vids of arcades in the UK in the 80's and 90's

[Alpha1]

Thankfully I have plenty of memories from the very early 80's heighday! No video though. I was only a kid and video filming was very, very expensive back then. In fact, video players hadn't been in the homes for that long iirc, let alone cameras.

My old man has a holiday video of us in the US around '87. We stayed at the Holiday Inn on International Drive and they had an uber arcade and the video is me running around looking like a peados dream in shorts playing all the games

 

[guddler]

 

[gyruss]

Check out this great video (with translation) i found in the dutch national tv archive, my friend Level42 was so kind to host it on his website:

http://web.me.com/andre.huijts/Arcade_42/Video.html

gyruss2011-11-24 14:15:49

 

[guddler]

That looks really cool! But it's going to have to wait until after work to watch it all

 

[dannyboy]

There are loads of Funland clips on Youtube, this is the oldest one I could see though (1989)

Fairly easy to play spot the game in the second half of this one, as
most of the footage is close-ups of the screens. I'm sure you lot will
be better than me at picking out some of the cabs in the first 1-2
minutes though.

 

[Alpha1]

Funland cabs I can see

Super Hang On

tatsumi cockpit - buggy boy?

Rtype

Galaxy Force II

Beast Busters

Operation Thunderbolt

SCI or Cisco Heat couldn't make my mind up

G-LOC

Outrun

 

[dannyboy]

tatsumi cockpit - buggy boy?

That the one at 0.22 ? I was wondering what that was.

 

[Unit504]

haha the little girl in the first vid banging on the glass of that pusher, mummy i need to some money ....

 

[Unit504]

1st vid, @ 1.10 far left machine "wonder boy"

 

[ltearle]

I was born in 1991. The only times I played on arcade machine was in Matlock bath and Skegness. Earliest memory was playing Jurrasic Park in the local Showcase. No classic machines though

 

[JohnBud]

about 1 minute 38 seconds in, the old guy with the mac on offering the kids some candy, he seems to have something under his coat.

 

[JMP]

Great thread. Been trying to find ones of Blackpool arcades in the 80's but struggling big style.... shame.

 

[Alpha1]

Great thread. Been trying to find ones of Blackpool arcades in the 80's but struggling big style.... shame.

Whilst not a video, I apparently have the Firefox from Mr. B's.

 

[JMP]

Remember Mr B's well. Still there I think, though not as it should be.

 

[ArcadeAddict77]

Love the mother standing there, purse ready to dispence more coinage.