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1980s arcade video gamers. Recommend me a great documentary.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:04 am
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:04 am
I wish Ken Burns would tackle the 80s. *sigh*
Anyway, I've seen 'the last arcade' on netflix or prime (can't remember which) and I enjoyed it but it left me nostalgic for me.
i've seen the pacman/donkey kong american tie dude doc as well. what i really want is a series that goes in depth on these. would love it if there was a year-by-year synopsis of the rise of video games and the societal trends during that time.
then i want one on pinball.
i want the developers of akka arrh on to talk through the timeline of why this never was released.
i want someone from the army on to talk about converting battlezone into a bradley trainer.
i want to know what kind of drugs the guy was on who came up with tempest.
i submit there was never a trilogy of hits as strong and creative as williams in 1981-1982.
Anyway, I've seen 'the last arcade' on netflix or prime (can't remember which) and I enjoyed it but it left me nostalgic for me.
i've seen the pacman/donkey kong american tie dude doc as well. what i really want is a series that goes in depth on these. would love it if there was a year-by-year synopsis of the rise of video games and the societal trends during that time.
then i want one on pinball.
i want the developers of akka arrh on to talk through the timeline of why this never was released.
i want someone from the army on to talk about converting battlezone into a bradley trainer.
i want to know what kind of drugs the guy was on who came up with tempest.
i submit there was never a trilogy of hits as strong and creative as williams in 1981-1982.
This post was edited on 4/13/20 at 10:10 am
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Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:08 am to CAD703X
Check out NintendoQuest. Also on Prime.
King of Arcades. Also on Prime.
The Power of Glove. Also on Prime.
King of Arcades. Also on Prime.
The Power of Glove. Also on Prime.
This post was edited on 4/13/20 at 10:10 am
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:17 am to hey benji
i want it to focus on the early arcade scene; from 1976-1984.
the creativity from that era is unmatched to date. i know nintendo was a great console and it generated a 'second wave' of video game enthusiasm but IMO video gaming lost its edge when it became nothing more than vertical shooters and fighting games. those 2 game genres destroyed the creativity of the early days IMO.
all you have to do is go back to 1980 and look at the variety of games from that era. golden age where nobody knew what kind of games would attract kids so nothing was off the table.
i dont want a show about pacman and donkey kong. that's been beaten to death a million times. i want an in depth documentary that goes game-by-game in some cases and explores what was going on during the creation.
i know the guy who wrote Defender had never created a game before and was literally debugging code at the launch of the game. i would love to know more about that..how much each game ultimately ended up making and follow the journey of those thousands and thousands of arcade games into barns and warehouses and then ultimately back out into 'retro' arcades.
the creativity from that era is unmatched to date. i know nintendo was a great console and it generated a 'second wave' of video game enthusiasm but IMO video gaming lost its edge when it became nothing more than vertical shooters and fighting games. those 2 game genres destroyed the creativity of the early days IMO.
all you have to do is go back to 1980 and look at the variety of games from that era. golden age where nobody knew what kind of games would attract kids so nothing was off the table.
i dont want a show about pacman and donkey kong. that's been beaten to death a million times. i want an in depth documentary that goes game-by-game in some cases and explores what was going on during the creation.
i know the guy who wrote Defender had never created a game before and was literally debugging code at the launch of the game. i would love to know more about that..how much each game ultimately ended up making and follow the journey of those thousands and thousands of arcade games into barns and warehouses and then ultimately back out into 'retro' arcades.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:47 am to CAD703X
I forget what it's called but the one about the ET game is pretty good
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:51 am to CAD703X
Let me know when you find docs about Missile Command and Qix.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:53 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Let me know when you find docs about Missile Command and Qix.
i'm inspired by my own thread. hell the mame community is off-the-chain already; i bet they would feed ken burns with more than he could possibly digest from this era.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:17 am to CAD703X
quote:Nolan Bushnell said he came up with the idea after having a vivid nightmare in which creatures were crawling out of a hole to get him, and he had to fight them off. We had one at our house, but the monitor failed, as was apparently common in that cabinet.
i want to know what kind of drugs the guy was on who came up with tempest.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:17 am to Shotgun Willie
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ET game
Atari Game Over. Really enjoyed it, the ET game dump hunt was kind of the sub plot, and a very cool one. The rise and sudden fall of Atari and it's designers is pretty fascinating story.
ETA: It's on YouTube.
LINK
This post was edited on 4/13/20 at 11:24 am
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:21 am to CAD703X
Berserk used to give me panic attacks
Tron was the shite
Remember when Dragon's Lair came out? We were so excited and then it just kinda sucked
Tron was the shite
Remember when Dragon's Lair came out? We were so excited and then it just kinda sucked
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:25 am to blueboy
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but the monitor failed, as was apparently common in that cabinet.
you can pick up an asteroids 1up machine at walmart for $75 if you're lucky or $199 if not. it includes major havoc, lunar lander & tempest but you'll want to swap the spinner out.
you can't beat the price and the monitor won't suffer from 'vector suck' which was common with those tempest machines.
i got about halfway through the red level. i would say it plays about 99% as good as the original.
eta: here's my bar/arcade room
This post was edited on 4/13/20 at 11:30 am
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:27 am to JuiceTerry
quote:
Berserk used to give me panic attacks
not long humanoid not long intruder! i played the hell out of it (and still do)
quote:
Tron was the shite
those early levels if your finger didn't fall off you could shoot every single square away when floating up in that tower.
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Remember when Dragon's Lair came out? We were so excited and then it just kinda sucked
for a poor kid from a small town in louisana FIFTY frickING CENTS was the killer for me. i would just loiter around the 7-11 until a baller came in who could afford to waste 50 cents to last about 30 seconds in the game.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:30 am to CAD703X
What was the name of this game?
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:31 am to ksdolfan
I think that's Defender?
I loved the table top version of that one, unless I'm thinking about a similar game
I loved the table top version of that one, unless I'm thinking about a similar game
This post was edited on 4/13/20 at 11:33 am
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:31 am to ksdolfan
DEFENDER!
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:32 am to ksdolfan
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What was the name of this game?
Defender?
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:36 am to DarthRebel
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:43 am to CAD703X
quote:The spinner is the key to that game. All of the imitations I've seen just don't have the feel.
you can pick up an asteroids 1up machine at walmart for $75 if you're lucky or $199 if not. it includes major havoc, lunar lander & tempest but you'll want to swap the spinner out.
Honestly, none of it is the same. You just can't recapture that 1982 magic, the smell of Mountain Dew and fried dough snacks, the 100 games all going at once, the betting, the rivalries, the long rows of quarters lined up along the bottoms of monitors. It's my childhood happy place, but it shall not come again.
My favorite was a game I only saw in one place. Space Wars, in which you and a friend played the little "A" from Asteroids against a stick figure starship Enterprise, in a duel of death in which you could blast each other our of the sky and even wing each other's ships without destroying them. There was a center panel of buttons with which each game could be customized with various other dangers for both ships to negotiate.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:44 am to CAD703X
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:51 am to CAD703X
There are a ton of them on Amazon Prime. Just see what interest you.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:53 am to blueboy
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Space Wars
one of my favs and the bane of my multi-emulation machine.
it had a full keypad (0-9) to set all the various conditinons (black hole, extra gravity, etc.)
hard to recreate this in a cabinet without all those buttons without hooking up a keyboard.
this was at godfather's pizza and i spent many quarters on it.
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