Top 25 1980s Arcade Games
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2019
- The 1980s was the height of the arcade gaming industry and featured some amazing games including Outrun, Bubble Bobble, Rampage any many more. Why not tell me your favourite arcade games in the comments section below and please like and subscribe as there will be plenty more gaming countdowns on the way.
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I was born in 1978. Discovering the world in the 80s is something I hold very close. These were the sounds of my childhood. The feeling of walking into an arcade, hearing the cacophony of all those great sound effects is something I’ll never forget. I miss it a lot. Those around my age know what I mean.
yea, segacameout in 90s bro....
Yes I do I was born 78 also 80s is my favorite decade n yes my friend I totally agree ❤❤❤
خاصة رقم 17 اللعبة المفضلة لدي
وين القاها وماهو إسمها😅
i wish i could bring back the time when i was sitting on the floor playing my games on console and didnt care about anything
Don't we all!🕹️📺🎮
If only we knew our time.
Do you think today's kids will think like that for the modern games in 20 years?
@Archer Hassan thats not what i was talking about but ok tho
@Archer Hassan "Hassan". That explains it.
This is proper video gaming, best decade ever. Forget online gaming, if you lived to experience this like me then you're one of the lucky ones.
Pasting my note above to a fellow gamer from those days:
Also Rygar, Ms. Pacman, Qix, Spiders, Centipede, Asteroids (though that one may have come out a little earlier)... There were many great games. The memories... Plunking loads of quarters into the machines. Hitting one player or two player. Putting in your 3-letter initials at the end if you made the top scores of the day (which got wiped out when they turned the machines off at night). And if you died, you had to start over again (no saves) so to get to the end you had to be really good. Plus the sounds of other games all around you in the arcade. Your buddies standing beside you were you had your turn. The spontaneous and inevitable crowd that would gather around you when you got to a really high level or were about the "wrap" the game. Endless hours after school and on weekends wasted but never regretted, back in the days when you were young and had all the time in the world and thought you were going to live forever. Home gaming, Xbox, etc., is just not the same experience. Couldn't quite revive the excitement with MAME, X-Arcades, high end PCs and sound systems. But maybe that's due to age (and lack of babes that would gather if you were good). Yes. Babes. Cheers to all especially the ones from that awesome era.
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The nostalgia watching this truly warmed my heart, I was 10 in 1985 I'd go back to those times in a heartbeat
Oh yes me too!
Bro such fond memories of that period I couldn’t agree more.
the Alpha testers of the 21st Century is what us 80's kids were.....
my father was 10 in 85
When you see things that you haven't seen or really even thought of in 30+ years and it immediately brings a smile to your face. That's when you know it's something special.
Wolf Cry Especially if you're stoned and eating jellybeans that smell like the air freshener at the PuttPutt arcade you used to go to.
Seriously, that's me right now.
Si te gusta lo retro te gusta mi canal
The same for me, bro
You do know that when people romanticize previous decades that it spits in the face of the BLM movement and the LGBTQA+ movements right?
@richard nitsch Are you voting for Biden?
What I remember most about arcade games in the 80s...
1. I never had enough quarters to finish the game.
2. There was always some toddler "playing" the game I wanted to play.
3. There was always some "expert" with unlimited quarters playing the game I wanted to play.
4. I always checked the coin return slots for unclaimed quarters.
I remember creepy older guys walking in and checking the coin slots. Thinking back on it, not a good place for an 8 year old by himself.
Checking for unclaimed quarters was a nice sport. I actually got lucky more than once.
@@amundbisgaard7295 I remember finding like 3 dollars worth of quarters once in a pinball machine. I thought I won the lottery.
@@23ofSeptember That goes to show that this thing WAS some kind of lottery.
By the way, I once had this guy pop up and insert coins for me to play. He just entered the arcade, asked me if I wanted to play a game, then he paid.
I don't think he was grooming me either, I think he left soon after this. Just this kind guy coming out of nowhere.
I remember going to an arcade in an amusement park in Sweden. I was probably eight or nine years old and I used to watch the big guys play.
I wanted to get a look at a flipper game that some Swedish, mean-looking guy was playing. Unfortunately for him, I kind of interfered with his controls when I squeezed through to get by, and he missed the ball.
He complained that I caused him to lose that ball. He looked a bit upset, I expected him to be mad at me, but I was relieved that he just kept on playing.
The dude was probably 18, had long hair, black jeans and a leather jacket. I guess he realized getting angry with me would not get him that ball back.
Thinking back on it, I wish that I could go back in time and compensate him for his loss. It's sad, I will probably never know who he was, much less be able to see him again.
I miss the arcades.
Tron, Star Wars, Crystal Castles, Galaga, Centipede, Joust, Moon Patrol and Dragon's Lair were some of my favorites.
Joust on the Atari 800 XL for me. Magical time.
Narc and smash TV
Oh yeah Tron,what a great game for the day
If you need some competition... especially joust
I'll be around....
Kung Fu master and the boxing game
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. 80s and 90s were the best time to grow up in. Miss those days.
sorry you have to leave in this shitty time
Yes...yes it was
How is it possible I can watched this video with the biggest smile on my face and still be depressed from it at the same time? 😀😔😢
Nostalgia is a killer. I gotta get out a make me some new memories.
That makes total sense Ed, you're not the only one bro. I agree with xzanthius...nostalgia can feel good in small doses, but making new memories is better for us. I think if we watch too much nostalgia based content we feel happy for a bit, then depressed bc no matter how many retro arcade games we play, & no matter how many times we watch our fav movies or shows from the '80s, we know we'll never get that time back... in my case, I had to cut back on most things retro, not saying you're like that. If 8yr old me with my 1st NES could see me now choosing 8 & 16 bit games over what we have now I'd think the older me was INSANE!🤣
I've heard it said that to live in the past is to invite sadness and to live in the future, anxiety. It's tricky to remain in the here and now though.
@@xzanthius forget living in the now bro! I'm 40 and prefer living in the past. I don't think I ever left the 90s. I still only ever watch 80s/90s film n television shows. Same with music. I basically still dress the same lol. Acid wash Jean's, shell suit tracksuits, lots of neon, air jordans, Reebok pumps. Why would I ever want to leave those two decades. Just embrace it brother. If it makes you happy then do it.
Ofcourse it's tinged with a little sadness, but that's ok. 🙏🏻👊
Because you will never be able to replicate that experience again. Cheers!
Spy Hunter was my first and favorite video games from the 80s. I'm surprised they didn't mention that video game. 80s Arcade royalty.
I learned how to Drive, Playing Spy Hunter, in the Arcade, on The Sitdown Version
I Own Pole Position and Galaga,Sonic,and Mario,All Digital copies
The best game dude
That was a huge omission from an otherwise solid list. An arcade by me growing up had the sit down version of Spy Hunter, loved that game.
I was waiting through this whole video for Spy Hunter
This brings back so many memories, those games were the start of my video gaming journey, almost 40 years later and I am still an avid video gamer, I am 50 years old and I have just spent the last 20 mins thinking to myself "omg the last time I saw that screen I was 12 years old!". Where has the time gone!
my son took me to the national video game museum in dallas last month. and it brought me here 😂😭 so i understand!
Life was simpler and so were our beloved old games... such a soothing 20min video. Thank you for bringing us all back in time to happy memories.
The sounds of Defender defined the ambient sound of a good arcade in the 80’s.
I love the way you can instantly remember some of the tunes even if you haven't heard them in 20+ years! Memory works in amazing ways.
20+...? I know it hurts, but try 35-40
(Yikes)
I know it's just amazing,those awesome music.
Sure it's more to do with music's subliminal ways.
@@michaelh7125 same haha
Yeah sure does love it 🤩
I was lucky to be born in 1979, damn being a kid in the 80's was special.
How was this time period ?
@@benjad92 YOU WILL LIKE THIS, I was lucky enough to have been born in Somerset England, a place full of woods and fields to fight rich kids from my neighbouring village of Wembdon (where I ended up living), we would build the best war forts and fight, it was straight trying to hurt each other, remember this is a time when films were nothing but violence), laughing out. A time when you would walk the Isles of video stores and pick your movie and then go to your local shop for chocolate bars (I always picked a crunchie bar) a time when you could play miles away because it was a time when you didn't have to worry about a thousand peado's chasing you. It was a time when the whole family would get together and enjoy worlds strongest man at Christmas, a time when we had lots of great shops, a time when sweet shops didn't sell condoms. It's a time when computer games 1st came out, I remember owning a commodor 64 going up to a Sega mega drive in the 90's, I remember hiphop from An early age and how it sounded, now it sounds rubbish. I remember decor in a house, now they look bleak, and my main thing I want you to know is, "IN THE 80'S PEOPLE HAD BALLS", look at the miners strikes and the poll tax riots. Bless you my dearest for asking, it took me a while to type as I am an old git. Hope your safe and sound.
@@ThehulkGreen I think social medias and mobile phones ruined our lives. Thanks
@@benjad92 tell that to 70% of the worlds population. Good luck. Hope your cool bruddah.
1978. Totally agree.
Outrun will always be #1 to me. I played it in the arcades in 1987 and played it on the PS2 with my son 20 years later.
Agree 100 percent!
Right outrun was fantastic
I was a beast on Outrun. Loved the Splash Wave soundtrack!
Where is 1942, i use Lot of coins on these gamer in the 80s.
Yeah for sure, loved that game, too bad it gets so hard
Same! Along with Raiden!
1943 was my jam. Ikari warriors too!
I'd say it's a glaring omission
or Indiana Jones
25) 0:08 *Super Hang-on (1987)*
24) 0:55 *Zaxxon (1982)*
23) 1:43 *Paperboy (1984)*
22) 2:32 *Fantasy Zone (1985)*
21) 3:20 *Pole Position (1982)*
20) 4:08 *Rampage (1986)*
19) 4:56 *Defender (1980)*
18) 5:30 *Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987)*
17) 6:17 *Donkey Kong (1981)*
16) 7:05 *Shadow Dancer (1989)*
15) 7:59 *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)*
14) 8:47 *Space Harrier (1985)*
13) 9:35 *Double Dragon (1987)*
12) 10:24 *Chase HQ (1988)*
11) 11:13 *Shinobi (1987)* [Thank you *ccentaur93* so much for providing the title... you're dope for helping!] 💗💗💗
10) 12:00 *Galaga (1981)*
9) 12:50 *Golden Axe (1989)*
8) 13:41 *Bubble Bobble (1986)*
7) 14:33 *Ghouls 'n Ghosts (1988)*
6) 15:27 *Operation Wolf (1987)*
5) 16:15 *Outrun (1986)*
4) 17:03 *R-Type (1987)*
3) 17:54 *Strider (1989)*
2) 18:42 *Final Fight (1989)*
19:31 "honorable mentions"... *Dig Dug, Rastan, Mario Bros, Dragon's Lair, Gauntlet, Altered Beast, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, and Vigilante.*
1) 20:53 *Pacman (1980)*
Copy/Paste this *wizzgamer* to your description of this upload. =)
Dragon's Lair should have been more than a HM in my opinion.
11) 11:13 Shinobi (1987)
@@ccentaur93 💗💗💗 thank you! I added it 💗💗💗
Yes because DL changed gaming! It was amazing!
Setting up my MAME now
That's technically the 2nd Pole Position, is it not? I remember playing one on ATARI that was nowhere near as pretty. I loved it though.
I was seriously hollering throughout the entire vid. I watched this with a big smile on my face. Thank you for putting this together. You unlocked so many childhood memories!!!
Thanks for spending the time to put snippets of these old classic arcade games online.
Since I was around from the beginning of the video games craze that started with Space Invaders, I thought I'd let you know a bit of history... video games arcades sprang up all over the United States when games that could be played for a long time on one quarter came about. (Prior to Space Invaders, most of the games had a time limit.)
The golden era, when arcades made money hand over fist, was 1979-1983 or so...after that the craze sort of dropped off and many arcades closed up.
The big games we played back then besides Defender and Donkey Kong and Dig Dug and Pac Man were Centipede, Missile Command, Robotron, Millipede, Tempest, Ms. Pac Man, Stargate, and Joust.
(Asteroids, Battle Zone, Frogger, and Galaxians were also huge, but I think they were 1979.)
Q-Bert, Crystal Castles, Donkey Long Jr., Gravitar, Track and Field 1&2and Burger Time were also pretty big.
Most of these had different controls to learn...track ball, joystick, double joystick, spinning knob, along with various buttons for firing or hyperspace, etc..
Once people had learned all the controls, the games themselves tended to be too closely related to earlier games, and so interest died off.
In any case, there was also Tetris after that.
But in any case, Ms. Pac Man far outlasted any other video game because until recently, no one managed to beat the game once Ms. Pac Man slowed down...so scores tended to Max out around 280,000...but then, after much research some of the experts managed to find a way to keep alive even after Ms. Pac Man slowed down, (which was total skills because there's no simple pattern like in Pac Man, as the ghosts did mostly random things from board to board.)
And so about 20 years after Ms.Pac Man came.out, a few people managed to finally beat the game (get to the last board where the machine goes programming glitch crazy), at around 920,000.
So Ms. Pac Man was the ultimate for people who were really good at video games.
Defender and Robotron were also huge because the difficulty levels could be turned up, as well as the number of points needed for an extra man.
And Centipede (only major "golden era" game that was written by a woman programmer) and Galaga lasted way longer in the arcades, ten years after most of the other video games above were gone from most arcades, they could still be found.
Signed, A former late 70s, early 80s video game addict
Cheers. From a fellow arcade addict from those days (was in late teens when Space Invaders and Asteroids came out, so I saw the development of arcade gaming as it happened as well).
Brings back good memories of skipping school on a Friday to hang at the mall for 6-8 hours. Only needed a few bucks to have fun. Arcade, movie theatre, Spencer Gifts, Mc Donalds, Radio Shack, the high end stereo stores, the music stores, and eating soft pretzels and candy in front of the relaxing splash of the water fountain.
Sounds like the mall that was there where I live. Now it's something related to the local hospital.
Facts
Except for me it was burger King in the food court
The 80's were simply the best.
The only decade I miss.
Have you read the book Ready Player One?
The 90's were awesome too
@@skyvader1238 ^ This
It was just so colourful. That's why these memories are so vivid.
The music was good, but gaming was not really there yet. 90s and 2000s were where it was.
I was born in '69. We were the first generation to grow up on video games and Star Wars. What a great era. We still had tangible toys, and played outside, but also enjoyed our video games on rainy days. When gameplay and sound were of great importance. Let's not forget Robotron, Qix, Gun Smoke, Scramble & Joust. Oh, and TEMPEST! At home we had Commodore 64, a TRS80, Intellivision & the unique (and super cool) Vectrex.
Played most of these at our local arcade and ten some. Personal favorite was the Track & Field arcade that had the roller ball instead of the buttons. set some crazy score with that one.
It was great standing around an arcade cabinet, watching one of your friends trying to get a top score. We’ll never get those days back again. I’m pretty sure I played a lot of Operation Wolf and Outrun was one of my favourites.
Then again, nowadays you can get an arcade cabinet for a few hundred emulating all the games. We'll never get back the time spent in the arcade cabinets, the mood, watching people play, talking to other kids you never met (Incidentally one of the things people at that age lost, actual going out and communicating), true. But hey, I'm writing this because I took a break while playing wonderboy on mine as I remembered I never finished that one :)
This generation will never enjoy the arcade experience that we grew up on. Oh the nostalgia. Aint nothing like it
@@Spontainiouz yeah I’m only 15 and paper boy and defender looks like some good games
getting kicked out by the attendant cos you're watching and not paying and you have to wait outside for your friend who comes out and excitedly says he's just beat the high score but didn't have time to put his name in so he put it in as AAA.
Arcades where such a great hangouts, I wonder if kids have any equivalent these days?
0:12 super hang on
0:58 Zaxxon
01:45 Paperboy
02:33 Fantasy Zone
03:22 Pole Postion
04:11 rampage
05:00 defender
05:31 rainbow islands: the story of bubble bobble 2
06:19 Donkey Kong
07:07 shadow dancer
08:01 teenage mutant ninja turtles
08:47 Space Harrier
09:36 double dragon
10:26 chase H.Q.
11:14 shinobi
12:01 galaga
12:50 golden axe
13:42 bubble bobble
14:37 Ghouls n Ghosts
15:28 Operation Wolf
16:15 outrun
17:05 R-type
17:56 strider
18:42 final fight
20:55 pacman
Thanks !!!
what is the music from at the very start?
You my friend are a legend
thanks you saved me 20 min
No Ms. Pac-Man? Or tie for #1? Honorable mention for me was maybe Rastan Saga or Punch Out and I am sure I am missing a few more. Robocop. Rally X. Frogger. Street Fighter 1.
Defender was nuts .so difficult,but i also liked Moon Patrol, Scramble,Frogger,Hyper Olympics and Galaxian
Huge respect to the developers who created these games. Working with highly limited hardware, probably developing in assembler which is hard work and editing packages were presumably highly limited too. The games still looked awesome and were highly addictive. Bravo.
They’re only “highly limited” compared to today’s hardware.
Master programmers. No sloppy code. Couldn't afford it due to hardware constraints. These guys invented it as they went along. Exciting, optimistic times.
i want to hear all these going off at once, in the black lights, on the cosmic carpeted floor, with all of us having a good time. The smells, sounds and sights, of an 80's arcade are something I will never forget...
And the sound of quarters coming out of the change machine
@@striderflys that too!
The arcade was central to a lot of 80's teens. Back then coin-op arcade games still had better tech than the consoles & desktops. The arcade died when they couldn't keep up. People also got tired of pumping quarters into games.Most of us were there just to "hang out" and watch the one's who were really good play.
Arcades are amazing places... for those that love it, its like going to a basketball game or going to see a movie. Maybe even more fun than both. It's the people, the lights, the sounds, and the atmosphere...
Was a place u could go as a
kid/preteen/teen to actually get out of your room. To be with friends & actually have something to “do”. Now they just get “salty” “triggered” “sweaty” etc over headphones with friends and end up arguing or feeling bad cause they “suck” lol. Wish I could give this kind of “arcade” experience to my 12 and 5 yr old. Taught u patience waiting for a turn, taught u how to manage money and time, how to be social and look other kids on the eye… N it taught u how to have fun (sigh) smh
Yeah for sure!
I was well known around the arcades, was called the street fighter king. Years later out drinking with a few people, went back to someones house who i didnt really know and he pulled out the snes and whacked street fighter 2 on. He thinking he was all mustard, and i had never played it on console before. I still easily whooped his arse, so much so he got some serious rage and wanted to take it outside for real. 😂 Mutual friends had to step in, i was game tho.
Final Fight!!! The levels, characters, musics. Everything about this game was just perfect!
The Final Round
I thought I'd seen this game before, if you like final fight, you'll like streets of rage series. They are on the sega genesis. Good stuff!
Excellent games, I’d add Asteroids, Robotron, Digdug, Crystal Castles, and Discs of Tron… sooo many legendary games still fun to play today 😀
I'd forgotten Digdug, thanks!
Oh man this brought me back to my youth of hanging out in various arcades
Outrun has one of the best soundtracks ever!
It totally did...used to love when the car would shake when you'd drive in the sand on the beach😄
Magical Sound Shower was the one.
Why “one of the”?
Choose Your Jam.
Magical sound shower still rocks.
Nice trip down memory lane. One or two of the games I had forgotten, but as soon as you see them you remember completely. Nostalgia. 😜
Whose here autum 2022? The sounds of those arcades just take you back in time.
I pretty much grew up in the arcades in the 80's and 90's. I remember many of these fondly.
I Worked in a Arcade in The 80s
Same here loved it 20p on double dragon played it for about an hour till game i finished the Game.
Man I remember how excited I got when I got that bat in double dragon
That reverse elbow was a killer move in the game!
I only would have 1 or if I was lucky 2 quarters to play that when I was 9. I would ride my bike to the local grocery store and play that. Funny or ironic that you could also pick up a whip and hit the big black guy with it.
wow many of those brought back some good memories. I loved Outrun and pacman and totally forgot about Operation Wolf. Many thanks for sharing
I forgot Space Harrier. Bobble Bobble was so great for the unique mechanic. But Out Run was the best. Amazing piece of computer hardware too, basically two Macs and an 8-bit worth of compute in a box. Also Rygar deserves a mention (ambitious side scroller with a Conan vibe).
It's great to share memories of those days. You mentioned Rygar. Me and my buddies spent a lot of quarters on that one. I got to the point where I finished the game on my first man. And not on easy level or slow level. Got all the bonuses as well (by that time we had all the tombstones mapped and the million point/star (or whatever it was) hidden bonus. I remember not caring about the time running out and would often return to the very beginning of the level, with the background turning brown-ish, and dodging that massive head that would chase you, just to try to trigger and find any hidden tombstones that we didn't know about. Remember riding on top of the dragons (or whatever those flying things were)?
In the final screen, if you won, you'd get a crowd lifting you to their shoulders.
Anyways. Cheers. To a fellow gamer from back in the day.
Double dragon, final fight, streets of rage, out run, hang on, pole position, all bring back arcade memories when we was on holiday from 1987 to 89 🤗
What really strikes me with all these amazing classics, is the somewhat sad fact that very few people actually got to see the later levels or 'the end' of many of these beautifully made games.
Without the Cheat code on the C64, i would never even see the other side of the water of Ghosts n Goblins in the first Level
well that's where emulators like MAME come in handy
@@maxwell5268 LOL I actually beat this game legit, super hard
Because they were designed to suck your money, so they were extra hard!
@@maxwell5268 Once you get past that gargoyle it gets easier, but that's a TOUGH challenge right off the bat before you figure his pattern out.
So Nostalgic 🥲
….thanks for sharing 👍🏽
Uk gen x’er here and these bring back many happy memories of ‘bunking’ off school to enjoy the day at the arcades spending , first , our lunch money then after all our 10p’s ran out we would search the slots for fallen coins or the penny falls for coins which we could , with a persuasive nudge, get to fall down and thus into our pockets ..happy days when life was so much simpler , nobody had phones and playing these amazing looking and sounding games was a real treat fir a wide eyed 80’s kid …superb !
Still get chills when I hear Defender, the SFX are still awesome today.
Yep, Defender broke the mould at the time. Brilliant game.
@@SteTrax Defender was way too difficult for most mortals, my Top Three: 1.Moon cresta
2. Phoenix
3. Scramble
Half of these I've never heard of or seen in all the time I spent in arcades in the '80's.
Yet no mention of very big games like Centipede, Qbert, Galaxian, Missile Command, Frogger, Qix, Burgertime, Mrs. Pacman, Robotron, Joust, Tron, Berzerk, Sinistar...
Don't forget PAC Man Jr. Although it was the worst of the franchise.
Yeah, this list is very racing / fight and walk right game heavy, missing lots of classics.
This list is very geared toward the mid-to-late '80s rather than the early '80s, unfortunately. Donkey Kong should have been at least top 10 (it's my no. 1). Centipede, Dig Dug, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, TRON, Robotron, The Pit, and more would have made my list
Pure nostalgia! This brings back so many childhood memories.
what a time travel ... so many of those games were very near my house. Missing a lot that time
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road provided me the most hours of entertainment per quarter spent of any game produced in the 1980s.
I WAS ADDICTED TO HITTING THAT NITRO BUTTON!!!
Great F***in game
Loved playing with 3 others and all the wheels going. Great game!
Life was so much simpler back then
except racial injustice and AIDS...
@@Geoffrey___ which still exist today and always will...
@@Geoffrey___ get a life
Amen brother
Its a lot simpler to turn on your console or PC than to walk half a mile to the local arcade. I prefer the latter but we are lazy, us gamers. Hence arcades are now retro... unless you're in Japan.
I was born in '87. Can't say I've played many of these as arcade games, but 2 of the few I have stick out in particular for me.
My uncle bought a Pac-Man arcade cabinet when he was much much younger, which is still in my grandma's basement and as far as I know, it still works.
The other is probably the first arcade game I ever played (earliest I remember playing, at least, which makes it probably my first video game ever)--Outrun. A local pizza place in my hometown had the upright cabinet version for a few years. It's still one of my favorite video games overall; I have several ports of it as well as the soundtrack in my music collection.
so many memories come flooding back. I completely forgot about Bubble Booble lol
I like how Pole Position had Marlboro billboards. They were always out of focus but ou can clearly tell they were Marlboro signs.
Hell yeah you'd never see that in a modern game
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that, lol
Back in the day when people smoked everywhere - literally.
Wow, lots of memories there! Surely 'Track and Field' should be in the top 25 at least?
On your mark, get set, bang!
Long jump and leave a turd in the sand.
And TRON! Dragons Lair looked great but had terrible gameplay and emptied your pocket
for sure, also Hyper Sports the sequel was just as good
I remember going to an arcade as a kid and there were a couple of guys who must have been musicians of sorts as they could drum their fingers over the buttons and get incredible speed from their players, running the 100m in under 9.5 seconds, maybe even faster I can't remember that far back. They just sat on that machine playing the same game for hours all with the first coin they put into it.
i use to bang the hell out of those buttons to run
Lies again? Motor Sports
Played them all. Loved them all. It was a great time not just for gaming, life as it was. Thanks wizzgamer
Thank you so much, really brings back a special time in my life!
I turned 11 in 1980 and I spend a lot of quarters on Defender, Pac Man and Donkey Kong over the years. I also really enjoyed 1942, Heavy Barrel and Joust.
❤❤ absolutely! Tempest was my jam also
For me, it will always be the classics/legendary video games of the early days of gaming.
Asteroids, Defender, Frogger, Dig Dug, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Dragon's Lair, Joust, and Missile Command. I spent way to much money trying to get the high score or getting to the end, only later did I realize that games like those could go on forever.
Asteroids & Defender, then the Rubic Cube
@@meluaufeet Moon Crester
You guys are all leaving off Robotron, my favorite game ever!!!
Robotron is class and should be in the list.
Space Invaders!
This was a really good listing. Transported me back to childhood. Sound fx, graphics and gaming sensations lol have to say though, Id add Street Fighter; Gang Wars,
Thunder blade and WWF wrestling (a few others escape me, for now) to such a great list. Thanks for the memories and post 🫶🏽🧘🏽♂️👴🏾
That first Sega clip...what an underrated console! Wish I would have kept all mine.
you can still by one
Pac Man was the OG, but for me, Galaga was THE sound of an 80s arcade. Great list and great memories!
Battle Zone , Tempest, and Pleiades were always cranked up too.
Yeah.....me too. Got so good at it, would eventually walk from my game an let someone else have it.
This video brought me to tears.
So much soul in those games.
❤ this! So much of my childhood right there was great to see wonder boy and gauntlet it really takes me back in time as I was born in 1978 🤩
I got a paper route, fished golf balls out of duck crap ponds and mowed lawns just to play arcade games... it taught me how to hustle. Saturday after football friends would meet up along the way to the arcade across town. Arcade games were an inadvertent life lesson of needs vs wants and how to achieve a goal with a little exercise.
How is SPYHUNTER, Star Wars and Tron not in this list? Besides that great list.
I can remember when every video game in an arcade or back corner of a 7-11 store had ash trays mounted to the sides of the machines direct from the factory ,that kept people from hanging their smoke over the game edge & burning the shit out of it ,at the same time hospital patients could chain smoke from the comfort of their hospital bed & nurses were happy to empty your ash trays .
Watching all these videos makes me realize one thing.. How wonderful my day was 😞
Loved this video! So many memories of Smokey arcades and playing pool, Spy Hunter, Yi Ar King Fu, Paperboy, Kung Fu Master, Cabal, Double Dragon, Afterburner, Outrun and more. Still love gaming to this day! Thank you for bringing back some brilliant memories of an innovative time in gaming.❤
Yi Ar Kung Fu was awesome.
Double dragon, used to complete that just using elbows it was so easy lol
@@carnagevnp2979 Lol, yes i remember. Although i would say most games were much harder back in the day.
Nostalgia to the max! Lots of other great games from the 80's out there. You should do a part 2. Also 90's games! Love the Sega master system sound effect between game titles. Lots of good memories here!
Thanks for watching a 90s sequel video is planned for sometime this year so stay tuned😃
Aside from all those greats anyone ever remember a machine called “marble madness”
God I loved that simple but frustrating game haha spent hours playing it haha
I remember Marble Madness. I sucked at it so I never bothered until I got on Arcade Classics disc for my PS2. Still sucked at it though.
I played it on NES
Yeah by Atari with the giant ball to control the marble. I was hopeless at it but it was fun. My mate at the time could actually complete it; it took about 5mins!
Thanks for the upload.. Some of my favorites that didn't make the list...
Centipede , Missile Command , Frogger , Duck Hunt , Star Wars, Track &Field , Tempest , and Rally X
I'm sure I've forgotten some other games that I've loved as well.
Time marches on but boy those were the good ol days.
used to get my finger`s nipped when I played Centipede, that ball you used to control it with had a slight gap where it fit in the machine, it knacked if it got ya fingers caught......Great game but!!
@@TheDebbiewallace lol you gotta be a serious gamer to be catching your fingers in the ball gap...lol 🤣
I was born in 73 and I was always in there watching people play lol I could never play these games. I freak out lol
@@Oona707 sort of mate, I was born 74 so went through the eras also, 70s it was my Dads Grandstand console , then the 80s....sore fingers!! Zx Spectrum, commodore Vic 20 & 64,the 90s the Sega Mega Drive then ps1 man, 2019 ps4 pro
Centipede for sure, Asteroids another. Tempest gave me stress
As a child of the 80's, I remember all of these and many more. Started with the Atari 2600 and saw every advancement from there. Space Harrier was one of my favs....they even made it for the Sega master system. Used to be able to win Double Dragon on a quarter....or 50 cents. What ever it cost to play in those days.
Outrun, Galaga, and R-Type. Had a lot of fun with those game's
As an 80s kid this Video gives me great childhood memories, when my friends and i were playing console together.
Those days and memories are priceless.
Wow, that Was great, so many memories, me & my girlfriend would go to jokers every Friday night after Mr. Gatti's for a date for 3 yrs (1984-1987). I would play ikari warrior $20-$30 worth, that was .25 at a time. I was really expecting that game to be on here, but it's fine, still so many memories, by the way I married that girl in 1987. Yes still married.. 😉
Mr Gatti’s. Are you from Texas? I remember one close to where i used to live, but don’t see them around anymore.
@@paulmalhi5003 no I am from East Tennessee, we still have 1 or 2 gatti's around.
I've always notice that Ikari warrior never got its recognition 😪. My all time favorite game.
@Capri: Not even thought about a nice guy to share a home?
Mr Gattis pizza was the best
The memories of my childhood at the arcade all day lol
Some much nostalgia.. THANKS
15:27 I played the *shit* out of Operation Wolf back in the day! That plastic Uzi with a rifle stock and the 'grenade launcher' button on the side....
Yeah man idsay thats one ofthe couple he got right in the perfect spot,along with rampage and bubble bobble
I remember the uzi was even made of metal 👍.
I remember playing Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when my parents bought an Atari.
... and then realising how shit the conversions were, lol
You were retro gaming already in the 80's :D
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Space Invaders was far from a shit conversion on the 2600 .Gameplay is always 9999999999% more important than graphics
Way better than "Asteroids"
& "Centipede" were "Blasteroids"
& "Millipede".
Wow I've played some of theses games n watching this took me back to when I was a kid in school n I'd go skating or to major magic's n play theses games. Wow thanks for the video this put a smile on my face with lots good memories
Omg u took me back to my childhood. Tyvm. I really really enjoyed this. I was hoping to see contra, and castlevania I think that’s the name. And bonks adventure on neo geo. Keep up the great videos
Defender was the most awesome sound in the arcade 👍
Truth, Yo!
Pole position wasn't. Lol
Defender is my all time favorite arcade game....second place goes to Time Pilot.
Takes me back in the 80s playing all arcade games thay was the years 13 in 87
Man I wish I had back all the quarters I put into Defender at the arcade back then. I’d be rich. How was it only ranked #19 on this?!? Also, Asteroids didn’t even make this list!
Wherever it is we go to when we're done with here, and whoever it is we meet when we get there, I'm going to tell them thank you for letting me be a child in the 80's
@@elijahfluw4347 Here here - yep, you had to be there. Great times.
We used to play Pole Position for hours at the arcade. " Prepare to qualify." Donkey Kong and Asteroids was so addicting.
R-Type was on another level, it was brilliant. And I must have played Rastan for months, but until now I’d completely forgotten about it.
Awesome. Many good memories. Glad to grow up in the 80s Saturday morning cartoons and super sugary cold cereal was life.
Great list! 👍 My top 10 would definitely be PacMan, Centipede, Dragons Lair, Gauntlet, Mortal kombat, Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, Qbert, Frogger, & BurgerTime. I guess it depends where you lived and what arcades the local spots had and were more popular and in demand etc. Oh yeah and Paperboy was big. Mrs. Pacman too! Early 90s I think ever spot had a Street Fighter 2 arcade from bodegas, supermarkets, laundromats, barbershops, music shops, bars, restaurants, etc. I'd spend my entire allowance challenging players lol 😆
im from Chicago. qbert, burger time, frogger..for sure.
BurgerTime!!!! I like your list better than this video👍
Have to exclude Mortal K, though. It's not an 80s game.
@@WakenerOne 1992
Of the top of my head, and a few of my favs were featured. Just arcade games in genral, some ae probably more early 90s. Id go with Street fighter 2, New Zealand story, power drift, football champ, shinobi, ghost and goblins, Splatter house, R-type, wonder boy in monsterland, green beret.
One thing no one ever mentions is how loud an arcade was. Part of the experience was being hit with all that sound when you first walked in. It made a casino sound like a library.
Yes, and you could hear Defender in the parking lot is was always so loud..
I just love the creativity. I liked Flying Shark, Psychic 5, Splatter House
That video brought back so many childhood memories. Standing behind arcade video games, playing with friends non stop for many hours every day spending so many tokens on these games. Pacman, Final Fight, Bubble bobble, and in the 90s Street Fighter were the games I loved playing for hours.
This video has taken me back
So many of these games I played and loved when they came out
Just come across this .. WOW .. Memories , If i could throw another honurable mention in , Bombjack , Thank you for memory lane ❤❤👍👍
Good nostalgia. Some games I liked from that era...Two Tigers, Ikari Warriors, and 1943.
I can still feel my adrenaline rising just watching the games, I could go to the arcade with $20 and completely lose track of time. I loved having a free Saturday night when I was younger and driving and when we used to have a 3 level arcade here in Omaha.
3 level arcade, wow!
Good collection; personally I would add Joust, Tempest and Battlezone to this list.
I would add Punch Out and any of the MLB games from the 80's. Same with the NFL game with the ball in the middle of the console.
Dragon's Lair seemed 20-30 years ahead of it's time. You would always see a long line watching someone play that game.
I would add Atari Star Wars.
Definitely
Yes. Several of these games I don’t even recall playing.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I always loved the "Uh-ra" sound on Operation Wolf 😄
Watched this with a smile on my face..😀 thank you for the memories
@karhday2520 Thanks for watching glad it brought back happy memories 🙂
Man Double Dragon always in my heart lol
My favorite game of all time.
Yeah in fairness it should be top 3 in anyone's list
yeah ..fantastic game!
Absolutely outstanding .. took me back to one of the most happiest time of my life .. thanks for that
I appreciate your channel ot definitely brings back the special moments of the 80s I'm so greatgul thank you 😊
Glad it brought back some special memories for you thanks for watching ☺️
These are all great. I’d like to add…Crystal Castles, Qbert, Crazy Climber, Journey, Dragons Lair & Space Ace, Tempest, Qix and Tron. Those were some of my personal favorites.