Retro Arcade - Gyruss

by Alpyne D
i luv this shooter. it has a unique dynamic with the dial control that makes it fun, challenging, & distinguishable from others of it's genre.

[@Xscapeplan01]

One of my favourite 80s games, wasted a lot of time on this game but so worth it,,

[@leonardoromeo7344]

Me too! And a lot of coins! Best coin op!!!!

[@ericlou3405]

So did I😂😂

[@pauliejay4161]

One of my all time favourite games. Just standing there with the music thumping out of the speakers, frantic action - it was so exciting.

[@weymanholton7473]

great acoustics in this cabinet... the music made the game exciting and it was fast...what we squeezed out of that hardware was amazing.

[@WretchedNZ]

+W Holton Gotta love 8bit toccata and fugue

[@Nighthawke70]

@@WretchedNZ On FIVE Yamaha AY38910 sound chips coupled with a DAC? Yeah, that rocked. I want to hear that linked to a 5.1 surround, I'll bet that would just blow minds.

[@iTzYoMasterXX]

There was nothing like going to the pizza store and playing that game! As soon as you heard the music you're like "YEah!"

[@samuelvaldezherrera986]

Lo mejor de mi infancia y más x esa cancioncita de dracula

[@makattak3550]

This audio is not the arcade original version like I remember.

[@omega311888]

LOVED this game, especially for the music!

[@ivantorres1536]

Omg my favorite game when I was a kid just forgot the name! Between Sinistar, Galaga, Dig Dug, Mr Do, Pacman Moon Patrol Joust to name a few this game was highly addictive!

[@fabiangonzalez8017]

Diosssss ....mi juego favorito en mi adolecencia!!!!!.... Cuantos recuerdos.....

[@WiktoriaSzalaty]

Music - Toccata and Fugue D minor - J.S. Bach (BWV 565)

[@bjggjb]

Wow. Watching videos of these old-school arcade games underscores what a dyed-in-the-wool geek I am... as this game made my pulse pound way back when at the age of 13, and it still does (just a bit) today.

[@skeet306]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES OF ALL TIME!! LOTS AND LOTS OF QUARTERS!!!!

[@cineddiction]

Boy, This was an epic game for me when I was 10 years old. classic!

[@normanlamboy1135]

One of my favourite games

[@justinwilson4922]

Christ, down the arcade every night. So exciting just hanging around. I remember this game so well with that ace music!!!!! Why do we never realise how great things are until they've gone?

[@peugteobike]

this game brings back great memories played this at showbiz pizza place

[@eddiekeato3342]

Used 2 play this at Kirkby swimming pool in liverpool uk in my school dinner time.absolutely used to love it .brings back good memories from about 30 odd years ago.

[@bigemugamer]

when my dad would take me to fly up north with him in a helicopter to maintain these remote telephone relay stations in the foothills (not quite mountains) we would stop at this restaurant before we got to the heliport for breakfast and I'd dump a few quarters into this game, it was one of those table arcades that you sat at and I loved it. awesome to see it again =D

[@FurtherIllusions]

I love this game. The gui and the music is awesome. I've been hooked on this at my work. Originally stuck on dig dug, but lately it's Time Pilot and Gyruss.

[@cliftonclark8452]

I just picked this up today in is original arcade cabinet. It's freaking awesome!

[@Skeletonboss12]

Used to plays hours on a single quarter, skip through school... The memories!

[@Gustavo-nh3bz]

Excelente. ..!! Mi juego preferido de la infancia...! Me trae muchos recuerdos...! Gracias por el vídeo. ..!!!

[@alxgx4258]

Finally!!!! after many years I found the name of this game, used to play it everyday at an arcade near my house. I could spend hours with just one coin. I remember my personal record which was the highest the machine had, was around 450000 points and still had 2 lives left but had to stop because the arcade was closing.

[@maz.mazinger]

Gyrus- arcade masterpiece.... like find it.. to play again..

[@carloshenriquemaranrobini6838]

Quase chorei agora, voltei 30 anos, o áudio é fantástico, especialmente quando você dobra o canhão da sua nave. Fazia roda de gente vendo você jogar, especialmente quando o "vício" já te fazia ir até a Terra sem perder uma nave sequer...

[@Robertky3]

Melhor a versão do Nintendo, o áudio desse de arcade é estranho ...

[@arcadesunday4592]

@@Robertky3 yea the arcades version is where it's at!

[@user-tn4no3bf4d]

当時として音楽が斬新で素敵でした

[@rriqueno]

I remember stealing quarters from my big brothers money bank to go to the pizza place to play. 😂 i was hooked!

[@StormsparkPegasus]

I remember how awesome the music sounded in this game (keep in mind this was 3 years before the NES launched in the US, pretty much the only things around besides the Apple and Atari computers were the 2600 and the Colecovision. Going from bleeps and bloops to this was pretty amazing. I've got this (and a bunch of others - huge collection of 80's arcade games) for MAME, still play them every now and then.

[@kevinsullivan1717]

One of my FAV games, ever!! I had the world record, back in the mid 80s. :o) I think it was like 10,000,000 points or something like that. I played for over 8 hours, on one quarter, at a Golfland in the Bay Area. I went to over 60 Earths!! The game was so popular at the time, I'm sure those arcade guys were none to happy, that i hogged the machine all day, for a measly quarter! LOL However, the record only lasted 2 weeks, when someone scored 25,000,000. LOL Thanks for posting! -KJS

[@moiquiregardevideo]

It seems that 3,125 cents / hours would not even pay for the electricity...

[@adilbenz9565]

i would love to play vs you !

[@legendarysnake]

nice job!

[@kilogram064]

You did far better than I ever did. I was in Iwakuni Japan when I first encountered this game, addictive as hell but it was a lot of fun. I burnt through a fortune in quarters.

[@myczek1]

Me same before 32 years. 12 hour non stop. This was in Poland and I was the best....

[@jaffa74]

This is the sound of nostalgia Thank you

[@emmanuelsavage1271]

I fell in love with this game! The play and that music- one of the first games where the music was in fast tempo with the gameplay!

[@Dauwis]

Definitely a all time favorite of mine, remember playing it at Pizza Tower in Cape Cod back in the day...

[@danielr4640]

One of my favorite arcade from the 80’s. Gyruss

[@Thizlamic]

LIFE MISSION AS AN 8 YEAR OLD IN 1983...BLOW UP THE DEATH STAR IN STAR WARS..MAKE IT TO EARTH IN GYRUSS. THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE.

[@ahuman4386]

How about the part you could blow up MANY Death Stars in that Star Wars framework game! lol

[@fraxhead7304]

Thank you for this video! One of my favorite arcade games ever, and of course I had it on my Atari console as a teen. Wish you could have to to Earth though... ;)

[@Lyntz]

One of my fav game when i was a kid ( 6 or 7 year old ) the music the gameplay, everything was awesome :D

[@hitskin666]

The warp count to Uranus always got a laugh 😂

[@PABeaulieu]

Don't ask me why... I wisthled Bach's "Toccata et fugue en ré mineur" tonight and I remembered playing this game in a small shopping mall in Causapscal, Québec, Canada, circa 1984-1985. Thanks for the video! :)

[@iTzYoMasterXX]

Many nights..many quarters!

[@kornwhiskey95]

I came here just to see this classic. Thanks for the post!!! I used to (as we called it) turn it over by getting 99999 plus and starting the score all over. It was a great time waste as a kid.

[@mattwuxx3888]

In the CA arcades, there were usually *two* arcade standups of Gyruss available. I suspect it was worth it for them to have two on hand to keep the bickering among the kids who wanted to play it during prime time hours to a minimum, and also have one available when inevitably the buttons/stick would fail, as these Gyruss consoles took a lot of button-smash/stick-slamming abuse.

[@abjecttiramisu8558]

When I was told that this game used polar coordinates for mapping out paths and such, this made me pay more attention in math. Parametric equations too! Oh ya, the music slaps!

[@KittyKatKandi]

I have this game on an old classic arcade table :)

[@danielr4640]

Dorito Prince awesome

[@drstrangelove4463]

Gyruss is perfect in every way. That Music!, SO addictive as your eyes & hips gyrate in endless pleasure. I watched the whole 11.20!, better than watching latest star wars cgi movie😀😀😀 ...thanks ALP

[@SpeccyHorace]

wtf

[@carioca2307]

Mi favorito,le jugaba en el verano del 87 en argentina

[@BlueRidgeParanormalEst]

man I took this game out in the 80's was one of my favorites still is

[@claudioperez1094]

Este si era juego para mí el mejor de los 80.

[@richardwright1639]

I love the Gyruss, It took a lot of quarters but I finally,finally got to where "One Quarter" was the challenge to make it to all the planets...I miss it....and remember when you'd set your highest score and days or weeks later a "phamtom Player" would come along and match you or best you, I would think to myself,"Game on!" then go for it...great game the Gyruss.

[@sidekickmusic5936]

I have great memories from this game

[@sixthspiceseventy7005]

Mr. Okamoto is really great!

[@sg-gj4ex]

Ya the music and the game was just thrilling at the time

[@user-kl4fo6ru6u]

Man me and my boy used to go to the laundry mat in the 80s with one dollar in change and play the shit out of this game. My boy was the king. You rarely beat him but I was good too and got him on many occasions (pause)

[@matiasouza]

More exciting than some games ps4.Thanks from Brazil!

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

[@sitnick]

Now this is some serious gaming.

[@VJRoGeRsBS]

GYRUSS EL MEJOR ARCADE DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS!!!

[@dino0489]

Loved the game; if i remember right it took about 3 trips to earth to rollover; one time i spent about 8 hours on the game [one quarter] and my friend told me we had to leave; so i gave the game to someone else for a quarter [i rolled it over 7 times that day] and i think made it to earth 22 times before abandoning the game.

[@oldsaltshippers]

8:07 - that was a special manouvre we used to call "kissing the blarney stone"

[@kali3665]

My favorite old-style video game. Never made it to earth, though....

[@scooter4196]

My favorite arcade game!

[@carlossaldamando1031]

Los mejores años de mi vida ¡ ❤ 💯👍✌️😎 MEXICO 🇲🇽 ¡¡¡

[@richardsolomon5375]

Used to play this game on the c64 as a kid.

[@sergecampos1184]

Quantas e quantas vezes não zerei isso nos meus 11 anos, e não errava nenhum final stage a galera do colégio toda em volta babando e eu chegando a Terra sem perder nenhuma nave....ahahah

[@5ynthesizerpatel]

has anyone ever noticed that Gyruss is basically Galaga with the playfield wrapped around into a tube / circle? That's not a diss - along with Defender this is up there with my favourite golden age games

[@georgeshelton6281]

I was thinking of saying, that's too bad that you couldn't get to Mars.

[@adilbenz9565]

je peux jouer pendant 3 heures sans s'arrêter, lorsque j'ai regardé cette vidéo, ça m'a fait remonter le temps, j'étais champion à ce jeu, et j'aimerai bien le rejouer encore si c'est possible sur internet !

[@MikeLoVega]

This game was ahead of its time no Pluto in the solar system from Gyruss

[@ahuman4386]

Well, feel better than I am not the only one to make it just to Stage 17. Recall only one time I made it to Mars. Only once. Many years back.

[@danlivni2097]

This game looks great. I dont remember it though from the early 80s

[@mvilla36]

MY FAV OF ALL TIME I FLIPED THE SCORE AND LEVELSMANY TIMES OVER AND SPENT ALL THE PAPER FOOD STAMPS WE HAD

[@robwilliams6753]

Tempest, but less punishing of mistakes. Loved it way back when.

[@fotomantrojmiasto1752]

I loved that game 👍😁

[@Nova-us3np]

I remember playing this in Oxnard California in Rancho grocery market. 😂👍 🕹

[@luizmartin2007]

Great song.

[@xochilttoledoaguilar1094]

Es una joya unos de mi juegos favoritos de mi infancia que bellos recuerdos mas x la musica q me gusta al comensar

[@skycow2]

Nice. I put way too many quarters into this game back in the day. Good times.

[@marcofunes1442]

EL MEJOR JUEGO! LPMQLP✌🇦🇷🇦🇷!

[@TherymasterWidnes]

THE BEST

[@torinazo]

Me acuerdo de jugarlo con la cabeza metida dentro del gabinete, excelente juegos musica sonidos😊

[@Tony-1971]

This was available for the Playstation 1 on a compilation disc. On Japanese and U.S. consoles. awesome game!, music makes it even better. slike Tempest.

[@chavesrepresentacoes-mg6969]

O melhor de todos os tempos!!

[@VJRoGeRsBS]

Exacto! El mejor arcade de todos los tiempos!!! Definitivamente!!!!!

[@leonardoninado8434]

Cara joguei muito na minha infacia .fui jogar denovo depois se 38 anos. Estava tudo arqivado na minha menoria .obs: quando eu joguei estava com meus 46 anos

[@jllovit]

i think this is what birthed drum and bass... and dubstep? I don't think anyone else thought up remixing a Bach arrangement back in the day... and put bass sounds on the ship's shooters!

[@MrRyguy2112]

Tempest and Galaga in one game!

[@TheDaduchi]

love gyruss!

[@peyorojas40]

Cuántas fichas usadas en ese juego, que tiempos, junto al Xevious, mis juegos favoritos de esos años

[@cruisysoozi]

That's as far as I've got as well scoring 133,250. Love this game... Get to play everyday at work on a retro game machine

[@imilakatos625]

Szeretnem ezt a jatekot nagyon

[@briancurry6602]

my spine just think about

[@kahlessncc]

OS MAIORES, JOGADORES, DO MUNDO!!! PERDOAR, OS MENOS PROVÍDOS,,

[@finisher3x]

I never got past Mars. My friend used to kill this game though. He got to Earth.

[@booggaboo5386]

That's how the music actually plays at the beginning of the game?

[@TonyHamlyn]

Late answer, but yes. My kid just played that part on the piano, and I wanted to show them how I was exposed to that song in the early 80s by googling Gyruss and ending up here :) My mate and I spent many 20c pieces on this at Springwood squash courts in the Blue Mountains. Problem with this game though is the stress on the joystick from trying to rotate around in a hurry, quite often the joystick in the upright had bad contacts in one direction making playing a tad difficult.

[@aquaterrasma3529]

hermoso

[@SapphyTaffy]

I got a high score in this at a dentist’s office once.

[@kilogram064]

This game ate up a lot of quarters back in 1980 something.

[@therocketgod]

was a master at this game...got to the point I needed 1 quater to play for hours....wish the score would have allowed for unlimited points

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

That music sounds like Walt Disney's Fantasia

[@GamingFreeForAll]

via Alpyne D yeah, it truly is a klassic. i STILL play this game to this very day!

[@DEADLOK69]

I actually enjoyed the Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" musical score.

[@robsondemelonogueira2058]

Show!

[@DjAether8]

Was there a later arcade version of this game? I remember the music being better. Or is it that the Nintendo version of the game had better music?

[@vichitchanin5339]

❤

[@venomwise]

They Crawled From Uranus