thetallguy24 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Was wanting to find videos of different video game world championships from the 80s for a video project. I've found one for Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3ctKcI8Kg&t=75s I also found the Millipede championships, but someone named Patrick Scott Patterson watermarked it, so it'd be great if there was an unedited version of that somewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIdfaDBjDg&t=3s I'd love to find footage from the 81 Atari Championships, Space Invaders Championship, and the Centipede Championship. I believe there were some others for Tron, Pac-Man, Tempest, and Armor Attack. Anybody else know if and where such footage would exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mr_me Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 That first link was from the show That's Incredible. There's not only cosmos, but burgertime, millipede, buck rogers, and dk jr. It was more of a race to target scores than a typical competition. At least with Burgertime strategies could be a whole lot different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Where were these championships held? Perhaps the local TV station(s) may still have footage that they shot at the time. Granted, in my (limited, Canadian) experience, unedited/unused news footage is not frequently retained, just the final news broadcasts themselves, so you may be looking at just a few minutes (at best) of footage, not hours of detailed coverage. As for the That's Incredible footage, I can actually remember watching that episode when the show was current. It was the very first time that I saw Burgertime. As Mr. Me noted, the goal was to obtain a set score on each machine, and then move onto the next game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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