Video Game History: 1982 High Tech Rec local news report

[@MugsyNJ2]

I love these trips back in time! Growing up in the 1980's was the best.

[@LoDoFilmUnlimitedMedia]

I was 10 years old in 1982 and I have heard this argument, my whole life.

[@CallousCoder]

Old man! I was 9 😂

[@robaustin3258]

Yeah, same here... lol

[@hoagie1978]

I miss the old arcades and games. I started playing video games before I even started school. I got my Atari 2600 the year this aired (1982). I thought I was in heaven. Before Atari, I had a Pong system from the 70's.....LOL

[@psterud]

Me too.

[@townsyy_]

DAMN

[@gamebit9063]

Best decade to grow up in had of been the 80s! What the heck happen to this crazy world! So sad…

[@donkique956]

An Atari 2600 was my first home console and I loved it!

[@yellowblanka6058]

I always laugh when people say “I miss X piece of media” that is still around/available in contemporary re-releases.

[@richarddavis8381]

Chicago alderman Patrick Huels concerned about arcades breeding drug traffic: "we have fine parks throughout our city...there's other forms of recreation that the kids can get involved in." Great idea. Nobody would have ever thought of buying drugs in a city park in the 1980s....

[@jetfrog4574]

Oh no , kids having fun with video games and drugs. WHAT A NIGHTMARE! HORROR!😱

[@natejamesr1081]

5:19 That psychologist predicted the downfall in the lack of social interaction with kids caused by technology!

[@yellowblanka6058]

Kids and adults.

[@Rouz102]

I like how they showed to the machine titled "puck man" as a pirated arcade machine when that was actually the name of it in Japan.

[@AndrewAmbrose]

it probably was a pirated version of puckman

[@Sinn0100]

Do you know why they changed Pac Man's name from "Puck Man?" They did this knowing teenagers would change the "P" to an "F" and they're not wrong.

[@reoire843]

@@Sinn0100 Stop flirting with me, Scott.

[@Sinn0100]

@@reoire843 Who the Hell is this Scott person and why is he trying to move on my territory? ;)

[@reoire843]

@@Sinn0100 In the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World", it's a running gag that he always flirts with girls by telling them about how Pac-Man has its changed in America :)

[@ashley_engle]

5:20 As the analysis took 40 years it was spot on 🥺💕

[@Sinn0100]

It's 2022 and video games still have our imagination and I wouldn't have it any other way. However, instead of a quarter at a time it's now 50 to 70 bucks a pop but we get to keep our games today. Excellent video my friend!

[@Sinn0100]

@5_min_alone Oh I'm sorry, I like actually owning my games.

[@krashd]

@@Sinn0100 We haven't been able to own most games for almost 15 years. We just have a license to play them, if Microsoft, Sony or Valve decide to reneg on that license you are left with a box and a disc that does nothing.

[@darthsynchronic]

Those kids you see in the 1982 news broadcast are in their 50's and 60's years of old now. The trend now are "BARCADES"... love it!

[@mikebaturoni7797]

I grew up in NW Indiana and watched this Chicago affected back in the day. I was about 14 when this aired and loved video games but wasn't very good at them. Thanks for posting this video !

[@raidernation6209]

Fuck I miss the 80s! I was a kid at the time but my days in school were spent at lunch time gambling so I can win money to use after school at the video arcade around the corner from my house. Video Arcades & ridingBMX bikes on the beachfront every afternoon after school. Best childhood ever.

[@psterud]

Agree. I'd get a dollar to spend on lunch at school. I found that I could get two ice cream sandwiches for 50 cents, then have two quarters left to play games with. We didn't have bikes yet, but we would walk miles to where the cool new game was with two precious quarters in our pockets, which of course would disappear pretty quickly, but it was so worth it.

[@sa3270]

It turns out it wasn't video games, but social media that caused social isolation.

[@psovegeta]

If only these people would have known how far it would go. Even a game like Runescape circa 1999 would have blown their minds.

[@curcumin417]

Good possibility some of these folks are still alive, and have participated in the several revolutions to where we are today in the digital realm.

[@RetroFan]

@@curcumin417 I'm sure plenty of them are still alive. 1982 wasn't that long ago. They'd be in their 50s, 60s.

[@OneSwitch]

To be fair, it was Dragon's Lair and Astron Belt that blew our minds just one year later. Still stand up as hugely impressive looking and sounding games.

[@ThunderFist1978]

It blew Larry Demar’s mind in 1995 when Digital Eclipse first emulated Stargate. He said later in an interview that if someone had told him in 1982 that in 1995 he would be seeing his exact work simulated on a computer, he would wondered what that person was smoking.

[@ThunderFist1978]

Oh, and I started playing video games in 1982 at the age of 4. It really feels to me like video games grew up with my generation. As I entered my teenage years, that’s when I noticed games becoming more and more violent. Games like Splatterhouse weren’t in my area, and somehow I never took notice of NARC’s gratuitous violence, and somehow I didn’t notice the nudity in Crime Fighters. Not that any of it offends me, though I do think it’s a good thing there is a rating system today, whereas it wasn’t necessary in the 80s.

[@Lennymcgra]

Getting dragged out of the arcade by the headmaster with me shouting sir i still have credits in Pacland! Ah those were the days.

[@JimHawkwind03411]

5:44 - This is nothing new; pinball was banned in NYC in the 1930s due to the perception that they contributed to juvenile delinquency, and were seen as gambling devices, which is why pinball games have the statement, “For Amusement Only”, on the apron or card.

[@Diskoboy1974]

Sam Dicker had just completed Sinistar when that last video was made. It also looked like it showed upcoming effects from Williams' Blaster, which came out in 1983.

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

I love these classic gaming news covers to see how everything was represented back then. I love many o these wonderful arcade games especially Pac-Man. Thanks for sharing such a fantastic news cover from the 1980's. Cool video. ^_^

[@nowwithattitude4685]

Midge knew the future, "preparing the kids for the computer age" ...

[@AndrewAmbrose]

artthousulu bless her heart

[@MannyDer]

wasn't "puck man" an early name for pac-man? I thought I remembered reading that before -- he said without bothering to google it.

[@trock626]

in the 80's and early 90's they were the best.now their behind

[@gamebit9063]

Whatever happen to this world!

[@jnnx]

They’re.

[@randywatson8347]

Oh boy, 40 years later...

[@garystinten9339]

Would love to see his intro for Polybius..

[@BroqHans]

Sam Dickerson and the rest, if you're still out there: Thank you, thank you, thank you for making our teenage years so much more interesting than any fat politician, misconstrued psychologist or religious nut case could ever dream of.

[@mehere3013]

he works for apple

[@ManuelNavas10]

This video is like a time machine :)

[@ShuAum]

5:25 psychologist worried kids lack social interaction. He should see online games nowadays... In person multiplayer was a hell of a social interaction.

[@Mumie12345]

Thank you! Greetings from Germany!

[@meestermole2412]

The Defender artwork at 9:59 looks different...like it has a spaceship on the left front, and maybe differently colored...

[@hardlucktech604]

"Yellow Creature Gobbles Dots" hahah lol

[@ybrix101]

What is that one being played at 2:10? I remember playing it but don't remember the name. Anyone please!

[@duncanfbrown]

Gameplay looks like Moon Cresta, but the control panel graphics aren't right, so... anyone else?

[@joshuaarmijo5213]

Damn the Clothes and Fashion way back in 80's is so cool💖💖💖

[@psterud]

What about the hairstyles?

[@jamesdavis5517]

Wow! 5 Stratovox and 5 Crazy Climbers in a row! 0:16

[@thomascampr]

IM one of those kids playing defender in this video. It was filmed at MOTHERS PINBALL

[@way2muchNFO]

thomascampr cooL

[@Marklord13]

Prove it.

[@gamewizardks]

Cool Story. I have an uncle that works for Nintendo.

[@ACDZ123]

Yeah it says that in the video lol

[@garypranzo9334]

I like seeing how we used to react to cameras.

[@thedillestweed2644]

Enigma II, that's a hard one to find.

[@luisreyes1963]

I remember the Rebus Game Room on Oak st. in Chicago. One of many arcades I used to frequent in my youth. 👾

[@epcotman32]

It was quarters, then it was tokens, now it's a download.

[@JimHawkwind03411]

7:27 - Is it Steve Ritchie? I’m guessing that by this point, Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar had left Williams.

[@drfunk444]

This is like 35yrs ago. Imagine where VR will be in 35yrs from now.

[@lmcgregoruk]

Probably the PS9 VR will NOT be backwards compatible with PS8 VR, also here's what VR looked like 32 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/imOmin-iiNNknaM With a little bit at the start (1:26-1:46) showing what VR looked like 36 years ago(1986)

[@ACDZ123]

1982 is nearly 42 yrs ago

[@RASK1904]

AWSOME!!! Thanx!

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Im here for this!!

[@BRENDAJASON1]

Yes remember when they hit this sceen I was right in the mist of it in the late 70s early 80s

[@synthetic240]

1:47 Guy's talking about feeling a sense of "pride and accomplishment".

[@reoire843]

Back when a high score used to mean something

[@camfahn7332]

Today! Videogames nearly indistinguishable to real life.

[@mammer90]

Awesome video man! Thanks for posting! Too bad there are no more places like Mothers Pinball!

[@zvoidx]

Defender and Defender Stargate were so advanced for the time.

[@redstoyotarunnerwithstri-hp9gm]

no homo, that was pretty jacked nerd at 0:48

[@sandycrash8868]

6 months to a year dam that feel so long now it’s just 2 weeks max

[@BretSnyder]

Looks like Chuck Henry anchoring with Linda Yu in that story. Chuck just retired from KNBC in LA December 2022.

[@mstngken]

I use to love going to those arcades when they were crowded on the weekends and start playing a game and rip a nasty fart then watch people scatter.

[@cron205]

Finley the footage that i saw in another video arcade doc and this is the footage without the music just real time video game sounds

[@victorhp1537]

Wow, the lady at 0:51 seems to be a really badass shooter

[@TheThunderWeasel]

Can I use this footage in a video?

[@Ballowax]

Lol the news guy was sitting on a Galaga machine

[@mikemal4398]

They say 7.5 billion yearly industry but then he says 300 billion quarter’s. Maybe he meant 300 million cuz that Math wouldn’t add up if it was 300 billion qtrs

[@krashd]

I think he was talking about how much money the industry makes from selling games and then how much people spend in arcades. The revenue from an Arcade goes to the owner, not the people who built the machines in it.

[@emadstarns291]

I love how they say these games are earning 8 million dollars a week it’s only 25 cents a quarter isn’t going get you close to a million dollars a week even if you have hundreds of people playing

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Nationwide that's not hard to do in the 80's... people actually went out back then by the millions. It wasn't like today.

[@emadstarns291]

@@EQOAnostalgia you can believe what you want but that man who is saying how much they made has no proof he didn’t even count the money or was allowed to go count it he was just saying what he believes it makes 25 cents isn’t going to get you to a million dollars do you even know what a million dollars means ? The teenage mutant ninja turtles wasn’t even out yet it cost $10 to beat it but games like Pac-Man doesn’t need $10 it doesn’t have an ending it’s just for scoring I didn’t see a million people in that video

[@samamir8765]

@@EQOAnostalgia if that was true Pac-Man was making 8 million dollars I would of bought the arcade machine and put it in a store and made a million dollars in the 1980’s you were a child back then I’m an adult who had money when you were a child paying $3,000 isn’t to much money then earning a million prophet but it’s not true this guy who tells the news doesn’t know what he’s saying 8 million dollars can buy you a very great house that more then NBA players make a week if Pac-Man was making 8 million then all the NBA players would retire go own an arcade machine

[@Suhadisgood]

Lies this man talks crazy he doesn’t know what’s he’s saying no games earn a million dollars

[@krashd]

@@Suhadisgood No, not only does he know what he is saying but he also went to school and knows how to count.

[@BKDDY]

Mind blown that I remember these news casters lmao

[@angelotero7729]

funny how they always found the bad in video games but not the good they rather have these kids dealing drugs on the street instead it's crazy to think arcades were such a big problem back then

[@krashd]

They did the exact same with heavy music and gory movies and anything else that was new and unfamiliar to grown ups.

[@basileosalexios9200]

Is the George Mesi that shows up on the video the poker player? I mean. They're both from Chicago :V

[@myob214]

Mothers Pinball.Best arcade ever.PERIOD!

[@derrickforeal]

300billion quarters. damn the 75 billion dollars. todays money thats about 200billion

[@33Artworks]

In the city Hermosa Beach on Pacific Coast highway there was a Motel that was 2 stories and family lived in the first unit one bedroom with three double beds and a single bed in the kitchen, with bathroom and one bed in the living room at time during time when I was 7 years when I woke up in middle of night to find my He-Man Teala Action figures in socks on a chair on Christmas when I lived W/ half sister Wendy, Lori, Lauren Clark,Kimberly Clark with my mother Susan L. Perry & my dad William T. Perry

[@33Artworks]

I found at the Lawndale Library wrapped on a blanket when went mail something there an African American Woman who could not open the Lawndale Library for us, who did not have the key at the time but I have always returned to that same location over to make sure that some day that the innocent will be repaid in full and noone will steal from any Libraries again in 2019and in past events so that the Hawthorne or the Lawndale Sherif will not steal from the storage house of the knowledge of the past. Lauren Clark was also at the Maytag Lawndale Laurdry Mat hold out her hand for something to give me the Walt Disney's photograph of her mother Susan Luella Wetzel standing on the left side near a skinny Walt Disney with my mother as a little girl on a black & white Kodak film with Peter Pan ship in the background at Disneyland. I wanted to give her the fun package of information that only hoped she received in the mail about Harry Potter the Wizarding World in Universal Hollywood California.

[@mehere3013]

sam now works for apple and helped design the amiga audio chip

[@sa3270]

People are saying the guy who made Defender is working for Apple now. What a shame. You'd think he would be retired by now.

[@acmelka]

You know when this was happening we had no idea we were living in the olden days.

[@krashd]

Yes, that does fit the theme of how time works.

[@BE_PERRY]

Who is the asain woman at 3:07

[@reoire843]

It's Asian reporter, Tricia Takanawa.

[@forwardbound]

Linda Yu

[@mariaolivares2996]

The first portable switch

[@binnieb20]

0:00 Laconic

[@paulnguyen8910]

Since 2.000, I've conquered "Super Galaga" by blowing by 256 levels many times.

[@Vamavid]

Nice video.

[@russellj.s.257]

Psychologists said the same thing about comic books.

[@krashd]

And heavy music. And gory movies. And just about every other fad that grown ups didn't understand...

[@raiverns9620]

Man every time i look at these i think thank god they moved onto 68000 hardware. Can't argue though, these are pretty fun games

[@harrychest4303]

I was addicted to Galaga, and Haunted House pinball. Now, COD rules the roost. Galaga, Defender, Pac-Man took up 20 mb of memory. Now, 150 gig’s is the norm. Technology!!!!!

[@robdavis4777]

I’m 50 and still playing games... but I moved up Call of duty. 🤘🏼

[@psterud]

Soulsborne here.

[@aarongallagher8898]

We used to hit with palm of hand the space between to coin slots and you would get a free game without paying

[@rigovillarreal3178]

Galloping Ghost arcade/Brookfield,Illinois

[@logan-el6hl]

0:00 a battle alien shi- (cuts it out completely)

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

Featured Games: Pac-Man and Defender

[@Crashingbro]

WHERE'S CHADTRONIC!!!!!?????

[@unereats5541]

Me: * Sees Pac-Man * Reporter: *Yellow creature gobbles dots while being pursued through maze by monsters* 🤨🎙

[@krashd]

"Fred, are you describing Pac-Man or did you drop acid again?"

[@t3hpwninat0r]

lmao @ 2:22 the circuit board is HUMUNGOUS by todays standards you could fit that in less than a square inch

[@gamewizardks]

You could fit thousands of these games in a square inch, in fact.

[@Drizzt_Do_Entreri]

that may be true but you can NEVER replace what the feeling is of the original full size cabinet with artwork. truly a different era back then.

[@donkique956]

Was the reporter’s mom still dressing him? Those pants!

[@cyberhype5495]

Chicago used to be pretty awesome

[@lavenderflowersfall280]

Nifty?

[@daekey6109]

Arcades were everywhere back in 1980 if you didn’t play them either your kid did are your brother if you was a girl

[@krashd]

The last one I knew of closed around 2010, but from the early 90's right up until it's closure it looked nothing like the busy arcades of the early 80's - the only reason we went in was because in the 90's and early '00's the games still had much better graphics than you could get on any PC or console so it was still a treat to play something like House of the Dead. Then the X-box 360 and Playstation 3 happened around 2008 and killed off the arcade for good, because now you could have better graphics in your room than downtown.

[@Patrick19833]

I was born one year later.

[@edstar83]

"The life of a video game is basically 6 months to a year" ... Fool...

[@krashd]

This was true back then, who wants to play Pac-Man every day for a year? Kids were fickle and the game developers had to keep coming up with better and better games.

[@HaleXF11]

dem plaid pants.

[@flatpat]

Someone actually wanted to ban arcade games for kids?

[@southsidesaiyan8641]

Yea, plenty of people wanted arcades banned completely.

[@ShuAum]

For some time, those who didnt play (like parents) associated arcade games with gambling. Like slots machines, etc.

[@krashd]

@@ShuAum There was also the religious folks, whose ethos has always been "If we don't understand it then it must be Satanic". They tried to ban everything from heavy music to gory films, and a dozen other things in between.

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

In Germany it is still outlawed since mid of 1980th to place any coin operated arcade machines in public places accessible under 18 years. 😡

[@12me91]

Whats wrong with being a loner? Not that thats exactly something easily doable with video games today.

[@Miykal99]

George Mesi now plays cuphead blindfolded +handless

[@Lapusso650]

300 billion quarters a year? Really?????😮

[@Gaur1983]

Yeah ,scrolled down to see if anyone else caught that. "....a national industry estimated at seven and a half billion dollars", from the video Guessing American liberal arts journalism math at work here . Must have meant 30 billion quarters. If tis 300 billion quarters or $75 billion than ,say, nearly 37.5 million young Americans(mostly boys and young men) with disposable income were spending on average $2000 or 8000 quarters (22 quarters average a day) on arcades in 1982. The average US income then was about $11,000.

[@krashd]

@@Gaur1983 The money you put in an arcade machine does not go towards the videogame industry, it goes towards the owner of the arcade. If I buy beer and sell it to you I expect you to pay me and not the brewery - two different industries.

[@bltvd]

People were still “70’s ugly” till about 1984!

[@ACDZ123]

Lol ..the 70s hung around into the early 80s

[@NathanChisholm041]

Yellow monster gobbles dots! Lol

[@danielsingleton2333]

So then the main stream media was wrong about video games. They're more often than not still wrong in their reporting on practically everything. Most people know that now I imagine.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

Sam Dicker...what ever happened to him?

[@kingklabe]

I wish I could have been there to invest some dough at the time.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Year I was born

[@screwthenet]

subbed

[@gamebit9063]

“How long will this video game business last?” Lol if only they knew back then!

[@krashd]

It lasted for another month or so because 1983 was the great video game crash that bankrupted many of the companies that were big.

[@markanthonyferrer2509]

the undying 8bit games in the 80s haha