1980: COIN-OPs Through The Ages | Nationwide | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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The popularity of electronic coin-operated machines like Space Invaders, Astro Wars, Galaxia and Pong has inspired a retrospective look at the history of slot machines at the Camden Arts Centre.
Nationwide's Jenny Clayton pays a visit to the exhibition, where historian and author Charlotte Parry-Crooke demonstrates some of the weird and wonderful antique slot machines on display. All manner of juke boxes, grip testers, kiss-metres, fruit machines and peep shows are exhibited, some of which date back as far as 1890.
Originally broadcast 20 October, 1980.
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@spectrumdays Год назад

This is an awesome look back, our age group think we were the first for `arcades` but there has always been a generation before us, us humans always look for distraction and entertainment. Love it.

@CABJ007 Год назад

The sound right at the beginning of the clip takes me right back!!

@Zlervo Год назад

Tell me about it. It takes me back to a time when life was simpler.

@CABJ007 Год назад

@@Zlervo It sure was!!

@KirkRedgate Год назад

I always appreciate the craftsmanship of old machines.

@aeiouxs Год назад

A look back in time at a look back in time! Great stuff!

@annother3350 Год назад

'Great stuff big boy'!

@kildogery Год назад

The curator is cool

@DavidDatura Год назад

The presenter despite looking a bit like a marshmallow is very stern and proper! 😆 the other lady’s a sweetheart. Both grannies now…how time flies.

@Larry Год назад

The curator had more personality than the host did :D

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Absolutely. Seems a game girl in a kind of Selina Scott way.

@Troll_the_Trolls Год назад

She tasty

@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter Год назад

...than a fruit machine

@MrIrrepressible Год назад

And a beautiful smile too

@FatNorthernBigot Год назад

I love how the narrator lists classic arcade machines, such as "Space Invaders" with a mixture of confusion and disdain. 😂

@4879daniel Год назад

She seemed surprised that the aliens keep winning as if the game wasn’t designed that way,

@tradingcardboss Год назад

Head Teacher with Head Girl

@SandraDeefan Год назад

I say! That curator looks like she would be lots of fun

@4879daniel Год назад

She has a very strong grip apparently

@andywatts8654 18 дней назад

Keep it professional guys. 😉

@MrIrrepressible Год назад

How good looking is the currator, very feminine and lovely

@reaper378 Год назад

Loved Astro Wars

@FISHINGMINTY Год назад

The peep show machine reminds me of Steptoe & Son 😁

@BenjyDale Год назад

Any idea what happened to fruit machines? I used to love pushing the button that spins 3 reels, sometimes you get nudges or holds and then you get to play an electronic board game stylised like Monopoly, Snakes & Ladders or cat-and-mouse chases, lit up by lots of lights. These machines were everywhere in the UK until not so long ago. Then 1-2 years ago, they all vanished without a trace

@GREENTAMBOURINE 8 месяцев назад

They are still to be found in low-rent UK pubs.

@simmadpaul2880 Год назад

Daval Gum Vendor. OK misread that Gum makes more sense

@VI-rt7sh Год назад

There are quite a few Cum Vendors in British seaside towns.

@MichaelBennett1 Год назад

Yes, definitely not a c that looks like a c

@LeighamShardlow Год назад

They've had thier problems, legal ones. *Suspicious typeface*

@markiliff Год назад

Space Invaders - too complicated for fillies, but a piece of cake for the right sort of chap

@juliam.mallen9019 Год назад

Phenomenal less is more get ready they will all be making a huge comeback! #backtothefuture

@JibbarJabbar Год назад

Charlotte Parry-Crooke reminds me of a young Fiona Bruce.

@z00ey Год назад

Posh but down to earth - rare achievement unlocked! 🥰🥰🥰

@VI-rt7sh Год назад

Of course, Savile had his own version of the 'Grip Test', but the BBC decided to turn a blind eye.

@astra47420 Год назад

I remember when first space invaders came out 👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

@bardo0007 Год назад

Very smiling and happy that girl. I wonder if she still work at the exhibition?

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Considering this was 43 years ago she’s probably retired now!

@swaneknoctic9555 Год назад

Then 8 years later you had Chase H.Q.........11 years later Street Fighter II.......The best times for arcades.

@andypalin3287 Год назад

An innocent time! 😂

@maryannecross4220 Год назад

Is this museum still about?

@MiKeMiDNiTe-77 Год назад

I was hoping to see more spacies 🚀🛸😢

@Synthematix Год назад

Computer games go back to the 1950's

@kieranofblackwood7951 Год назад

The very first was built in 1947 (the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device), although those were electronic games rather than videogames.

@hayd7371 Год назад

Remember when the TV license fee was worth paying? I do.

@chestercopperpot9294 Год назад

That wasn’t space invaders but Galaxian. BBC reporters never learn their subjects.

@danyoutube7491 Год назад

That seems a bit pedantic of you, I was born in '81 so am no stranger to arcades and I wouldn't know the difference between the two. It looks like a clone of Space Invaders, the gameplay is very similar to say the least. In fact I just read the Wikipedia entry for Galaxian, and it says it was Namco's answer to Space Invaders which had been released a year or so before...so anyone playing it would realise it was just a variation, just as there have been umpteen versions of Pac-Man, often given different titles but still essentially a Pac-Man game.

@chestercopperpot9294 Год назад

@@danyoutube7491 if you were born in 81 you were a stranger on the golden age of arcade which Galaxian and Space Invaders were a part of.

@danyoutube7491 Год назад

@@chestercopperpot9294 Still, I played Space Invaders. I've no idea if I played Galaxian or not, but if I did I probably would have recognised it as a different take on Space Invaders, which it clearly is.

@andywatts8654 18 дней назад

If you worked for the company who made galaxian it wouldn’t be pedantic to resent it called space invaders. It’s like calling pepsi ‘Coke’ on tv

@peterdeutscher1442 Год назад

American still loves arcade games, but here is not use the games anymore. Because of waste of money makes the high price to create games link with pay-bills. Just out of order to take in action in here London! Because a lot of children love the game without going to school, you know?! Now, no longer user the place games. However, games are still used only for adults using the game machine at all. Otherwise, might get caught to without permission seek to ID!... Aye, aye, aye!! 😯