My favorite Atari game was video tennis. 🕹 🎾 And I still would love to play that and real-time tennis as well to get out for exercise and a break from the hectic of the complicated present.
Very cool seeing people playing Football on the Intellivision. It was a difficult game to learn (there were two instruction manuals that came with it, and one was just a playbook where you punched in number sequences to initiate various plays), but once you got into it, it was an incredibly fun and engaging game, especially for the time.
Good ol’ “Speak & Read” and “Speak & Math.” Those “along with “Speak & Spell” were a part of my childhood. I turned 5 and started kindergarten back in ‘81.
That first handheld was the very first home video game I ever played, around 81 or 82. . It was a very primitive football game, with single led for each of the players.
10:13 ... That's definitely an HP-85. I used those, or a similar model, like an HP-87, in the late 1980's at the university for electrical engineering classes, mainly to code out drawing & printing data measurement graphs (in HP-BASIC). I still have at least one handbook manual for it that I've kept all these decades later. I have the C-64, which came out a year later in 1982. But it would be nice to have an HP-85/87 just for nostalgia.
The games are so old it's hard to even tell what's being played. This was back when the very idea of video games was a new one, and before the infamous crash of 1983.
this is one of them videos where I wish I could slap the cameraman silly and yell "FOCUS ON THE FULL SCREEN YA JACKASS!" he kept zooming in on the timer and score numbers and I just wanted to see what the actual gameplay looked like. The 80s were truly a time. Glad it was part of my childhood, having been born a year after this video was produced :P
13:37 - The book on the upper-left of the shelf was titled "Personal Programming." It was the manual I got from Texas Instruments for my TI-58 programmable calculator. 14:26 - Ah, yes. "Compute!" Great magazine!
❤miss the. 80s ❤love 80s music. Was class ❤ of 1980 listen ❤ to 80s every. Day. Stlll got 80s clothes. Makeing 80s. Room ❤me and my ❤grilfriend. ❤ and two ❤ her grilfriend go to mall on Saturday. Play arcade. Games. Eat out. Go ❤to 80s clubs
There's a lot to like about the early 3D stuff, I find the N64 and GameCube still capture a LOT of the magic these earlier games had. And let's not forget about handhelds like the GameBoy and Gameboy Color which post-dated the SNES but retained the tech. Imo its when games left the cathode ray tube and tried to be too much like movies instead of themselves is when things got less interesting. But not EVERYTHING did; while the mundane lost the magic (no good real-life sports games since madden for n64 and if its about shooting its definitely a waste of time) there's still a lot of heart and love and creativity in games today if you know where to look....its just not on the surface anymore like this era.
Games now have gotten to be to involved and consume way to much time to play. While the graphics are cool now, some (keyword being some) games really lack overall game play.
Those poor, unfortunate people of color at 11:44. How horrific that they had to endure the harsh reality of life in the racist, pre woke 1980s. Look at them suffer the indignity of not being bothered while they stand around playing video games....oh wait....
