I'm 45. As a kid I didn't like videogames that much but loved arcade and pinball machines. Played then from 1981 to the early 90s. I discovered your channel last week, through an RU-vid recomendation, and just loved it. Not because of the nostalgia, I'm not that type, but because I'm a journalist and I really like to see a story well written and told. My favorite part of your videos is when you compare the arcade game to it's console and computer versions. Sometimes, watching your videos, I laugh remembering me and my friends, back in the day, a little bit confused asking ourselves why the Atari, MSX or Odyssey versions weren't as cool as the arcade's. Keep the amazing work, man!
Great video! I used to play this when my parents took us to the movies in the 80s, my Dad and I loved it. The wheel animation after the car would explode had us both laughing like goofs to my mom and sibs' dismay. This is my all-time favorite arcade game to this day.
"The last time I saw something this slow and choppy, I was watching a Ginsu Knife commercial." Another one of your classic quotes. Is there anyone else out there that catches his one liners?
@@kbramlett6877 My personal favourites are the set-up gags, always followed by; "Noooo, I'm not talking about..." Lol it's the utter randomness which always has me howling 😂
I believe this is one of the first arcade games I ever played. I was 4 or 5 and had to stand on a milk crate. My mom hit the fire button and I controlled the vehicle. We played it at the local Ben Franklin. It was a hobby store I believe.
i grew up in maine and rarely saw most of these games. the fair had a hundred or so for a week every year. its great remembering being a kid and not just the games but the places they were at. great channel .
I agree...yet there is nothing quite like the sound in the darkness of an arcade like.... Space Invaders...Not to mention the epic and mesmerizing sounds of Star Castle
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Exactly. The one by me always had a "Coming Soon:...." sign up weekly with the names of brand new releases on it they would have soon. I was always a sucker for car / racing related games so any title that sounded like it could be one was very exciting as a kid. "RPM" was a good example. (Disappointing game though it turned out)
I played this in the arcade a dozen times or so. I played it on my friends 2600 for dozens of hours and felt it was a fun game. It was one of the better games for the 2600 IMO. Great video. God bless.
@@sandal_thong8631 that is odd as In most games the music makes me enjoy it more. Just my humble opinion. Perhaps they turned the music off in order to not distort their narration?!.
@@sandal_thong8631 In truth I cannot remember whether there was music for the 2600. The Iast time I played it was on some emulation of the arcade version.
Moon Patrol is a special game for me. Back in the day, I used to play it with my friend and older brother once a week or so after an educational session playing edutainment titles at the library. We could borrow the game for the Apple IIe and usually got to play for a relatively short time. My friend’s mom was pretty strict and I remember she once turned off the monitor on us while we were playing because we wouldn’t quit, and we tried to continue playing blind. When she turned on the computer maybe ten seconds later, we were still alive! That sure got us whooping and cheering. This was also the first game that we finished/cleared, and I still remember how excited I was when we beat the game! It was soooooo satisfying. Thanks for the documentary!
@@stinkypinkeee5085 Last night I was looking through some old Apple disks I found in a Salvation Army store and found a grey scale version that seems to run smoother than the colour version!
They say it was "the golden age." Funny, I once got invited into a an office's game room that had really bad arcade games that I could play for free for an hour. I guess they couldn't sell them!
This is an old school game that takes me back. Back to a Pizza Parlor back in 1983. This game has always stuck with me and is a classic I'll always remember. I recall playing this in school a long time ago on an Apple ][e, floppy disk style.
Not just the first video game I ever played, but one of my earliest vivid memories. Played this at a Round Table Pizza in 1982 when I was 3 or 4, and instantly became obsessed with video games for life. It completely blew my mind and shaped my future.
@@leadbones Metal Strom was crazy. Alert screens before bosses were classy AF. My top dog was Kung Fu but I really liked In The Hunt, Undercover Cops and Hook too. Respect to GunForce II also for being basically Metal Slug 0. Lots of talent came out of that company.
According to a Guru Larry video this was probably the hot game of 1982, I find that unbelievable considering it came out in arcades alongside DK Jr., Dig Dug, Q-Bert, Joust, Zaxxon, Robotron, Burgertime, Gravitar, and Bump 'n' Jump, I really have no idea which one I'd have wanted to play most if I was in arcades back then. And there was River Raid and Pitfall on consoles, and Ultima 2 and The Hobbit on computers, what a crazy year that must have been.
I know moon patrol was popular Back then But to say it was hotter than donkey Kong Junior or Dig dug or Qbert I am not too sure. Those were all massive games. That's why they call it the Golden age of arcade :-)
My favorite game mechanic of this great game, is the ability to brake by moving left or speed up the buggy by moving right on the joystick. 🕹 This gives you the ability clear the courses faster, or to dodge the incoming bombs from the UFOs. 🛸 I love this game! ❤️ Great video, sir! 👍🏻
I was a baby when this arcade game was originally released, but I was able to spot the gameplay mechanics being used here in another well-known video game series: Metal Slug. To be more precise, the moon buggy seems to move almost identically to the Metal Slug tank. I guess it's no coincidence that the guy that created Moon Patrol would go on to create the Metal Slug series, LOL. Nice video.
This game was the first one I tried to replicate at home with some (terrible at the time) coding skills, and got me to move into assembly language programming. Definitely the catalyst to my career.
when I was a kid in the 80s Moon Patrol and Joust was my favorites. And I just learned about a homebrew port of Moon Patrol (called Lunar Patrol) for the Atari 7800 and looks absolutely amazing for an early work in progress.
What I remember most about this is the fact Gary Owens voiced the commercials. Never played the game but love the narrator's work and he has a deep connection with my childhood.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yep the voice of Space Ghost, Roger Ramjet, and host and narrator of countless TV specials himself Gary Owens. And please keep up the good work.
Moon Patrol and Elevator Action are two classic arcade games that bring me back to my childhood, because for a long time they were in my local bowling alley.
What a great and comprehensive video. Love your content. Always loved Moon Patrol from when I first saw my cousin play it in the deli in our country town. When it came out on Atari 2600 we played it till our hands cramped up with RSI! Thanks for this retrospective.
Patman - i really enjoy all of your videos a lot. One little detail that always makes me smile is that in each video when you say “the year was 19__ ...” you always show a poster for a popular movie of that year without commenting on it. Those little touches are awesome. Keep it up!!!
I was thinking about requesting this but here it is already. Glad someone else did! This is one of the games I played the most, on a coctail table in a bowling alley Oslo, Norway. Also enjoyed Moon Buggy on the C64. Thought I had gotten to the end/loop but I don’t remember any plants from below so maybe I dreamt it.
MOONPATROL! I loved this game as a kid. I played it all the time in computer class bc I coded really fast. This was back on an old apple 2e. Great game!
In 1987 I was in 6th grade and we had a 'typing' class that used really rudimentary computers. Due to limited computers, we were assigned a buddy and took turns. There was some sort of ultra simple program intended to run you through typing exercises. On Fridays, we played a crappy version of Moon Patrol as a treat. Probably a version you didn't bother covering. If it was one of the versions you covered I couldn't tell ...The school had those all-orange monitors, so if the game had more than 1 color, we didn't know it.
Hello and greetings from the United States. I don't think I've talked to anybody from Argentina before. Thanks to the nice words, glad you enjoy my content
I used to play this on my C64 in the 90s. I know the C64 and Moon Patrol were from the early 80s, but my family's first computer was a hand-me-down C64 in the early 90s. I'm used to the gameplay and music being faster though, since we had an NTSC C64 here in the US.
I remember when the local arcade got this game. I got to know the guy that worked there, and he was really bragging up the game. He was really bragging about the parallax scrolling. I don't recall his exact explanation. I was impressed that you mentioned this from the go. If I recall, he was bragging about the amount of dedicated RAM for each of the mountain layers. It's funny to look back at how my younger self just brushed it off as meh. Now I find it pretty impressive. I also find it impressive how the home ports created the same effect with ingenious split scrolling and character set pixel shifting.
The first version I played was the Apple II version, but it was on a non-colored monitor (only green & black). I got so used to playing the 2600 version, that when I played the arcade version, I had a hard time pressing a button to jump.
LOL, I have encountered that before. I learned to play marble madness on the Commodore 64 and Amiga using the joystick because I had never seen an arcade cabinet. Years later I finally come across one and since it uses a trackball I can't do anything with the game LOL
I loved metal slug, I didn't know it was the same designer/programmer. Also, could we get a video on Time Pilot? I used to play that and Joust at the local supermarket while my mom would get groceries. Win/win for both of us, back in the day when you could leave your child unattended.
Played the C64 version a lot as a kid. The later levels with mines, the tanks, the flying ship that comes from behind and the volcanos were really challenging but fun to play. We played it through in maybe 30-60 minutes back then :)...
Music gets in my head from time to time still. It is one of the few machines I cannot just walk by and not play at least once. I love the 2600 version of this game as limited as it is.
First time I saw this game was the end of 1982 immediately following my graduation from Navy boot camp at RTC San Diego. I'll forever link that tune with the colonnade of the Navy Exchange in San Diego.
Weird location - There was a full size arcade cabinet of this game inside of the Marion County(Indianapolis) Juvenile Detention Center back in the early 90's. How do I know - I spent a wonderful 3 months there for being a delinquent. Anytime we had rec time, I played it, so naturally, I never forget this game, and especially that theme.
I played this the other week in MAME. It's still a fun game! And yeah, the music is catchy and I can hear it playing in my head, ha ha. I remember seeing this in the arcade when I was young and thinking the graphics were cool for the time.
Moon Patrol for the green and black Apple II was either the first or second video game I ever saw. I thought it was astonishing. The other game being RC Pro Am for NES but I couldn't hardly play it.
Good video. FYI this got an Arcade Archives version done by the excellent Hamster recently for Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4. It is well done, although getting the chance to sit down with the game long-term does show the issue with the 3 minute rule. One of my favorite-looking arcade cabinets as well.
As a kid going to Las Vegas with my grand parents we always ended up at Circus circus and to be fair they had a kick ass arcade.. this game is one I always looked for to play. This game Paperboy, Rampage and Gauntlet were my favorites in the early to mid 80's
I had this game on Atari when I was a kid, I NEVER knew it was actually a port of the obviously much better arcade game😮..... Thanks again Patman, and stay strong and blessed!!!🙏😉✌
The story is not over yet ! See you Moon Patrol on October 10th with Amico from Intellivision Entertainement ! :) A really small demo is available on the application "Amico Club". A complete level should be available in a few days or weeks. Thanks PatmanQC.
The C=64 was never underrated in its time! Before the Amiga computers came out, they pretty much ruled 8-bit computer gaming. NOWADAYS of course, they don’t impress many aged under 40...
At the end of the first season of _Stranger Things_ the kid says he wants an Atari. But he's a couple years too late for that. He should say he wants a Commodore 64 (not that his mother could afford it) since computers are what became hot for kids that age in that year.
Paul G maybe was a bit of an overstatement, but I think it was the first game that I could get into, do ok at, was exciting for me. There were other games that I liked ok before I found it, but I couldn’t get the same enjoyment from them.
I drank many big gulps at 7-11 with a pocket full of quarters playing this and TRON, until my mom would come track me down and pull me out of the store. Some of my favorite times from the 80's 😎
Oooooh the Nostalgia!!!! 🤣 Another reliable stalwart of the 80s/90s British seaside amusement arcade 👍 And I'm afraid I must defend my trusty (but rusty) C64, as I recieved the tape for my birthday one year and absolutely loved it!! Especially considering the other tape I recieved was Robocop, and we all know what happened there... Damn you Ocean Software!!! Forgot to ask the last time I commented, Patman; do your kids like retro gaming? My old man was a pinball champ in his teens and twenties, so he'd often hang out with me in the arcades on holiday... Probably more for the peace and quiet due to mum being back at the caravan, rather than serious father-son bonding 😆
You really got screwed with that Robocop tape LOL my son likes all videogames. He will sit and play Mame with me but he mostly just likes watching those darned RU-vid videos. My dad wasn't into pinball back in the day but my brother was which is where I picked up my love for it as well. My son and I like to play the Lego games together but will also play rocket league and even a few games of fortnight.
The Spy Hunter/Peter Gunn theme is usually the one rattling in my head on a regular basis, but this one's theme was always a close second. Guess which one is stuck there at the roof of my brain now? :)
This was one of my favorites back in the day, possibly my #1 favorite (Joust and Galaga are pretty good too). When I was 7-8 years old I warned an adult who was playing the game not to slow down on the land mine stage, which is a major rookie mistake. He ignored me and few second later.... That is one of my favorite childhood memories.
Literally the first game I ever played. There was an arcade machine in a corner store near my place that I pumped a hell of a lot of 20 cent pieces into (I'm Australian, we don't have quarters :P) I would have been 5 or 6. And I think it was a good introduction to the video game world; it was playable, not too complicated for my tiny young mind, and just a lot of fun.
Just discovered your channel. Love your videos. Guessing you’re somewhere here in the Quad cities. Every time I take my son to Northpark Mall, I point down to where Aladdin’s castle used to be and where are used to spend most of my weekend afternoons. Man do I miss the old days of arcades. Glad to have discovered galloping ghost up by Chicago. Amazing arcade. Keep up the good work!
Yes, I've been in the Quad cities all my life. Every time I'm at that end of Northpark mall I reminisce about Aladdin's castle as well :-) I've never been to galloping ghost. When I was able to go I didn't have any friends that were into retro games as much as I was and I wasn't going to make the three hour trip to Chicago each way by myself. Now that my son is old enough unfortunately I'm now disabled and wouldn't be able to enjoy it. Glad you enjoy my content, thanks
Well, Vanguard has an awesome tune for invulnerability I suppose, and that looks great, though I take exception to not being able to easily move the ship after the first round.
Moon Patrol was my friend and I's go to game. Somehow listening to the music, watching the suspension bounce of the moon buggy and the satisfying jumps relaxed us. Your Channel is the best. Can you do a History of Bump -n- Jump?
This game was also released for the Sord M5 and the very rare and obscure Nec Pc-8001MkII. Thankfully they have both been founded probably 4 years to late to play it now
A great game ... as a child I was very happy to play it ... once I thought about doing a remake ... where when you fall into the wells and lose tires ... until you lose them all and explode.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Neither did I?! I suddenly had a flashback to the Simpsons episode where Lisa is trying to convince Homer that pork, bacon, ham etc all come from one animal 🤣 *"Yeah, Yeah, Lisa... One magical animal!"* This guy literally is the delicious pig of the arcade world lol... Edit: Erm, hope he isn't kosher, or Muslim, because I've possibly just deeply offended the man?! 🤔
+sebas tuon Well, alright then! Thank you for the history lesson, Mr. Tuon! ;D I was a huge fan of EGM growing up. Unfortunately, I no longer have my library of magazines, as they are lost to the sands of time. I had just been thinking that it would be nice to find some old issues from when I was an avid reader of the mag. I would definitely purchase them!
