Just another day at the arcade in 1982
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2024
- We're back in 1982 all of the sudden 😜 ..
And that's okay!
Footage from a local video game Arcade in New York full of the hottest machine on the planet!
...And all the busy customers (and quarters) it hooked.
Shots of various arcade types, gameplay and other odds and ends.
This interesting video last around 6 minutes.
#pacman
#token
#mrspacman
#arcade
Wow, just hearing those sounds from Pac Man takes me back to better times.
Woka woka woka
Put your index finger in and out of your ear repeatedly for the sound effect.
The good ole days…
My dad has a Mr packman machine that he won at some kind of event he attended as a young teenager in 1982. It was kept in the basement of our house and me and my sisters used to play with all the time. As of January 2024, it still works very well!
It's worth a fortune today!
When PAC-MAN ruled the world.
Even loved the Saturday morning cartoon. I was 9 back in 82.
I remember our game arcade in the 80s being so packed after school. I was 8yrs old saving my lunch money for games to play. I'd get frustrated when the teens hog up the machine and have the audacity to ask if I had quarters they could "borrow" 😂😂
@@McCloud06OMG YES THAT IS TRUE😂😂😂😂 It was the easiest game and it only required the joystick.
Love all the nostalgic sounds of the pacman game
Imagine myself in 1983 smoking a nice unfiltered cigarette in a crowded pizza parlor playing Frogger, shoulder to shoulder like sardines with a dozen others in business suits playing classic games in a neat geometric row. Fun times!
Don’t forget to leave the cigarette on the play buttons and melt them
in arcades where I am ( Canada) the machine had these little aluminum ciggy holders mounted on the game's control panel,on the far left away from the controls, like a little lipped rectangle 4 inchs wide, 1 inch high, with lip at bottom, , so the cig wouldn't roll off, they were attached to the game with 2 rivets, @@Hoovie9596
I have to return some videotapes...😂
I remember those days, I played Pac Man in 1981 and Ms. Pac Man was new in 1982. I even bought the Pac Man Fever album when it came out.
Pac Man and Space Invaders arguably the most iconic video games of all time.
Look at those addicted adults from all walks of life. Beautiful.
Better to be addicted to that than what most people are addicted to now...
We weren'taddicted. You actually went home without the arcade game. Unlike smartphones.
My birth year! I was fortunate to enjoy the experience of an arcade during the late 80s till the mid 90s.
Take me back there please!
I wish I could be transported there in that Arcade.These games were everywhere in most of the 80’s.I can’t believe I was 10 when this video was shot.I miss those days like many of us do!
I was 4-5 years old.
Portland, OR has an authentic arcade called Ground Kontrol. They have it down, closest thing to a Time Machine
I worked the midnight shift at Intel and would leave early, go to the arcade play my favorites then go to work. Galaga , Galaxian, Frogger, Joust just to name a few. Putting a quarter by the screen to let the player know you were next 😅❤ Edit: This was in 1984-85. I was one of the few females that played.
Cool! You had great taste in games!
Wow. That's so cool that you worked for Intel way back then! What was that like?
Myself and my good friend used to play the table top Galaga at Pizza Hut back in 1983, awesome times 👍
My pizza hut has the Class of 81 Ms Pac Man/Pac Man/Galaga 3 in 1, really the only cab I only play there
@@hellacia8151 That’s awesome! The Pizza Hut’s where I’m at no longer have games 🤷🏻♂️
As an old man I now ask: Why can't they all be sit-down cabinets??
🤣🤣 2 funny. Hilarious!
They certainly were (and still are) in Japan :)
As someone with scoliosis, (chronic back pain) this applies to me too
Ha I know what you mean. I used to think it would be the ultimate to have my own arcade cabs, but now all I can think of is there's no way I would want to come home after working all day and have to stand while playing video games.
@@vampirerobot Dude you replied the same thing is this a bot
Pac Man, the game that turned arcades around from dark, seedy, sketchy places to popular places for everyone, you can see the difference here already in 1982 and the different cleaner crowd that Pac Man drew in. As a fan of the seedy arcade days, it would be cool if you found footage of how arcades looked in the late 70s. I know that would be hard to find.
I dont know how you got "dark and seedy" out of early arcades, they just werent as popular until games like space invaders, asteroids then pacman and donkey kong came along
It depended where you were.
They were always like this bro, you dreaming.
" Cleaner Crowd"...
Not sure what that is, but Pac Man is beloved by people of all races and ethnicities.
I didn't even know arcades were a thing in the late 70s 😮
The memes are all true -- my friends and I spent SO MUCH time in our local arcade over a period of years from the early to mid 1980s. When I only had a few quarters, I knew how to make them last.
1:09 - I know the focus is supposed to be on the guy in the business suit, but I can't stop watching the woman moving while she plays behind him.
Back in these days my dad would take me to the arcades and watch me play pacman back in the summer of 81. I used to get so into it that my face would be redhot due to the raw excitement🤣. I also remember my dad laughing about how i would stick ny tongue out and raise one foot when playing.
1982, age 10. I am in paradise at The Space Port at the Burlington Center Mall in NJ. The sounds of Pac Man and Ms Pac Man were music to my ears. Despite dominating Asteroids, Galaga and Centipede, I absolutely sucked at the Pac games. I dig Ms Pac more, I love the hopping fruit across the maze.
2024: People staring at their screens.
1982: People staring at their screens.
1950's people staring at screens
Not even close to the same.
@@sabrinashelton1997Yes the does.
It's not the same. It was an arcade game, not a way of life. Sorry you missed it. People also didn't write in memes, they wrote out complete sentences.
Good videos i wish it was a time machine travel back through times
Yeah, those were the golden ages of that kind of video game. Namco was the main joint in the early '80s.
I remember when Space invaders came out here in 1979. Everyone stopped playing pinball to play it.
Just exactly as I remember Pac Man back in 1982 when I was 9 years old with all the AWESOME sound effects, sites, the game board, Pac Man and all the familiar characters! I played this game alot at my local arcade at what was the newly built local shopping mall back then when our parents would do their shopping at mall as us kids spent time at the arcade. Pac Man was one of my favorites. Brings back AWESOME childhood memories! I also played Mrs Pacman to and enjoyed that as well. I even remember the song for Pac Man I heard alot back then called "Pac Man Fever" and the lyrics of song that says 'driving me crazy.' I loved this song and album as well! I was one of many who caught the Pac Man Fever virus and played this game till my heart was content!
Good morning vampire from Miami
I honestly miss video games like this where the graphics were so simple and didn't give you a headache.
And didn't take a Master's degree to play :)
So true. I can't play those virtual reality games, they give me motion sickness
You don’t have to miss them. They’re still around.
@@SpecialAgentEBunny I meant I miss the time when those kind of games were the only thing available
and emulators like MAME can at least allow many to play them as they literally were , I have about 200 games on a PC, there's more, but I just wanted mainly the common ones @@SpecialAgentEBunny
Nothing but Mr. and Ms. Pac-Man, wall to wall. Grown adults, in business suits even, lined up hip to hip for the Pac partnership.
Hard to imagine in just the following year it would all come crashing down. One wonders, if we didn't have a 1983 video game crash, would we have a Mario? Would Pac-Man be the Mario of now? Where would Nintendo be? Or Sega? How different things might've been.
yes it crashed but I kept playing in arcades through the mid 80s to the early 90s...
I benefited from the 1983 video game crash. Atari and Activision games became much cheaper, so Mom was able to buy me tons of games. And when Nintendo debuted, with Mario and Zelda dominating, I got Atari games even cheaper. I didn't get a Nintendo until the mid 90s and got games dirt cheap.
@@teresapflaumer5717 My parents didn't spend much on games either.
That was definitely my Brother and I when we were Kids in the arcade playing Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man back in the 80s🌈👾🦄💛💛!!!! However, I've never seen so many adults back in the 1980s playing Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man in the
Arcade like I see in this video🤔🤔!!! In fact, my Brother and I were better at Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, than many of the adults in this video🤗🤗!! And I still have my Mini Ms. Pac-Man arcade from 1984 and with batteries it still works😃😃👍👍!!!! Thank you for sharing this nostalgic trip down memory lane 😃😃🌈👾🦄!!!
Pac-Man started off as "Puck Man" when it first came out, but clever vandals would turn the "P" into an "F" with pocket knives, markers, or whatever they had on hand. With that, Namco quickly changed the name. True Story.
Fac-man 😁
The arcade years where golden so glad I was able to experience them going to my local mall and playing Mortal Kombat 2 in 94 are in my top 5 gaming moments of all times.
Excellent choice 👌 MK2 , , my wow moment had to be when the very first Mortal Kombat was wheeled into our local Arcade for the first time , , , golden times for certain 😸👍👍
Never liked the PAC Man craze, but most of my friends did. Remember playing at Bennigans, while being served Mozzarella Sticks and Potato skins. The sounds are incredible at best. Thank you for this footage Vampire Robot
I was born in 82. Pac man was still big in the late 80s and even early 90s
Nostalgic ✨
Wonderful flashback. Was 17yo that year. Dumped so many quarters in those machines at the arcade. Wish I could go back.
Pac Man was made for all and easy to play.Speaker had nice bass tone while playing.
So this was the good old days that I have heard about very nice. I love Pac-Man and arcade games and It's wonderful to see them in their prime. Cool video. ^_^
I got me a original Ms pac man 1981 that I’m restoring and so far I love it
I remember those days. There were arcade machines everywhere as well. Even a small Pizza shop would have 2 machines.
So good times. Would love to go back.
I’m wondering if the cameraman was trying to get a good pan in shot for the Game Over logo for his camera reel. The lady tells him a lot when Pac-Man is about to die. Being told these all are reels for news snippets makes a lot of sense.
It is, these are like dailies from a video shoot.
This is awesome 👍
Now I can play Pac- Man on my home computer.
Camera pans like its floating. 😄 And you managed to get early Napoleon Dynamite at the beginning
Those machines ate more of my quarters than Pac Man ate dots
Amazing ! Thankyou...!
I am here from 2024, good times !
"Looks like a baby's toy" - kid in Back to the Future 2 and me in 2024 wearing my PS5 VR headset that will look like a baby's toy in 20 years.
Awesome, we had Playland and Burger King was next to it. We used to crash it in New York. After all this , then go tontge movies for Superman 2 .freakin A yo! now the Marriott Marquis stands where it used to be. But at least NY was smart to put the movie Theater behind it. The arcade now is just a memory. Some theates still have Arcade games but some resident evil types.
Look at all the Pac-Mans and Ms. Pac-Mans.
Wow :o
Today I learned there was a tabletop machiner for pacman in the 1980s. That’s wild 🤣
And a Caberet one too.
I miss those days.....that's what I would be doing back in 82.....my favorite year
Yes yes yes!
3:07 must be some kind of record. And that grip on the joystick, like twisting it like it’s a plug and play joystick for Pole Position.
Give me one quarter and be prepared to have Ms PacMan tied up for the next 30 minutes. There's a reason I always logged the high score everywhere I went. I miss those days.
I was 14 back in 1982 wow you just don't know how this brings back memories for me I was always in the arcade and playing Pac-Man centipede donkey Kong all those classics wow ! Hey vampire robot do you remember the song call Pac-Man fever back in the days by Buckingham and Garcia
Looks like some b-roll for a new broadcast or somethin, either way this is neat
There's a pac man kill screen coming up if anyone's interested
Wow. Erin Moran at the end. Eyyy...
I saw this comment, before the end of video, you ain't kidding lol,
No guns and violence involved, everyone are busy with video arcade and mingling at same time.
can any one else "smell " this ?
I can smell the cigarette smoke lol
They don't know how to play Pac Man, "it's over", yes lady it's over because you are going in the wrong direction. I remember I played the table version back in 84.
I remember going to the arcade in the early 1980s and would spend a lot of time there period usually only had about a dollar worth of quarters. So I would have to play games. That I could last a while at. Although I didn't play it a whole lot Defender wa my fave. But anyone who remembers that you were lucky to last a minute on that. It was so hard.
Good vid
Everyone had the song Pac-Man Fever in their heads the entire video I guarantee
This is the closest thing to a time machine. 😉
Finally! A vampire robot that doesn't suck!
This is how I remember the arcades to look. NOT neon colors and glow in the dark carpet!
As a 35 year old, I remember both, but more the neon colors lol I was there for the transition.
Movie theaters, bowling alleys and Timeout usually had the neon colors and glow in the dark or colorful carpets.
The world was a better place.
Today it’s a mess.
Pac-Man Fever sure was big during that time.
Let’s play pac man. Then ms pac man ans let’s play it over and over and over again
I don't know where this was, but everyone seems so nerdy, preppy. People were cooler where I lived (rockers).
Ah, my wasted youth. 👾
Was this a school day? I grew up in the 80s and never saw an arcade with no kids.
😊😊😊😊
Star trek 2 the wrath of kahn filmed from.11 11 1981- 1 28 1992. Released june 4 1982. My favorite of the series .because it has kirstie alley one of the reasons she was 30 years old at time of filming. Kirstie alley was a great human being who lived a great life. Entertaining others she will be truly missed especially by me😢
Veronica's Closet was a really good show. And of course Cheers is a classic.
@@vampirerobot yes indeed kirstie alley is a great actor spokewoman. She was overall a well rounded person. She would have been a great spectrum spokesperson. My mom abandoned me as i noted on this channel so kirstie alley i felt like the mother i never had RIP
Certainly, they had other cabinets other than Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, right?
I hear Centipede in the background.
And to think those cute chicks are now Grandmothers or 'Nanas'.
I remember the first time I ever saw a Pac-Man machine. It was in the lobby of my local pizza shop, and I thought it was the most stupid and unlikely to succeed video game I had ever seen. Fast forward ahead about a year and it was national sensation. A popular song was playing on the radio called Pac-Man Fever. I even had a notebook sized Pac-Man catalog from which you could order bed sheets, mugs, clothes and a wide variety of other Pac-Man merchandise. My assumptions about this game's mass appeal were quite wrong, though I still think it was a terrible game and emblematic of the primitiveness of video gaming in the 1980s.
Wrong in 1980.... still wrong in 2024 😎🤘 thats a talent. 😂 People still play and love PacMan to this day and the design was a work of art. Funny, I first saw PacMan in a pizza parlour too and I thought it was incredible. in 1980 it didnt look primitive, it was a leap forward in design and style and it brought a whole new demographic into arcades.
I loved Pac Man back then and still do
Saw my first Pac-Man at Pasquali's Pizza in Western Hills in Cincinnati. Tim Barker was playing it....
My father would FORBID me to go to any arcades. For reasons only he understood (I know what you're thinking... but he was atheist). I would sneak into any place that had a corner with some arcade cabinets in it, just to watch. I would do this because of reasons my father would never have understood (I am on the autism spectrum, video games calm and soothe my ADHD brain).
Once in a while I might have some money. Not much, anywhere from 25 cents to $5. I would blow it all in one sitting. That noise you would hear when inserting that coin... ka-klack-a-kack-a-thump, right before the CREDITS: 1 lights up the screen... take me back there!!!
This is where billy mitchell trained to be a world class cheater
Cute
And when turning start turning before the actual turn.
I know every older generation thinks the past was better times, but I actually feel like anything pre 2010 was just objectively better than our current time. The internet, cell phones, and social media has turned people insane. Political parties now act more like cults and everyone is either outraged or offended, everyone looking to point out our differences rather than how we're alike. AI bout to make life real weird and pretty scary.
Everyone in these older videos just seem so much happier...and I really believe they were. I was born in 87, but man I loved every bit of life up until the social media/ tribalism take over.
Agree. Can't stand the brainwashed cults who worship crooked politicians like if they were Gods.
I'd say anything before the internet and smartphones took over was much better. Which was from like 2005 to 2010 when they took over.
My childhood was so wonderful in the 90s and 00s without internet and cellphones. I had internet for the 1st time when I turned 18 years old. So my whole childhood was pure! Only Nintendo video games, but we played more outside. Sports, riding bikes, hide n seek, playing in the rain, playing in the cheap foldable children pools, exploring the woods above my neighborhood, exploring our town, eating at the pizza parlor with my friends & playing arcade games in there, going to our town's yearly fair, movie theater, bowling alley, skate rink, Discovery Zone, getting together to play video games at some friend's house, just talking outside until late with my friends, playing in the parks and playgrounds, also in fast food playgrounds, watching TV while laying on the floor, going to the video stores to rent VHS movies & watch them with my friends, etc. etc. I did all this with my neighborhood friends and cousins.
God, how I miss my childhood so much! Wish I was stuck forever between the late 90s and early 00s.
@@SeroxMorales It's very easy, just ignore the noise and uninstall all your social media apps, life will feel better. Stop reading and follow influencers who think they are a gift to this world. It's all fake. Teach your kids to be independent and critical thinking.
Yes it was horrible because there weren't enough trans people in arcades. Also privileged white people could spend more time in there because they had more quarters. The horror!
Hmm where's Polybius? I can't find it. 🤔
where does bro find this stuff
No matter how nostalgic you are you got to admit that the games got much better. Unlike the bands and their music.
Nah I perfer 80s 90s and early mid 00s games
@@nes96 Mid 00s is now 2 decades ago. ; ) And far from 1982.
virtual reality games give me headaches
These videos gotta be AI...lol
As soon as u set foot inside u hear the ambienc & instict dictates: unles ur playng somthng rite now ur pitifly misng out . . .
Where is this arcade? Why are there kind of formally dressed people? This isn’t the 1950s.
Probably on their lunch break from work
that guy playing, was really bad lol,
Damn, I wish he had filmed the playing by somebody who was actually good at it, lol. The woman totally sucked at it!
Too bad it's all Pac Man. :(
Fortnite woulda blown their minds
All these player were shit at pacman 😂. Id mop the floor with any of them back then 😂 the game is not rhat hard if have patientce and watch where that pesky blue ghost is u can far. Use tunnel alot esp in higher levels when u get slow and corner dots do not work anymore
00:01 dude playing pac man in his taking a leak stance
All the people playing pac man here are senior citizens now or dead...
Stupid Pacman, too many paco machines, where was the variety 🥱
Some cheese with your whine?
It was 1982 lol there wasn't much variety back then
Read the room, kiddo XD
@@kris78787 There was plenty of variety by 1982.