Now that Home Console games are becoming more complicated and less popular, I Think the ARCADE's may one day reclaim their glory by instantly opening up more and more of them. So it would work today.
Bro, you couldn't have said it any better. I mean the hardware specs have been overrated to the point where the consoles have become obsolete because of the low quality of games produced.
@@creative_soul-recolo Yeah especially Fortnite, and the Game makers making less popular and mostly Overrated games I now prefer older games! especially Arcades nowadays! I'm hoping someone will atleast build the Arcades but with the world's Largest and first ever biggest Jungle gyms and also tube slides to a largest ever ballpit! for both kids and Adults That could change the industry forever! :) That could work!
Oh how I remember when every mall and every 7-11 in the states had arcade machines. Most pizza places as well. Those were the days, you actually could make a lot of friends playing arcade games, or enemies depending on if you always whooped their ass in a game lol.
I'm glad this documentary exists because most documentaries I've watched here on YT that talk about video game history don't talk much about the emergence of arcade as an important phase of the the whole video game picture and I've been always curious as to how they got their start.
sony doesn't have a chief architect in the technical sense. In reality Sony has multiple competing departments make individual components, that's why Sony consoles kinda suck.
I really miss those days when everything was original and better than anything you could play at home. Arcades are generally sad places these days full of fruit machines, ticket games and coin pushers. Of course, it's also fun to have a bartop at home with thousands of old games on it that you can play for free.
In South Africa, the arcade fever lasted for almost 2 decades especially in the townships. From the 90s till the early to mid 2000s was our golden generation. There was a place called the 'Jukebox' where there just a plethora of arcade machines. Seeing it as a 7 year old was the stuff of dreams. Good times🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
@@_itscrisp They matured like fine wine. Arcades have always that magic in them which very few consoles if any could replicate despite the hardware advancements over the last few decades of gaming. I would buy an arcade cabinet just for kicks than waste my money on a $2000+- console (e.g. PS5) which is riddled with micro-transactions and missing DLCs from games and all.
The Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna bring arcades back to the mainstream. Our goal is to bring real entertainment, true talents, pure originality and diversity, old school and more back into the public mainstream, starting with the 1980s. The arcade industry will be alive and well for generations to come, more popular as they were in the good old days.
I wish you nothing but luck in your venture. I grew up in arcades and I really miss it sometimes. It's nice seeing the upturn for classic arcade games. I went to a place called Free Play tonight and I saw a little kid playing Galaga! I haven't seen that in over ten years! It's astounding!
@@Beltzer0072 You can help out if you like. The Retro Decade Revival Project is open to everybody. You can spread the word to everybody, list down the things you'd like to bring back in the project and make videos to show everybody how much the Retro Decade Revival Project us gonna make an impact on the world.
I can say cool program and good memories. Used to play arcade games back in the days of my youth like when it was the 80's and 90's. Lived down in that time to mostly the 90's. Sadly like this program it all went away but good times for all. All I can say is keep hope alive.
The arcade never really died or fell it just evolved into something more interactive. Arcades still exist in a way, but now they are more about physically interactive arcade games and not as much about a joystick and a few buttons.
Crazy watching this and the one guy explains Arcades as a fad.. Well, in todays world (2023 basically lol..few more days) arcades are becoming a thing for us 24 to 33 yr olds go to now for a drink, meal and friendly gaming. Detroit and other cities are making bars into gaming bars now. There is great energy to be around and opportunity to relive the games we played as kids. Overall, arcade gaming is a fad but one that will stay with mankind as long as we value video games.
Arcades are not gone nor are they dead, ever been to a Chuck E. Cheese's or a Dave & Buster' s in the US lately? And in Japan & China, they are thriving.....
+Jason jrf Hey, if I can play some of my favorite old school arcade games AND get drunk at the same time, i'm all for that, just sayin. Oh and some greasy pepperoni pizza to soak up the beer in my gut. Sure they aren't what they used to be, but they can't be, otherwise they really would be dead.
Jason jrf I kind of agree. I remember the arcades were a place where boys became men through high scores and extended play. Those days are over sadly. Prepare to qualify...
@Jason jrf I agree with you. I played in arcades back in 82, and they disappeared in the mid 90s. Now, Barcades are coming around with classic arcade games, because of 40 year olds are bringing them back. Dave and Buster's was never a true arcade, Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz were pizza places, and held a lot of games, but not really an arcade.
My local mall had a ok size arcade, though when I was in high school back in 2003 my buddies and I used to go to this big arcade at West Edmonton Mall (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) called "Circuit Circus" and it was awesome. Good times
I went to Disneyland Paris in the summer and they still have one of those big, multi-player arcade cabinets of Sega Rally! What do kids think when they look at that, compared to what the home consoles are capable of?
me and my friends when we were around 13 we would walk 5 miles on foot to our local mall just to get to the arcade they had there and it was worth it ...5 bucks in your pocket get you plenty of play time..
Same here. Every chance we got. We had a shopping Center that was a couple miles away and another mile from there was the mall. Sunday's sucked because everything was closed.
Where the heck is Double Dragon in this video? That was THE game back in the mid-late 80's in arcades, and it popularized the beat em up genre. It wasnt just SFII that revived arcades...
I agree with you completely. The only fad that was leaving during that time was single screen high score based games. The arcades didn't simply disappear after the second generation of consoles. Further, the arcades were the cutting edge for gaming from 197? to 2002. Fads do not typically dictate a market after they are gone. Nor do they find such a resurgence to be called a second age.
The closest thing for me to an arcade was pinball. I loved pinball and would always go into my cousin's basement to play his own pinball machine to get the highest score possible.
@@gustyko8668 Nope... Not true arcades. They are not the same... I lived through the arcade era, and I know. There are only a handful of TRUE arcade's left that somehow survived.
i used to spend *all* my free time (and money) as a kid at an arcade called timezone (and later in galaxy world). the two things that drove me away (besides, as they say, the 'rise of the consoles') were that they got too expensive, + as i got to be a teenager, too scary. i used to love that atmosphere (dark, loud, lit by electronic screens) but it's a place i know i can be mugged by bands of roaming jerks who know for sure everyone in here has money. granted, i live in a fairly shitty area.
Also, Baer produced the first light gun,which became huge in arcades. But no mention of that,either. Bushnell is a very intelligent man,but he is not a creator like Baer was.
Their was a game I played that is like dance dance revolution they have it at Dave and busters and they need to put 90s arcade games at Dave and busters just like 90s arcade at bowling alleys okay maybe also 70s and 80s arcade games
That's right, you will see 20 Ms. Pac Man cabs before you will see one Pac Man Cab. The sequels are always better like Astroids Deluxe was way better then the first one.
"We don't have a buck in the state.", oh really? Could you explain to me what I'm getting out of the train ticket machine, the big fat round gold coin, what's that.
@@Drizzt_Do_Entreri Thank you, but I guess I mean slightly after that when the guys start talking & you see shots of racing games. ( maybe more like around the 20:00 minute mark & there's a saxophone too...)
Sure,Pong was a better version of what Baer came up with,but Bushnell and his little band of jerkwads don't want to give credit where it is due. If they had just said that they were inspired by the Odyssey,then it would be legit. But they want to act like they came up with the idea.
Good episode, but it bothers me how much credit Nolan Bushnell gets in comparison to Ralph Baer. Baer invented video games, all Bushnell did was add a coin box to the concept and do a better job at marketing the concept. Atari is a joke of a company now and hasn't been relevant for 40ish years and Showbiz bought out Chuck E. Cheese and rebranded with that name. The man also claims he discovered Steve Jobs, but I'm sure Jobs was starting Apple whether he worked at Atari or not. The guy is a bit of a con artist and is no Shigeru Miyamoto.
Arcades have basically de evolved into glorified casinos for children... Now you're practically gambling for tickets to win cheap prizes... Japan however, they still got it going strong
GamingVidsAreAwesome But Remember The Odyssedy was A console and their talking about arcades. Now Yes its true ATARI plagerised, but After PONG do you know what Magnavox did besides sue atari? They made PONG CLONES
I understand they're talking about arcades, but Bushnell neglected to mention that his inspiration for Pong came from the Odyssey. He acts like it originated from HIM. It doesn't matter what Magnavox did with the Odyssey afterwards.
How can he say that arcade games were a fad? He's flat out wrong and I'll tell you why. The machines used to play are only as good as the games that are made for them. Had the arcades been a fad they wouldn't have continued after the second and third generation. As a matter of fact they hit a second golden age when Street Fighter 2 was unleashed upon the world. It is the same for consoles as well. If you have great games and experiences available the people will come. What was a fad was the single screen high score games that were rife in arcades during the early 1980's. Then along came a plumber all the way from the land of the rising sun to shake the industry to its core. From that point forward people wanted screen scrolling and a reason beyond a high score to play. That brought on multiple scrolling backgrounds (parallax scrolling) of the 16-bit generation. Then we moved to high speed polygonal affairs...fads do not typically continue to dictate a market long after they're gone. The only reason the arcades died was consoles and PC's caught up with them. New arcade cabinets today cost upwards of $40,000 and require gimmicks not possible in a home...well not feasible for the masses. I also believe that is possible the arcades could make a huge comeback...actually they have. The final frontier for the arcade cabinet is the home and now it is hitting a resurgence as I type this. Addendum- Walter Day is a total scumbag that took something great- Twin Galaxies and destroyed it (the idea). He and his buddy Billy Mitchell are nothing but scam artists. I hope they lose everything in court for what they have done.
I didn’t like the pacing of this video at all. They were still in the early 80s of arcade games and then immediately jumped to talking about street fighter 2 from 1991 and other fighting games. They pretty much skipped the entire mid and late 80s.
