter and told them to get lost...or the jerks who let their kids stick their heads in your way while you played....oh but damn the way the girls looked!!
So FULL of EPIC WIN! Every since watching Chasing Ghosts, I've been looking for the Arcade slideshow they had after the 80s arcade bust. Thanks for posting! Glad to see other people feel the same way.
I wanna go back, and do it all over, but I can't go back, I know....Perfect song to describe my childhood days spent at the arcade. As a reminder of how bad things have become now, I was playing a retro-Asteroids/Space Invaders game at Chuck E Cheese a month ago, and some kid comes up, sizes up the machine & asks why the game doesn't give you tickets...*sigh* Pardon my french, but fuck that. It's never about the gaming "experience" anymore...just how many tickets a machine gives you...
If I could just jump into my computer screen like a dimensional portal....I'd fly directly into this video and into one of these 80s arcades. I'd never leave because I'd be in PURE PARADISE.
A big THANK YOU to Brentradio for posting this GEM.
when scientist tell us that we should enjoy the the perfect conditions of life while we can because this is our short time in the sun. Oh how they don't even know how right they are and this video justifies that. Slices of pizza , video game noise , smell of chlorine from the water slides and girls girls girls lol... Fuck I miss the 80s
Back in the 80's i would hav gave anything to play a perfect version of my fav game on my home computer, outrun,black tiger,bobble booble,720 you name it......................
Who would of thought this would bring the END of the arcades.
Okay now it's Street Fighter and the King of Fighters. As a token gesture we shall play the 1987 Street Fighter and see who goes furthest or beat the whole game without continuing HAHA.
Everything has changed since those days. We had live music all the time, everywhere, band battles/contests, etc... Dance clubs, hanging out at video stores, skating, movie theaters, everyone into outdoor sports, music was fresh, interesting, creative, etc..
Masses of people were always out and about and socializing. Today there are only lame remnants of those things. Today people just jerk off to porn and type on Facebook. *barf*
People then had a disease for going out, to the usually wrong places. I feel sorry for Peter Parker when he's just a bright student doing chemical tests in the lab and his classmates are all going out and thinking flunking in your studies is cool while dissing him for being a lifeless guy. Amazing Spiderman #1.
Console gaming: sit in front of a Playstation for six hours straight, drinking soda and getting fat.
Arcade gaming: walk a daily two-mile circuit among Time Soldiers, Black Tiger, Millipede, Gauntlet II and Xybots; do bicep curls with the front end of a pinball game; run like hell to and from the token machine because Rastan kicked your ass again and you need to feed Rastan another token within ten seconds.
Please type and submit your scientific thesis by Friday. Thank you.
i love ALL U GUYS THIS VIDEO ROKS -I DONT REMEMBER WAT IT WAS CALLED BUT IT WAS 1988 GAMES BLASTING KIDS SHOOTN POOL CIGARETTE SMOKE SO THIK U COULDNT BREATHE DEF LEPPARD GNR POISON MOTLEY CRUE QUIE RIOT OZZY ROKN THE JOINT EVERYONE HAVN FUN GETTN ALONG GOD THAT WAS THE DAYS NOW IM 30 OVERWEIGHT MARRIED 3 KIDS AND NO FUN NEMORE MAN WAT ID DO TO GO BACK I LOVE ALL U GUYS THAT POSTED ON THIS AND LETS NOT FORGET JOURNEY
ah dude! this video makes me want to cry. Those were some days. I kissed a girl in an arcade (my sisters friend). She was a sophmore and I was like in 8th grade. We kissed to the song "French kissing in the USA"!, with all the arcade sounds in the background. Hella awesome! Thank you so much for this video. And for all you classic arcade goers from the 1980's out there....I miss you all!!!
Hope someone invents a time machine in my life time....my ass would go back to the 80's!!!!
A perfect video & song seeing all the old game together again is cool. And Yes"I wanna go back to the 80's and do it all again but i can't go back I know". Today there's just no fun anymore. Yea that comment shows that i'm getting older.
Im 14. and I love these RETRO games that are dieing. I am a hardcore gamer who loves halo, but I wish I could go to arcades like this. Now there dead, and kids my age these days just want to play games like COD where you just kill each other a millon times. The Xbox 360 is getting a free game room like this where you create your own arcade. But you buy ever game when you walk around your arcade. hope I can make mine like this. Cant wait to play some retro games :D
I remember pretty much every one of these arcade games. To bad they have become obsolete like the 8 track, the cassette, records, 45's, now it's CD's, what's next?
I'm not an 80s child but I played all these games. I have great memories of a beach and boating marina that had an arcade. I don't wanna go back. I just want them to come back. :)
this video brings back memories of my dad taking me to the arcade in the 80's. i would battle him in the hockey game that was USA vs. russia. it had the button that would make the crowd boo. i miss those days dearly. where is/was this arcade? i hope it is still open, but i doubt it as there aren't many left. i live in s.florida if anyone knows of any retro arcades down here please comment.
Dude, where do you live in South Florida? There's this new arcade that opened up a few months back at the Mall Of The Americas...near Miami International Airport. My friend is running it. He's got some classic cabinets. Check it out.
I remember we had a Space Port Arcade here in Baton Rouge, I remember it being called something else before they renamed it, but I'm not sure if it was Time Out or not. I miss being a kid in the 80's. It was the best.
Hmm...it's the late 70's or early 80's in this video, and the controls look familiar, so I'm thinking it's Grand Prix. I could be wrong, though; I never really played Grand Prix much.
Skateland on Parthenia in Van Nuys, California I believe. That was the place for all this stuff. 80's and 90's arcade, rollerskating with chicks, greasy ass pizza, churros and super pretzels. Those were the days. When did everything start sucking ass?
a little before my time but let me tell you...arcades would be off the hook if they brought these back!!!! I'm an 80's child and this is just legendary!!!! Doesn't anyone else agree with me that times SUCK ass now. Doesn't just end with lack of arcades...the movies too! What happened to Back to the future..The Goonies...License to Drive...Etc...Damn..I wanna go back!!!
Net gaming just isn't the same, though. There are no flashy neon lights, no "clink clink clink" noises from token machines, no air hockey tables where all the cute girls hang out, no mobs of people watching you ace Pole Position or Yie Ar Kung Fu. Net gaming isolates us more than it socializes us.
On the other hand, you don't have to rub shoulders with Slob Who Hasn't Bathed in Three Days or Hateful Bastard Who Picks Fistfights With Everyone, either. So I guess it's not all bad.
@BloodyBay While you make some great points, I still would go back to the 1980's arcade ANYDAY over net gaming anyway. Solution.... I would walk away from the slob who didn't bathe, walk up to the Street Fighter 2 and kick butt while crowd watches. Kick the hateful jerks butt who starts trouble with me because I just kicked his butt on Street Fighter 2 in front of crowd. Walk away with cute girl on arm while jerk and non bathing slob watch. Now THAT's what I call bringing back the 80's!
@MrZombieIsHungry It sounds like you had quite the time in the 80's, then.
But I'm not saying that net gaming even comes CLOSE to the arcades in terms of joy and social fulfillment. I like to imagine that, if there is a Heaven waiting for me, it's a huge merge of all the Showbiz Pizzas, Aladdin's Castles and all the other arcades I loved in my youth, with miles of good games, good people and no filthy slobs or hostile jerks (because they went to Hell instead).
If you can do half of what you say it'd be great. I do have some respect for the old guard who love loop classics with no endings and just point hoardings, maybe even a bit more than those younger runts who play fighting games in the same nondescript style, but just sometimes. The latter has zero chance though, be consoled.
Girls watch me play Bust-A-Move too, because it's a fun a tricky brain puzzle game and without the violence and blood. And because I'm skilled too yay!
No delinquents, no punks, no smokers, no fights, no killings, no ugly punk girls with problems, no people to make eyes at you because you do not belong to these anus faces and their rubbish cliques and communities. I think closed-gaming is better.
@SeventhSun Way to accentuate the negative there. You're completely overlooking the good people you bump into at the arcade. And you have to bump into the jerk-asses everywhere else in life, too; at least in the arcades, you had random sympathizers to vent with after Ugly Punk Smoker Girl dissed you over Donkey Kong Jr. and walked off.
And what kind of arcade did you go to where you had to deal with murder all the time? Yeesh! You should have found an arcade in a better neighborhood. o.O
@SeventhSun close gaming is better if you are afraid of other people,in the 80s people went out and had fun,today people hide in front of a computer screen
I really miss arcades but I think late 70's and early 80's games are crappy ; am more into 1986 to aprox 1992 classics . But of course I respect early work as a form of art.
crappy games! defender,frogger pacman,galaxians,galaga,moon patrol,gyruss,bosconian,donkey kong,donkey kong junior,1942,burnin rubber,centipede,scramble,discs of tron,tron,elevator action,roc n rope,frontline,gauntlet,ghosts n goblins,grand champion,zaxxon,xevious,wonderboy,q bert,paper boy, pac land to mention a few ! maybe they seem crappy to you because you don't have the attention span or ability to play these games!
I generally agree. There are classics which are still very playable today, such as moon patrol, galaga, etc. but what people forget are the tons and tons of truly awful games we played back then. We didn't mind because video games were so novel. And of course when we think back, we tend to remember the good, not the bad.
Some of us didn't forget there were games we didn't like back then, that's why we usually mention 3 to 5 faves only, but there are some awful ones today and there always will be partially because now there are generations of different taste on games. It's relative of course.. a trip to an arcade for small town kids around '82 was an event. Seems now kids are surrounded with games, computers, food, phones, everything... they don't seem to cherish much. My folks would say similar things of me...
the only old games that are still around are all the Pin Ball games and i freaking love pin Ball im 21 grew up close to the end of the 80's so im mostly a 90's person
simply awesome thank you for posting this and i also reply with whta arcades have done to e in a video response i loved em so much i now build em, thank you once again
My eyes tear up every time I watch this video, I downloaded it from your WebSite!
I Really miss the Arcade of the 80's! I must say it was most of the happiest times of my childhood! If I could, I would Go Back to 1981-1983 and STAY THERE!! but as they song says I can't go back I know.. But, I'm doing my best to re-capture what I can in my game room. Thanks for the great video!! Any time I hear this song... I see Your Video!! A+++++++
We had an amazing arcade ere in calagay called liquid illusions. Amazing design with multi levels and metal floors, ect. It was the last great arcade here and in a great time (and basicaly the end) for arcades 1990-1995
Not a big Eddie Money fan but this song and combination is perfect. Dreams of childhood, happiness . . . and NO RESPONSIBILITY. Thanks - I wanna go back too.
Billy Joel said it right...the good old days weren't always good...I am 40 and we had 8tracks,but no internet.Modern tech. stuff is like something out of our 80's sci-fi!!!
Billy Joel said it right...the good old days weren't always good...I am 40 and we had 8tracks,but no internet.Modern tech. stuff is like something out of our 80's sci-fi!!!
Awesome days spent ! what a ride in history, great song too ! Well there are a few out there private tho but existing, perhaps one day one could drive around country and visit each of them, need a winabago and a gang to gather and travel to each of them that do exist here in usa. That would be an awesome way to go for the rest of days... sizzler joe
I think looking around now things where much better in the 80s. Kids now are really screwed up we got to see the change over to watching the news and caching something that might of been good. Now its a mess every where you turn.
And there are times I really miss my girlfriend from the 80s
I guess that I didn't realize how fucked up things are for kids in high school until I saw armed cops in my old high school and all the doors locked during class. The brash of school shootings. What a shame. You can't even have schoolbags unless they're transparent. This is in a low crime suburb 30 miles outside Milwaukee. The 80's were so much better...None of this constant fear.
I run a arcade game vending company. It is real hard to make any money now. I always wanted to open my own game room up but it is hard to do when everything at home is so much better. I feel sorry for kids that don't get to go out to the arcade and hell that is where we would hang out meet girls, friends, etc. What do you do now. I will have to make it a store with games or something to make money. People just don't play them like they use to. Thanks Jeff
Intersting point. When we were growing up, the Arcade was the bad-ass place to be, it was where the cool ones hung out, and like you say, we met girls, hung out, swore, prolly got into the odd scrap over some chick, and awed our friends with the newly aquired rusty Pinto parked outside. Nowadays, video gamers are seen as nerds, sitting in their houses playing WoW. In the day of the arcade, however, only the coolest kids dared to hang out at such a place. Back then, the library was for the dorks.
I think you're pretty far off. Gaming was mainstream from around '79 - '83, but after the crash, video games were strictly a nerd's hobby. Video games are more mainstream now than they ever were back then. Today they make more than hollywood films.
I'm not confusing them at all. Today, it's even common for women to play video games. it was practically unheard of in the mid-80s and nintendo days. Women didn't start getting into gaming in large numbers until games like DDR got big. Outside of those early fad years, that is, like I already mentioned.
they dont make many coin ops now becasue its go to that point where consoles and pc's are so powerful, they just dont bother, yes they might make the odd few.
i am from the early 80's... and i just missed (i think) that period.. and yes, i REALLY wanna go back ;) the arcade's are allmost DEAD in holland.. :(
Born in 1974. The arcade was heaven. Living in shermanoaks los angeles at the time. The Mall was the place to be. If you have a roll of quarters, you were king for the day. I don't even remember how I got to the mall. And if that game said, insert for extended play. Of course you did. Hotdog on a stick, defender, Tron,roller rinks, op shorts, surf clothes. As I look back, the 80's were the best. New techonalogy that simply made everyday as a kid exciting and new. Am 37 now. Can I go back please.
zacattack7760 2 weeks ago
at 1:01 the symbols on the sign read as follows: No Smoking, No Littering, No Gambling, and No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice!
TwinCityKillaz 1 month ago
its hard to believe this is real life.....
drewdudy 2 months ago
My father told me about the times he went to see bands like possessed , exodus , sodom . he told me about ditching school getting high and going to the arcade . he made the 80s seem like a paradise if you were young . he told me that he feels bad for all the youth now cause these times suck lol
JURYJOHMZOMBIE 3 months ago 3
@JURYJOHMZOMBIE your dad told you the truth,the 80s were so great,today kids have a terrible time in history
SuperTestfreak 2 months ago
@SuperTestfreak Shame that it had to be that way
JURYJOHMZOMBIE 2 months ago
i was born in 75 and the arcade was a wonderland,i wish i had a time machine so i could live in the 80s again,adulthood sucks compared to childhood in the 80s!!!
SuperTestfreak 4 months ago
I don't remember having there being a Time Out arcade in my area when I was growing up. When are they going to invent damn time travel?
Nitelathe 4 months ago
awasom job who ever made this video...the music from eddy money and all the snap shots who ever did this did a great and awasome job i wish there were more like this!!!!!!!!!!!
scotthoward2000 5 months ago
Born in 73, the arcades were the magical wonderland of my childhood. In the dying days of the industry, I even got to work in a Time Out; it was 2000-03 or so. Last time I "went back" to that mall, it had been replaced by a massage parlor; not the fun sexy kind either.
I went looking for a video like this because I had a dream of the "good old days" last night; so real that it hurt.
Sadly, BloodyBay is wrong; we still have all the jerks from those days; they're internet trolls now.
RealArcalian 6 months ago 2
Watching this video as I wipe a tear from my eye.
for all of you born after 1985 - you really have no idea what you missed out on. The arcade boom and bust. Playing Atari. The birth of cable TV. The birth of home video. The birth of the home computer. AWESOME music. New Coke. MTV before it was ruined by Viacom. Playing Dungeons & Dragons on P&P until the dungeon master, or all the members of your party fell asleep at 4 in the morning. TALKING on the phone...
Feel free to add to this list.
Diskoboy1974 7 months ago 12
@Diskoboy1974 ...people lining up with anticipation for movies like 'Star Wars' etc. when they made their return rounds to theatres, Saturday morning cartoons, new TV and toy franchises that were demonstrably cool (proven by their durability for over 30 years), vinyl records w/ great artwork...thanks for the memories- your list is ENDLESS!
ChristmasMagic 6 months ago
@ChristmasMagic - I remember standing in line for 2 hours waiting to get in the theater when Return Of The Jedi came out! That's NOT including the half hour wait to buy the tickets.
Diskoboy1974 5 months ago
@Diskoboy1974 good god there you brought tears to my eyes....great comit you added dungeons and dragons..love the saturday morning cartoons!!!!!!!!!
scotthoward2000 5 months ago
@Diskoboy1974 You can thank Murray Rothstein/Sumner Redstone for MTV's bastardization, and of course Bob Pittman for being a sellout.
1337JuiceLord 4 months ago
i loved everything about this...except the memories of the assholes who would put quarters in the game while you were playing and distract you into dying and say "next game is mine"..i usually threw them a quarter and told them to get lost...or the jerks who let their kids stick their heads in your way while you played....oh but damn the way the girls looked!!
hauntedmemorie 7 months ago
So FULL of EPIC WIN! Every since watching Chasing Ghosts, I've been looking for the Arcade slideshow they had after the 80s arcade bust. Thanks for posting! Glad to see other people feel the same way.
utubepunk 8 months ago
great video
vinmanr2d2 8 months ago
I wanna go back, and do it all over, but I can't go back, I know....Perfect song to describe my childhood days spent at the arcade. As a reminder of how bad things have become now, I was playing a retro-Asteroids/Space Invaders game at Chuck E Cheese a month ago, and some kid comes up, sizes up the machine & asks why the game doesn't give you tickets...*sigh* Pardon my french, but fuck that. It's never about the gaming "experience" anymore...just how many tickets a machine gives you...
indyracingnut 9 months ago
Perfect song for this. I wanna go back, but I can't go back, I know.
indyracingnut 9 months ago
This is great and its the perfect song. Its nice to see all the people who feel the same way I do!!
phigby5150 9 months ago
Great video!
This almost make me cry....
TransAMGTA1988 9 months ago
If I could just jump into my computer screen like a dimensional portal....I'd fly directly into this video and into one of these 80s arcades. I'd never leave because I'd be in PURE PARADISE.
A big THANK YOU to Brentradio for posting this GEM.
Joelomite 9 months ago
when scientist tell us that we should enjoy the the perfect conditions of life while we can because this is our short time in the sun. Oh how they don't even know how right they are and this video justifies that. Slices of pizza , video game noise , smell of chlorine from the water slides and girls girls girls lol... Fuck I miss the 80s
Bladerunner55217 10 months ago
WOW!
EMRAHsays 11 months ago
Back in the 80's i would hav gave anything to play a perfect version of my fav game on my home computer, outrun,black tiger,bobble booble,720 you name it......................
Who would of thought this would bring the END of the arcades.
Great vid i miss them days so much!
justin3425 1 year ago
@justin3425
You've given everything. Let's go Justin!
SeventhSun 11 months ago
I remember when you use to make quarters last forever. Me and my brother were good :)
olladyrocks 1 year ago 2
@olladyrocks
Okay now it's Street Fighter and the King of Fighters. As a token gesture we shall play the 1987 Street Fighter and see who goes furthest or beat the whole game without continuing HAHA.
SeventhSun 11 months ago
Everything has changed since those days. We had live music all the time, everywhere, band battles/contests, etc... Dance clubs, hanging out at video stores, skating, movie theaters, everyone into outdoor sports, music was fresh, interesting, creative, etc..
Masses of people were always out and about and socializing. Today there are only lame remnants of those things. Today people just jerk off to porn and type on Facebook. *barf*
antimarxism 1 year ago 3
@antimarxism
People then had a disease for going out, to the usually wrong places. I feel sorry for Peter Parker when he's just a bright student doing chemical tests in the lab and his classmates are all going out and thinking flunking in your studies is cool while dissing him for being a lifeless guy. Amazing Spiderman #1.
SeventhSun 11 months ago
Oh man, these where the days :)
Nothing compares anymore...
w w w DreamHomeArcades c o m
DreamHomeArcades 1 year ago
Oh man...people were so much thinner back then.
Someone should do a weight comparison study of arcade gamers from the 80s vs. the morbidly obese online gamers of today.
19psi 1 year ago
@19psi
The only pro pro pro I know is fat is Mike Watson. The others are horizontally passable.
SeventhSun 11 months ago
@19psi
Some passable DDR and Street Fighters players of today are FAT too. They dare to defy the horizons and are proud of it.
SeventhSun 11 months ago
@19psi Hmmmm...
Console gaming: sit in front of a Playstation for six hours straight, drinking soda and getting fat.
Arcade gaming: walk a daily two-mile circuit among Time Soldiers, Black Tiger, Millipede, Gauntlet II and Xybots; do bicep curls with the front end of a pinball game; run like hell to and from the token machine because Rastan kicked your ass again and you need to feed Rastan another token within ten seconds.
Please type and submit your scientific thesis by Friday. Thank you.
BloodyBay 11 months ago
This is great thanks for posting!!!
zenguitarankh 1 year ago
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I would do anything to go back!
jamie30drums 1 year ago
i love ALL U GUYS THIS VIDEO ROKS -I DONT REMEMBER WAT IT WAS CALLED BUT IT WAS 1988 GAMES BLASTING KIDS SHOOTN POOL CIGARETTE SMOKE SO THIK U COULDNT BREATHE DEF LEPPARD GNR POISON MOTLEY CRUE QUIE RIOT OZZY ROKN THE JOINT EVERYONE HAVN FUN GETTN ALONG GOD THAT WAS THE DAYS NOW IM 30 OVERWEIGHT MARRIED 3 KIDS AND NO FUN NEMORE MAN WAT ID DO TO GO BACK I LOVE ALL U GUYS THAT POSTED ON THIS AND LETS NOT FORGET JOURNEY
utley7fly 1 year ago
ah dude! this video makes me want to cry. Those were some days. I kissed a girl in an arcade (my sisters friend). She was a sophmore and I was like in 8th grade. We kissed to the song "French kissing in the USA"!, with all the arcade sounds in the background. Hella awesome! Thank you so much for this video. And for all you classic arcade goers from the 1980's out there....I miss you all!!!
Hope someone invents a time machine in my life time....my ass would go back to the 80's!!!!
bucci777 1 year ago
You just made my day with this vid.
Thanks for posting it.
Classic arcades need to come back.
HISTORYBUFFPA 1 year ago
its sad that the younger gamers wont have the arcade experience.
putting your quarter next to five others on the machine & waiting your turn.
playing sf2 for 2hrs while a line of guile players try & beat your ryu skills just unbelievable.
skywarp187 1 year ago
3d arcade has a replica of this place
TheNews1990 1 year ago
I never got to experience this >.<
lolol1234567890ful 1 year ago
A perfect video & song seeing all the old game together again is cool. And Yes"I wanna go back to the 80's and do it all again but i can't go back I know". Today there's just no fun anymore. Yea that comment shows that i'm getting older.
mmichaelc 1 year ago
Tears! I can't explain how I miss these days. The arcades were something special that you never know unless you been there
egl2r 1 year ago
Very moving video. Probably the best song/video combo ever. Man, I miss everything about the 80's. I wish I could just go back. :(
Evolution7X 1 year ago 2
Very moving video. Probably the most perfect use of a song I've ever seen. Man I miss everything about the 80's and I wish I could go back. :(
Evolution7X 1 year ago
Arcades are dying because of atrocities to gaming like World of Warcaft. What I got from this theory was that progress is only good in small doses.
In short, to the world, "Slow down. Give us a chance to catch up."
NinjaGhostScorpion 1 year ago
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Im 14. and I love these RETRO games that are dieing. I am a hardcore gamer who loves halo, but I wish I could go to arcades like this. Now there dead, and kids my age these days just want to play games like COD where you just kill each other a millon times. The Xbox 360 is getting a free game room like this where you create your own arcade. But you buy ever game when you walk around your arcade. hope I can make mine like this. Cant wait to play some retro games :D
fredrick300 1 year ago
I remember pretty much every one of these arcade games. To bad they have become obsolete like the 8 track, the cassette, records, 45's, now it's CD's, what's next?
bootypoodle7 1 year ago
Growing up in the 80's Hmmmm....I would like to go back.... no worries no problems no bills to pay.
Just having fun, then we had to grow up.
bootypoodle7 1 year ago
I'm not an 80s child but I played all these games. I have great memories of a beach and boating marina that had an arcade. I don't wanna go back. I just want them to come back. :)
UCONNgirl 2 years ago
I missed the arcades, but I have a pinball jones. I just wanna play pinball machines all over again.
mallraider75 2 years ago
this video brings back memories of my dad taking me to the arcade in the 80's. i would battle him in the hockey game that was USA vs. russia. it had the button that would make the crowd boo. i miss those days dearly. where is/was this arcade? i hope it is still open, but i doubt it as there aren't many left. i live in s.florida if anyone knows of any retro arcades down here please comment.
WilliamLonghini 2 years ago
Dude, where do you live in South Florida? There's this new arcade that opened up a few months back at the Mall Of The Americas...near Miami International Airport. My friend is running it. He's got some classic cabinets. Check it out.
lmr641 2 years ago
I remember we had a Space Port Arcade here in Baton Rouge, I remember it being called something else before they renamed it, but I'm not sure if it was Time Out or not. I miss being a kid in the 80's. It was the best.
chosen11979 2 years ago 3
thanks to microsoft and sony.
DS1221 2 years ago
I don't think its pole position. Thanks though! Does anybody else know what the game is at 1.29
fringert 2 years ago
Hi does anyone know the name of the car game at 1.29 at the right corner of the screen
fringert 2 years ago
Maybe Pole Position? I'm not sure.
ZGalhardo 2 years ago
maybe speed racer?
DS1221 2 years ago
Hmm...it's the late 70's or early 80's in this video, and the controls look familiar, so I'm thinking it's Grand Prix. I could be wrong, though; I never really played Grand Prix much.
BloodyBay 2 years ago
This video's good because it shows the people, too.
nightshot103 2 years ago
They can't bring them back....they stuffed them into those tome-sized boxes that sit by your tv next to the cable receiver and the DVD player.
I miss Time Out. 5 bucks could last me half a day in there and I still wouldn't get to play everything I wanted to.
ColtSteele 2 years ago
Skateland on Parthenia in Van Nuys, California I believe. That was the place for all this stuff. 80's and 90's arcade, rollerskating with chicks, greasy ass pizza, churros and super pretzels. Those were the days. When did everything start sucking ass?
SilkVerb 2 years ago 2
a little before my time but let me tell you...arcades would be off the hook if they brought these back!!!! I'm an 80's child and this is just legendary!!!! Doesn't anyone else agree with me that times SUCK ass now. Doesn't just end with lack of arcades...the movies too! What happened to Back to the future..The Goonies...License to Drive...Etc...Damn..I wanna go back!!!
evolutionsolutionco 2 years ago 2
What the heck is that yellow thing at 1:56?
snoojie 3 years ago
Space War, I think.
masterhalco 3 years ago
computer space, the game before pong
thepoopsniff 3 years ago 2
thepoopsniff: "computer space, the game before pong"
The original arcade game, you might say!
weegerri1sm 2 years ago
BRING BACK VIDEO ARCADES GOD DAMMIT!
neddx 3 years ago
Arcades never left. It transformed into what we call XBOXlive and PSN.
Soon, video games will challenge movie theaters. Then, you'll be wanting the movies back, too.
nightshot103 2 years ago
Net gaming just isn't the same, though. There are no flashy neon lights, no "clink clink clink" noises from token machines, no air hockey tables where all the cute girls hang out, no mobs of people watching you ace Pole Position or Yie Ar Kung Fu. Net gaming isolates us more than it socializes us.
On the other hand, you don't have to rub shoulders with Slob Who Hasn't Bathed in Three Days or Hateful Bastard Who Picks Fistfights With Everyone, either. So I guess it's not all bad.
BloodyBay 2 years ago 19
Gaming can't survive on online gaming since it's unhealthy.
DanielBMS 2 years ago
I didn't understand what you just said. Online gaming can't survive because it's unhealthy, you mean? It seems to be going strong now....
BloodyBay 2 years ago
No I mean online gaming itself isn't healthy for the human mind. Human beings can only take pleasure from real physical company.
DanielBMS 2 years ago
@BloodyBay
I do agree with you BloodyBay
bootypoodle7 1 year ago
@BloodyBay While you make some great points, I still would go back to the 1980's arcade ANYDAY over net gaming anyway. Solution.... I would walk away from the slob who didn't bathe, walk up to the Street Fighter 2 and kick butt while crowd watches. Kick the hateful jerks butt who starts trouble with me because I just kicked his butt on Street Fighter 2 in front of crowd. Walk away with cute girl on arm while jerk and non bathing slob watch. Now THAT's what I call bringing back the 80's!
MrZombieIsHungry 1 year ago
@MrZombieIsHungry It sounds like you had quite the time in the 80's, then.
But I'm not saying that net gaming even comes CLOSE to the arcades in terms of joy and social fulfillment. I like to imagine that, if there is a Heaven waiting for me, it's a huge merge of all the Showbiz Pizzas, Aladdin's Castles and all the other arcades I loved in my youth, with miles of good games, good people and no filthy slobs or hostile jerks (because they went to Hell instead).
I'd like a Heaven like that.
BloodyBay 1 year ago
@MrZombieIsHungry
If you can do half of what you say it'd be great. I do have some respect for the old guard who love loop classics with no endings and just point hoardings, maybe even a bit more than those younger runts who play fighting games in the same nondescript style, but just sometimes. The latter has zero chance though, be consoled.
Girls watch me play Bust-A-Move too, because it's a fun a tricky brain puzzle game and without the violence and blood. And because I'm skilled too yay!
SeventhSun 11 months ago
@BloodyBay
No delinquents, no punks, no smokers, no fights, no killings, no ugly punk girls with problems, no people to make eyes at you because you do not belong to these anus faces and their rubbish cliques and communities. I think closed-gaming is better.
SeventhSun 11 months ago
@SeventhSun Way to accentuate the negative there. You're completely overlooking the good people you bump into at the arcade. And you have to bump into the jerk-asses everywhere else in life, too; at least in the arcades, you had random sympathizers to vent with after Ugly Punk Smoker Girl dissed you over Donkey Kong Jr. and walked off.
And what kind of arcade did you go to where you had to deal with murder all the time? Yeesh! You should have found an arcade in a better neighborhood. o.O
BloodyBay 11 months ago
@SeventhSun close gaming is better if you are afraid of other people,in the 80s people went out and had fun,today people hide in front of a computer screen
SuperTestfreak 2 months ago
I ♥ This Song!!!
raviebaby0987 3 years ago
wish they would bring back the origianl video to this song
frankconjr 3 years ago
I really miss arcades but I think late 70's and early 80's games are crappy ; am more into 1986 to aprox 1992 classics . But of course I respect early work as a form of art.
GMLFree 3 years ago
crappy games! defender,frogger pacman,galaxians,galaga,moon patrol,gyruss,bosconian,donkey kong,donkey kong junior,1942,burnin rubber,centipede,scramble,discs of tron,tron,elevator action,roc n rope,frontline,gauntlet,ghosts n goblins,grand champion,zaxxon,xevious,wonderboy,q bert,paper boy, pac land to mention a few ! maybe they seem crappy to you because you don't have the attention span or ability to play these games!
fringert 3 years ago
i kind of agree.
nightshot103 2 years ago
I generally agree. There are classics which are still very playable today, such as moon patrol, galaga, etc. but what people forget are the tons and tons of truly awful games we played back then. We didn't mind because video games were so novel. And of course when we think back, we tend to remember the good, not the bad.
jcasetnl 2 years ago
Some of us didn't forget there were games we didn't like back then, that's why we usually mention 3 to 5 faves only, but there are some awful ones today and there always will be partially because now there are generations of different taste on games. It's relative of course.. a trip to an arcade for small town kids around '82 was an event. Seems now kids are surrounded with games, computers, food, phones, everything... they don't seem to cherish much. My folks would say similar things of me...
abbeykroeter 2 years ago
im with u i wanna go back arcade to
theTF2sniper 3 years ago
the only old games that are still around are all the Pin Ball games and i freaking love pin Ball im 21 grew up close to the end of the 80's so im mostly a 90's person
sheetguy12 3 years ago
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bkwwatkins540 3 years ago
Those were the days. There's not a lot of arcades now the way there used to be. Thanks for the vid. Nice memories.
mikeferr107 3 years ago
God I miss going to arcades during the holidays 1978-1985 Youth is wasted on the young.We all want to go back to that magic time of discovery
fringert 3 years ago
You got that right....I miss the Exton Mall time out.
aspetwhy 3 years ago
I'd go back 79-88 in a heartbeat if I could have my friends and cousins I hung out with then I'm there dude
Kelski1998 3 years ago
Makes you want to go back and relive the good ole days! Now doesn't it?!
JPPT1974 3 years ago
great video, thank you!
arcademan1 3 years ago
Ahhhhh Time Out Tunnel! I remember these ahppy times at our original Puente Hills Mall @ City of Industry, California!
strumpeteer 3 years ago
Yo Brent!!!
Great job you did on this.
I quoted you in my new millipede vid... thanks for the memories, and go check out the new millipded vid...
cheers!
-hawk
blackhawksfan54 3 years ago
great times, miss alot... good song for this video too. so sad seeing this times is over, cry!
xxbox619 3 years ago
takes me back to some good old time thanks for posting best time ever good choise on music eddie money rock on
metalfaru 3 years ago
simply awesome thank you for posting this and i also reply with whta arcades have done to e in a video response i loved em so much i now build em, thank you once again
vinygee 3 years ago
Thank You BrentRadio!! Damn Good Job!
My eyes tear up every time I watch this video, I downloaded it from your WebSite!
I Really miss the Arcade of the 80's! I must say it was most of the happiest times of my childhood! If I could, I would Go Back to 1981-1983 and STAY THERE!! but as they song says I can't go back I know.. But, I'm doing my best to re-capture what I can in my game room. Thanks for the great video!! Any time I hear this song... I see Your Video!! A+++++++
Yesterdays92 3 years ago 15
you're building your own game cabinet.
nightshot103 2 years ago
We had an amazing arcade ere in calagay called liquid illusions. Amazing design with multi levels and metal floors, ect. It was the last great arcade here and in a great time (and basicaly the end) for arcades 1990-1995
Telekenesis123 3 years ago
Where in Calgary was that one?
I grew up in the South and went mostly to the South center arcade and the Chinook Center one. Also I remember one called Laser Illusions.
ThreeSixWii 3 years ago
Great stuff!! Here in the Chicago suburbs we had "Galaxy World" aka Gala
Thanks for making this, and bring up some AWSOME memories
ForeverJRock 3 years ago
Not a big Eddie Money fan but this song and combination is perfect. Dreams of childhood, happiness . . . and NO RESPONSIBILITY. Thanks - I wanna go back too.
carabinier68 3 years ago 3
Damn wheres the time machine when u need 1;(
crazynintendoguy 3 years ago 2
Thank you - Brentradio
Nice vid.
ThreeSixWii 3 years ago
i went to an arcade yesterday ! there was only a few games left but man did they bring back memories !
atmdj2007 3 years ago
Billy Joel said it right...the good old days weren't always good...I am 40 and we had 8tracks,but no internet.Modern tech. stuff is like something out of our 80's sci-fi!!!
kirkwars 3 years ago
Billy Joel said it right...the good old days weren't always good...I am 40 and we had 8tracks,but no internet.Modern tech. stuff is like something out of our 80's sci-fi!!!
kirkwars 3 years ago
Awesome days spent ! what a ride in history, great song too ! Well there are a few out there private tho but existing, perhaps one day one could drive around country and visit each of them, need a winabago and a gang to gather and travel to each of them that do exist here in usa. That would be an awesome way to go for the rest of days... sizzler joe
sizzlerjoe 4 years ago 2
I like the "infinite circles" look of one of the arcades.
VicGeorge2K6 4 years ago
Sad the arcade dies in the US. It's alive in well in europe and Japan.
stankwho 4 years ago 2
I think looking around now things where much better in the 80s. Kids now are really screwed up we got to see the change over to watching the news and caching something that might of been good. Now its a mess every where you turn.
And there are times I really miss my girlfriend from the 80s
XBOX39 4 years ago 6
I guess that I didn't realize how fucked up things are for kids in high school until I saw armed cops in my old high school and all the doors locked during class. The brash of school shootings. What a shame. You can't even have schoolbags unless they're transparent. This is in a low crime suburb 30 miles outside Milwaukee. The 80's were so much better...None of this constant fear.
guitarthroat 4 years ago 3
Those were the days, weren't they...
guitarthroat 4 years ago 5
re live those days with MAME and a X-ARACDE STICK guys .i own 1983 upright version of galaga looks sweet in my house!!!!
trock626 4 years ago 2
i hear ya jeff
kickanaut 4 years ago
Cool to look back in the day, Asteroids Master I was!
TrikVincent 4 years ago 2
:-)
This song's pretty good.
nightshot103 2 years ago
awesome!!!
loganq 4 years ago 2
1 quarter - 1 token
1 dollar - 5 tokens
5 dollars - 30 tokens
80s arcades - priceless
those were the days
well done!
blackhawksfan54 4 years ago 4
lol you got it man. Good stuff.
ForeverJRock 3 years ago
I run a arcade game vending company. It is real hard to make any money now. I always wanted to open my own game room up but it is hard to do when everything at home is so much better. I feel sorry for kids that don't get to go out to the arcade and hell that is where we would hang out meet girls, friends, etc. What do you do now. I will have to make it a store with games or something to make money. People just don't play them like they use to. Thanks Jeff
arcticjeff73 4 years ago 5
Intersting point. When we were growing up, the Arcade was the bad-ass place to be, it was where the cool ones hung out, and like you say, we met girls, hung out, swore, prolly got into the odd scrap over some chick, and awed our friends with the newly aquired rusty Pinto parked outside. Nowadays, video gamers are seen as nerds, sitting in their houses playing WoW. In the day of the arcade, however, only the coolest kids dared to hang out at such a place. Back then, the library was for the dorks.
SgtZekeAnderson 3 years ago
I think you're pretty far off. Gaming was mainstream from around '79 - '83, but after the crash, video games were strictly a nerd's hobby. Video games are more mainstream now than they ever were back then. Today they make more than hollywood films.
jcasetnl 2 years ago
Never confuse public popularity of gaming with social popularity of the players.
SgtZekeAnderson 2 years ago
I'm not confusing them at all. Today, it's even common for women to play video games. it was practically unheard of in the mid-80s and nintendo days. Women didn't start getting into gaming in large numbers until games like DDR got big. Outside of those early fad years, that is, like I already mentioned.
jcasetnl 2 years ago
BRING IT BACK!
choice2099 4 years ago 2
they dont make many coin ops now becasue its go to that point where consoles and pc's are so powerful, they just dont bother, yes they might make the odd few.
rainxxxx 4 years ago
That was awesome. Brings memorys flooding back.
Thanks
GhostsnGoblins 4 years ago
yeah, cool :D
i am from the early 80's... and i just missed (i think) that period.. and yes, i REALLY wanna go back ;) the arcade's are allmost DEAD in holland.. :(
dexx2233 4 years ago
re live those days with MAME and a X-ARACDE STICK guys .i own 1983 upright version of galaga looks sweet in my house!!!!
trock626 4 years ago
;) sweet :D, i own also 2 cabs.. i hooked a pc to 1 of them using a JPAC + ARCADE2VGA card, worx great ;)
dexx2233 4 years ago
Cool... Now to find pics from the Gold Mine days. :)
thanks Brent!
Wishbringer3 4 years ago
Great Video Brent, Awesome.
zfcamaro 4 years ago