Arcades : The Universal Language : Part 2 - The 1980's 

This is by far THE BEST documentary film about arcades on RU-vid! Excellent content, amazing editing, sounds and visuals! Thank you for making this gem for the fans of retrogaming and gaming history! Looking forward to the next episode!)

A legendary video about a legendary decade...... FANTASTIC!😍

2 + hours in....Thank you so much for this incredibly detailed map of my memories from the 80"s. Really something special.

The 80s arcade scenes deserved this kind of thorough treatment! Thanks BastichB!

I used to frequent the arcades in the '90 so this series brings back some good memories. Your effort is much appreciated.

Holy cow!!! This is INCREDIBLE!! I have been watching this all afternoon and now it’s 4am and I’m STILL rewatching sections. Bastich......I can only imagine how much time you put into this. This is THE definitive arcade history video. Thank you for putting this series out. You truly deserve a medal for this my friend. 💪

I realized last year that I've been playing Defender for 40 years, and I still completely suck at Defender -- and I owned a Stargate cabinet from 1987 to the mid-90s.

One of the best Arcade documentaries of all time. Took me a lot of lunch breaks to finally finish this video, but it was worth every bit. Obviously you know I'm a fan of your videos, but once again thank you. I can see how much research and work has gone into this video (as well as previous ones) and it's just a joy to watch, it is never not appreciated and I'm sure others feel the same way. You have a huge fan here in the UK and I will continue to watch every video! This is my personal favourite RU-vid channel and I absolutely love it when new videos are released, I even love the blogs and the past updates on the games room. I miss our childhoods so much.

What an epic video. Can't imagine the amount of work you put into this. Going to enjoy this over the weekend :)

I loved the attention to detail in the progression of the 80s arcades. It's crazy how graphics evolved so quickly from the beginning of the video to the end. I can't wait for the 90s part 3.

What a masterpiece! Thank you so much for putting this together. I can't wait for the next decade!

I’m about an hour in, I can’t believe how small that pole position arcade is, it always seemed massive as a kid! Many great memories of the games in the arcades I played which I’ve not had such good memories off just playing the games but seeing the cabinets for stuff gives a nice big hit of nostalgia, thanks for a great Friday night !

It took me a couple of days to finish watching this documentary. The attention to detail really sets this one apart from any other 80’s arcade documentary I have viewed. Thanks for sharing it and bringing back so many wonderful childhood memories I had as a kid playing the games.

Extraordinary effort! Wow, this is going to take some time to get through... well done on such amazing work!

I watched this over a few days and thoroughly enjoyed it. You have excelled yourself Bastich! Such an accurate and detailed account and I cant think of many favourites of mine that are missed..only sports games like Tekhan World Cup. 4.5hrs playback must equate to 00s of hours prep. Thanks so much for dedicating your time to give us this beauty! Looking fwd to the 90s 😃

We had a carnival once a year in the summer that brought a lot of arcade machines. There were arcade machines everywhere in in the US. Hometown arcades, grocery stores, pizza shops, just about everywhere.

My favourite arcade game (and memory) is of playing Operation Wulf at Kealy's Pub beside Dublin airport. The cabinet was just inside the door under a stairwell and I just remember loving using the heavy machine gun mounted on the cabinet. Would love to have one of those cabinets today.

Simply put: That was awesome!!! When I saw this come up in my feed and noted it was more than 4 hours, I figured it was a recording of a stream, so I thought -- "I'll take a peak" with no real intent of watching it from start to finish. Once I started I could not stop - excellent content and editing. I played the majority of these games back in the 80's, but the best part of this for me were games that I couldnt remember the names to, or games that I had forgotten until I saw some sort of familiar screen that jogged my memory. Thank you!

1982 was my year I first discovered arcades. Then ‘83 and ‘84 made me flourish deeper into the arcade genre, with Xevious being my proudest moment!

In Canada during the 80s we also had the traveling summer arcades featured at our Fairs. They always had the latest and greatest cabinets. Another great memory rekindled!

Really enjoyed this massive documentary. Well done! I was surprised at the lukewarm response for Dragon's Lair. Watched the older kids play this back in the day and it blew my mind. Gameplay wasn't much I guess, but man was it gorgeous!

An excellent catalog of 80s video games. The mid to late 80s being when I spent most of my time dumping quarters. It took a couple of sittings to work through.But always tight, interesting and well edited. Hope your documentaries continue to get the recognition they deserve.

a 4 hour documentary. Jesus. This was an undertaking.

Finally finished watching (in 3 sittings) and its brilliant. So much fun, joy, and nostalgia seeing all those classic machines again, with a decent amount of info and background to keep it interesting. Going to have to watch it again with a note-pad handy, to take down the names of all the games I missed out on.

I had 4 hours to kill until the NFL playoffs - thank you BastichB! Watched the entire thing and it was fantastic! Love seeing the incremental steps from year to year

1:59:00 thank you for including the Rob Hubbard soundtrack here! It just blows out the arcade original!

So many great memories while watching this and the previous video & quite a few connections made I wasn't aware of previously. Thanks for making this series! It's been both entertaining and informative.

This is so epic! 4+hours of arcade history!! And its so extremely well done!

Going into the late 80’s. DD was a massive classic. So many of those side scrollers never got to see. Mainly racing games. Speaking of. Power Drifts main feature was that it had a hand brake for the sharp corners. It was unreal :)

this was incredible hats off Bastich!!! so much nostalgia it was astounding.

Excellent documentary, this should be preserved in the archives of history!

This is an absolute masterpiece in terms of well-researched information on all our favourite games. Even at 4+ hours running time I found myself pausing again and again to read those tiny snippets of info on flyers for this game or that. Well done, and thanks for the ultimate nostalgia trip! (PS. I'm quite surprised you had access to all those machines in the Apartheid days what with embargos and other restrictions in place).

These videos are absolute masterpieces. Well done, and thank you so much for all the hard work you put in to make them!

Amazing work! If you made these available on Blu-ray I'd buy it in a heartbeat! ❤️

this is just epic; such a flashback... the 1990s-2000s and 2000-2010 episodes are going to be lit !!!

yeah! over 4 hours of pure pleasure. this vid is excellent bastich! many many memories

Tremendous effort! Really appreciate all the work. Thank you so much!

Amazing documentary and tour through history. I’ve played/seen almost everyone of these games and it brought back a lot of wonderful memories from my childhood. Awesome work!!!!

Holy smokes. Not just one hour but a whole four. I'm going to need tea and coffee for this one.

It’s crazy. We have VR now. I was born in ‘76. It’s been a wild ride

That was absolutely brilliant, thank you for doing this and reminding me of such wonderful memories.

Wow 4 hours of pure 80s arcade lovin! Brought back many sweet memories from back in the day. Thanks!

WOW! I thought I needed glasses when I saw a 4-hour video, my hat off to you sir, will watch this over the next couple of days and keep up the fantastic work.👍👍

LOVE the 1980's "chiptune" score!!!

Think you hit the nail on the head with Outrun. We used to catch the bus for an hour to play it. Was freaking awesome.

You did an amazing work, I'm speechless! Thank you!

I know you can't mention EVERY game, necessarily, but I was hoping to see my favorite, Tempest from October, 1981 or 1987's Vindicators, the amazing futuristic tank game. Hard Drivin' 1988 was a classic, and very much ground-breaking. In any case, this is an awesome documentary. Thank you! All good wishes!

Amazing video. Nostalgic, informative, and above all, fun. Thanks!

Fantastic arcade documentaries. I loved the 70s and 80s videos. Nuclear nostalgia bombs. Most happily subscribed.

Awesome series😎👏👏👏 Very thorough! Thank you for posting!!

Great work Sir thank you for the awesome presentation !!!

Tumbs up for the epyx 500XJ out of nowhere!

Oooooh yes, been waiting for this one! Have to post again after watching but wanted to express my enthusiasm, lol.

Thanks for remembering Xain D'Sleena. I found that in the UK arcades and really enjoyed it, but it seems hardly anyone else has heard of it.

I just finished 1982 … great video, so many memories. Looking forward to watching the rest …

These arcade documentaries are the best i've seen man, subbed!

This is so good! Watched it in multiple sessions. I can't wait for part 3!

Amazingly detailed history of 1980's video games, fantastic work!

Oh Man, Being an L.A. boy, the Tawny Little and Jerry Dunphy news clips at around the hour mark were almost as mind-blowing as the rest of this fantastic video!

Totally on board with the Temple. Those mine carts was so cool. 64 was good too.

Fantastic video and a great time machine into my youth. Great work!

You're a great host! This era always bring tears of joy in my eyes.

Wow that was easily one of the best arcade features I’ve ever seen. My first recollection of Arcade coin ops were the old table top pong games (yes I’m pretty old!). After that my next big memories were from the bi-weekly trips to the laundromat with my mom and playing pac-man and galaxian. They would swap out games frequently over the years so I moved on to Galaga, xevious, etc pretty much in the order you feature them. I also vividly remember the first time I played the Temple of Doom game, Dragons Lair, well, again just like the large majority of games you covered. What a wonderful nostalgia trip! Can’t wait for part 3. I replied in another comment thread but I would totally also buy the complete series on blu-ray. Keep up the fantastic work!

What a great masterpiece! Much appreciation for this. Now that I think about it. The first arcade game I played was Pooyan I think. It was located in a small shopping center near us. Whenever my mother was in the clothing store, I played Pooyan on the arcade machine. Indeed a very nice game. My favorite arcade games in the 80s were Galaga, Kung-Fu Master, Yie-Ar-Kung-Fu and Outrun. Keep up the good work Bastich B!

Yes this really is the best documentary I've seen of arcade games. Masterfully done!!! And you have good taste, Outrun and Operation Wolf really are masterpieces. And I'm 51 so of course I appreciate you starting from the earlier days. I grew up in southern California but it sounds like the magic of arcades lived well overseas as it did here!

Glad I'm not the only Xain'd Sleena fan! Just completed a cabinet containing an original Solar Warrior Jamma board. A forgotten gem from my old collage days. Great video. 👍

Brilliant video , so enjoyable thank you I really appreciate your hard work.

Your Dedication to the craft is commendable, amazing Video :)

Fantastic job my friend. I was proud and honoured to be involved.

Thank you for all of your effort!! I absolutely loved watching it. What a way to finish it off!!! Golden Axe, TMNT and Final Fight are without a doubt my all time favourites. Can't wait to see Metal Slug and Aliens VS Predator in your next one. Cheers

Nice work on this. A topic close to my heart. 🙂

Excellent video man, thanks!! I played so many of these early 80s arcade games when they were brandnew. Great times for a kid!

This came along at a perfect time just when I was thinking about how great arcades were and gave a fix I needed. I hope it gets a lot more attention, can't wait for the 90's one!

Amazing series mate… glad that YT is finally showing me your stuff in my recommendeds … hopefully that means the views will keep ramping up to what you deserve for the hard work you’ve obviously put into everything 🤘🏻 take care

Finished the video! Really great stuff! It was very enjoyable to watch it all! 😁👍

1:16:35 - I loved the easter egg in the javelin throw, where if you throw it straight up, you spear some kind of bird for extra points.

Arcade games were a big part of travelling fairgrounds in the UK along with fruit machines, roulette and coin drop machines... was the first time I ever saw Astro Blaster and Pole Position... I remember at one fairground thinking I was doing well to get 50,000 points on Battlezone only to come back a few hours later and see high scores into the 500,000s or more...

Wow thx for the video. I watched the first hour in between turns of my turn based multiplayer game. I look forward watching the rest.

Great job man. Don’t worry. The views will sky rocket. Awesome doc!!!

Well I've finally got to the end, how do you follow that? lol Year by year the best of the Arcades were on display with in depth analysis of the hardware and each game. Amazing production and research in a truly professional piece of work. Many congratulations Brendan, totally faultless.

Absolutely loved it. So many memories.

My Bro, arcadebro. You re making me smiileeeee again. I Love your videos. Seen them and will see them over and over. Cheers.

Epic video, thanks! Having spent some time in different Euro arcades i definitely remember having some language barriers in multiplayer...but in the end, solid gameplay mechanics always united:-)

Epic! I couldn't stop watching.

Excellent and very enjoyable Documentary! I just got a Legends Ultimate Arcade machine and as I´m following along I am downloading all the games you´re reminding me of plus new ones I didn´t know about... Thank you for the work you put into this!

My very first arcade memory is being three years old at Pistol Pete's in Tucson, AZ and playing Rastan, Rampage, and Super Mario Bros. Not a bad start! Good times.

Really enjoyed that...So many memories

Just subbed. Thought I'd done it last night. Looking forward to more vids from my era of arcade. Loving it.🙏🏻👊

so much work and so well done. congrats man :)

Oh man this is freaking amazing! I grew up gaming in the arcades and I loved it. I started gaming back in 1986 with the Nes and Master System but the arcades were what really drew me in. It was the Sega Genesis and its ability to run incredible versions of arcade games in 1989 that turned me into a hardcore gamer. Thank you for making this my friend. Digital Foundry! What, what! ;) Whoa, whoa, whoa Data East was the first to come up with swapping ROM's out of a cab all the way back in the 1980's?! I thought that idea was all SNK in 1990 with the MVS. Man, not 10 minutes in and I have already learned something neat. You did it again, I didn't know the Famicom (Nes) was designed after the Donkey Kong cab...keep em' coming. ;)

I can’t believe how good this is!

So many great memories, great video

Well done man, great video!

Great stuff! I had to watch this over a few sessions - so much content in here! I seldom got to go down to "the seaside" when I lived in the UK but I used to love Afterburner. I really sucked at it and my money would be gone before I'd even started. My favourite arcades before that were definitely Battlezone and Star Wars. The day I climbed into that X-Wing cockpit and heard "Use the Force, Luke" I was in another galaxy.. and that was a long time ago :-) But yeah, when Afterburner came out for the C64 I saved my pocket money and bought the huge box C64 version. I played it an entire Saturday night while my parents were out at the pub even though I was very disappointed with it. Fast forward a few years and it was great to play it on Mame. Unfortunately nothing will replace that moving cabinet and the way the music seemed to kick in and get louder once I'd inserted my coins for 30 seconds of the shortest gameplay ever. Thankfully Star Wars ended up being one of the cheapest arcade games while Afterburner was around so at least I got some quality gameplay out of that. Even to this day, I have a soft spot for wireframe vector graphics games. Being around at the time of their creation is something I will always cherish - the feeling of being totally immersed in another world such Targ (Mercenary) or worlds (Elite).

Yeah classic era. I must admit that by 1983/84 I'd kinda crossed over to C64 and ZX games and didn't pay much attention to arcades afterwards.... except for Commando, MACH3, Firefox, Gauntlet and Space Harrier which you couldn't really fail to notice... oh and Marble Madness which was incredible for the time.

Man, robocop was a filthy coin muncher back in the day. It haunted me lol. Seemed I couldn't go 30 seconds without having to pump in another credit. I had a real love/hate relationship with that arcade game.

i grew up in east germany, man this is the stuff i dreamed of, i only got a few glimpses on funfairs, thx for compiling all these amazing titles.

4+ hours??? More amazing content from one of the very best retrogaming channels.

Great indepth video, great memories

Amazing video Brendan. You really managed to capture the feel of what an exciting time it was and the innovation that was taking place. The amount of effort you have put in to this is incredible. Unfortunately it doesn’t feature my favourite arcade series, the Mr Do games :(. I look forward to the next episode even though I found the 90’s arcade experience quite bland compared to the 80’s with all the beat ‘em ups and vertical scrolling shoot em ups. Again a massive achievement and the 4 hours simply flew by.