1980 TV news report explains video games

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Back in 1980, the hottest gifts in stores were electronic toys you connected to your TV, or handheld games you could take with you! The biggest concern among parents? That kids might spend too much time playing them. So innocent --- they had no idea what was coming!
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@theonewhocooks111 3 года назад

These people back then would literally be mind blown by the games in 2021

@alonsoschneider8109 2 года назад

horrible games

@LucaPed94 2 года назад

and in 2040 theyll say the same about 2021

@Zachw2007 2 года назад

Most Americans probably were still using typewriters in the 1980s.

@theplayeralsoknownasmousecop Год назад

They would think Red Dead 2 would be a movie lol

@theonewhocooks111 Год назад

@@theplayeralsoknownasmousecop it kinda is tbh, the story is just so good

@coreywiley3981 2 года назад

RIP Maxene Black, the news reporter passed away in 2016. She was only 37 here. Hard to believe that there has been enough time since this was originally aired for half a life to go by. As a 45 year old it reminds me of how quickly time & life passes.

@TupacNation 2 года назад

So true ya never really truly understand the phrase life is too short until ya get older I'm 42 now and it seems like yesterday I was that kid in the 80's playing those original games

@crb4059 10 месяцев назад

Im amazed how quickly the life of the Atari 2600 passed too.

@zacbutterbaugh9368 4 года назад

7 hours...rookie numbers

@djones2170 2 года назад

I love how you can tell it's the 80's just by the hairstyles

@Jabberstax 2 года назад

And the title of the video.

@RJS1974 19 дней назад

It’s 1980. Styles were still pretty much like the 70s. 80s fashion and styles didn’t start until about 1983.

@mikewillis3188 4 года назад

I love that this was brought back

@thegamingknockout4261 3 года назад

Wait so let me get this straight, the say the atari is taking too much of kids times but they're telling to you to go buy it before it runs out. Classic 80s television hahahaha

@realnpc3763 Год назад

The matrix. Better wake up

@gamewizardks 3 года назад

Kaity Tong here looks absolutely amazing.

@tonymontana4284 3 года назад

She was young.

@colorsafebleach5381 4 года назад

This was the begining of the great video game crash. Too many choices, and too much overhead.

@davids1854 4 года назад

And mobile games are doing the same thing now

@deborahchesser7375 3 года назад

Once home systems started getting better the writing was on the wall. But there’s still nothing like the feeling of being in the arcade full of people.

@mrjohntheo154 Год назад

@@deborahchesser7375 totally agree.

@abrararronno5920 3 года назад

Those kids are right now in the age of our Father and Mother .

@Gameboy-Unboxings 2 года назад

Yup. Life sucks and is short.

@passiveaggressivenegotiato8087 2 года назад

I remember in the early 1980s, my Dad's friend telling him "my boys want a $300 fuckingatari", "I'd rather get them new hunting rifles or something worth $300".

@rudeboyrg Год назад

1980 Game companies: "We should just put out more and more games on more and more systems with no regard for quality control. People will buy anything. It's not like the video game crash of 1977 will happen again in the near future." 1983 Game Companies: " I never saw this coming!"

@daved1535 2 года назад

I remember back then those games use to ruin your TVs

@nomadcowatbk 6 месяцев назад

if you left the TV on with the game paused for an extended period

@WinslowLeach1974 2 года назад

The funny thing is, even back then us kids knew most of the home games weren't that great. Atari's own games for the 2600 were the worst, that's why we were big fans of Activision's games and some other manufacturer's games. Their "Pac-Man" adaptation especially made everyone furious. And the handheld "arcade" games were a complete joke. When Nintendo came out with their home system, it really was a huge step forward.

@daviddaniel387 6 месяцев назад

Jesus, 300 bucks in 1980, damn thats near twelve hundred today

@-blackcat-4749 2 года назад

That was 🔖 a conventional echo. It came and went

@fooleelee6548 2 года назад

Ikr

@jonesy585 2 года назад

Huh? If the year was 1980 and the kid was 10 he would be 50-51 today , I was born in 1980 and I’m 41

@rttoonist4275 2 года назад

@@jonesy585 Playing video games takes up time kids could be using to study math. It seemed like fun at the time, but in retrospect, the consequences should have been obvious.

@JohnQPublic345 Год назад

I probably stacked 40000 hours on the atari

@geopioneergsxr5357 Год назад

@@rttoonist4275 I played tons of video games throughout the 80's. I also got C's and D's in math. Now I deal at Casinos and have had multiple high-school math teachers tell me that I'm WAY faster at math than they are..🤷‍♂️

@tvtimetravel 2 года назад

Nothing excited me more of that time than those games!

@Nightweaver1 9 месяцев назад

I was 1 year old in Christmas '80. My first games console was the NES in 1988, so I missed out on a lot of these very early attempts at home video games.

@divio784 3 года назад

300 dollars for a console that now costs a quarter

@bellicose4653 3 года назад

But it's a very good investment!

@H1PP1E88 3 года назад

These consoles now sell for $50 on ebay

@thedillestweed2644 Год назад

@@H1PP1E88 vs. the $900 (adjusted for inflation) they originally costed. Heck of a deal for 50 dollars. I'll be honest though, if you look enough, you can score one for chump change at a sale these days, even still

@deborahchesser7375 3 года назад

Who didn’t save their lunch money to play pinball at the bowling alley after school? Come on lol

@ugandaknuckles3419 3 года назад

Little did they know that these would save us from quarantine

@mapdoor1418 2 года назад

Little did they know that there would be a quarantine

@uhchief5123 4 года назад

6 hours WTF!!!!!

@local38on-tv 3 года назад

Yeah ik I can only play like 30 minutes

@GamerKeags_YT 2 года назад

I know those are baby numbers

@OhNyoki 2 года назад

Ridiculous, right? Like can you even imagine not spending 10 hours playing games? Lunacy

@EpicGamer94500 2 года назад

2:02 The controversy started so early

@bryanburnap4537 3 года назад

Wonder what Dave Mcann is doing today ?

@samushunter0048 3 года назад

44 years old, a few kids and trying to get a PS5 or Xbox series X lol

@fluffymacaw933 2 года назад

Five years later the NES came out

@TheUtuber999 Год назад

Poor marketing - should have said, "They are selling-out quick, so pick one up now before they are all gone!" (even if they are heavily overstocked).

@coolbluelights Год назад

What was that tower game advertised with Orson welles?? I was born in 1980, but my dad had bought that same game and I found it in the closet when I was like 9 or 10.

@deborahchesser7375 3 года назад

My Dad got my brother and I an Intellivision , man I never realized how much those things were, $300 in 80’ ? Wow and the games were $20 each give or take. That’s big $ now

@geopioneergsxr5357 Год назад

That was a months rent for a house back then!

@CMMSFP 2 года назад

2:54 "How many hours do you play?" "I dunno, 6 or 7." "A DAY?!?!?" Imagine being asked how many hours a day people are on social media these days.

@Gannooch 10 месяцев назад

“There are so many of these here that it’s hard to choose which one to buy.” One of the reasons for the video game crash that happened in 1983.

@CrazyCat-w3o 18 дней назад

I'll wait about 25 years and see if sony makes something.

@extraaccountt-t7470 4 года назад

Chadtronic were you at!!

@friendlysky7674 2 года назад

Imagine me time traveling and showing off my iPhone lol😆😆🍷🍷

@bryanburnap4537 3 года назад

I had that Intellivision Football Game :)

@mapdoor1418 2 года назад

How strange those old games look compared to today's games

@Gameboy-Unboxings 2 года назад

You mean like an actual video game and not like real life? 🙄

@thedillestweed2644 Год назад

people actually think this? you act like it's such a foreign concept

@alexcoyg3281 3 года назад

2021 News gonna look funny too in 2060 😄😂👍

@mapdoor1418 2 года назад

very true

@kingkazma3246 Год назад

Good times 😎👍

@newworlddisorder156 2 года назад

And no multi patches from day 1 was needed

@timbuk1126 4 месяца назад

$300 in 1980 was alot of money.. Geez

@TheUtuber999 Год назад

0:15 The arcade version of Missile Command was much more fun because you could control the crosshairs using a rollerball instead of a joystick.

@thedillestweed2644 Год назад

only problem is that your game is over after just a few rounds in. Hard game

@EF-fc4du 10 месяцев назад

All arcade games were better at this point.

@saganich74 3 года назад

Omg Black Tower! I would of never remembered that game lol

@gamewizardks 3 года назад

Orson Welles FTW

@user-er3ri6sc3j 10 месяцев назад

Kaity Tong and storm fields are still alive.

@jonah1976 21 день назад

60 bucks for a Speak N' Spell? Outrygeous!

@screenapple1660 16 дней назад

2025... GTA6... Modern video game graphics is totally insane. looks realistic than Atari graphics.

@a.b.sproductionsllc 4 дня назад

It’s funny how everyone even the kid has a NY accents. Don’t hear as many people from NY talk like that these days.

@TheRobWay1 2 года назад

sigh. thanks.

@Thrashman138 11 месяцев назад

Ya hook 'em up.

@moredistractions 2 года назад

Electronic games? Bahh...it'll never catch on.

@kingkazma3246 Год назад

Same happened with cars, there was people who tought we would still be on horses forever lol.

@daweller Год назад

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@EF-fc4du 10 месяцев назад

The stuff was cool at the time but it was really seen as a convenient alternative. For the best games you went to the arcade. THAT was where the action was.

@MRzoom20100 8 месяцев назад

i am 21 years old i never see this games look so not real yet i am hype what games look in future when i get older i hope games is in VR I be like ready player one movie

@JarrodLamp 8 месяцев назад

It's not looking good kiddo, why things are going gameing will end up dead

@christopherg7098 8 месяцев назад

I really think there is something to these electronic, television video games, i know people think they are a fad, but I have a feeling they may stick around, can you imagine what the games may look like in the year 2023?

@damin9913 Год назад

People played more video games that hooked up too the TV

@darrylh1971 24 дня назад

This is from 1981, not 1980.

@LordWes. 3 года назад

maybe if they would have played some video games they wouldn't have been so uptight.

@Jabberstax 2 года назад

I personally think video games hit their peak in the 90s with the SNES, Gameboy and the PlayStation. I realise no one will agree with me.

@LUCKO2022 Год назад

They reached their peak in the 2000 with the PS2.

@coindog6336 Год назад

They will never reach their peak they get better every year

@QKJM19 4 года назад

What that crap was as much as a Xbox lol lord

@chadb.6165 4 года назад

Now imagine that kids looked at the graphics in the same amazement as kids look at games now lol

@oldthug7624 4 года назад

This was the equivalent of playing cod on PS4/xbone of the time.

@rajendrakumarvarsani4184 4 года назад

🤭

@farah.mariee 3 года назад

it was the beginning for the video games the xbox came way later, they didn't know how advanced it was going to get.

@allegrarivera5383 Год назад

Can we go back to the 80s the future sucks.

@QKJM19 4 года назад

Please leave little Dave alone🤣🤣🤨🙄

@yamatotakeru9078 3 года назад

🤣🤣 He just want to play some video games

@All4dollas 3 года назад

2021 😂

@krispykream7044 3 года назад

Is that a calculator?

@fluffysheap 2 года назад

That's what the Intellivision controller looked like. It had a number pad. The games came with little overlays so you could see what the buttons did. Atari went the other way : just one button. Turns out Intellivision had the right idea, but in the wrong shape.

@TMoody 2 года назад

iItellivision!

@educateyourself3872 2 года назад

Don’t buy the intellevision! 😂

@LOL-gn5oh Год назад

Kinda impressed to see an asian woman being a news anchor in the 80's.

@thedillestweed2644 Год назад

why

@heinoustentacles5719 10 месяцев назад

lol, it was the 80s, not the 40s.

@ClaireRedfieldKennedy-ld2lx 11 дней назад

I sure hope the Japanese don't take over the market.

@Yyy12233 4 года назад

1st

@filiplanga7237 4 года назад

Try comparing those games to Cyberpunk

@patricksputnick5094 3 года назад

Everything has its time and beginnings :) Those were the days. Try playing the best of that golden era of experimentation and adventure in arcade too

@antiven0mYT 3 года назад

I'm sure they're a lot more stable. lol

@mapdoor1418 2 года назад

With or without the bugs

@filiplanga7237 2 года назад

@@mapdoor1418 those comments about bugs in this game were funny like a half a year ago...

@thedillestweed2644 Год назад

@@filiplanga7237 facts are facts. Go find a bug in Missile Command, you won't.

@srpdesigns 3 года назад

They should of listened to the parents that were against video games... We are going on 4 generations of children and adults that are addicted to computers and video games like crack in the 80s

@yamatotakeru9078 3 года назад

Now we have something worst call Tik Tok 🤣🤣