Atari 2600 Asteroids on Vinyl LP (w/ GenXGrownUp) | Friday Night Arcade
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- Wait... they made a record out of Asteroids on Atari?! Find out all about this thing that actually existed on this edition of Friday Night Arcade!
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Sharing the production of this episode really woke up a part of my brain that had been dormant since the early '80s! Listening to these delightfully-cheesy kids' albums while reading MAD and sipping on an RC Cola was how I spent many rainy Saturdays. Thanks for inviting me to take part, Aaron. BTW, you can hear & see the entire "Pac-Man Picnic" featured in this video on my channel right here: czcams.com/video/VtYECsNjZiU/video.html
Holy cow! Until you showed it I had completely about Pac-Man picnic! Talk about walking up 80's memories! I'm fairly certain I still have that in my collection too, I can't wait to go rifle through my garage to find it. I remember that I didn't like the voice actor because he didn't sound like Pac-Man from the cartoon. It happened like that a lot in media cross properties.
Thanks for providing more context. Will certainly have to check out your channel.
Just subbed to your channel. Learning a lot!
Thanks, Ninja! Glad you have you. 😃
The Atari era was a great time to have been alive and the massive product's and tie in's from atari!
From posters, jackets,toys,comics etc!
My heart goes out to the new generation who missed out on it...It was a great time to have been alive and witness this firsthand.
Great record review thanks for bringing back a lot of fond memories and the nastoliga keep up the great work!
The vocoder was used for the Cylon voices in the original Battlestar Galactica. That's the best example a Gen Xer would understand.
Fantastic example, TR47 -- what a classic!
At 8:33 the background music uses the same Casio VL-1 rhythm that made the German song “Da Da Da” by Trio famous.
Windfisch1981 ahhhh, fellow Audiophile?
Came looking for this comment the moment I heard it blippety boppin'. I still have my VL-1. 😁
@@necron99.aka-sammyboy92 No, every German knows this song.
Stimmt,
Danke für den Tipp 👍🏻
It's hard to take the exciting space battle seriously when "Da Da Da" is playing in the background.🤣
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I don't think I'll be rockin' out to that theme song
Great vid. I didn't know these albums even existed. 😁
I grew up with these records. I remember the Gremlins set. Honestly, Yars Revenge is my favorite. I dig the Yars theme song.
AAaahh! Asteroids. One of my favs on the Atari 2600
Someome hacked the 2600 ROM to make the game look more like the arcade. Pretty sweet... not that I didnt dislike the multicolor barrage when Asteroids came out, but looking almost like the arcade is not bad for that console and how so many games went above and beyond its limitations at the time!
Asterooooooooooooids
ASTEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIDS
*NOW IT'S STUUUUUUUUCK*
*IN MY BRAAAAAAAAAAAAIN*
When it comes to music based on "Asteroids", I would definitely recommend the song "Hyperspace" by Buckner & Garcia, who are the same guys behind the hugely popular song "Pac-Man Fever". ;)
So Kool - i hear the Casio VL-Tone being used on the album.
This channel is high quality af
Loved this, Yars Revenge, Missile Command, and the one that got away defender. Time Warp non RHPS.
I totally would have played the Asteroids theme song while blasting away on my Atari !
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That Asteroids theme song needs to be put in a museum dedicated to camp; it's pretty amazing.
I got the Pac-Man Christmas album at an estate sale a few years ago. If you want to hear pure, distilled insanity, play that sometime
Man do you ever do your research. I can't tell you how much i appreciate the quality work you are doing.
Thank you for checking out the show and the kind words.
Intriguing video. The Vocoder was also front and center on Styx's Mr. Roboto song which I can't believe he didn't bring up. Oh well, not your fault. I never had a video game themed record like that as a kid, but I can definitely relate to the record-based and cassette-based audio books though. I had a bunch and like you I was interested in space exploration and anything about astronomy. I think its kind of a natural transition since many of the games we played often had some sort of space theme to them. The Asteroids record you shared reminded me a lot of the old radio serial shows. Dramatic...and the several "look there!" comments made in the show which are great for kids with an active imagination. The only audio book adventure I can recall clearly from my childhood is one about a kid going on a journey through the solar system. I probably listened to that cassette 50-60 times and could probably recite the lines from memory back then but I still loved it. Although the Time Warp song still doesn't come close to holding a candle to Pac Man Fever. Great trip down memory lane!
I remember when my aunt got me a box full of record books. It had Star Wars, the Hobbit (cartoon), and several fairy tales. Definitely early 80s. I listened to them all the time until I got into Choose Your Own Adventure books.
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure... Did you have Target: Earth?
@@FridayNightArcade No I didn't have that book. I had Cave of Time, Space and beyond, House of Danger. Did you see that ZMan Games made a board/ card game of House of Danger? Hopefully it will be the first of many.
Whoa, really? No I had no idea - will have to look into that just to see what they came up with.
See... this is why I love doing this channel. I learn just as much or more (probably more) from you guys. Thank you for sharing.
This was a super informative nostalgic video. You deserve way more views. Thumbs up.
Are you ever gonna go back to NES, Master System, Genesis, SNES, or classic PC games? Those episodes were great!
Absolutely! Plenty from all of those on my hit list!
@@FridayNightArcade Awesome! I can't wait. I loved the episodes on Starflight and Star Tropics! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for the kind words... funny, I was seriously considering re-doing the Star Tropics episode. Was always self conscious about my earlier episodes and their uh, format.
Scary. I bought this and the Yars' Revenge record (Edit: Maybe also Missile Command) while I was in a curious state of collector fever for my Atari 2600 -- well into the NES age, but arguably still while the industry was in liquidation mode post-crash. They were a couple of bucks each. I actually still have them. Anecdote: This is also when I randomly found a single boxed copy of Swordquest Waterworld. A surprise discovery to be sure. I wasn't aware of the state of the contest at the time, or the fact that Waterworld was intended to be available only via mail order. A handful of copies somehow found their way to retail, and even though it was by far the most expensive title in that bargain bin ($13, among games costing $1 and $2 NIB), I snapped it up. It's still basically the only rare game I own.
One of my childhood friends was flown to California to compete in the Swordquest: Earthworld finals way back when. It's a story I've made him tell me over & over again through the years.
@@GenXGrownUp Maybe you should consider making some kind of detailed document of what he can remember. I feel like those events don't have anywhere near the kind of anecdotal coverage as similar NES-based events of later years. Most of what the world in general knows about that contest is due to the AVGN episode which covered it, but said episode was unusually light on data, and even I knew a lot about it that was left unmentioned.
A fun pipe dream I've always had is for someone to crowdfund an honest to goodness Airworld, complete with Tod Frye's involvement (his rough draft of ideas and approval of the final product at least). But I've always felt that for something like that to succeed, there would first need to be better general understanding of the fact that the cancellation of the contest resulted in the cancellation of the final game. In the right hands, this idea could be legendary.
lol, didn't know Asteroids had it's own theme song. The singer sounds a bit like Nico....
See when I first saw this I was thinking of Buckner and Garcia's song "Hyperspace'.
Great song from the Pac-Man Fever album!
Better songs than on the Kid's Stuff... stuff...
I grew up to be a transportation professional myself, so I can relate to the intro. It's cool to have a state of the art vehicle and have nice stress free days.
What an amazing idea for an episode. Sadly, I never knew about this stuff. I was the only one in my family who loved video games so my parents never knew about it either. Thanks for the awesome episode Aaron. And, to the people giving crap about GXG....people get a life. When you have no life you have all the time in world to criticize everything and anything....please...
Great video as always, and I look forward to checking out genxgrownup
*The Adventures of Zapp Brannigan in the 31st Century!!!*
8:32 sounds like something Zapp would say too! :)
“ I will send wave after wave after wave of my soldiers at you until you run out of bullets, then I’ll kick your ass “!
All I had was Yars Revenge, but it was on cassette.
Never knew about these things! Thanks for raising the education. GenXGrownUp really put a lot of effort into this video -- much appreciated.
Thanks, Socrates63!
Great video. Always looking forward to FNA videos.
9:35 There was a sample of that song in MySpace (when it was a thing).
I've owned a few of the book-n-record stuff that were on Disneyland, Peter Pan and a Golden Record, "A Trip to the Children's Zoo". I also owned the Star Wars Story Record, and then sold it at a flea market. Ya know, that's what happens when you get too old for such stuff. They would've been collector's items, these days. I suppose the same would go for the Kid Stuff records based on video games.
I’m going to be singing “Asteroids” all day now. Thanks. Lol.
Phenomenal! Thanks for sharing this!
Although I didn't have Asteroids I had a number of Kid Stuff record and cassette storybook packs growing up, including Pac Man Run for Fun, A Charlie Brown Chistmas, and various Star Wars sets. Lots of fun at an early age and the read-along format contributed to helping me learn and develop a passion for reading. Thanks for the great video, this brought back some wonderful childhood memories!
Awesome video great album I remember having Kid Stuff albums when I was a kid
Beyond awesome. I would have loved these records!
So thankful I found this channel through an ad. I would have never known about this LP. Gotta love how they made their own story outside of the game, using something so minimalistic like Asteroids. Much respect to Kids Stuff. And much respect to you, FNA!! Getting Game Sack vibes ✊🏻
Thanks for checking out the show!
I had no idea that these existed!? Awesome, the Asteroids artwork is some of my favorite!👍
I had some of the G.I. Joe ones. They were very cool. Theater of the mind will never die.
I'm still on the lookout for the G.I. Joe digital versions. And the physical copies will be next! Hang on to those; you're lucky to have 'em.
@@GenXGrownUp Oh, that was definately past tense. They probably ended up being sold at a garage sale after I moved out, lol. Yeah, it's like that.
This is amazing! So much so that I'm showing a portion of this video to my Intro Video Game Studies students in the lecture on narrative in video games! 😃
Thank you for the kind words; hope it was useful for the class 🙏
@@FridayNightArcade It was, thank you!
Thanks for the video. I was not aware of the existence of this record.
Thanks for making this. I had the game when I was 10 or so (turned 10 in 1980) but never knew of the vinyl. It seems like the Pac-Man Fever vinyl LP I still own; fun to listen to once for nostalgic reasons but probably not worth trying to buy an original!
Captain Stanton sounds a lot like Skipper from Penguins of Madagascar. Though Tom McGrath is probably not old enough to have been involved with this as he's only about just over 50. And the narrator at the end is doing a very passable Stan Lee impersonation.
Hey! The music during the asteroid portion of the record is the “Yars Revenge” song!
I listened to this so many times back in the 80s on my little Crayola record player.
That was fucking amazing, even to this day I would easiy listen to this record while playing asteroids.
4:44 missile command has a story? Considering what the game is about it can't be a good one during the Cold war era.
You're not far off. It introduces the "Zardonian Central Committee" and First Officer Ed Mathews setting off for "departure zone zebra" with sealed orders. I think you get the idea!
missile command was obviously about nuclear war but I guess they didn't want to scare all the kids
Actually the Tupac song used a talk box. You put a plastic tube in your mouth and modulate the frequency of the incoming sound using the shape of your mouth.
You know your stuff, Roger! Most folks don't know the difference between a vocoder & a talk box! They're often lumped together in the voice effects devices category.
@@GenXGrownUp I'm a music nerd too.
quality stuff right there, listening to that visual particle counter lol
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Cool video. I'm quite sure the artist for the 2600 Missile Command box art (as shown) was actually former head of the Atari art department George Opperman. Chris Kenyon did the artwork for the lesser known Atari 5200 release of Missile Command.
I’ve always wondered what this sounded like
I had PacMan fever on vinyl LP. Got it from an uncle. It had a bunch of songs based on arcade games. Wonder if it was made by the same people??
Mike Werley I wondered also, I have Pac-Man fever and checked it, made by CBS which in itself is weird to me lol
@@Kwstr42 haha yeah that is weird. Thanks for the info.
I had the Pac Man (A Day At The Park) book. Who in the early 80's didn't have a Fisher-Price record player? 😅
Ah, yes, the old 'book & tape' movie novelizations of my childhood. I had a few of those, though it was cassette tapes instead of records but still the same thing. Memories of following along with the book as the narrator and other voices read the story to you, waiting for the chime to signal to turn the page.
They had games even on tapes!
At 8:39 you can hear the beat from Trio’s “Da Da Da” because it was a stock rhythm on the Casio VL Tone
I am sure I would have listened to this a bunch of times on my way to sleep if it was on cassette.
Groovin on the classic Casio VL-1 sounds
Nice. It would be nice to put it in the record player and check it out, while jamming on Astroids 2600. Induldge in retro gaming. 😊
It’s stuff like this that makes me glad I grew up in the 90s.
Imagine if later games had LPs like this. DOOM - the Audiobook. What actually would work well is Elite. Elite II already came with a novel. So an audiobook isn’t too far off.
There is some stuff on a musical of sorts for elite, came across this on a fansite: www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/musical/index.htm
I have this as well, along with yars revenge. Got them at a flea market for a dollar each 7 or 8 years ago!
Kid Stuff, released a lot of these albums, and even read along books. There is also a "Atari Story of Asteroids" A completely different story. I wrote a list of "List Of Kid Stuff Records, And Other Products", which is on Internet Archive.
Kid Stuff Records/Golden Books "video game" themed audio story series.
*****Atari Video Game based stories}
* {Atari, Long Play Records, "A Exciting Adventure Story" mentioned on sticker, no books.}
** Missle Command
** Yars' Revenge
** Asteroids
***** {Atari, 7" records, and tapes with books, sometimes listed as "The Story of Atari..."}
** The Story of Asteroids
** The Story Of Breakout
** The Story of Missile Command
** The Story of Star Raiders
** The Story of Yars' Revenge
***** Donkey Kong {Long Play Record, listed on the record label as "Donkey Kong Goes Home"}
***** Pac-Man series
* {Pac-Man, Long Play Records}
** The Pac-Man Album {Picture disc 1980}
** Pac-Man Christmas Album {1982}
** The Amazing Adventures Of Pac-Man {1982}
* {Pac-Man, 7" records, and tapes with books.
** Baby Pac-Man Goes to the Market {KSR-616, 1982}
** Pac-Man Goes to Playland {KSR-997}
** Pac-Man Picnic {KSR-996, 1980}
** Pac-Man Run for Fun {KSR-995, 1980}
** The Pac-Man Christmas Story {KSR-589, 1983}
** The Adventures of Super Pac-Man {KSR-617, 1983}
* {Pac-Man cartoon based series, 7" records, and tapes with color illustrations, both Golden Books, on Kid Stuff Records.}
** Pac-Man and the Ghost Diggers {DBR-205}
** Ms. Pac-Man's Prize Pupil {DBR-206}
***** Super Mario Bros. Trapped in the Perilous Pit {Golden Story Book 'n' Tape, not a Kid Stuff Records release.}
I thought it was going to be Asteroids the game on vinyl. If they can record games on cassette, why not an LP?
I imagine the load times would be a little long....
I always said Atari put more into box art than what went into the box.
Yep! So many kids were let down when they played the actual game that looked nothing like it! When Activision got started (with former Atari programmers) they decided that they would put the actual game graphics on the box because it is more honest.
I had the read along album for the movie The Black Hole. I know now that people don't like that movie very much, but I was in love with it back then and listened to that record every single day. I was the same way as you with space, I loved everything to do with it. I would have killed someone to go to Space Camp. For some reason I thought they'd really send me up in the shuttle lol. And yeah I loved that movie too. Great video, thanks!
Love your videos 💖💖💖 and subscribed John’s channel also 😇😇
Thanks, Lovish. And yeah, I agree, Friday Night Arcade does some top-notch production.
First go check the artwork (and absolutely everthing else) on Star Raiders (400/800). No idea of the 2600 edition, but the home computer edition art included fank pips for the different difficulty levels. That game was the best computer game for years.
Also my school had a few musical instruments made by "Kid Stuff", including a couple of xylophones (I remember seeing the label on the xylophones, but the music teacher insisted that they were still the real thing). Google didn't know about them, so I have no idea if there is any relation or not. Oddly enough, I'm 50 and have never heard of these records (probably I was too old just after they came out or I insisted on "real books").
I have a very basic 80s synth with the kids stuff logo on it, so it seems to be the same company and it seems like they were making instruments alongside the records at least into the 80s.
Im really intrigued by what other instruments they made/put their name on.
I would've thought the record would've been like an ambient piece which was essentially 30 minutes of someone playing Asteroids lol. Either that or it would take a pseudo-Buckner & Garcia route.
I did get the "Pac Man Fever" album when it came out. I get it!
I SUBBED FROM THE AD! dont treat this channel as statics for your pleasure. Treat this as a passion project, a project you can look back at years later.
Awesome!
I had a Fraggle Rock book and record when I was a kid. I gotta find one now!
LOL, someone needs to remix this shit. Maybe some dark cyber punk synths with a bit of the Transformers theme tossed in for extra nostalgia.
Omg my first thought on this is was who the hell wants to hear a full album of boop boop boop boop but you proved me wrong
Maaan, I had Donkey Kong and Yars Revenge. Got ‘em from a closeout store
Blimey, the things one learns each day and this one takes the cake for early 80s coolness. KITT aside, of course. :) Definitely an interesting video game tie-in, which ostensibly would get kids more enthralled in the actual game. How could a kid not get hooked?!
Am I the only one who thought that at first it was the Asteroids game in LP format?
i thought that too... but is posible...
I have a copy of Yar's Revenge on 12" vinyl. Don't have the Asteroids though. I think Missle Command was available as a 12" too.
Is there a site with credits on who did the voice work on these albums?
Couldn't find an official listing but someone mentioned Peter Fernandez.
8:24 72,000 miles per second is around 300 times the speed of light - that's one fast ship!
The random musical number that is the theme song (9:26) reminds me of the song "Wet Dream" by Kip Addotta. The rest of the story sounds like it was stolen from Buck Rogers but in reverse (and maybe some Galactica)
Atari vinyl I'd definitely buy one!
I don't have anything from Kids Stuff, but I've got a 70s Star Trek story LP (sadly none of the original cast) from Peter Pan records, a Captain America Comic and Record set from Power Records, and a rerelease of the 1966 Batman cast soundtrack from Universal Music.
0:55 like how the ASTEROIDS ship is a modified star fighter from BUCK ROGERS?
Does Atari have any more of these albums around?
Wow! That is unbelievably bad 8 )
Thanks for sharing! CheerZ!
LOOOOL, I have that Pac-Man album as well, only a Dutch-language version. Picked it up at a thrift shop some years ago but never knew it was part of a series of LP-tie ins.
I used to put the record on and started the game when it got serious. I was fat geek.
So that's how they did the Cylon voices.
I had the book and 7" record set of "Atari Super Breakout" when I was 6 or 7. The story was quite good, but unlike this it was just narration (no acting) and there were no songs. Also, the book was black and white. After playing it once with the book, I just played the story and imagined it more. Nice and colourful.
On a side note, why do the computers on space ships always need to be told to raise the shields? I'd program my spaceship's computer to raise the shields automatically!
I'm an X-er and completely missed that...durn!
Can't forget about the vocoder definitely being used by Daft Punk
I see they got their hands on the keyboard used in "Da Da Da."
I had the pac-man picture disc.... I believe I still do. These were BAD... but in a fun nostalgia way
Asteroids deluxe had shields. He’s screwed!!
Ben Minnote of oddity archive needs to do an episode of these
He was a kid in 70s 80s and 90s...god damn his momma must want him to get a job
I was born in 1981. I was a kid in the 80s and to a degree, early 90s. Time is relative.
Haha you're right. I'm just clowning. Nice content guy. Much success is coming to you for sure.
All good.. In a way... I'm still a kid 🤗.. we all should be anyway 😁
I had the Casio PT-1 keyboard that's playing the rhythm loops in the background music. I don't know if that's from the record or from the video. But here's what it sounds like www.polynominal.com/casio-pt1/
I think I had that same one too lol... didn't realize it's what they used here. Thanks for sharing.