Like another of your videos about Sydney Monorail, this too has rotten technical quality.

For chrissakes CLEAN UP YOUR ACT. This video starts with long blackness then blue screen and static before a full-screen "1990". Amateurish as hell. Needs a major edit so we can fully enjoy the fascinating historical footage. I went to Luna Park in early 1970's.

The IMAX theater was slated to return 2019? HAH! Wasnt even done until 2023!

background music too LOAD, I couldn't finished the video

Sega World will return

Great Video --- Shared / Scheduled

Was Sega World featured as some kind of stage in one of the Virtua Fighter games? I remember something like this but I can't find anything on it.

All the good things are gone from Sydney 😢

I really enjoyed this video! I went there in 1998 and I had a great time, but I remember thinking it was quite expensive at the time (parents paid of course, lol) and now that you mention it, there was no ride about Sonic or other Sega mascots, but I still had a lot of fun. It's a shame it didn't last very long, and similarly how Wonderland closed down as well. I'm from Melbourne, and Wonderland and Sega World were my two favourite things in Sydney when I was a kid. I'm going to dig up family photos of those places. If there's some without family members on it, I guess we could use them for historical purposes, haha.

Great video mate 👍

Good research

Music is too loud for the voice over work. Good video aside from that🎉

Tiara the hedgehog sounded so cool. Ironically, I'm playing Sonic Superstars right now and the only playable female sonic character we have is Amy Rose.

You've got a real ear for music. A couple of tracks I've been curious about. That new intro music is simply elegant and beautiful. Still the most under-rated channel I've found. I've always wondered what happened to World4kids

I still rent DVDs from my local library now & again because I have 3 streaming options... unfortunately Wifi costs are rising 😔 so physical media may become my main option

18:51 real?

So many good memories of the place, from going there with family as a kid to going there on dates or hanging out with the boys as a teen. In the right hands it could of still been a special place and a much beloved landmark in Sydney, and I'd probably still be going but now with my own family. Cheers for the video.

Darling Harbour was my favourite place when I was five in 1988. It was so much better then than it is now.

Worst thing they ever did was get rid of the monorail, Sydney's just another hole now...

Havent been back to DArling Harbour since maybe 2010, got to go back to see how ugly it gets

I worked at Jordans in 1991

Great video! I have fond memories of World 4 Kids in 1994, I believe it was the one in Clayton in Victoria, and I went there on opening night and I remember how magical it all felt, it was truly wonderful. I am actually shocked to learn how much World 4 Kids and Toys R Us lost over their years of operation, and yet it is sad to see them go. Would you be interested in covering All-you-can-eat restaurants? I feel like they're a relic from the past now. Smorgy's in Melbourne was a big one, as well as when Pizza Hut was All-you-can-eat, and I believe there is only one left like that in Ballarat.

Sad, the kids now spend all their time in their bedroom rather than going out and spending time with their friends playing video games

So sad the kids of today have nothing to look forward to other than a video game in their bedroom

That's the only thing that keeps Sydney NSW economy going. Build it knock it down. Darling Harbour is a horrible tourist trap.

I remember sega world and the waterfront park with water pistols on pedestals and paddle boats in the water, they have absolutely ruined the place.

Therer are plan have a new sega world reopen in Melbourne

The first picture of Playtime Arcade that was at Northland Shopping Centre in Preston in Melbourne. That was my local for arcades growing up 👌

Use to work there. Loss Prevention 😅

We use to go to Wonderland every year for my Dads work Christmas Party. I remember going to Hannah Barbera land as a smaller kid and then as a teenage going to the Demon and the Bush Beast and the Snowy River rampage.

I had a video ezy at my town behind a KFC building, I used to buy and return dvds there, it closed in 2014 and changed into a medicine shop

Here in the states, conventional brick and mortar retailers have been dropping like flies. Best Buy is the last electronics retailer and they really don't carry much stock anymore.

I really loved Toys R Us so much!!! 🥰There was in Campbelltown, Casula and Liverpool Westfield a long time ago, and I really missed those stores so much! Bring it back this year, cos I'm still such a Toys R Us kid!!! 😢 BTW, you didn't say anything about Target other than Kmart & Big W!! 1:40

i was wondering why many people were viciously against today's darling harbour? in a city, things change, people adapt, and perhaps we should reconsider our perspective of cities. are they necessarily buildings and infrastructure, or cities defined by the people? because what darling harbour used to be was about the buildings, but what darling harbour is today is the people, a monotone, blank canvas, one with every right to be criticised for the lack of artistic vision, but one with many more people, and people can do all sorts of interesting things. a walkway of mirrors turned into a free dancing room, a wide walkway with enough space for roller skaters to practise tricks, a water park with lessons in physics and engineering just by play, and not to mention people create all sorts of businesses to cater to all needs; all sorts of trendy restaurants reside darling square today. i do wonder, shouldn't we finely critique darling harbour, with both suitable compliments and criticisms, without disregarding any benefits the changes have made?

i have some suggestions for videos Clive Peeters, brashs, bi-lo, Souvlaki Hut

5:01 that was the video ezy i use to go to when i lived in Beaconsfield prior to 2014 they where across the parking lot in a much bigger building where the bws is now it closed in 2017 by memory i loved going there

I worked in one in Belconnen mall in Cnaberra for one shift before never showing up again, not a bad team, just felt like retail hell and it did not vibe with me, instead I went back to working in an old man bar. I still have the white vinyl plastic induction folder with the blue logo on it and my name tag

I think you got the reasoning partially correct. It was never that consoles were unnafordable as everyone had a Sega Master System, NES or later SNES amd Mega Drive it was simply that the arcade games were so much better than the home consoles. All anyone wanted was to play a game with better graphics. Once home consoles like the Play Station in 1995 there was no point in going to the arcades and spending money as the home console was as good or better than the arcade. And that never changed even to this day. PC and console games are better than anything in arcades for 30 years now. The magic completely died in 1995.

Luna Park is loved. That love will never die regardless of whingeing wealthy creeps who move in next door to a noisy tourist attraction & then complain about the noise... Discusting entitled creeps!

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I always wanted to visit Sega World

Once they released 20 mega drive variants and 6 of 32 bit systems, they were doomed

Aye 2:40 was the local dick smith store in Maitland NSW, where I live, I still remember going there when I was younger.

Do the story of Ipswich city square

Ironically enough, where erina toys R us used to be is now a toymate, exhibiting the exact same issues of barely anyone visiting and significantly higher prices compared to the kmart and big w across the road. Every time I've been in there I'd be lucky to see more than 2 other customers in there. The only thing going for it is that sometimes it'll have older stock that's no longer being sold elsewhere, but it indicates that they're not having much luck moving stock. This isn't helped by the fact that I've never seen them have any sort of sale. Ever. It's also competing against the Casey's toys down the road too, which thanks to being part toy store, part hobby store, part party supply and part Xmas shop, seems to be faring much better.

it was shit if the bloody thing went some bloody where it would be good put was shit it want know way

What would it have been like if Sega World had a North American location?

There wasn't an arcade in every suburb, certainly not in suburban Brisbane. Where did you get that "fact" from? I lived through the 90's arcade scene & you had to go into the city to experience arcade goodness. Some of the info in this video is highly dubious.

Are you like, 18 or something?

Outstanding stuff. Very nostalgic!