Journey 1983 Bally Midway Mame Retro Arcade Games

[@jscan4442]

I remember this being a lot harder at 7-Eleven when I was 10 years old.

[@sarcasticguy4311]

Got that right. I think I could pass maybe one stage as a kid. Maybe the difficulty was cranked all the way up?

[@patrickriley195]

I shoved so many quarters into this game back in the 80s. I heard more recently that the game was a flop, but it was magic to me in 1984. Journey was HUGE!

[@bluesteeltraining]

Wow this brings back memories! I remember seeing this game in the lobby of a movie theater when I was 19 back in 1985. Frontiers had only been released 2 years earlier and both Journey and the album were among the most popular in music. Still even back then it was kind of a cheesy game.

[@MartyM.]

Yeah, I remember I saw it in Aladdin's Castle in the mall in Opelika, AL so long ago. I think it was already a bit old by then, but was unique game in its approach.

[@pancudowny]

Well, this just satisfied my curiosity about the full game-play... Can you believe this was one of the titles for players to select from on "Starcade"?

[@dreadlegend7365]

I remember that! Harder for me to believe i sucked at this game.

[@Bigheadedwon]

@@dreadlegend7365 This game was damn hard, the controls were pretty shitty and it had way too much shit moving around on the screen at once. It wasn't hard in a challanging way, it was just difficult because it was poorly made. Without the digitized heads and music from Journey nobody would have played the damn thing. Was it fun? I remember playing it as a kid, but what I remember most was I would always die FAST.

[@dreadlegend7365]

@@Bigheadedwon i bet so. Maybe the makers did it on purpose

[@zparklebugz424]

​@@dreadlegend7365don't stop believing!🤦🏼‍♀️😆

[@curleed85]

That’s how I learned of this game. It’s not an easy one, either.

[@bancoran]

Quote from the Killer List of Video Games: "Originally, this game was not to have the band Journey in it. It would have a digital camera created by Ralph Baer, the creator of the Magnavox Odyssey home console systems that would take a picture of the player's face and put it on the character. After some people used unmentionable parts of their body as character heads during tests, this was dropped."

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

bancoran Shame really, that would've been such a cool deal too. I think a later Mario Kart arcade sit-down machine used cameras on there for the heads too.

[@yaywhewclips242]

supposedly the first digital image was completed at the Kodak labs in Rochester circa 1977

[@Thealgorithmhassummonedme]

Oh humans. We're such perverts.

[@williamcrowe2576]

Yep, all it takes is some dirty minded snickerdoodle to ruin it for everyone else. That's how we lost Swapnote.

[@bancoran]

@@williamcrowe2576 so not only did Journey pioneer digitized images in video games, they inadvertently invented the first dick pics🤪🤪🤪 And people wonder why we can't have nice things.

[@erickufo]

WOW I have not seen this like in 32 years. Time sure flies!

[@edgeninja]

My cousin (from Texas) had the arcade cabinet for this game in his house. I was not quite 6 years old when I tried playing it, having very little gaming experience up to that point. I couldn't beat a single level.

[@redandbluebulldog1508]

Back when there were new rock bands, and those same rock bands influenced pop culture and the mainstream.

[@wall91nutz]

I just looked there are two songs classified as rock in the top 40 and one doesn’t even have guitars

[@thecapricorn11]

they still do. unfortunately they’re all trash 🚮 now

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

During the stage performance, Don't Stop Believin' is supposed to play from a tape inside the machine. The proper emulation of this game should play it from a digital audio file, a mono WAV. This game came about as a result of the Data Age Journey Escape game for the Atari 2600.

[@arizonadaveellis7500]

They must have a lot on their minds. They sure have big heads! Classic game. And by the way, Journey will be playing tonight on Dick Clark's New Year's Eve in Times Square ! I hope you all enjoy the show and Happy New Year everyone! Don't Stop Believing!

[@mnl_lnm]

played this with an emulator when I was a kid, I never realized until today it was about Journey the band as I didn't know them

[@ReverendSyn]

I remember reading this game was a first to use digitized pictures

[@brianperkins6121]

The game started development without the band, and had feature where it had a camera that would snap a digitized photo of your face and place it on the charter in the game, during play testing on location it was found that players would instead scan in unmentionable body parts so that idea was dropped..

[@ChrisK42]

The music that would have been played in the silent moments would actually have been done from a cassette, which would be the actual song "Separate Ways", and not a computer rendition. One question though, anybody have any idea as to what song the music used when a round is successfully completed was?

[@thedillestweed2644]

I bet it wasn't from a Journey song. I bet it was just something Midway did to fill the gap. Everything other tune is Journey, I know for a fact.

[@robadams8057]

@@thedillestweed2644 I think you're right.

[@MartyM.]

Came here to say the same! The arcade restoration guy here on KZbin did a restoration & showed the cabinet & cassette player inside.

[@mfuji02]

IT WAS SILENT WHEN ROUND WAS BEING COMPLETED. THEN SEPARATE WAYS AFTER COMPLETED.

[@sotheresthat7882]

I actually loved this AND Journey Escape. ❤

[@Dauwis]

Love it ! Chuck E Cheese/Banjo's Bloomfield CT had this back in the day

[@Dudeitsmeee]

That fact that is an actual coin-op arcade game is truly hilarious. Bally-Midway spent money on this!

[@mynewyork165]

Didn't that game play "Faithfully" too?

[@matthewconnelly1185]

I actually ayed this game in 1983 along with track and field.

[@AdrianGeorgeNicolae]

These guys were way ahead of their time.

[@shanegill5944]

Ahead of the game.

[@IonicHyperspace]

Lol

[@homerosalinas5699]

Recuerdo cuando era un niño y por este videojuego me aprendí las canciones the Journey y me gustó mucho el grupo hasta el día de hoy.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Ironic that the only non-'Escape song here was 'Wheel in the Sky', which Steve Smith did not originally play drums on.

[@doylepiper6735]

I remember playing this when I was nine years old back in 1983 at a bowling alley I was hooked

[@dellcargill5698]

This game rocked mixing video game fun with great music blasting

[@foxen1985]

Steve Perry's such a flipping badass! :D

[@mikechilds7877]

Love it and remember playing this arcade game in the bar at Mont St Marie Ski resort when I was 14 😂 🤘 🎸 🥁 🎤 🎹

[@RayLopez-jv7nn]

This game is for retards

[@aaronreichler2570]

can they make a jethro tull version of this?

[@mathewbutler35]

Aqualung the arcade game Ian Anderson's flute shoots fireballs

[@Thealgorithmhassummonedme]

And stares at underage girls. I vote no on the game.

[@MomLAU]

A big part of the fun was trying to figure out what the songs were!

[@mtbradanox6735]

Oh I love Journey!

[@cissi9671]

The digitized bandmembers reminds me of the main characters in the SNES version of Waynes World. Ahead of it´s time to use digitized characters back in 83, though!

[@BreakingG_News]

there's also the game with Prince songs on it

[@robadams8057]

Battle obstacles to retrieve instruments, all for the goal of--a silent concert!

[@brentcanfield8883]

So actually, the original arcade game had a cassette player kick in then where it would play Separate Ways (World's Apart) at the concert portion of the game.I have a version of MAME that plays the song there as it's supposed to just as if it had a cassette player!

[@KnickKnack07]

Wow! Who is the deaf person who thought your opening sound was a good idea?

[@bryanjensen2614]

Canadian Bear Hugger providing security at the concert

[@mr10tomidnight]

Yeah he really was a bouncer

[@dibarra1102]

Best "rock videogame" ever, maybe because it is the only one.. Faces of the characters are fantastic!!

[@chubbyjaydraws]

Aerosmith had a video game years ago…a shooter

[@Alianger]

4:15 is that where the casette tape is supposed to play?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Alianger I think he muted it for copyright reasons.

[@zudemaster]

The concert scene at 04:30 why does it look like the audience is wanting to beat the band up?

[@JLOCLamborghiniFan88]

Why does the audio in the game sound all fuzzy? I play this on MAME and it doesn't sound like this!

[@adultmoshifan87]

I’d like to open my own arcade someday, while also making it as disabled friendly as possible! A lot of the games would be Jamma titles in Astro City and Egret cabinets, but I’d also like to offer some deep cuts in gaming, including this! How can the cabinet be made so someone in a wheelchair or mobility scooter can play it? Can the cassette player in the cabinet be replaced by an MP3 player? Cheers.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought "That can't possibly be what it looks like." COL

[@dallase1]

I loved playing this game in the 80's I thought it was so cool they had "Real" Pictures of the Band Members Heads and Played "Real Music" as I called it and I thought it was real cool when it played actual Journey Music and not Electronic version of their music in the bonus round where you protect them from the fans. MAME can't emulate the caset tape audio so it's not the same as the real arcade machine but still cool, they should have made it so it plays a MP3 file or something, in setting for the game they could have MP3 file to play at bonus round..

[@JinzoCrash]

Well, the uploader said he took it out for copyright reasons. Was that how it worked though? It played a tape recording of their song? Is it like Q*Bert, where instead of a kicker for Coily at the bottom of the machine, it played music that wasn't in the game's programming?

[@dallase1]

I kicker is something mechanical that can't be emulated with software unless maybe it could play a real low Bass not for those that have a Sub on their PC or on a tablet or phone it would activate the vibration when Colly fell off so that is different also why would it play a song for Colly falling off ? If you are playing Journey at home why could you not then be able to emulate the cassette tape with a MP3 file? I played Journey on MAME for DOS and Windows and wondered why they did not have the option to use a MP3 file of Separate Ways (Worlds Apart).

[@dallase1]

In the Bonus Round it played a real Journey Song off a looping Cassette tape the song was Separate Ways Worlds Apart.

[@zerobyte802]

MAME supports playing Separate Ways via the sample system. It’s basically an MP3 of the song. In the real arcade version, the tape was a continuous loop of tape that just resumed playing the song wherever it was the last time the instruments got stolen. The last time I played this on MAME, it always started at the beginning of the song. I really enjoyed this game as a kid and would always feed it a token or two.

[@MartyM.]

@@dallase1 Yep and for the attract mode also.

[@koolpopjones6499]

Childhood memories. A video game staple on the TV show Starcade

[@Thealgorithmhassummonedme]

Why is it we hear Journey tunes on each level, but during the big concert there is no sound?

[@zerobyte802]

The uploaded muted it to avoid a copyright strike from YT.

[@Thealgorithmhassummonedme]

@@zerobyte802 I had not thought of that. Then again I am still relatively new to this interweb stuff. Thanks. Does anyone know what song is played during the concert?

[@seanmars5391]

@@Thealgorithmhassummonedme Separate Ways.

[@jpodos]

When I played this game, I was also singing the songs

[@SailorMaxie]

I can't seem to emulate this on the Internet Archive's arcade. Is this an anti-piracy measure?

[@LorenHelgeson]

Something tells me that everyone involved doesn't exactly jump at the chance to show this on their resumes.

[@paulcarr5918]

You must have been born well after 1983. This game was pretty cutting edge at the time with using their digitized faces and having Journey's music

[@neilyaremchuk6798]

Thunderbowl bowling alley in Allen Park. Michigan had this game. I remember this game being difficult but it can be run in about eight minutes. Well worth $0.25.

[@94115david]

what is the name of the song with the 'Russ Valory" screen???

[@seriousspikesam7770]

According to Wiki it's "Keep on Runnin'."

[@ВукДражић]

Why this game isn't finished? You must finish this arcade game, MamePlayer!

[@KeithCorry]

LOVE THE 8 BIT JOURNEY MUSIC....LOL

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

This is a trippy game.

[@VJFranzK]

it's basically like the Tron arcade game, except being about a band, and completely missing the point. ; - )

[@treyjohnson4035]

Looks like Wayne's World on Sega

[@CartoonPhreak]

Steve Perry also performed Oh Sherrie

[@garrygriffy1866]

journey is my favorite band of all time and always will be but this game is absolutely horrendous

[@zippymufo9765]

5:00 The fans steal the band's equipment!

[@trikkerman1]

I remember the game but forgot the game play.

[@SavicksterTheTrixter]

I never understood the concept behind this.

[@ZorotheGallade]

JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL

[@jamesavery3559]

great run thanks!

[@NameCallingIsWeak]

1:57 Reminds me of the stupid low "jump" in the Atari VCS "Donkey Kong"

[@saphiralucifera2366]

That happened.

[@CBs-Home-Vids]

The members of journey couldn't just buy instruments to replace the ones they lost? So when i was a kid in the 80s I didn't know who Journey was and this game baffled the hell out of me but I'd stand there and watch (usually adults) play it. I rarely saw kids my age play it. Back then you didn't have SoundHound or cell phones or internet. You had to be lucky enough to see the info somehow else or follow music which I didn't

[@ai_aprophecy3077]

yeah don't stop believing

[@kjmergen]

WHERE IS THE SONG SIMPLE MINDS?!!? THIS VIDEO IS A SHAM :D

[@Perktube1]

what was the song at 2:38?

[@karlprovo]

Chain Reaction. Tune!

[@Ocho_Guruma]

Second song?

[@MrAwesomedude808]

I've played this game, and it is SUPER hard! The first part of each round is easy, but then it gets hard when you have to start shooting. I think the trick for the second half of the levels is to do rapid fire and stand in one place or move left to right and make your way up while doing rapid fire (at least it works for steve perry's). Be careful of those blinking things though when they get close to you, they will touch you or you will touch them as you're tring to clear the others, and you lose a life! Jonathan cain's is harder in regards to getting to the instrument as those you may hit one of those planks as you jump down to another platform or when you're starting the level! Steve Smith's is the easiest to clear for the first round since it's just jumping on the drums, but be sure to jump on all of the drums twice once you have jsut one last red drum to turn blue, as you will get a 1k point bonus after turning that final red drum blue! ross is all about timing and direction. you should wait until you're at a certain height then jump either left or right (depending on where you are) to the next stump. Neal's is perhaps the hardest since it's all about precision (mainly because it's like operation - you hit the wall, you're done!) so pay CAREFUL attention to where you are and try to not press an arrow key for too long or to short of time. staying and one place and doing rapid fire will help you get more points to get to that extra life. The final part, i haven't even gotten to yet, so i have no advice on how to beat it!

[@andreweueugene1640]

Wow, that keyboard ist is not that way. Like the game though A. A.

[@蒼海藤沢]

REVOLUTION X : Journey version

[@MamePlayer]

[@linkeffect82]

This was.... Um.... This was... eh... weeeeeird. Somehow, it's weirder, or as weird as Generation X, and that game was crazy enough! A shame it doesn't quite have a proper ending, but an intriguing little gem all the same.

[@omegasupreme5527]

It's like most games from this era where's it just an infinite loop with a scaling difficulty. The only point is to waste time and bump up your high score. Skill games was pretty much all that were made early on so they were all weird in a way.

[@Reggie2000]

Game ending? What's that? * Said nine year old me from 1984

[@malicool1304]

this game is so horrible

[@georgeshelton6281]

I'm impressed when I heard about the former teen rock star Brian May chose to do something more productive in his later life: such as when he went from teen rock star to astrophysicist. Even though the "South Park" animation crew members have definitely made fun of him in a superior way. I'm also proud of myself when I found out on the KZbin Playlist about: when one man told me what happened when he laid off eating these sugary desserts and drinking these sugary sodas for about a week or 2. It's hard to put good health habits into practice at first. 🍨 🥧 🍦 🍡 🍧 🍩 🍨 🪨 🎸 🤘 🥌 👩‍🎤 🌟 🤩 😎 👌 👨‍🎤

[@ValentinesEve1996]

Can anyone name all of the Journey songs in this game?

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Late to the party, but according to Wiki the songs are "Lights", "Don't Stop Believin" , "Chain Reaction", "Wheel in the Sky", "Keep on Runnin" and Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) during the stage scene. This one came from an actual cassette inside the machine. Sadly, it's removed here due to copyright issues.

[@chuck7190]

STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE Perry! "No Journey Psych-Outs Dude!" Name that movie.

[@emilyhaner3256]

WHERE CAN I PLAY THIS

[@karlprovo]

MAME.

[@starofjustice1]

I'm kind of depressed I know what game that sound effect at the beginning comes from.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Please remind me - its bugging the hell out of me! I know I will kick myself when you tell me....

[@starofjustice1]

@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Oh uh it's from one of the first FMV games. Called Esh's Aurunmila. I think that's spelled right?

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

@@starofjustice1 no doubt that you are right but you've actually jogged my memory of that sound effect from where i heard it from....which was from a cartoon called ullyses 31. (1981)

[@starofjustice1]

@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP I love Ulysses 31! I bet I can still do it, hang on. Mortals, you defy the gods?! I sentence you to travel among unknown stars! Until you find the kingdom of Hades your bodies will stay as lifeless as stone!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

@@starofjustice1 thats the one... re-watched it not long ago. I think the sound effect is ever so slightly different but extremely close. Great show thats really held up the test of time.

[@newking70]

They need a Nickelback version.

[@pip12111]

Neal was the hardest to do

[@geofosgaminghellhole5440]

is this real?

[@Rarestgameplayer]

bizarre

[@dallase1]

I was pretty good at it I could clear one or 2 rounds so either it is not a very hard game or they had it set on easy because I'm not very good at video games I'm not one of those Video Wiz Kidz. It took me forever to beat SMB even with that 99 + guys trick with bouncing the turtle shell against the steps.

[@haroldgifford852]

🕹

[@VScott-uq1pj]

How was this not a rip off of Donkey Kong

[@alexandrocollings1116]

This would be sick if it was a Beatles yellow submarine themed game , because then there would at least be good music too

[@yaywhewclips242]

the atari 2600 game was so fucked up, but fun!

[@johnnycats5157]

I remember when this came out, when I was a smol. I remember thinking "this is the stupidest video game ever made". And it was.

[@daveheel]

this looks like a parody of a real game especially with their faces photochopped to their computer bodies.

[@mattwolf7698]

The game of Wayne's World also did this.

[@Taneuma_563]

The original concept was to allow people to put pictures of themselves inside the arcade game, which for 1983 would have definitely been innovative for it's time. Unfortunately, during a location test a man took indecent photos and put them on the machine. This was enough to cause Bally Midway to retool it as a Journey game that used the heads of the Journey band members rather than random images of players.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Sad but true....

[@pcaetano7527]

funny that shitty 8 bit video game music got flagged for copyright

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

You referring to the concert bit? Because that section plays a real song via a tape in the arcade or sample in mame.

[@thomasraven]

What an awful game, even for that time period. I remember passing it by many times.

[@hyperedu8188]

Pretty sh!t that it has no sound to replace the tape

[@brianmiller1077]

I never played it, looked way too damn cheesy.

[@deliciousmorton]

The game is just as simplistic as their music. What a coincidence!

[@butterbagboy]

This game is extremely hard

[@LadyMercutia]

Dude. Don’t stop believin’.

[@BigusGeekus]

Haters gonna hate.

[@遠山健太郎-m8y]

ウケる。

[@bucci777]

Love journey but NO-!!!

[@deadlyoneable]

Wow. The only thing worse than being forced to listen to journey is to be playing a video game about them.

[@TheWeepingCorpse]

drugs.

[@ybom06yt38]

what even-

[@XxBishop78]

Im sorry but ya this is not a good game,just terrible wow

[@mully2point0]

straight bollocks. i was feeling nostalgic over old arcade games till this ruined it lol

[@richardherzog5405]

The game is alot of fun and challenging

[@alexanderteuman7273]

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