Chicago NewsCenter5's Barry Bernson does a 3-part report on the new video game craze sweeping the nation. Interviews with people from and footage from Williams, Bally, Atari, etc.
Chicago alderman Patrick Huels concerned about arcades breeding drug traffic: "we have fine parks throughout our city...there's other forms of recreation that the kids can get involved in." Great idea. Nobody would have ever thought of buying drugs in a city park in the 1980s....
I miss the old arcades and games. I started playing video games before I even started school. I got my Atari 2600 the year this aired (1982). I thought I was in heaven. Before Atari, I had a Pong system from the 70's.....LOL
@@Sinn0100 In the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World", it's a running gag that he always flirts with girls by telling them about how Pac-Man has its changed in America :)
Fuck I miss the 80s! I was a kid at the time but my days in school were spent at lunch time gambling so I can win money to use after school at the video arcade around the corner from my house. Video Arcades & ridingBMX bikes on the beachfront every afternoon after school. Best childhood ever.
Agree. I'd get a dollar to spend on lunch at school. I found that I could get two ice cream sandwiches for 50 cents, then have two quarters left to play games with. We didn't have bikes yet, but we would walk miles to where the cool new game was with two precious quarters in our pockets, which of course would disappear pretty quickly, but it was so worth it.
To be fair, it was Dragon's Lair and Astron Belt that blew our minds just one year later. Still stand up as hugely impressive looking and sounding games.
It blew Larry Demar’s mind in 1995 when Digital Eclipse first emulated Stargate. He said later in an interview that if someone had told him in 1982 that in 1995 he would be seeing his exact work simulated on a computer, he would wondered what that person was smoking.
Oh, and I started playing video games in 1982 at the age of 4. It really feels to me like video games grew up with my generation. As I entered my teenage years, that’s when I noticed games becoming more and more violent. Games like Splatterhouse weren’t in my area, and somehow I never took notice of NARC’s gratuitous violence, and somehow I didn’t notice the nudity in Crime Fighters. Not that any of it offends me, though I do think it’s a good thing there is a rating system today, whereas it wasn’t necessary in the 80s.
Sam Dickerson and the rest, if you're still out there: Thank you, thank you, thank you for making our teenage years so much more interesting than any fat politician, misconstrued psychologist or religious nut case could ever dream of.
It's 2022 and video games still have our imagination and I wouldn't have it any other way. However, instead of a quarter at a time it's now 50 to 70 bucks a pop but we get to keep our games today. Excellent video my friend!
@@Sinn0100 We haven't been able to own most games for almost 15 years. We just have a license to play them, if Microsoft, Sony or Valve decide to reneg on that license you are left with a box and a disc that does nothing.
5:25 psychologist worried kids lack social interaction. He should see online games nowadays... In person multiplayer was a hell of a social interaction.
funny how they always found the bad in video games but not the good they rather have these kids dealing drugs on the street instead it's crazy to think arcades were such a big problem back then
They say 7.5 billion yearly industry but then he says 300 billion quarter’s. Maybe he meant 300 million cuz that Math wouldn’t add up if it was 300 billion qtrs
I think he was talking about how much money the industry makes from selling games and then how much people spend in arcades. The revenue from an Arcade goes to the owner, not the people who built the machines in it.
I love how they say these games are earning 8 million dollars a week it’s only 25 cents a quarter isn’t going get you close to a million dollars a week even if you have hundreds of people playing
@@EQOAnostalgia you can believe what you want but that man who is saying how much they made has no proof he didn’t even count the money or was allowed to go count it he was just saying what he believes it makes 25 cents isn’t going to get you to a million dollars do you even know what a million dollars means ? The teenage mutant ninja turtles wasn’t even out yet it cost $10 to beat it but games like Pac-Man doesn’t need $10 it doesn’t have an ending it’s just for scoring I didn’t see a million people in that video
@@EQOAnostalgia if that was true Pac-Man was making 8 million dollars I would of bought the arcade machine and put it in a store and made a million dollars in the 1980’s you were a child back then I’m an adult who had money when you were a child paying $3,000 isn’t to much money then earning a million prophet but it’s not true this guy who tells the news doesn’t know what he’s saying 8 million dollars can buy you a very great house that more then NBA players make a week if Pac-Man was making 8 million then all the NBA players would retire go own an arcade machine
Sam Dicker had just completed Sinistar when that last video was made. It also looked like it showed upcoming effects from Williams' Blaster, which came out in 1983.
This was true back then, who wants to play Pac-Man every day for a year? Kids were fickle and the game developers had to keep coming up with better and better games.
5:44 - This is nothing new; pinball was banned in NYC in the 1930s due to the perception that they contributed to juvenile delinquency, and were seen as gambling devices, which is why pinball games have the statement, “For Amusement Only”, on the apron or card.
I love these classic gaming news covers to see how everything was represented back then. I love many o these wonderful arcade games especially Pac-Man. Thanks for sharing such a fantastic news cover from the 1980's. Cool video. ^_^
@@ShuAum There was also the religious folks, whose ethos has always been "If we don't understand it then it must be Satanic". They tried to ban everything from heavy music to gory films, and a dozen other things in between.
All us folks who have poured our entire lives into creating these games that have enhanced so many lives over the years are all struggling to find work now due to AI. Things that took us a lifetime to learn, years of college and subsequent debt, all the insane amount of work, sacrificed life balance, pouring ourselves into this craft of passion...GPT could fart out any one of these games in seconds with perfect code and simultaneously send us the email informing us we've been laid off and generate a legitimately impressive picture of a middle finger with a tattoo of Mario peeing on your mom...all at the same time. For free. Hello Burger King! I never worked a drive-thru before! This ought to be exciting and I'm totally going to able to pay my bills with this napkin with a $ sign drawn on it! F!#%!@*&!!!
Yeah ,scrolled down to see if anyone else caught that. "....a national industry estimated at seven and a half billion dollars", from the video Guessing American liberal arts journalism math at work here . Must have meant 30 billion quarters. If tis 300 billion quarters or $75 billion than ,say, nearly 37.5 million young Americans(mostly boys and young men) with disposable income were spending on average $2000 or 8000 quarters (22 quarters average a day) on arcades in 1982. The average US income then was about $11,000.
@@Gaur1983 The money you put in an arcade machine does not go towards the videogame industry, it goes towards the owner of the arcade. If I buy beer and sell it to you I expect you to pay me and not the brewery - two different industries.
Arcade games in the eighties seem to have been more varied and appealing to a much broader audience. Pretty much every game had somethin new and origiinal going on. Fast forward to the nineghties and it's all Street Fighter 2 clones and pay-per-race driving games. Bleh...
In the city Hermosa Beach on Pacific Coast highway there was a Motel that was 2 stories and family lived in the first unit one bedroom with three double beds and a single bed in the kitchen, with bathroom and one bed in the living room at time during time when I was 7 years when I woke up in middle of night to find my He-Man Teala Action figures in socks on a chair on Christmas when I lived W/ half sister Wendy, Lori, Lauren Clark,Kimberly Clark with my mother Susan L. Perry & my dad William T. Perry
I found at the Lawndale Library wrapped on a blanket when went mail something there an African American Woman who could not open the Lawndale Library for us, who did not have the key at the time but I have always returned to that same location over to make sure that some day that the innocent will be repaid in full and noone will steal from any Libraries again in 2019and in past events so that the Hawthorne or the Lawndale Sherif will not steal from the storage house of the knowledge of the past. Lauren Clark was also at the Maytag Lawndale Laurdry Mat hold out her hand for something to give me the Walt Disney's photograph of her mother Susan Luella Wetzel standing on the left side near a skinny Walt Disney with my mother as a little girl on a black & white Kodak film with Peter Pan ship in the background at Disneyland. I wanted to give her the fun package of information that only hoped she received in the mail about Harry Potter the Wizarding World in Universal Hollywood California.
Probably the PS9 VR will NOT be backwards compatible with PS8 VR, also here's what VR looked like 32 years ago ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T2CYLlSn1gA.html With a little bit at the start (1:26-1:46) showing what VR looked like 36 years ago(1986)
The last one I knew of closed around 2010, but from the early 90's right up until it's closure it looked nothing like the busy arcades of the early 80's - the only reason we went in was because in the 90's and early '00's the games still had much better graphics than you could get on any PC or console so it was still a treat to play something like House of the Dead. Then the X-box 360 and Playstation 3 happened around 2008 and killed off the arcade for good, because now you could have better graphics in your room than downtown.
I was addicted to Galaga, and Haunted House pinball. Now, COD rules the roost. Galaga, Defender, Pac-Man took up 20 mb of memory. Now, 150 gig’s is the norm. Technology!!!!!
So then the main stream media was wrong about video games. They're more often than not still wrong in their reporting on practically everything. Most people know that now I imagine.
