Arcade Games in the '90s - My Retro Life [Extended Cut]

[@Canthatcrazy]

I honesty think kids born in the 80s had thee best childhoods. We developed with the consoles, we got the first dedicated kids TV channels, we got the first iconic Saturday morning TV shows, we got the 80s and 90s blockbuster movies, we got the music. It was so good they're trying to remake it now, and all the franchises we got first time around, are still being used or milked today.

[@timothys3119]

Agreed. ‘84 baby here

[@bigballzmcdrawz2921]

The transition from 2d to 3d gaming in my opinion will not be topped.

[@ErnoSallinen]

Man, the material your dad has shot is priceless. What a time capsule.

[@imwalkworse6298]

your mom was so patient. Lots of nostalgia in this one for me.

[@johnrogers9262]

I loved the shot of her sitting on the stool ready with the token for a continue in Aliens lol

[@steveafanador6441]

I love how you can always hear turtles in the background. That's exactly how it was back in the day. 😊😊

[@jwprimetime9795]

I got 16 of those arcade1up cabinets and I got turtles mostly so I could hear that attract mods when I fire them up! Totally makes it seem authentic.

[@AM-ss9he]

This is exactly how I remembered it in my arcade. Good times.

[@aztarot]

How about dalshim's stage from street fighter 2. You could ALWAYS hear those elephants!

[@FranticMonster11]

The 90s was the peak of humanity!

[@kashourikatsu2543]

Facts

[@timothys3119]

1000% agree

[@Riz2336]

I remember at my first job at a pizza place I would take my tip money turn it into quarters and play arcade games pinball regular video games for an hour after I was off work, I really enjoyed those moments

[@PyrosPelagics]

check out those "skater" bowl cuts. I had my fiar share of cuts. in memphis we had celebration station, putt putt, xcite arcade, gold mine at mall of memphis, appletree movie theater, we had some awesome arcades back in the day. Right now i take my daughter to dave and busters, putt putt and a small retro arcade in ms. Able to relive those old days as an adult father now, i can see and feel what my parents experienced with me.

[@I_Am_The_Barz]

This really takes me back!!! Nobody had their faces in their phones. People were truly free then! I miss those times dearly! Sometimes I feel like I'm in an episode of The Twilight Zone 😲

[@stephendias5122]

Miss thosse days. I remeber my dad took me to an arcade and got 20 in tokens it's still so memorable 37 years later beat X-Men that night took the whole 20

[@narwasihasih7784]

How old are you back then ?

[@Ártica-26]

This video is gold tier

[@agentbl]

Nice story. This makes me think of all the times I visited video game arcades back in the 90's here in New York City. Times were different back then.

[@SOMEGANGSTER]

Arcades were magical

[@johnrogers9262]

I am still so amazed at your dad's foresight and how well he documented things like this. I think he really understood how special these moments were and how precious the memories would be one day. Thanks as always for an amazing watch.

[@colinrussell2017]

This video is as close as one can get to being there! So many memories. Thank you!

[@kyu2813]

Oh my god, you have such a rare gem of a video collection. This is not just a precious moment with your family, but it's like a recording of history lol. There aren't many footages like this that exist today. Thanks for uploading, it really brings back memories of the '90s

[@720erik2]

Pure VHS gold thanks for sharing

[@TheDanielDreamer]

I love your Childhood.

[@doombxny]

I always loved arcades, not just the games but the atmosphere. My favs were, Final Fight, X-men 4 or 6 player, T2 the arcade game and Captain American and the Avengers.

[@leesmith46]

Thank you so much. This has really made my day when i needed it most. These really were the days, best times, happy memories.

[@nickbailiff575]

i remember playing that exact same X-men cabinet at Celebration station in the late 90s! thats so cool

[@oohrah81]

There were no arcades where i grew up. The only time we got to play in them was on holiday at the seaside. It made them even more exciting and special! WWF Wrestlefest and Daytona USA are my personal favourite arcade games. Great video 💪🏻

[@terryforever84]

I understand that feeling. I also want arcade to live forever 😢 but sad that won't happen in my country, arcade is dead from Malaysia. I really miss 80s and early 90s time. Watching your video really bring me back to old times😢 especially you put Outrun ending theme , really make me 😭 Thanks for the video. Is meaningful for me. Keep up the good work 👍

[@TheAceLewis]

I’M NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYING.

[@OldAussieAds]

Your video makes me want to be more generous and more patient with my own kids. Also just a comment on the arcade footage here. I'm from Australia and arcade culture was huge here too. But something I've noticed that was different between here and the US was we generally didn't have dedicated cabinets for the standard 2 player joystick games like shown in this video. Usually ours were just generic wood grain or black cabinets with little to no artwork on them. The exception were the cabinets that needed to be dedicated (Outrun, Star Wars etc) and the premium 4 player games like TMNT and X-Men. We might have had dedicated cabinets in the golden age of the arcade (early 80s), but I was too young then to remember.

[@brettprisendorf924]

What a feel good video. The excitement and fun like this is what im trying to capture with my kids. We're big on Zelda right now, but have been playing quite a bit of Genesis and Sega CD

[@YashayahTheAlmighty]

dude we could have played against each other and didnt even know it....I went to Time Out but in houston and i used to frequent celebration station...we are the same age...dude this is insane

[@BushinRyuCat]

Mom: "Honey, WHY are you just sitting in front of the TV all day? Why don't you go outside?" Me: 😭😭 "Because *ALL the arcades are CLOSED !* "

[@TheClassicAndRetroGamer]

Nostalgia overload 🤯🤯😂😂 Thanks for the upload, it's great to revisit the golden age of arcades again!!👍🏻👍🏻

[@johnbraucher1499]

I had to EARN my arcade money. And it was something all the parents did when I was that age too. They made us earn it. I wish someone would bring back arcades and use it for their restaurant like papas pizza did in the 90's.

[@RenoEeker]

You have very cool parents. Great piece of history.

[@5150Reaper]

9:21 😂 Your dad was a very wise man.

[@abremacsclumsygamingchanne9153]

All of the love for Cadash in this video got a legitimate jawdrop from me. I still want that cab.

[@droogsurgeon1440]

Bless your dad for capturing this!

[@MarionetteKazuko]

The celebration station here had an odd layout but definitely had its charm. Eventually they closed down, it was turned into a steak house and that closed over the years (extremely terrible location for a steak house) and tore down the building. In google maps I could still make out the go kart track that was torn down when celebration station closed.

[@CallousCoder]

I wish we had a video camera and old footage of us. We only have some slowly yellowing photos. This is such a cool trip down into the best decade ever the 80s! Especially from 83 onward. I’m a kid of the 70s so I played a lot (and still do) classic arcade titles. And I every now and then hack them on this channel. But me real love was actually the Sega that I never owned but my kid brother did. It was so astonishing seeing those graphics even my Atari ST and my friend’s Amiga weren’t as fluent and awesome. Seeing those big sprites mice effortlessly across the screen was something that only a couple of year prior was reserved for the arcade cabinets. And perhaps because I was almost 20 at that time and studying microelectronics that I really understood the marvel these tiny consoles had become. But the real winner were the arcades that also continued to evolve. There’s one game I really want to know what it was called. You racet in a Porsche dodging and hitting guys with machine guns shooting at you. You had to wiggle through construction sites etc. And when you made it (after 3 weeks and 150 dollars 😂) the character would get out of your car and empty an UZI on it and it would explode and end titles. I’ve played it so much during the holiday of 1990 and I don’t know what it’s called. That’s an arcade cabinet I would love to find and play again.

[@Canthatcrazy]

The arcades looked so advanced as an 8 year old, compared to the home consoles.

[@johnrogers9262]

It really was a huge step up in technology. Even into the later 90s.

[@paulsolfelt8452]

Ooh the.sound of that quarter on a string racking up credits,lol or a quarter on a chain to destroy the string cutter and rack up credits, lol !

[@leo290702]

valuable footages that only memories can buy, tks for sharing.

[@dainewilliams6181]

1:39 been walking the streets since i was a child cause i always spend my bus fair on tokens

[@Ed-eq5kd]

Amazing nostalgia trip

[@Scarface1982G]

Awesome Content mate and Good Times miss them ❤

[@hoodmistressreloaded]

Reminds me of the Sassony Arcade that used to be in Downtown Los Angeles, though I didn't really get that arcade experience until adulthood. Sadly, Sassony closed its iron curtains for good in November 2014. Good news is that we have many other LA arcades; bad news is that there's a hefty admission fee to get in some of them 😔

[@FloridaManRacer]

I can relate to this whole story so much. My arcade was Pepi's Pizza and Arcade in Oneida NY. I had a couple birthdays there, with friends who I haven't seen in decades and I can still remember specific moments playing those games and the excitement of beating a boss for the first time, then going, grabbing a slice of pizza and running back to the games... I can even remember about 70% of the floor plan for that Arcade. I went there that much... I miss that time of my life. We moved away, and I don't think I ever remember being that happy again as a kid...

[@mrbransformer4184]

I had my 6th birthday at the one here in Charlotte, nc! It was great!! Finally beat Turtles that time but we spent most of the birthday coins!

[@archetypervb]

I forgot that Two Crude Dudes even existed! I audibly heard my brain unlocking.

[@aznlongtu]

thank you for doing this.

[@bawknahpaw8286]

Beat lines “Oooo king king” “bird”

[@Mr.MiddleClassPH]

I was playing that X-Men arcade back in the 90's 😅

[@justsaying3176]

ur dad is from the future... he still lives w/ these videos he tooked back in d days....

[@MrCollector]

thanks for this timetravel

[@zeldacadabra9018]

Wow it’s so creazy u have all those video and lucky to had parents that spend this time whit u there att the ARCADE. Lucky 😉 Thanks for your nostgia video

[@fernansanchez6331]

7:19 Dude, that's when i was born!😮

[@888HERTZ]

ugh 90s was just the best

[@rockstarkooler]

great footage

[@TMNTRaphael-lz5ew]

Arcade is my kind of heaven for this 🐢😎 yo 👍👍

[@dariusq8894]

The 80's may have been the golden age of arcades, but I'm way more partial to the games from the 90's.

[@CrayZJo3Davola]

90s was the last era of true arcade gaming experience

[@4touchdowns1game29]

Not exactly you can still find good arcades they are just few and far between. The town I'm from has a bad ass arcade called retrovolt in calimesa.

[@Hinokami777]

@@4touchdowns1game29yeah but it’s not mainstream anymore just like everyone started to forget about block buster. I miss both

[@TheyCallMeSledge]

@@4touchdowns1game29 What he meant was the 90s was the last decade where you could go to the arcades to have a definitive gaming experience with an outside social crowd because it couldn't be replicated with the technology at home. Yes granted there are some arcade spots that give off that feel but it's more of a novelty now and not so much the norm. Ever since the early 2000s with the internet becoming more of a social hub and video games damn near replicating graphics you see in the arcade, the arcade scene slowly died off and wasn't the casual thing to do anymore.

[@hardlucknate6769]

OH man oh yeah

[@dainewilliams6181]

power move??? half ah circle , up,down up down left right punch button ten times

[@TracksideViews]

The first NES TMNT was an impossibly hard game lol

[@sagedreamztv41]

I used to have eelveryday b day at celebration station as a kid cuz chuckee cheese always freaked me out 🤣🤣🤣🤟🏿

[@heidad1]

I wish I had parents like you............

[@switch4960]

Epic

[@newjackgaming88]

That teenage mutant turtles was life !!!!

[@SPBRAZE4936]

My childhood too😊....none of those stupid grabbing machines

[@jwprimetime9795]

Your mom was stunning! Ultimate 80s girl!

[@consis]

Your genetics seem strikingly remarkable to me. As a child, your hair and face look more like your mother, but then as an adult, your hair and face look significantly different. You look like your dad as an adult. I'm a little stunned by the change in appearance. I didn't know humans were capable of such dramatic genetic change.

[@cell2086]

Your parents were awesome 👍

[@claytonjones8358]

That arcade In San Antonio..Was that in front of the Alamo at the Riverwalk?

[@vincently1995]

Cool

[@jermainelindo6944]

in retrospect perspective

[@catch_meee]

I am from the arcade generation❤. I'm from Syria I remember most of the games, but I don't remember the name or the name. Ninja Turtles. RoboCop. Punisher. And there was a game in which you used a machine gun mounted on a base. Of course, it is not a real arcade game. And a Formula One game with a car-shaped device

[@Mohamedmoh-wu9rx]

❤

[@kashourikatsu2543]

Arcades were like crack "mom i need crack money"

[@888HERTZ]

but did those fighting game buttons ever do anything specific lmao

[@samamir8765]

No reason to talk about the arcade in the 90’s that’s just brings back bad memories how bad the consoles were how bad the games were playing at that time I was buying arcade machines instead of games for the consoles the graphics were trash the only way to play these games perfect was to pay $3,000 for you only get one game where you look now at arcade 1 up you get more then just one game

[@honghongnguyenA]

Look...., kids can do fight enemy....

[@bryansteele832]

Have you been getting into the Arcade1up craze?

[@jaydead863]

anybody else remember getting pickle juice in a cup of ice at the arcade

[@MajlisOnzia]

Dear, is it possible to use 1 second of your video clip in our Belgian tv program? Kind regards, Majlis

[@jamesneale6210]

I grew up in the 90s in England. We had the same but machines were 10 pence or 20 pence instead of a quarter. Arcades now cost the earth and are rubbish

[@simon0044]

What’s that monster truck game ?

[@Derpherppington]

must be nice of your parents to have disposable income for you guys

[@silentsir2446]

Yep...his parents did their job, and made sure they werent broke and could afford to give a child a healthy upbringing, before they brought a child into this world..good job mom & dad

[@howieg2019]

here's why i can't understand people😤😮‍💨. in the pre internet era when the arcade machines were in the corner stores and other places of business, most of us were broke but seemed to get along for the most part. in the beginning of the 00s when they began to take the machines out the stores, i began to be around more of the working crowd, i quickly saw that despite having money in their pockets they're some miserable people to be around and only seem happy when payday arrives for the purpose of medicating themselves for the weekend🚬🍾, and also i learned that you don't learn anything worth learning from the majority of them, and i'm always asking myself how is it that i was happier around people who had less than i am those who have a little more🤔, is it something wrong with me?

[@ajt649]

I was 7 in 88 lol