1980 TV news report explains video games

[@theonewhocooks111]

These people back then would literally be mind blown by the games in 2021

[@alonsoschneider8109]

horrible games

[@LucaPed94]

and in 2040 theyll say the same about 2021

[@Zachw2007]

Most Americans probably were still using typewriters in the 1980s.

[@theplayeralsoknownasmousecop]

They would think Red Dead 2 would be a movie lol

[@theonewhocooks111]

@@theplayeralsoknownasmousecop it kinda is tbh, the story is just so good

[@coreywiley3981]

RIP Maxene Black, the news reporter passed away in 2016. She was only 37 here. Hard to believe that there has been enough time since this was originally aired for half a life to go by. As a 45 year old it reminds me of how quickly time & life passes.

[@TupacNation]

So true ya never really truly understand the phrase life is too short until ya get older I'm 42 now and it seems like yesterday I was that kid in the 80's playing those original games

[@crb4059]

Im amazed how quickly the life of the Atari 2600 passed too.

[@zacbutterbaugh9368]

7 hours...rookie numbers

[@myretrogamehub]

I don't think you or I or anyone living today would be able to play an 8-bit game for 7 hours.... Pac-Man for 7 hours? No thanks! LOL!!

[@djones2170]

I love how you can tell it's the 80's just by the hairstyles

[@Jabberstax]

And the title of the video.

[@RJS1974]

It’s 1980. Styles were still pretty much like the 70s. 80s fashion and styles didn’t start until about 1983.

[@Donnie_Thornberry]

​@@RJS1974actually the 80s look was starting in 1978-79. I was there. Bellbottoms and big lapels were out. This distinctly looks like the early 80's.

[@mikewillis3188]

I love that this was brought back

[@thegamingknockout4261]

Wait so let me get this straight, the say the atari is taking too much of kids times but they're telling to you to go buy it before it runs out. Classic 80s television hahahaha

[@realnpc3763]

The matrix. Better wake up

[@colorsafebleach5381]

This was the begining of the great video game crash. Too many choices, and too much overhead.

[@davids1854]

And mobile games are doing the same thing now

[@deborahchesser7375]

Once home systems started getting better the writing was on the wall. But there’s still nothing like the feeling of being in the arcade full of people.

[@mrjohntheo154]

@@deborahchesser7375 totally agree.

[@passiveaggressivenegotiato8087]

I remember in the early 1980s, my Dad's friend telling him "my boys want a $300 fuckingatari", "I'd rather get them new hunting rifles or something worth $300".

[@CMMSFP]

2:54 "How many hours do you play?" "I dunno, 6 or 7." "A DAY?!?!?" Imagine being asked how many hours a day people are on social media these days.

[@gamewizardks]

Kaity Tong here looks absolutely amazing.

[@JoeBuck207]

She was young.

[@abrararronno5920]

Those kids are right now in the age of our Father and Mother .

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Yup. Life sucks and is short.

[@rudeboyrg]

1980 Game companies: "We should just put out more and more games on more and more systems with no regard for quality control. People will buy anything. It's not like the video game crash of 1977 will happen again in the near future." 1983 Game Companies: " I never saw this coming!"

[@WinslowLeach1974]

The funny thing is, even back then us kids knew most of the home games weren't that great. Atari's own games for the 2600 were the worst, that's why we were big fans of Activision's games and some other manufacturer's games. Their "Pac-Man" adaptation especially made everyone furious. And the handheld "arcade" games were a complete joke. When Nintendo came out with their home system, it really was a huge step forward.

[@TheUtuber999]

Poor marketing - should have said, "They are selling-out quick, so pick one up now before they are all gone!" (even if they are heavily overstocked).

[@Nightweaver1]

I was 1 year old in Christmas '80. My first games console was the NES in 1988, so I missed out on a lot of these very early attempts at home video games.

[@CrazyCat-w3o]

I'll wait about 25 years and see if sony makes something.

[@Donnie_Thornberry]

$300 in 1980 was alot of money.. Geez

[@Donnie_Thornberry]

Sure was.

[@daved1535]

I remember back then those games use to ruin your TVs

[@nomadcowatbk]

if you left the TV on with the game paused for an extended period

[@tvtimetravel]

Nothing excited me more of that time than those games!

[@divio784]

300 dollars for a console that now costs a quarter

[@bellicose4653]

But it's a very good investment!

[@H1PP1E88]

These consoles now sell for $50 on ebay

[@thedillestweed2644]

@@H1PP1E88 vs. the $900 (adjusted for inflation) they originally costed. Heck of a deal for 50 dollars. I'll be honest though, if you look enough, you can score one for chump change at a sale these days, even still

[@-blackcat-4749]

This 📒 is a undistinguished status. It stayed the same

[@fooleelee6548]

Ikr

[@jonesy585]

Huh? If the year was 1980 and the kid was 10 he would be 50-51 today , I was born in 1980 and I’m 41

[@rttoonist4275]

@@jonesy585 Playing video games takes up time kids could be using to study math. It seemed like fun at the time, but in retrospect, the consequences should have been obvious.

[@JohnQPublic345]

I probably stacked 40000 hours on the atari

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

@@rttoonist4275 I played tons of video games throughout the 80's. I also got C's and D's in math. Now I deal at Casinos and have had multiple high-school math teachers tell me that I'm WAY faster at math than they are..🤷‍♂️

[@deborahchesser7375]

Who didn’t save their lunch money to play pinball at the bowling alley after school? Come on lol

[@screenapple1660]

2025... GTA6... Modern video game graphics is totally insane. looks realistic than Atari graphics.

[@daviddaniel387]

Jesus, 300 bucks in 1980, damn thats near twelve hundred today

[@Gannooch]

“There are so many of these here that it’s hard to choose which one to buy.” One of the reasons for the video game crash that happened in 1983.

[@romanaa7070]

What a time to be alive

[@darrylh1971]

This is from 1981, not 1980.

[@coolbluelights]

What was that tower game advertised with Orson welles?? I was born in 1980, but my dad had bought that same game and I found it in the closet when I was like 9 or 10.

[@ugandaknuckles3419]

Little did they know that these would save us from quarantine

[@mapdoor1418]

Little did they know that there would be a quarantine

[@DPsangheili]

2:02 The controversy started so early

[@fluffymacaw933]

Five years later the NES came out

[@bryanburnap4537]

Wonder what Dave Mcann is doing today ?

[@samushunter0048]

44 years old, a few kids and trying to get a PS5 or Xbox series X lol

[@a.b.sproductionsllc]

It’s funny how everyone even the kid has a NY accents. Don’t hear as many people from NY talk like that these days.

[@BradThePitts]

Correct, unless they are at least 40 years old today. The New York accent will have gone the way of the Buffalo in about 30 years.

[@a.b.sproductionsllc]

@@BradThePitts That’s also because a lot of people from NYC aren’t original from there. NYC is not a place for older people it’s for a younger generation. Shoot I’m in my early 30’s, and I relate more to the old school.

[@christopherg7098]

I really think there is something to these electronic, television video games, i know people think they are a fad, but I have a feeling they may stick around, can you imagine what the games may look like in the year 2023?

[@LOL-gn5oh]

Kinda impressed to see an asian woman being a news anchor in the 80's.

[@thedillestweed2644]

why

[@heinoustentacles5719]

lol, it was the 80s, not the 40s.

[@EF-fc4du]

The stuff was cool at the time but it was really seen as a convenient alternative. For the best games you went to the arcade. THAT was where the action was.

[@uhchief5123]

6 hours WTF!!!!!

[@local38on-tv]

Yeah ik I can only play like 30 minutes

[@GamerKeags_YT]

I know those are baby numbers

[@RatnCat11]

Ridiculous, right? Like can you even imagine not spending 10 hours playing games? Lunacy

[@TheUtuber999]

0:15 The arcade version of Missile Command was much more fun because you could control the crosshairs using a rollerball instead of a joystick.

[@thedillestweed2644]

only problem is that your game is over after just a few rounds in. Hard game

[@EF-fc4du]

All arcade games were better at this point.

[@mapdoor1418]

How strange those old games look compared to today's games

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

You mean like an actual video game and not like real life? 🙄

[@thedillestweed2644]

people actually think this? you act like it's such a foreign concept

[@deborahchesser7375]

My Dad got my brother and I an Intellivision , man I never realized how much those things were, $300 in 80’ ? Wow and the games were $20 each give or take. That’s big $ now

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

That was a months rent for a house back then!

[@newworlddisorder156]

And no multi patches from day 1 was needed

[@bloodeagle6458]

We actually went outside and we played video games in the 80s and 90s its the "smartphone" generation that lost it and no one ever came forward or did reports on cellphones rotting ur kids brains

[@holtridge7337]

I wish I had been in my 40's in 1980 instead of 2024.

[@friendlysky7674]

Imagine me time traveling and showing off my iPhone lol😆😆🍷🍷

[@ManChan-w5p]

Kaity Tong and storm fields are still alive.

[@marrickzombie45]

i am 21 years old i never see this games look so not real yet i am hype what games look in future when i get older i hope games is in VR I be like ready player one movie

[@JarrodLamp]

It's not looking good kiddo, why things are going gameing will end up dead

[@extraaccountt-t7470]

Chadtronic were you at!!

[@jonah1976]

60 bucks for a Speak N' Spell? Outrygeous!

[@daweller]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@alexcoyg3281]

2021 News gonna look funny too in 2060 😄😂👍

[@mapdoor1418]

very true

[@Jabberstax]

I personally think video games hit their peak in the 90s with the SNES, Gameboy and the PlayStation. I realise no one will agree with me.

[@LUCKO2022]

They reached their peak in the 2000 with the PS2.

[@coindog6336]

They will never reach their peak they get better every year

[@allegrarivera5383]

Can we go back to the 80s the future sucks.

[@kingkazma3246]

Good times 😎👍

[@bryanburnap4537]

I had that Intellivision Football Game :)

[@damin9913]

People played more video games that hooked up too the TV

[@ClaireRedfieldKennedy-ld2lx]

I sure hope the Japanese don't take over the market.

[@Thrashman138]

Ya hook 'em up.

[@moredistractions]

Electronic games? Bahh...it'll never catch on.

[@kingkazma3246]

Same happened with cars, there was people who tought we would still be on horses forever lol.

[@LordWes.]

maybe if they would have played some video games they wouldn't have been so uptight.

[@Neotron2001]

Kaity Tong. 🔥

[@TheRobWay1]

sigh. thanks.

[@QKJM19]

Please leave little Dave alone🤣🤣🤨🙄

[@yamatotakeru9078]

🤣🤣 He just want to play some video games

[@QKJM19]

What that crap was as much as a Xbox lol lord

[@chadb.6165]

Now imagine that kids looked at the graphics in the same amazement as kids look at games now lol

[@oldthug7624]

This was the equivalent of playing cod on PS4/xbone of the time.

[@rajendrakumarvarsani4184]

🤭

[@farah.mariee]

it was the beginning for the video games the xbox came way later, they didn't know how advanced it was going to get.

[@TMoody]

iItellivision!

[@Allthewayfitness]

2021 😂

[@saganich74]

Omg Black Tower! I would of never remembered that game lol

[@gamewizardks]

Orson Welles FTW

[@krispykream7044]

Is that a calculator?

[@fluffysheap]

That's what the Intellivision controller looked like. It had a number pad. The games came with little overlays so you could see what the buttons did. Atari went the other way : just one button. Turns out Intellivision had the right idea, but in the wrong shape.

[@educateyourself3872]

Don’t buy the intellevision! 😂

[@filiplanga7237]

Try comparing those games to Cyberpunk

[@patricksputnick5094]

Everything has its time and beginnings :) Those were the days. Try playing the best of that golden era of experimentation and adventure in arcade too

[@antiven0mYT]

I'm sure they're a lot more stable. lol

[@mapdoor1418]

With or without the bugs

[@filiplanga7237]

@@mapdoor1418 those comments about bugs in this game were funny like a half a year ago...

[@thedillestweed2644]

@@filiplanga7237 facts are facts. Go find a bug in Missile Command, you won't.

[@Yyy12233]

1st

[@srpdesigns]

They should of listened to the parents that were against video games... We are going on 4 generations of children and adults that are addicted to computers and video games like crack in the 80s

[@yamatotakeru9078]

Now we have something worst call Tik Tok 🤣🤣

[@bigguns2229]

Now we have KZbin

[@Thattgirl6789]

@@yamatotakeru9078 the app for degenerates