Arcade 1984 video

[MegaManFan]

Was there really a sitdown Sinistar full cab like that? *drool* I only played stand-ups.

[tiggerthehun]

And was there a sit-down Tron like that?

And in that same "Best of Times" video - is that a quick shot of Tom Baker (Doctor Who) in the video monitor?

[Dr Galaga]

Yep, there was a Sinister cockpit cabinet http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...=S&game_id=9553

and yes there was a Discs of Tron like that too http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_i...d=7594&letter=D (It is called an environmental cabinet - all 700 pounds of it )

[moycon]

You couldn't actually sit down in the Discs Of Tron game, you could rest your ass against a bumper on the back wall tho.

 

Kinda gross if you think about it....I never thought about it back then though!

[Flack]

You couldn't actually sit down in the Discs Of Tron game, you could rest your ass against a bumper on the back wall tho.

 

Is that what that was for? I always put my nachos and Coke there ... and then ate them.

[kenfused]

Since only ~20 people download the other video and it didn't hit my machine too hard here is a link to the .mov version of arcade84. It lets you turn off or on the music by clicking the left or right side of the video (in quick time at least) so if you want to you can listen to the game sounds. I think the quality appears slightly better but is close to the same as the mpg version. The file size is a little bigger than the mpg version and the zip is 30.7 Meg.

http://atari.ksiders.tzo.com/downloads/arc...rcade84_mov.zip

[bcostin]

Cool, I remember watching that video a couple years ago. It's a pretty nice bit of work. (FWIW, I don't care for the music selection either.)

 

Have any of you guys been to a Videotopia (videotopia.com) exhibit? I took a day off work to visit their exhibition at the Maryland Science Center back in 1999. Very impressive. Not quite up to the standards of the animation's rendered fantasy arcade (what is?) but tons of great old games. They even kept the lights low on that floor of the building to add to the arcade atmosphere. [/url]

[mapman1071]

Dude, it's Journey's Stone in Love... It's a perfect 80's tune!  But like everybody says, it all comes down to taste...  Some like journey some don't.. 

(How you couldn't I have no idea)   

 

 

Now I need help locating a MAME video...  There was one released several years ago, with the same style as this one, where the video starts out in front of a neighborhood arcade that has been closed down for years... Next your travel back to when it was open and alive with upright video games... The music they used with that one was by the STYX 'The best of times'.  Anyways, if anyone knows where I can download that video again, THAT was awesome as well!.

 

Let me know if you've seen it or not and what you think of it if you did! - D

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I am attaching the video for download

[Shaggy the Atarian]

Just caught this video and watched it...I'd love to stumble upon an arcade like that, and I hope to one day recreate the same type of thing (with some extra things of course) here where I live. The interesting thing about them playing a Journey song in the video is that they also played a Journey song (a different one though) in Flynn's arcade in Tron. I wonder if there was any influence there or not.

[Zonie]

Awesome...Totally Awesome

 

 

 

Alright Hamilton!

 

Reminded me of Superfun at Paradise Valley Mall.

 

 

Sigh.

 

Oh, and the music selection?

Edited April 21, 2005 by Zonie