>>> Great "new" 1982 arcade video material on-line now !!! <<<

[Level42]

I am extremely proud and happy to be able to offer you classic arcade addicts some great video material from the early 80‘s !!!

Below you will find a documentary that was made by and for Dutch national television and was aired on january 11, 1982.
The broadcasting company AVRO has given permission to publish this on the internet in a streaming form. Please do not publish this on Youtube or likewise sites or we may get in trouble !

I translated everything said as best as I could. There will definitely be some “strange” translations but this is what I could do and as long as you understand what is said I think that should be fine.

Some notes:

1)The very first part (until 0.01.02) is NOT from the “Driester” documentary but from another (much later) TV item
2)The “Driester” (=ThreeStar) documentary starts with host Ruud ter Weijden talking with Star Raiders playing behind him. This is a brilliant game (with a lot of history) on the Atari 8 bit homecomputer.
3)The guy interviewed at [00.12.00] is R. Hommerson. Hommerson arcade(s) still exist to this day at Scheveningen, The Netherlands !!
4)[00.16.27] The man from the Dutch Gaming Machines association (VAN) is speaking about legal issues in the arcade business in front of at least 3 bootleg machines !!
5)I made a list with all the games that I manage to ID with timecodes, I will upload this ASAP.....there sure were some treasures in there !


HUGE thanks go out to “Gyruss”  and “Etienne”, without them this wouldn't have been possible at all   !!!

Check out the videos here:

Arcade42

Note: For now, the video's are only available in Flash format. This means they won't be playable on all (mobile) devices. I hope to add H.264 versions of these videos soon, which will offer better quality at a lower bit-rate and lower processing load.

[Level42]

OK I completed the list with games I was able to identify.

I did not try to ID the pinballs in there, I have not enough knowledge of those machines....

Theres's some rare beasts in there, try to spot them :
Fantasy
Speed Freak
Red Baron cockpit
Space Tactics (EM game)
Dribbling (I know a member here who has one ! )
Side Trak (Exidy, this one has a real bell inside !!)
Monkey Kong
Fitter

You can download the pdf file here: https://files.me.com/andre.huijts/91f2ev

[WhereEaglesDare]

Great video, it seems kind of biased though, but most news video from that era are.

[Level42]

Well, that was (and likely still is) the "general feeling" about the coin-operated business over here....
And I guess in plenty more countries.

As a matter of fact, I actually wonder what they "in the end" wanted to "say" with the documentary....

I think it's pretty clear they actually enjoyed the games when they tried them, but it indeed looks like "let's investigate this "rotten" business" and they turned out with very little.

A side-note: In those days, it was still illegal to have fruitmachines (money gambling machines) pay out !!!
So, what happened was that an operator (usually a bar or cafeteria) payed out "under the counter" because NOBODY plays for points on a fruitmachine !
(I have actually witnessed this a couple of times, even when I was still a kid I knew that it happened).

Luckely, government realised that this was the practice of every day and that they could do little to stop it, so at one point they allowed the machines to directly pay out wins, but there are still pretty strict rules about them here now to prevent gambling addiction.

For us, there is a very clear and obvious line between money-gambling machines and videogames/pinball machines etc. but for "the big majority" it's all the same....

[WhereEaglesDare]

A side-note: In those days, it was still illegal to have fruitmachines (money gambling machines) pay out !!!
So, what happened was that an operator (usually a bar or cafeteria) payed out "under the counter" because NOBODY plays for points on a fruitmachine !
(I have actually witnessed this a couple of times, even when I was still a kid I knew that it happened).

Luckely, government realised that this was the practice of every day and that they could do little to stop it, so at one point they allowed the machines to directly pay out wins, but there are still pretty strict rules about them here now to prevent gambling addiction.

here in South Carolina in the US they outlawed the machines all together because of that practice.  Even private owners and collectors arent "allowed" to have them...  Ive been trying to get one for a while now.

The state destroys thems, they wont even sell them out of state where they are allowed (all the surrounding states allow them).  In North Carolina you can play for store credit, like gas and food.