>>> Great "new" 1982 arcade video material on-line now !!! <<<

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>>> Great "new" 1982 arcade video material on-line now !!! <<<

As a belated x-mas present, I am extremely proud and happy to be able to offer you classic arcade addicts some great video material from the early 80's !!!

Below you will find a documentary that was made by and for Dutch national television and was aired on january 11, 1982.
The broadcasting company AVRO has given permission to publish this on the internet in a streaming form. Please do not publish this on Youtube or likewise sites or we may get in trouble !

I translated everything said as best as I could. There will definitely be some "strange" translations but this is what I could do and as long as you understand what is said I think that should be fine.

Some notes:

1)The very first part (until 0.01.02) is NOT from the "Driester" documentary but from another (much later) TV item
2)The "Driester" (=ThreeStar) documentary starts with host Ruud ter Weijden talking with Star Raiders playing behind him. This is a brilliant game (with a lot of history) on the Atari 8 bit homecomputer.
3)The guy interviewed at [00.12.00] is R. Hommerson. Hommerson arcade(s) still exist to this day at Scheveningen, The Netherlands !!
4)[00.16.27] The man from the Dutch Gaming Machines association (VAN) is speaking about legal issues in the arcade business in front of at least 3 bootleg machines !! :)
5)I made a list with all the games that I manage to ID with timecodes, I will upload this ASAP.....there sure were some treasures in there !


HUGE thanks go out to "Gyruss" *and "Etienne", without them this wouldn't have been possible at all * !!!


Check out the videos here:

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Note: For now, the video's are only available in Flash format. This means they won't be playable on all (mobile) devices. I hope to add H.264 versions of these videos soon, which will offer better quality at a lower bit-rate and lower processing load.
 
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Thanks for posting that, and adding the subtitles. It's always interesting to watch videos about arcades from back then.
 
Wow, that was great. I love seeing footage from when the games were new. All of them looked so nice.

I really enjoyed the part where the child was explaining how to play Pac Man. That was such a cool moment, and it took me back, briefly, to the time when games like Pac Man, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong were obscurities - back when not everybody knew these games inside and out. It brought back that excitement and wonder I experienced as a kid upon discovering a new game. For a brief second, I was there, watching that funny yellow graphic gobbling up dots for the first time.

Damn good stuff.

Thanks for posting and translating.
 
Glad you liked it !

What Radiac describes is exactly how I felt about that part !

The very first time I played Pac Man I thought that you could eat the ghosts when Pac's mouth was "chasing" the ghosts and the ghosts would get you if you turned your back on them.
I think I had seen one guy play before me and didn't get the power-pills concept !

Not that it took long to figure out, but it was something I never forgot.
(I couldn't read the English instructions then either ;))
 
OK I completed the list with games I was able to identify.

I did not try to ID the pinballs in there, I have not enough knowledge of those machines....

Theres's some rare beasts in there, try to spot them :) :
Fantasy
Speed Freak
MayDay
Red Baron cockpit
Space Tactics (EM game)
Dribbling (I know a member here who has one ! :) )
Side Trak (Exidy, this one has a real bell inside !!)
Monkey Kong
Fitter

You can download the pdf file here: https://files.me.com/andre.huijts/91f2ev
 
Good video, although I was surprised there was no mention of subliminal messages in the games. :)

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Haha.....have to disappoint you, it's "Tracking off"...

Funny, my kid (8) and his friend are now playing Star Raiders in "co-op mode". That is, one uses the joystick, the other takes care of the keyboard commands.

A 1979 game and they still love it :)
 
......today I solved a riddle that puzzled me for a long time. Well, not really a riddle, but simply one of the cabs that I failed to ID on that video (keeps bugging me).
The reason is mostly because I actually remember playing that game.

It is the game that is showing movie tracks of (model) warships on a sea. You have to blast them out of the water with a huge gun with a big red button on the back.
You can see it in action on video from 07:14

Today I was at a retro-gamers fair in Apeldoorn (almost 100% console/homecomputers, but still very nice) and was browsing through a book (in French) about one of Nintendo's designers (sorry, forgot his name). It showed all the history about Nintendo games and there....at a certain page I see it ! THAT IS THE GAME I FAILED TO ID !!!!

A huge red cabinet....that IS it...: Nintendo Battle Shark !!!!

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It indeed uses (pieces of) 16mm film to show the images. It's almost completely mechanical.

I was completely unaware that this was a Nintendo game !!! However, a long time ago I do remember reading about someone finding one of these huge red Nintendo machines with film projection, but I never made the link to the game I remembered.

The KLOV description is wrong by the way, it mentions you have to shoot at airplanes, but in Battle Shark it is boats only. I did see another (even larger) likewise game that _did_ seem to be about shooting planes in that same book....

If anyone can tip me what book it was....I'd love to own it (in fact there were two, one in French, one in English they looked about the same, but one was about the designer, the other about the history of Nintendo.

Anyway, however trivial this may be, I really was so exited to finally find this HAHAHA :)

The cool factor is that (without me ever realizing of course) the very first Nintendo product I ever played was.......Battle Shark !!!!

Does anybody here have one ??
 
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