1 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,240 During the early 1980s, you could find a video arcade just about anywhere. 2 00:00:34,980 --> 00:00:36,360 It was the golden age. 3 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,860 It was the popularity, innovation, and earnings that made it successful. 4 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:47,760 Then the arcade crash of 83 happened, and industry flooded, leaving arcades to 5 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:48,760 suffer. 6 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,120 And as quickly as arcades emerged, they suddenly disappeared. 7 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:57,160 Now there's a whole resurgence and birth of collectors converting their garages 8 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:58,160 into home arcades. 9 00:00:59,210 --> 00:01:02,830 It was the arcade that you could say was the foundation of arcade culture today. 10 00:01:03,550 --> 00:01:05,530 It was definitely the arcade. 11 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:55,280 Being in that arcade and that bowling alley at that time was just the best. 12 00:02:55,860 --> 00:03:00,960 It was one of my greatest times in my childhood was skating and skating 13 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,960 everywhere to get around, to get to that arcade, to do those things that I loved 14 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:05,839 to do as a kid. 15 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,900 And just being with my friends, hanging out, nothing beat it. 16 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,920 I think it's just an era that really can't be recreated. 17 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,620 I mean, so that's what draws us back into, you know. 18 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:22,660 collecting and actually playing the games that we used to play back in the 19 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:26,360 Being near them just reminds me of just being a kid. 20 00:03:27,820 --> 00:03:32,220 Yeah, I spent a lot of time in the arcade as a kid, a lot of time. And I 21 00:03:32,220 --> 00:03:37,200 know, I was at that age bracket where it just, it really hit me. It hit me big, 22 00:03:37,220 --> 00:03:41,240 you know, because it was something so new, you know, stuff that's never been 23 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:42,240 seen before. 24 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,360 And I was just at that ripe old age when... 25 00:03:46,940 --> 00:03:50,700 It just really took over my world, and that's all I could think about when I 26 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:51,700 a kid. 27 00:03:53,820 --> 00:04:00,420 So I was passionate about the games in an imaginative kind of way, and now 28 00:04:00,420 --> 00:04:05,080 it's really about sort of reconnecting with that. 29 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,100 It's one of the things that, for me, the collecting of the games is not only 30 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:12,460 something that brings back memories. 31 00:04:12,860 --> 00:04:16,500 But the collecting of it is, like, it gets into you. It really does. You start 32 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:19,680 feeling like these games are a part of you. 33 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:28,900 People moved away, got jobs, got married, and we kind of lost the arcade 34 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:33,100 hangouts, and arcades were going out of business at that time. So we lost that 35 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:34,760 social atmosphere that we had before. 36 00:04:35,260 --> 00:04:38,940 So I thought I'd bring it back in my own home and collect the games, invite 37 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:39,940 people over. 38 00:04:40,030 --> 00:04:42,390 And so they could enjoy it just like we did when we were teenagers. 39 00:04:42,630 --> 00:04:46,490 And every time they come over, they have the same experience, the same feelings 40 00:04:46,490 --> 00:04:49,310 that they had in the 80s. And so I'm reliving that experience. 41 00:04:50,650 --> 00:04:55,730 I fell in love with Space Invaders. Where I was the person that was kind of 42 00:04:55,730 --> 00:04:58,050 jumping to see what was going on. 43 00:04:58,430 --> 00:05:00,190 And I put my quarter on there. 44 00:05:00,490 --> 00:05:04,170 And when I finally got that chance to play, it was like a rush, an emotional 45 00:05:04,170 --> 00:05:05,470 rush. And I was hooked. 46 00:05:06,050 --> 00:05:08,370 I mean, I couldn't think of anything but Space Invaders. 47 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:19,320 Just the atmosphere of the arcade, of, you know, the sights and the sounds and 48 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:24,620 even the smells of it, when it's just really packed and, you know, everyone is 49 00:05:24,620 --> 00:05:28,880 there socializing and it's just kind of more of a social place to be. 50 00:05:29,460 --> 00:05:34,720 We were the first generation of gamers, and the games that came out at that time 51 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,000 were dominoes and the building blocks of game culture. 52 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,920 We, I think, are attached to those games. 53 00:05:41,530 --> 00:05:44,410 Consider them our games for our era. 54 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:56,970 A lot of the games at that time, they had extra monitors on top and they had 55 00:05:56,970 --> 00:05:58,190 everything turned up so loud. 56 00:05:58,490 --> 00:06:01,270 I have such great memories of that when I was a kid. 57 00:06:01,830 --> 00:06:06,930 Just all the time I had with my friends and I'll never forget it. I'll never 58 00:06:06,930 --> 00:06:10,210 forget that. And having an arcade in my garage. 59 00:06:12,270 --> 00:06:14,010 It's just reminiscent of it. 60 00:06:14,510 --> 00:06:15,690 It sort of takes me back. 61 00:06:24,370 --> 00:06:28,310 Back in the arcade, I mean, I was young when those things came out. I think I 62 00:06:28,310 --> 00:06:32,170 was 12, 11 when the arcade era really, really hit. 63 00:06:32,650 --> 00:06:36,290 It was a magical time, and I've never forgotten it. It made an impression on 64 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,080 that nothing's ever made that kind of impression on me. I can't even put it 65 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,400 words because it's so many things. 66 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,540 It's all about the passion and the love that we had at that first moment that we 67 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:48,780 walked into our cage, right? 68 00:06:49,580 --> 00:06:56,480 It's that strange feeling you get of wrapping up that magic of being a child 69 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,480 again. 70 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,840 We had a hard time deciding where we were going to go. 71 00:07:04,659 --> 00:07:09,180 which arcade we were going to go to that day, and we'd usually spend most of the 72 00:07:09,180 --> 00:07:10,159 day there. 73 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,260 So we had a choice of either going to school or going to the arcades, and most 74 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:16,980 of the time we chose to go to the arcade. 75 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:24,620 When I walk into my arcade, I honestly do feel like I have stepped 76 00:07:24,620 --> 00:07:27,640 back in time, and I even refer to it as my time machine. 77 00:07:28,380 --> 00:07:32,380 And I've even said to some friends, well, if you ever need to go to 1982, 78 00:07:33,450 --> 00:07:34,450 Just let me know. 79 00:07:40,390 --> 00:07:45,710 The house 80 00:07:45,710 --> 00:07:52,590 is filling up fast, as you can see. Every room has at 81 00:07:52,590 --> 00:07:57,830 least two video games and I'm pretty much out of room right now, but I think 82 00:07:57,830 --> 00:07:58,830 I really... 83 00:07:59,060 --> 00:08:02,040 Think about it, I might be able to build one or two more, and I know my wife 84 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:08,400 wants to get a Dig Dug. You would not be opposed to putting a game in here. Why 85 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,120 not? Another game, like right outside the bed. 86 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:12,040 If it's Dig Dug, I don't care. 87 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:13,320 I'm going to bed. 88 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:15,980 I love you. Good night. Bye. 89 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:22,440 Dig Dug was developed in 1982 by Namco, and it was later published in the United 90 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,440 States by Atari. 91 00:08:24,140 --> 00:08:28,600 It's one of those very, it's almost a household name, just like Pac -Man and 92 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:29,600 Donkey Kong. 93 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,520 At the one up, they had a Dig Dug, and she played that. So I'm up with that 94 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,800 game, and she's like, you think you can find one of these games? 95 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,900 I'm like, what do you should say that? I know somebody who has one in their 96 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:30,840 warehouse that I think I can get. So it's going to be somewhat of a new 97 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,820 challenge for me is to try to get that guy to sell the game and then not only 98 00:09:34,820 --> 00:09:38,880 and get it, because I don't have a truck or anything, but get it here and find a 99 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:39,639 place for it. 100 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,860 Hey, Vince, what's up? Hey, we're on our way. You at the shop? 101 00:09:47,220 --> 00:09:49,320 Okay, we'll probably be there around 20 minutes. 102 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:53,220 Oh. You know, look, I'm about 20 minutes away. 103 00:09:55,180 --> 00:09:57,600 All right, dude. See you shortly. All right, see you then. Bye. 104 00:12:00,660 --> 00:12:01,660 Look at that. 105 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:03,640 Done. 106 00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:07,120 Okay, here's Laurel Creek. 107 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:09,560 Hey, this is it. All right. 108 00:12:11,290 --> 00:12:13,170 Okay, do I go left or right? 109 00:12:14,070 --> 00:12:15,049 There's 40. 110 00:12:15,050 --> 00:12:16,050 Okay, this way. 111 00:12:16,850 --> 00:12:18,290 Come on. Come on, baby. 112 00:12:20,770 --> 00:12:21,770 Hey. 113 00:12:23,250 --> 00:12:24,250 Hey, what do you know? 114 00:12:24,670 --> 00:12:25,950 Oh, yeah. 115 00:12:26,470 --> 00:12:28,530 We got a super tax on for free. 116 00:12:28,850 --> 00:12:29,850 Oh, yeah. 117 00:12:30,210 --> 00:12:33,170 We'll have to fire it up when we get home, but we got to load this bad boy. 118 00:12:37,170 --> 00:12:38,170 Ten years. 119 00:12:38,350 --> 00:12:39,770 Ten years worth here of gain. 120 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,860 The easiest part of collecting is filling up the garage with things. 121 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:07,120 The hardest part of collecting is once the garage is filled, what do you do 122 00:13:07,740 --> 00:13:12,200 It's like within a couple years, I already filled my garage, and I have no 123 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,200 room. 124 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,900 Some of my friends, they put games in their house, in different rooms, but 125 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:21,180 got the garage and the garage only, so that's where all of them stay. 126 00:13:22,730 --> 00:13:27,150 I think for me growing up in the 80s, there were two things in my life that 127 00:13:27,150 --> 00:13:28,410 bigger than anything. 128 00:13:28,630 --> 00:13:30,810 It was arcade and skating. 129 00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:36,110 I remember growing up, we used to go over, skate to the bowling alley, pick 130 00:13:36,110 --> 00:13:41,610 some Thrifty's ice cream on the way over, get on the four -player gauntlet 131 00:13:41,610 --> 00:13:45,850 just pop those quarters in for at least an hour to two hours and get to like 132 00:13:45,850 --> 00:13:47,870 level 70 or 80 on gauntlet. 133 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:53,280 I think just the whole skating culture, living in Southern California, it just 134 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,760 kind of went hand -in -hand with everything in the 80s. 135 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:01,640 I loved Tron the movie. 136 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,400 I loved the Tron toys. 137 00:14:05,140 --> 00:14:08,640 Going to the Disneyland Starcade, all I wanted to do was play Tron. 138 00:14:09,460 --> 00:14:11,880 Just the light. It had the black light effect. 139 00:14:12,180 --> 00:14:13,700 It had the cool side art. 140 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,400 It had the really cool joystick -spinner combo. 141 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,660 and it was just a really hard game that I wanted to play more of. 142 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,320 I think for me, the Dissotron is my favorite arcade game. 143 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,260 Just the sight, the sound, the environmental effect, the speakers. 144 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:39,680 I told my wife when the time comes, and I croaked, just bury me in this thing, 145 00:14:39,860 --> 00:14:43,700 throw me in the back, lock up the back door, I'm good to go. 146 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,900 An auction is where you go and you bid on games and the highest bidder wins. 147 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,580 You get there early in the morning and you give the guy your driver's license 148 00:14:59,580 --> 00:15:04,180 and they give you a ticket and that's your number for the entire day. 149 00:15:06,020 --> 00:15:11,960 I think one of my favorite parts of the auctions was just trying to hunt down 150 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:12,939 that game. 151 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:17,740 that I always wanted as a kid that I could never afford, and just trying to 152 00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:22,000 one in decent to minty condition that I could add to the garage cave. 153 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:27,860 And unfortunately, some of those deals are so good that you want to buy more 154 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:31,880 more, and then your garage just gets overrun with games, and then you're out 155 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:32,880 room. 156 00:15:39,340 --> 00:15:44,540 I think I've been collecting arcade games now for about 10 years, and I 157 00:15:44,540 --> 00:15:47,160 some of my funnest moments have been at the arcade auctions. 158 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:53,180 They've slowly disappeared, but some of the best auctions was at Super Auctions. 159 00:15:53,580 --> 00:15:57,640 And, like, twice a year they'd have them over in Costa Mesa at the fairgrounds, 160 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:59,500 and they would have killer deals. 161 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:05,640 I remember one time they were auctioning stuff all day, and then they were 162 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,120 auctioning off all the overflow outside. 163 00:16:08,330 --> 00:16:10,130 They were blowing out games for a dollar. 164 00:16:10,670 --> 00:16:13,030 And one time I got super lucky. 165 00:16:13,450 --> 00:16:16,590 I scored 10 games for a dollar. 166 00:16:18,990 --> 00:16:23,330 I remember back in like 81 or 82, the arcade scene was huge. 167 00:16:24,090 --> 00:16:25,830 Everywhere you would turn would be an arcade. 168 00:16:26,130 --> 00:16:27,710 I mean, you couldn't get away from it. 169 00:16:30,010 --> 00:16:34,590 I definitely like introducing these games to my kids. 170 00:16:35,030 --> 00:16:36,470 I've got two young boys. 171 00:16:36,970 --> 00:16:40,030 My four -year -old definitely likes the trackball games. He loves Marvel 172 00:16:40,030 --> 00:16:45,110 Bandits. He loves Crystal Castles. And I definitely hope I can pass this on to 173 00:16:45,110 --> 00:16:46,110 them. 174 00:16:46,330 --> 00:16:47,330 Please go. 175 00:16:52,470 --> 00:16:55,570 Plain and simple, I'm a collector for life. What can I say? 176 00:16:58,150 --> 00:16:59,330 It's all about the video. 177 00:17:44,330 --> 00:17:46,450 Sorry Pac -Man, we don't take tokens here 178 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,260 What? Uh, what? 179 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:32,620 Hi, my name is, I'm Chief Salvo Carey, I'm 28 years old, I love classic video 180 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:36,220 games, and I am currently living in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where I have 181 00:18:36,220 --> 00:18:37,300 residing my entire life. 182 00:18:42,060 --> 00:18:44,840 Let's just stay from a parallel world. 183 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:53,320 I currently own 13 arcade games. I have a twin sit -down cabinet for Virtual On. 184 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:59,340 I have a single slot Neo Geo. I have a dual -verse cabinet, which has Tetris, 185 00:18:59,380 --> 00:19:00,640 10th Gen Tetris on one side. 186 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,680 uh and uh first person shoot them up i can't read it it wasn't arkanoid cabinet 187 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,360 but it has uh something to shoot them up on now on there now but i can't read 188 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:10,280 the screen because the screen is blown out anyways i've missed pac -man donkey 189 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:16,440 kong donkey kong jr super mario brothers mario brothers uh arch rivals uh f 190 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,540 -zero uh ninja turtles arcade game i think that's it 191 00:19:19,540 --> 00:19:26,440 metal slug is 192 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,040 probably my favorite i like this destruction 193 00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:30,780 killing guys when it's legal. 194 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,960 No, I'm sorry. I'm not going to waste my time saving up my hard -earned money on 195 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,840 a pair of dungarees just so I can make myself look a little bit more 196 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,400 by the current standards of what society is saying I should do today. I'm not 197 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,000 interested in looking like some fancy... 198 00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:10,020 faux gamer from the Bing Bang Theory who thinks he knows what's going on and 199 00:20:10,020 --> 00:20:13,440 holds a high score just because he has a 2600 joystick on his t -shirt. Oh, how 200 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:18,000 cliche. No, that's not what I'm all about. I would rather blow my money so I 201 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,740 get a WonderSwan and then pal version of Last Call Japanese version and have to 202 00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:25,880 learn a whole other language just so I can play a rare video game and blow a 203 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,580 whole month because I am actually invested in my hobby. 204 00:20:29,780 --> 00:20:32,300 I'm here at Comics Convention International. 205 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:48,980 Uh, Keith Abercary is a 28 -year -old man with the minds of a 14 -year -old 206 00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:51,440 and the body of your uncle. 207 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,160 It stands to reason that the very first game that I ever bought as a collector 208 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,880 was Space Invaders. And it was all torn up and it didn't work. 209 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:30,980 And I really didn't have a lot of faith that it ever would work. 210 00:21:31,930 --> 00:21:35,850 And then my boyfriend started tinkering around with it. And one day I heard the 211 00:21:35,850 --> 00:21:39,210 sound of it come on. And it was like a light going off in my head. I thought, 212 00:21:39,270 --> 00:21:40,270 okay, this is possible. 213 00:21:40,570 --> 00:21:46,030 These can actually live again. And I can have them around me. So one by one, it 214 00:21:46,030 --> 00:21:50,830 was over a period of about three years, I started bringing in more and more and 215 00:21:50,830 --> 00:21:53,850 more. And I actually thought that I would stop at 10 or 20. 216 00:21:54,210 --> 00:21:56,150 It never stopped. 217 00:21:56,810 --> 00:22:00,930 I don't think there's anything more that I love more than those video games. 218 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:11,560 I first saw an arcade game back in 1978. My sister and I rode our horses to this 219 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,380 bar in town. 220 00:22:13,620 --> 00:22:17,520 And it seems really strange to go to a bar back in the day. Kids were allowed 221 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,260 go into bars. 222 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:25,280 Anyway, we walked in and we ordered some fries. We were always after fries and a 223 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:30,700 couple of Cokes. And we sat down and my sister turned to me and she says, look, 224 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,300 there's a Bigfoot on that game over there. 225 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,280 And so we went over and looked at that thing, and it was space invaders. 226 00:22:37,780 --> 00:22:43,800 In 1978, right after that, that was the first flash of the arcades, and they 227 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,480 rose up pretty quickly all over, just about anywhere, and see when gas 228 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:54,180 had them, malls had them, anywhere had airports had them. It was crazy. 229 00:22:54,280 --> 00:23:01,200 To go to an arcade was a way to meet people, but it was also a way to kind 230 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,420 of... figure out who you were. 231 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,180 The feeling I got when I went to an arcade was unlike anything else that had 232 00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:11,220 ever happened in my life. Up until that point, as kids, we didn't really have 233 00:23:11,220 --> 00:23:15,040 anything other than the Bay City Rollers to kind of give us a thrill. 234 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:20,800 The world was just kind of emerging from the 50s and the 60s, where everything 235 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,320 was very conservative, and all of a sudden there was this huge boom of color 236 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,660 techno. I was kind of kicking around in a scene for about... 237 00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:33,310 five or six years just kind of watching what people were doing and getting 238 00:23:33,310 --> 00:23:38,010 involved in the forums and whatever, you know, talking about games usually. 239 00:23:38,310 --> 00:23:43,470 And then one day I got an email from someone and he said, hey, I noticed you 240 00:23:43,470 --> 00:23:44,470 were a really good writer. 241 00:23:44,630 --> 00:23:45,750 Do you want to write for a magazine? 242 00:23:46,290 --> 00:23:51,770 Asking a writer to write for a magazine is kind of like asking a singer to get 243 00:23:51,770 --> 00:23:55,630 on, you know, the stage at the Met. I mean, you're just going to do it. 244 00:23:56,010 --> 00:23:59,670 I didn't know really what to expect because at that time, the only magazines 245 00:23:59,670 --> 00:24:05,130 that were out that I was looking at were all about Xbox or what have you, which 246 00:24:05,130 --> 00:24:07,310 is cool, but not really where my heart is. 247 00:24:07,610 --> 00:24:13,210 So he told me what his vision was. His name was Rob Merrick, and he gave me a 248 00:24:13,210 --> 00:24:16,230 lot of information about where he wanted to go and what he wanted to do with it, 249 00:24:16,330 --> 00:24:19,130 and I kind of liked the idea, and that was Replicate Magazine. 250 00:24:25,290 --> 00:24:29,630 It's also full of a lot of investigative articles that go back through a lot of 251 00:24:29,630 --> 00:24:35,610 lost stories in arcade culture that either people have forgotten or they 252 00:24:35,610 --> 00:24:38,830 lost interest in. Well, when it comes to collecting a story that I want to write 253 00:24:38,830 --> 00:24:41,690 about, I go for the challenge every time. 254 00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:46,330 Twin Galaxies, for example, that was a huge challenge with a lot of risks 255 00:24:46,330 --> 00:24:47,330 involved. 256 00:24:47,630 --> 00:24:51,350 The reason being, Twin Galaxies is kind of like the Catholic Church of classic 257 00:24:51,350 --> 00:24:55,430 gaming, meaning that no matter how you approach the subject, no matter what 258 00:24:55,430 --> 00:24:59,790 direction, or no matter what your level of sensitivity is in approaching it, 259 00:24:59,890 --> 00:25:03,290 you're still going to offend someone on some level somewhere. 260 00:25:03,650 --> 00:25:08,650 If I think the next issue of Retrocade magazine might be a little hot, might be 261 00:25:08,650 --> 00:25:14,010 a little controversial, well, God, I certainly hope so, because if not, I've 262 00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:15,230 done my job as a writer. 263 00:25:15,850 --> 00:25:21,410 I can't see a point in my life of never being around video games, gaming in any 264 00:25:21,410 --> 00:25:26,110 sense. It all starts with one, and I've never met another collector anywhere 265 00:25:26,110 --> 00:25:28,450 around who says that they bought... 266 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:33,500 20 at once if they did they're probably into selling them but for the actual 267 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:39,040 collector the one who has some sort of emotional tie to them it does start with 268 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,040 one i think it starts humbly and then it grows into this magnanimous thing that 269 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,060 takes over your life you have them everywhere you start moving couches and 270 00:25:47,060 --> 00:25:51,940 start um forgetting that you read because you're too busy playing games or 271 00:25:51,940 --> 00:25:52,940 working on 272 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,820 I do like to see games that have a certain bit of patina on it. I like to 273 00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:08,500 belt buckle scrapes on the little bit on the front of the CPO. I like to see a 274 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:12,560 little bit of graffiti because I know that, in my mind, how I look at it is 275 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,960 somebody was standing there one time 30 years ago and his bored friend put 276 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,680 Jeannie Loves Joe or something. 277 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:22,140 on the side of it, and I think it's a testimony to how many people actually 278 00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:25,440 stood and passed in front of these games. I just think it's beautiful, and 279 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,720 think when you erase it, you erase where it's been. 280 00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:31,360 Why would you want to do that? 281 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:37,780 In my mind, as corny as it sounds, there's not a day that goes by that when 282 00:26:37,780 --> 00:26:41,700 walk home, and I walk in the front door down that little hallway, and I see 283 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:43,660 those games around me, I'm not home again. 284 00:27:15,050 --> 00:27:18,830 I was at this Donkey Kong home, and I really wasn't sure what I was going to 285 00:27:18,830 --> 00:27:22,730 with the thing. There's a fine line between patina and vandalism. 286 00:27:23,110 --> 00:27:28,470 So either I part it out or I restore it. But I figured Jude wanted a project, so 287 00:27:28,470 --> 00:27:30,570 let's strip this baby down and restore it. 288 00:27:32,130 --> 00:27:33,130 Hey, guys. 289 00:27:35,150 --> 00:27:37,790 I thought you guys wanted to help me. 290 00:27:38,130 --> 00:27:39,930 That's the only way Mom would let me buy this. 291 00:27:41,450 --> 00:27:43,210 She said, why don't you get a project? 292 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:55,600 This is the family time. Get in the garage. We're going to take apart the 293 00:27:56,780 --> 00:28:01,600 Here, will you take this off and put that over there? 294 00:28:03,980 --> 00:28:05,120 There's you. I need help. 295 00:28:05,460 --> 00:28:07,180 Lay that up over there. 296 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,280 Don't break it. 297 00:28:11,540 --> 00:28:12,540 Let's put it up here. 298 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,580 Because I might need these parts again. 299 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,680 Jude, you're as helpful as you were in the last one. 300 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:27,440 We're taking 301 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,220 apart the Donkey Kong, Kevin. You can't play in the rain. 302 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,240 Jude! 303 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,760 It's cold, and everybody is in bed. This sucks. 304 00:29:59,530 --> 00:30:01,850 If I'm not in the basement, I'm out here in the garage. 305 00:30:02,590 --> 00:30:08,230 I do most of my, like, real, like, heavy lifting, I call it, workout here. Like, 306 00:30:08,250 --> 00:30:10,290 if it's welding or grinding or whatnot. 307 00:30:11,070 --> 00:30:13,150 So I do a lot of the big workout here. 308 00:30:14,870 --> 00:30:18,390 Like, when I get a gain, it comes out to the garage here before I, you know, go 309 00:30:18,390 --> 00:30:21,090 to the house. Because, you know, a lot of times you've got to clean out all the 310 00:30:21,090 --> 00:30:24,370 garbage and the dirt and whatnot. So it comes out here before I can get it under 311 00:30:24,370 --> 00:30:28,430 control. Bring it back down. Just really anything that's old. 312 00:30:29,210 --> 00:30:34,330 On, like, you know, 80s or later, I like to come out here and I like to, like, 313 00:30:34,330 --> 00:30:37,250 try to breathe some new life into it, so to speak. 314 00:30:37,450 --> 00:30:42,810 It's in my blood. Like, just breathe life into things from the past. And 315 00:30:42,810 --> 00:30:43,449 my enjoyment. 316 00:30:43,450 --> 00:30:46,070 I'm out here sometimes at 2, 3 in the morning. 317 00:30:46,730 --> 00:30:48,030 Looks pretty good. 318 00:30:49,030 --> 00:30:55,410 Like it says right here, when this sucker reaches 88 miles per hour, you're 319 00:30:55,410 --> 00:30:57,470 going to see some serious bleep. 320 00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:04,590 Let's see. Let's see what happens. Hopefully it doesn't blow up when I plug 321 00:31:04,590 --> 00:31:05,590 in. 322 00:31:23,370 --> 00:31:26,950 Well, I set it up late last night. 323 00:31:27,420 --> 00:31:28,420 and worked on this. 324 00:31:29,180 --> 00:31:34,360 As you can see from the previous footage that just wasn't working quite right. 325 00:31:34,820 --> 00:31:40,800 What I did, I was looking at this and I found a bunch of solder joints that 326 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,280 appeared to be bad. I marked them. I went over them again. 327 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,440 Very tedious with my, you know, I'm up here like this looking at every solder 328 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:52,520 joint last night. 329 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,820 One of the little things here was 330 00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:59,520 From a previous repair, it was kind of sketchy, so I went over and redid that 331 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,540 and made it a little better. So let's see what happens. 332 00:32:03,140 --> 00:32:08,620 Let's see if when I put this in and fire it up, let's see where the smoke comes 333 00:32:08,620 --> 00:32:09,620 from, basically. 334 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:10,820 And that's the next step. 335 00:32:16,260 --> 00:32:17,260 This whole game. 336 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,480 Hey, Rich. This is Brian Armisen. How are you? Hey, Brian. How's it going? 337 00:32:26,570 --> 00:32:31,070 When somebody asks you, you know, do you want, you know, can I get your help 338 00:32:31,070 --> 00:32:34,930 picking up an arcade game, you're kind of like, oh, jeez, you know, picking up 339 00:32:34,930 --> 00:32:35,930 another arcade machine. 340 00:32:36,930 --> 00:32:41,910 But when he told me it was going to be from the original drummer of Journey and 341 00:32:41,910 --> 00:32:45,910 that the games that we were going to pick up were taken with the band on 342 00:32:46,070 --> 00:32:52,690 you know, back when they were touring doing Frontiers, I was more than 343 00:32:52,690 --> 00:32:55,990 happy to help him. We just had ourselves a little Journey moment there. 344 00:33:08,650 --> 00:33:13,230 How are you doing? I'm Brian Armitage with Paradise Arcade Shop, and this is 345 00:33:13,230 --> 00:33:17,750 story of how I came to own a very interesting journey machine. 346 00:33:18,170 --> 00:33:19,350 Okay, so here we are. 347 00:33:19,570 --> 00:33:24,250 It's Saturday morning. It's about 630 in the morning. It's colder than the 348 00:33:24,250 --> 00:33:29,330 witch's tit. It's raining and miserable, but we're super excited because we're 349 00:33:29,330 --> 00:33:36,090 about to head down and go get a arcade game, and not just any arcade game, a 350 00:33:36,090 --> 00:33:37,090 journey arcade game. 351 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:43,000 not just any Journey arcade game, a Journey arcade game that was taken on 352 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,840 with the band back in 1982. 353 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,940 Journey was a band that formed in the early 70s. 354 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,460 Hit their peak of popularity around 82. 355 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:17,020 It had so many hits back then. Don't Stop Believing, Open Arms, just massive 356 00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:18,120 amounts of hits. 357 00:34:18,540 --> 00:34:22,440 So, how do you make a band like that even bigger? 358 00:34:22,980 --> 00:34:24,679 You release an arcade game. 359 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,560 Right around the time they came out with their Frontiers album, they took this 360 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,040 game with them on tour. 361 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,280 And that is the 80s, my friends. 362 00:34:42,350 --> 00:34:48,050 We are with Steve Smith, and we're down in Ashland, Oregon, picking up the 363 00:34:48,050 --> 00:34:52,570 Journey machine and the Defender from the original 82 -83 tour. 364 00:34:52,830 --> 00:34:58,370 What I can remember, Valley Midway made about 50 of them as a test. 365 00:34:59,110 --> 00:35:02,950 And then the company that we did the licensing deal with went bankrupt. 366 00:35:03,770 --> 00:35:07,790 And so as a result of that, any royalties that would have come in from 367 00:35:07,790 --> 00:35:14,500 Midway would have gone into this black hole of... who, you know, people that 368 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:18,720 this company owed money for. So we would never get the money. 369 00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:22,900 And, you know, it wasn't a... And then Valley Midway didn't want to deal with 370 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:28,080 any of these problems, so they never really went into a major production. 371 00:35:28,580 --> 00:35:33,060 Okay. So as far as I know, there was only about 50 of these men. 372 00:35:33,460 --> 00:35:36,860 They were so concerned about what was going to happen to the games. They had 373 00:35:36,860 --> 00:35:40,120 been sitting on them for 10 or 15 years. 374 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,080 not getting played, they were just in storage because they didn't know what to 375 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,080 do with them. 376 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:48,420 And they were really worried that, you know, they were really worried about 377 00:35:48,420 --> 00:35:53,400 protecting the history and everything that went along with the games, that 378 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,720 just didn't want to just sell them and turn them over to, you know, somebody 379 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:01,800 without knowing that they would, you know, continue on, that their story and 380 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,780 their history would kind of, you know, continue and move on. I mean, they were 381 00:36:05,780 --> 00:36:09,860 really concerned about that. And they gave us this one to take on the road. 382 00:36:10,410 --> 00:36:14,430 and play, and since I was the only one in the band that was really interested 383 00:36:14,430 --> 00:36:18,230 video games, I inherited it, because I used to play the thing every day. 384 00:36:19,070 --> 00:36:20,070 Gosh, that's unreal. 385 00:36:21,570 --> 00:36:22,650 Signed by Steve Smith. 386 00:36:23,590 --> 00:36:25,130 And we didn't even ask for this. 387 00:36:25,490 --> 00:36:28,870 And there's a platinum record lying on the counter, and Rich Leader told me 388 00:36:28,870 --> 00:36:32,290 his wife kind of is signaling him or something, and I'm just engaged in a 389 00:36:32,290 --> 00:36:34,610 conversation. I'm surprised I'm having this conversation. 390 00:36:34,990 --> 00:36:37,030 We sat there and talked to him and his wife for... 391 00:36:37,370 --> 00:36:38,370 A good hour. 392 00:36:38,510 --> 00:36:43,950 And he reaches over and picks up the platinum record and hands it to me and 393 00:36:43,950 --> 00:36:47,830 says, you know, we picked this out and I signed the back and, you know, we'd 394 00:36:47,830 --> 00:36:53,270 like you to have this. And, you know, this was just kind of one of these, 395 00:36:53,270 --> 00:36:54,990 standing there going, is this really happening? 396 00:36:55,190 --> 00:36:57,030 That's, like, unbelievably nice. 397 00:36:57,610 --> 00:36:58,610 I don't know. 398 00:37:00,390 --> 00:37:03,430 I don't even know what to say. And you're like, thank you to the guy who 399 00:37:03,430 --> 00:37:04,430 you a platinum record. 400 00:37:20,140 --> 00:37:24,280 I remember there was an arcade about a mile from my house we used to walk to 401 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,280 every Saturday morning. 402 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,300 Wherever you would go, you'd find an arcade. 403 00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:31,080 I went to an arcade unlike anything else that ever happened in my life. 404 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:43,520 These old video games had a special feeling and 405 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,920 power over us that you can't explain. 406 00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:48,300 Unexplainable. 407 00:37:48,690 --> 00:37:51,850 There was a sense of freedom and escape from reality as soon as you were engaged 408 00:37:51,850 --> 00:37:52,850 into the game. 409 00:37:53,030 --> 00:37:54,570 And it just drew you right in. 410 00:37:55,290 --> 00:37:57,170 You controlled something out of this world. 411 00:37:57,730 --> 00:38:01,230 And that feeling we all had on these games gave us a sense of achievement. 412 00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:04,150 And I think that's what keeps us coming back for more. 413 00:39:42,220 --> 00:39:44,940 I think it was one of my absolute favorite games of all time. 414 00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:48,000 I remember playing it in 1976 like it was yesterday. 415 00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:52,860 But when the father comes to the arcade and goes, he looks left by this game. I 416 00:39:52,860 --> 00:39:54,980 mean, he played this thing all hours of the night. 417 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:56,500 Crazy. 418 00:40:33,020 --> 00:40:34,020 Get out of my way! 419 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,340 Get out! Get out! 420 00:40:39,140 --> 00:40:40,140 After! 421 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,420 You chipped like my grandma! 422 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:49,820 Talking to a good friend of mine, he says, you know, why don't you bring it 423 00:43:49,820 --> 00:43:53,160 to my shop one night and you can prime and paint and finish at the shop. 424 00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:21,080 Well, I never had that problem before. 425 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:22,920 Wow. 426 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,280 You didn't by chance wax the side of your game, did you? No. 427 00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:32,940 It'll stick. I think it's just so cold. 428 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,620 I could grab the blow dryer or the heat gun. 429 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,320 Grab the blow dryer. It's going to happen. 430 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,000 Look it's Steve -Anne! 431 00:46:23,820 --> 00:46:29,260 Well, we finish up the game and I turn around, and of course, my son, Jude, is 432 00:46:29,260 --> 00:46:30,520 nowhere to be found. 433 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:31,800 Jude! 434 00:46:32,060 --> 00:46:33,060 Jude! 435 00:46:34,020 --> 00:46:35,500 Jude! Jude! 436 00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:37,380 Where is that kid? 437 00:46:59,069 --> 00:47:05,710 I'm George Lutz, and I played the longest arcade game in an arcade in 438 00:47:05,710 --> 00:47:08,590 of 2013 on the game Pubert. 439 00:47:09,630 --> 00:47:14,450 I got into Pubert because I was good at it when I was a kid. 440 00:47:14,670 --> 00:47:19,390 And when I was 10 years old, I could actually play for 10 minutes on a 441 00:47:19,490 --> 00:47:21,850 which was a big deal for a 10 -year -old. 442 00:47:22,460 --> 00:47:27,640 And then 20 years later, when I got back into it again, I remembered that, yeah, 443 00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:28,700 I was pretty good at this game. 444 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,280 by what your score is. 445 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,300 So you get a man every 14 ,000 points. 446 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,460 You divide your score by 14 ,000, you know how many you've gained, and then 447 00:47:59,460 --> 00:48:02,600 subtract what's on the clicker. That's how many, you know, that's how you know 448 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,040 how many classes you've got left and how much break time you have. 449 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:11,640 And then, yeah, when I'd go off and take a nap, lose about 150 men, it's about 450 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,900 35, 40 minutes, I could actually take a nap. And, yeah, I had my friend clicking 451 00:48:15,900 --> 00:48:19,720 the death. The longest I ever made it without taking long breaks and actually 452 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:20,509 going to sleep. 453 00:48:20,510 --> 00:48:21,388 60 hours. 454 00:48:21,390 --> 00:48:24,570 I'm being here, but I'm so tired I get all... 455 00:48:24,570 --> 00:48:29,190 Is that 456 00:48:29,190 --> 00:48:32,770 it? 457 00:48:34,050 --> 00:48:35,050 No. 458 00:48:35,670 --> 00:48:36,950 43 ,000. 459 00:48:37,350 --> 00:48:39,350 43 ,000. 460 00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:40,750 Yeah, 461 00:48:41,590 --> 00:48:42,590 yeah. 462 00:48:43,230 --> 00:48:45,770 Tubert is a puzzle game. 463 00:48:46,190 --> 00:48:47,850 There are... 464 00:48:49,090 --> 00:48:53,230 and you have to change the colors of the tops of the cubes to have them all 465 00:48:53,230 --> 00:48:56,070 match to move on to the next board. 466 00:48:56,450 --> 00:49:00,690 And then while you do that, you have to avoid a snake and some other enemies 467 00:49:00,690 --> 00:49:02,330 that chase after you. 468 00:49:02,790 --> 00:49:07,870 The creator of Q -Bert, Warren Davis, said that he wanted to make Q -Bert a 469 00:49:07,870 --> 00:49:13,330 difficult game and that it was a corporate decision to make it easier. 470 00:49:14,630 --> 00:49:17,590 Q -Bert actually only goes to level 9. 471 00:49:18,090 --> 00:49:22,830 That's where the difficulty maxes out, and then it just goes level 9 forever 472 00:49:22,830 --> 00:49:26,870 ever. And everybody's always making jokes. Hey, did you get to level 10 yet? 473 00:49:27,190 --> 00:49:31,210 And, you know, when I'm really hallucinating after three days, I start 474 00:49:31,390 --> 00:49:32,570 I'm getting to level 10. 475 00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:37,690 I like that. It's funny because that's like, you know, Don Hayes, they call him 476 00:49:37,690 --> 00:49:39,550 the robot because he's the best at all the games. 477 00:49:40,010 --> 00:49:42,510 And then John McAllister, they call him the machine. 478 00:49:42,870 --> 00:49:45,790 I could be the Borg. That's it. I like that. The Borg. 479 00:49:46,090 --> 00:49:47,090 Right. 480 00:49:48,090 --> 00:49:53,470 Warren Davis said that when he designed the game, he liked the idea of it being 481 00:49:53,470 --> 00:49:58,470 very simple controls, just one joystick, no buttons, because then you could 482 00:49:58,470 --> 00:50:03,450 actually hold a beer in your other hand while you play. And I like the way he 483 00:50:03,450 --> 00:50:10,070 thinks. I think that there are two trends in the arcade scene today. 484 00:50:10,170 --> 00:50:15,730 There's the sense of nostalgia for the past, but there's also a new trend of 485 00:50:15,730 --> 00:50:16,730 the... 486 00:50:17,070 --> 00:50:19,030 The bar and arcade combination. 487 00:50:19,790 --> 00:50:25,430 And I think it's a very successful thing. I think pairing beer and arcade 488 00:50:25,430 --> 00:50:29,510 is a wonderful idea. The beer is really good, but definitely everybody's having 489 00:50:29,510 --> 00:50:31,290 a lot of fun playing the game. 490 00:50:32,130 --> 00:50:38,470 I don't think I'll be playing Q -Bert anymore. I think that I'll be booking 491 00:50:38,470 --> 00:50:41,270 new shows with my band and playing some music. 492 00:50:49,830 --> 00:50:56,390 Playing music helps your skill in video gaming. I think that 493 00:50:56,390 --> 00:51:01,470 the rhythm and the timing and the coordination, 494 00:51:01,850 --> 00:51:08,530 the hand -eye coordination of interacting, watching your 495 00:51:08,530 --> 00:51:10,450 bandmates and interacting with them. 496 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:17,700 It translates well into the acting and reacting to the programming of the game. 497 00:51:36,530 --> 00:51:40,630 I said Ed can unplug the game when I'm done. And he got it! 498 00:51:41,070 --> 00:51:42,570 Boom, there it is! 499 00:51:43,330 --> 00:51:44,330 Rock and roll! 500 00:51:45,830 --> 00:51:48,130 New world record! 501 00:51:48,550 --> 00:51:49,970 New world record! 502 00:51:50,790 --> 00:51:52,510 High five! 503 00:51:52,830 --> 00:51:53,850 Rock and roll! 504 00:51:54,410 --> 00:51:57,150 Rock and roll! 505 00:51:57,990 --> 00:52:02,430 I'd just like to thank my sweet Lord Satan for granting me the power 506 00:52:05,879 --> 00:52:07,320 You are so metal, man. 507 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,100 Do you have anything you want to say about that little orange guy behind you? 508 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:13,280 Yeah. 509 00:52:14,220 --> 00:52:15,460 Thank you, bro. 510 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:14,800 Get it out of there. 511 00:53:17,620 --> 00:53:20,740 Jenny, I love you so much, baby. 512 00:53:21,380 --> 00:53:22,960 Our lives are going to be amazing. 513 00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,120 Will you marry me? 514 00:54:03,180 --> 00:54:04,180 We're open. 515 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:08,680 Yeah. 516 00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:17,120 10 a .m. Saturday. 517 00:54:17,700 --> 00:54:21,840 We're working off the hangovers. We got our ham and cheese sandwiches, our rock 518 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,680 stars. We're going to go do some arcade gaming. 519 00:54:25,060 --> 00:54:30,120 Okay, so our destination, our first destination of the day is Game Over. 520 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,260 the new bar arcade opening in Lincoln City. 521 00:54:32,890 --> 00:54:37,970 get to play some games, hang out, BS, and move on down the road. 522 00:54:41,550 --> 00:54:45,830 Chris has the perfect setup. He's located in a tourist town, so he's going 523 00:54:45,830 --> 00:54:50,670 get the mom and pop that go to the casino and drop the kids off at the 524 00:54:50,690 --> 00:54:55,630 So he's got a perfect setup for not only the 21 and over crowd with his bar set 525 00:54:55,630 --> 00:54:59,390 up and serving the alcohol, but also catering to the younger crowd. I 526 00:54:59,390 --> 00:55:01,470 when I was younger, we used to go to arcades all the time. 527 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,500 This actually used to be an arcade here in Lincoln City. 528 00:55:05,620 --> 00:55:07,580 And we used to go every time we were down here. 529 00:55:07,860 --> 00:55:12,280 It was just kind of a cool childhood memory to go to an arcade every time 530 00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,740 come to the beach. That's what we did. So my name's Jenny Johnson. 531 00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:20,780 Me and Chris Donner, my boyfriend, we are starting this game over arcade. 532 00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:25,640 We bought some games and then kept buying them and kept buying them. 533 00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:30,220 And now we're finally able to open up a place where other people can enjoy them. 534 00:55:30,670 --> 00:55:35,130 I got bit by the arcade bug, and now I can't stop playing and collecting. 535 00:55:36,230 --> 00:55:39,490 This is what we grew up with, is arcade games. When I wanted to play arcades, 536 00:55:39,590 --> 00:55:43,050 the graphics were always better going to the arcade than the home console. 537 00:55:43,470 --> 00:55:49,030 So nowadays, if you want to still play an arcade game, it seems like you're 21 538 00:55:49,030 --> 00:55:53,070 and over, and it's just much nicer to go and have a beer and play those classic 539 00:55:53,070 --> 00:55:54,070 games. 540 00:56:07,340 --> 00:56:12,000 The Willamette Valley is just growing in its popularity of plastic arcade gaming 541 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,360 meets bar. 542 00:56:13,820 --> 00:56:19,000 You mix the alcohol, the youth, and it's just really a great organized place to 543 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,080 come to to have a good time. I mean, just in a 100 -mile radius, we've got 544 00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:27,320 Josh's place down here, Level Up, in Eugene, Oregon. We've got Christmas 545 00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:28,960 Game Over in Lincoln City at the coast. 546 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:33,880 DJ's Place, the Coin Jam down at Salem, Oregon. And then, of course, everybody 547 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,240 knows Ground Control by now, located in the heart of Portland, Oregon. 548 00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:42,540 So four great classic barcades all within driving distance from one 549 00:56:42,940 --> 00:56:46,560 The Willamette Valley is going to be well known for not growing wine, rather 550 00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:50,620 coming for barcades. Classic gaming and drinking app. 551 00:56:56,010 --> 00:57:01,170 what you might call a bar arcade, but really a bar and an arcade in one. We 552 00:57:01,170 --> 00:57:07,290 about 90 arcade games in pinball. They range from about 1979 until 553 00:57:07,290 --> 00:57:09,490 current, present time, 2013. 554 00:57:10,130 --> 00:57:13,630 You know, we wanted it to be kid -friendly. You can't really have 100 555 00:57:13,630 --> 00:57:16,670 games and say, oh, kids, you can't play. You know, that wouldn't really be fair. 556 00:57:18,010 --> 00:57:23,430 We open up to all ages until 9 p .m. After 9 p .m., it's 21 and over, and it 557 00:57:23,430 --> 00:57:27,190 becomes more like a nightlife scene, which is, in my opinion, kind of really 558 00:57:27,190 --> 00:57:30,530 what we're about, because then you really get the crowd, people coming and 559 00:57:30,530 --> 00:57:31,890 hanging out. You'll see later. 560 00:57:32,130 --> 00:57:38,310 It's a great vibe for people to hang out and just really be comfortable. 561 00:57:38,770 --> 00:57:43,610 Enthusiasts like me that have been into this for a long time, it warms my heart 562 00:57:43,610 --> 00:57:45,850 to see other people get that same enjoyment, especially kids. 563 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,460 Everybody, you know, and this is a great venue for that, and I'm really proud 564 00:57:50,460 --> 00:57:51,460 that that's what we are. 565 00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:57,700 This is essentially the future of the arcade industry, incorporating alcohol 566 00:57:57,700 --> 00:57:58,700 video games. 567 00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,060 You incorporate the bar and the arcade to make the barcade. 568 00:58:02,580 --> 00:58:07,260 You know, they're going to spring up like wells everywhere, and it's 569 00:58:07,260 --> 00:58:10,880 you can't make all of your dollars off of arcade anymore. 570 00:58:11,380 --> 00:58:15,780 It's the sad truth about it, but arcade games don't make what they used to. 571 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:17,300 and they never will again. 572 00:58:17,900 --> 00:58:21,460 Console has just essentially destroyed that. So you throw in a little bit of 573 00:58:21,460 --> 00:58:25,660 alcohol into the mix, and all of a sudden you have a viable entity that can 574 00:58:25,660 --> 00:58:26,760 and be profitable. 575 00:58:29,620 --> 00:58:30,960 Where was I in 1982? 576 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:37,500 1982 was a good year. I was 14 years old, just started Discover Girl, really 577 00:58:37,500 --> 00:58:40,100 into the swing of being Richie Knuckles. 578 00:58:42,030 --> 00:58:43,770 You spent a lot of time at the arcade. 579 00:58:44,190 --> 00:58:49,770 In 82, I was eight years old, and my dad used to take me and my brother to all 580 00:58:49,770 --> 00:58:50,770 the arcades. 581 00:58:51,370 --> 00:58:55,250 I opened up an arcade as an excuse to be able to play more video games. 582 00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:17,620 30 years older, and I've been able to reconnect with, you know, a person that 583 00:59:17,620 --> 00:59:19,720 was 30 years ago. And that's crazy. 584 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:26,020 Just by doing this, you know, it's crazy as it sounds. But the moment I got this 585 00:59:26,020 --> 00:59:29,120 carpet in here and I moved them all in here and I got some music playing and 586 00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,040 stuff, it was like something happened. 587 00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,700 I feel like, yeah. 588 00:59:36,340 --> 00:59:41,780 When I first walked into an arcade in the 80s, The sounds of the arcade, I 589 00:59:41,780 --> 00:59:46,260 think, are what made the biggest impression on me. And I was always 590 00:59:46,260 --> 00:59:48,460 get back to the arcade and hear the sounds. 591 00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:53,120 There would be what seemed like a chaos of noise at first from all the different 592 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,720 games that actually was a sort of symphony after a while. 593 00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:02,180 I remember opening the arcade doors and the sounds just blasting in my face. 594 01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:03,600 I mean, those things were loud. 595 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:26,240 i remember you know going in and you just see it seemed like hundreds of 596 01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:29,880 when when you're a kid you know um we had so many arcades around at the time 597 01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:33,940 they were they were just popping up everywhere walking through an arcade 598 01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:37,620 ago was so realistic you walked in you see mounds of people waiting to play 599 01:00:37,620 --> 01:00:43,760 video games walking into that arcade you know just as a kid it was just very 600 01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,640 impressionable i definitely remember they were always crowded always people 601 01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,940 there This was a huge part of my life. I spent a lot of time in the arcade. 602 01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:58,020 Space Invaders, Asteroids, Defender, Pac -Man, Donkey Kong, all these games. It 603 01:00:58,020 --> 01:01:02,220 was the golden era where, as Walter likes to say, where new games were 604 01:01:02,500 --> 01:01:05,680 I remember seeing Star Wars for the first time. I remember seeing Robotron 605 01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:06,678 the first time. 606 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,840 Asteroids, Pac -Man, Ms. Pac -Man, all those games. I saw them when they came 607 01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:15,140 out. That same sensation that we as collectors want to relive time and time 608 01:01:15,140 --> 01:01:17,660 again with every drop of the quarter into these machines. 609 01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,860 You pop in the quarter and instantly it just takes you right back. 610 01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,240 I would just put quarters in those all day long. 611 01:01:25,460 --> 01:01:28,840 You know, you always had a fistful of quarters and you're trying to choose 612 01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:29,840 game you wanted to play. 613 01:01:29,980 --> 01:01:32,040 My mom and dad would drop us off at the arcade. 614 01:01:32,260 --> 01:01:36,140 I still have fond memories of my mom and dad dropping us off there and giving us 615 01:01:36,140 --> 01:01:38,120 like $2 for the whole day. 616 01:01:38,340 --> 01:01:42,700 You know, you just go to the arcade and you make that $5 last as long as you 617 01:01:42,700 --> 01:01:43,700 could. 618 01:01:55,470 --> 01:01:59,230 The crowds were huge at the arcades and stuff. I just remember quarters being 619 01:01:59,230 --> 01:02:02,070 lined up on the games. It changed my life. 620 01:02:02,490 --> 01:02:06,950 I'll never forget it. And the arcade was alive. 621 01:02:07,410 --> 01:02:09,950 If you were a kid in the 80s, you remember the arcade. 622 01:02:10,370 --> 01:02:14,390 What you did in the 80s was go to the arcade. 623 01:02:14,630 --> 01:02:21,090 I started to realize that playing these things just 624 01:02:21,090 --> 01:02:24,230 sort of brought me back to... 625 01:02:25,580 --> 01:02:32,020 You know, being a kid again. Once you own a piece of your childhood, 626 01:02:32,260 --> 01:02:35,520 it's very hard to let that go. 627 01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:42,840 The 80s, the early 80s, was a special 628 01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:44,780 time to be a kid. 629 01:02:46,190 --> 01:02:47,410 Steve Hertz rules. 630 01:02:48,250 --> 01:02:52,510 Steve, that's all there is to it. That's my whole interview. This party, I 631 01:02:52,510 --> 01:02:56,090 thought it was a coke soaking party, but it turned out it was for video game 632 01:02:56,090 --> 01:02:58,190 nerds. Right. I didn't think I was qualified. 633 01:02:58,670 --> 01:02:59,910 No, you're definitely qualified. 634 01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:22,060 SC3 is Southern California Classic Collectors. We are a collectors group in 635 01:03:22,060 --> 01:03:28,660 Southern California that is mostly with vintage and classic games from 636 01:03:28,660 --> 01:03:35,560 the 70s and 80s. We get together twice a year to collect games and 637 01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:38,680 talk about games, play games, and sell games. 638 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:43,920 The guys brought table and a whole bunch of consoles and just kind of... 639 01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,900 you know, fill up our backyard full of old school game. 640 01:04:04,029 --> 01:04:08,550 SC3 is awesome, guys. If you're in L .A., even if you've got to fly in for 641 01:04:08,550 --> 01:04:12,370 thing, get in here, go to Disneyland, come to SC3 at the same time. 642 01:04:12,690 --> 01:04:15,590 Tons of arcade games, tons of people buying and selling and trading, 643 01:04:15,870 --> 01:04:20,310 competitions and all sorts of stuff down here. You've got to get out here. 644 01:04:20,510 --> 01:04:22,830 One of the best arcade video gaming shows in the country. 645 01:04:23,330 --> 01:04:28,750 In 2006, we had about 40 people show up, and now we get over 200. 646 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:34,260 And it continues to thrive and get bigger every time we have these shows. 647 01:04:34,580 --> 01:04:40,540 And it's a lot with people coming to appreciate the classics. 648 01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:44,080 Come on in. Check this place out. 649 01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,760 All in honor of Podfucky. 650 01:05:51,980 --> 01:05:53,760 I want this show, baby! 651 01:05:53,980 --> 01:05:55,000 I can't do this! 652 01:05:56,940 --> 01:06:03,540 I want to fill 653 01:06:03,540 --> 01:06:06,420 my guts out with some round cheering. 654 01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,780 I'm Richie Knuckles, this whole position. 655 01:06:16,490 --> 01:06:18,230 I'm here to take you around and show you around the arcade. 656 01:06:18,470 --> 01:06:21,910 Follow me, I'll show you around this place. This is our first location. We 657 01:06:21,910 --> 01:06:26,290 opened this place up five years ago, and as you can see, this one's more spaced 658 01:06:26,290 --> 01:06:28,990 out and wide open. What we like to do in this area is have our events. 659 01:06:29,350 --> 01:06:33,590 We hosted the Kong -Off, we hosted the Tron -Off, we host the 660 01:06:33,590 --> 01:06:37,670 ClassicArcadeGaming .com contest every single year, as well as other small 661 01:06:37,670 --> 01:06:38,670 contests. 662 01:06:39,390 --> 01:06:42,890 Four years ago, right after the movie The King of Kong came out, we were doing 663 01:06:42,890 --> 01:06:45,610 really well, we were selling games, and we had a lot of people come in, and then 664 01:06:45,610 --> 01:06:48,240 all of a sudden, People started coming in and talking about this movie they had 665 01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:49,320 seen, about Donkey Kong. 666 01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:54,520 And right about then, we got a phone call from the Today Show. And they asked 667 01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:55,720 to come on. And I met Bill Mitchell. 668 01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:59,200 Bill Mitchell put me in touch with the guys at Twin Galaxies. And before you 669 01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,880 know it, we were, like, injected into the middle of this whole competitive 670 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:03,060 gaming industry. 671 01:07:03,420 --> 01:07:06,540 We started doing contests at Twin Galaxies. We started doing contests at 672 01:07:06,540 --> 01:07:07,760 ClassicArcadeGaming .com. 673 01:07:08,020 --> 01:07:09,600 And then things just took off from there. 674 01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,620 Anytime someone wants to break a world record, they call us. 675 01:07:34,779 --> 01:07:35,779 I'm Richie Knuckles. 676 01:07:36,860 --> 01:07:38,000 I'm Jordan Adler. 677 01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:42,760 And you are at the 1 -Up in Denver, Colorado, lower downtown. 678 01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:47,780 The Kong -Off 2 is being done at the 1 -Up. The quality of the 1 -Up, the 679 01:07:47,780 --> 01:07:52,180 quality of the machine, the quality of the staff, the family that runs the 680 01:07:52,180 --> 01:07:55,940 business, his dad and himself, his mom, his sister, all the people that are here 681 01:07:55,940 --> 01:07:59,980 at the 1 -Up, the family that's here, I have nothing but great things to say to 682 01:07:59,980 --> 01:08:01,300 the point that I feel like I'm part of the family. 683 01:08:01,860 --> 01:08:03,440 So we're here. We're here at the 1 -Up. 684 01:08:04,430 --> 01:08:06,930 Some are here for the fun, for the money, for the glory. 685 01:08:08,110 --> 01:08:09,230 Actually, mostly for the money. 686 01:08:09,770 --> 01:08:12,670 But all kidding aside, we're going to have a good time. 687 01:08:12,890 --> 01:08:14,850 This is the beginning of something remarkable. 688 01:08:15,990 --> 01:08:20,510 Twin galaxies here alive, reborn as the one up in Denver. 689 01:08:20,870 --> 01:08:24,689 It's going to expand and probably have many locations around the world before 690 01:08:24,689 --> 01:08:25,689 long. 691 01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:33,260 will be doing live events, live content, where people will prove themselves, not 692 01:08:33,260 --> 01:08:38,740 only for their skill sets, but for their ability to handle the pressure that 693 01:08:38,740 --> 01:08:42,920 comes only from going head -to -head against your peers and your rivals. 694 01:08:43,180 --> 01:08:46,420 And that's a unique kind of championship, and that's really what's 695 01:08:46,420 --> 01:08:47,259 our forte. 696 01:08:47,260 --> 01:08:52,939 Twin Galaxies is going to become the official scorekeeper for the world in an 697 01:08:52,939 --> 01:08:54,899 even bigger way than it's ever been before. 698 01:08:55,609 --> 01:08:59,170 We are becoming the lightning rod for the big, big thing. 699 01:08:59,609 --> 01:09:04,069 And the level of history that's about to be unfolded by all you folks and the 700 01:09:04,069 --> 01:09:07,210 communities that you're now going to generate is going to be beyond belief. 701 01:09:07,470 --> 01:09:10,109 With everything that's positive that's going on here, there's no room for 702 01:09:10,109 --> 01:09:13,990 anything negative, nothing you've seen online, anything that's silly. Face it, 703 01:09:13,990 --> 01:09:16,390 when we all get together, I mean, we all get along better than anybody. 704 01:09:16,890 --> 01:09:19,510 And that's exactly what we have. The whole world's going to be watching. 705 01:09:20,490 --> 01:09:21,490 God help us. 706 01:09:23,399 --> 01:09:24,819 You got to keep your clothes on. 707 01:09:26,140 --> 01:09:32,479 I saw all the cool things that Richie was doing and Jordan and basically the 708 01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:36,279 management of Twin Galaxies. And I said, you know what? I am going to support 709 01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:43,020 Richie because it's not easy to take 30 years of history, of blood and 710 01:09:43,020 --> 01:09:47,140 sweat, of people that it's almost impossible to recognize the countless 711 01:09:47,140 --> 01:09:49,700 volunteer hours that have gone into Twin Galaxies. 712 01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:54,900 And then to take that and move it forward. And not only that, but to make 713 01:09:54,900 --> 01:09:58,620 monitor, to make it to where it's a viable business model. Because you can't 714 01:09:58,620 --> 01:09:59,860 just keep throwing money at it. 715 01:10:00,100 --> 01:10:01,760 You get to take home your machine. 716 01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:03,200 Let's hear it! 717 01:10:03,460 --> 01:10:04,460 Let's hear it! 718 01:10:05,780 --> 01:10:06,679 Come on! 719 01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:07,680 Get it up! 720 01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:11,520 Have a great tournament. If you'd like to call out the Michigan model. 721 01:10:21,350 --> 01:10:22,810 It hasn't dawned on anybody yet. 722 01:10:23,050 --> 01:10:28,370 You're in Twin Galaxies now. This is now the center of the video gaming 723 01:10:28,370 --> 01:10:30,130 universe. You're already going to get better. 724 01:10:30,350 --> 01:10:35,310 As we wind down here to the start, I'm going to take your own life. Be careful. 725 01:10:35,610 --> 01:10:39,030 Sorry for taking so long. Is everyone still pumped? 726 01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:20,720 In the old days, the games had to really get by on their actual gameplay. 727 01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,780 They had to be fun. They had to be intriguing. 728 01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,040 There had to be some real meat to the game. 729 01:12:26,340 --> 01:12:31,240 So the games of 30 years ago actually had many, many layers to them. So many 730 01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:33,780 layers to learn and experiment with. 731 01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:40,700 and unravel and study and master so many layers of the gameplay to master 732 01:12:40,700 --> 01:12:46,760 that that's why now, 30 years later, 35 years later, many of these games, you 733 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:52,480 see new world records, new escalating world records, because people are 734 01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:56,860 the game and learning them deeper and mastering deeper and deeper levels of 735 01:12:56,860 --> 01:12:59,740 gameplay, which manifests with higher and higher scores. 736 01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,460 How do you think it went? I think the competition was a great success. 737 01:13:21,820 --> 01:13:25,020 You know, at the last Kong -Off, there wasn't a million -point score. 738 01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,180 We've had three million -point games so far. 739 01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:32,380 The kill screen number, I think, is a double -digit kill screen. 740 01:13:32,860 --> 01:13:38,660 And we also have the highest live Donkey Kong score in history. 741 01:13:39,820 --> 01:13:43,160 Anywhere you are in the country, and you love arcade games, you love to drink, 742 01:13:43,300 --> 01:13:45,780 you have to make 1UP a stop before you leave. 743 01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:47,760 What's great about here is the 1UP. 744 01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:50,020 It could bring back the fever in the past. 745 01:13:50,260 --> 01:13:52,240 It was a part of the 1980s. 746 01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:57,100 Video games were great, but arcades were greater. It was a place where people 747 01:13:57,100 --> 01:14:01,680 came to gather, to play, to perform, to show, to stand up, to stand in the red 748 01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:06,040 zone. I mean, in each generation there'll be some superstars who they 749 01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:11,200 their whole time practicing with an out -of -the -day job trying to get the 750 01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:12,960 world record on a classic arcade game. 751 01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,800 Selecting is going to be for nothing if we all can't pass it on to the next 752 01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:29,800 generation. 753 01:14:38,180 --> 01:14:43,120 It's awesome because now I have a four -year -old son, and I just remember I 754 01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,960 about four or five years old when my dad was taking me to the arcades. 755 01:14:46,580 --> 01:14:51,520 Now that I have these games, I kind of recreated that atmosphere that I had and 756 01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:52,680 sharing it with my son. 757 01:14:53,480 --> 01:15:00,460 As he turns on that game and he pops in the quarter, I see the excitement 758 01:15:00,460 --> 01:15:01,780 and the smile on his face. 759 01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:06,760 I can only imagine that's how I looked as my dad looked at me. 760 01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,560 What a cool feeling. 761 01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:14,960 I can see myself being in this hobby for a long time, 762 01:15:16,980 --> 01:15:18,140 maybe forever. 763 01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:19,480 I have a nine -year -old now. 764 01:15:20,570 --> 01:15:24,190 It's fun for me to watch him play these games and kind of live vicariously again 765 01:15:24,190 --> 01:15:28,310 through him, watching him when I bring a new game home. And he digs it just as 766 01:15:28,310 --> 01:15:32,710 much as I did the first time I saw it. People in the following decades can't 767 01:15:32,710 --> 01:15:36,970 appreciate the arcades and the culture because they didn't really experience 768 01:15:36,970 --> 01:15:42,350 80s. So this is the only way they can be reintroduced to the games and possibly 769 01:15:42,350 --> 01:15:46,110 from hearing their father's stories about how they spent their youth in the 770 01:15:46,110 --> 01:15:50,830 arcades. And so it's bringing that back a little bit. I like to see the younger 771 01:15:50,830 --> 01:15:52,590 people get into it and enjoy it as much as we did. 772 01:15:53,610 --> 01:15:56,650 I can see myself having these games forever, seriously. 773 01:15:58,410 --> 01:16:01,210 I can't imagine them not being in my life. 774 01:16:02,110 --> 01:16:03,110 It's impossible. 775 01:16:04,430 --> 01:16:06,870 I don't see it stopping anytime soon. 776 01:16:07,810 --> 01:16:13,570 I really enjoy the hobby, enjoyed it for years, and there will probably be a lot 777 01:16:13,570 --> 01:16:15,030 more years to come. 778 01:16:19,630 --> 01:16:23,150 So if I were to sign the bottom, I'd dedicate this one to my wife. 779 01:16:23,630 --> 01:16:28,790 Restored for you, Rachel, the love of my life, and in honor of my childhood and 780 01:16:28,790 --> 01:16:30,370 all those awesome years. 781 01:16:32,710 --> 01:16:33,870 I'm going to fire it up. 782 01:16:40,130 --> 01:16:41,370 Yeah! Woo! 783 01:16:43,910 --> 01:16:44,910 Woo! 784 01:16:45,550 --> 01:16:47,230 She doesn't know it's fixed yet. 785 01:16:47,630 --> 01:16:50,870 Let's see her reaction when I start up a game and she comes to the door. 786 01:17:30,470 --> 01:17:33,230 said so much to Nick now is because Dad got it for me. 787 01:17:34,150 --> 01:17:38,490 We don't really do like Christmas presents or birthday presents, but 788 01:17:38,490 --> 01:17:42,650 see something we like for each other, we'll just get it. So the fact that he 789 01:17:42,650 --> 01:17:45,530 it for me and he has the whole writing on the back means more than anything. 790 01:17:45,770 --> 01:17:47,230 So that's why I think I like it so much. 791 01:18:07,500 --> 01:18:09,520 This is the rebirth of the golden age of gaming. 792 01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:18,740 When I got older, I started missing the nostalgia of the games and of the social 793 01:18:18,740 --> 01:18:22,940 life I had with the friends. So I started collecting my own games to bring 794 01:18:22,940 --> 01:18:27,120 both the nostalgia and a new social group of people that enjoy what I enjoy, 795 01:18:27,260 --> 01:18:28,320 which is playing the classic games. 796 01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:32,780 I'm really passionate about, number one, the friendships that I have, about 797 01:18:32,780 --> 01:18:36,080 keeping the history and culture of gaming alive. 798 01:18:36,470 --> 01:18:38,190 So those are the things that I really, really love. 799 01:18:38,410 --> 01:18:42,510 It's as big a part of collecting the arcade games as the arcade games are. I 800 01:18:42,510 --> 01:18:45,850 mean, as passionate as we are, the nostalgia and all that, you and I have 801 01:18:45,850 --> 01:18:50,950 developed a great friendship finding these games, preparing these games. I 802 01:18:50,970 --> 01:18:56,570 it is just a blast. If someone were to come up to me and say, Walter, we want 803 01:18:56,570 --> 01:19:02,730 you to kind of create an introduction that summarizes what the Video Craze 804 01:19:02,730 --> 01:19:03,730 is all about. 805 01:19:03,750 --> 01:19:07,200 Well, if I actually was given that opportunity, here's what I think I'd 806 01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:12,720 I'd point out that years and years ago, we all found video games together, 30, 807 01:19:12,900 --> 01:19:17,040 40 years ago, when we started playing them. And that was during what I call 808 01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:21,740 Top Gun era, the time when all of us would meet in the arcade and we'd go 809 01:19:21,740 --> 01:19:23,600 high score, world records. 810 01:19:23,860 --> 01:19:26,980 And that's the thing we had in common at that time. We're all trying to beat 811 01:19:26,980 --> 01:19:28,740 each other's world record scores. 812 01:19:29,060 --> 01:19:32,560 And that's really the only thing we shared in common in the arcade back in 813 01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:33,459 old days. 814 01:19:33,460 --> 01:19:38,200 But now in this modern era, I like to call this modern era the era of 815 01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:43,440 because we've all banded together not only to enjoy these games from our 816 01:19:43,440 --> 01:19:48,300 childhood, but also to preserve them, to renovate them, and to safeguard our 817 01:19:48,300 --> 01:19:50,060 historic video game legacy. 818 01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:55,460 And then doing that and using games as the main thing to have in common, we've 819 01:19:55,460 --> 01:19:59,200 bonded and created a big community, a community of the heart, where actually 820 01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:02,700 we're not involved in the Top Gun era anymore. We're all involved in 821 01:20:02,700 --> 01:20:03,700 these games. 822 01:20:04,090 --> 01:20:09,470 and creating a society that reveres the legacy of the video game history and 823 01:20:09,470 --> 01:20:11,130 preserves them for future generations. 824 01:20:11,550 --> 01:20:16,730 So for me, the video craze is really all about the amazing global culture, this 825 01:20:16,730 --> 01:20:21,490 worldwide community that has grown up around our video game legacy, which 826 01:20:21,490 --> 01:20:26,950 to share games from a heartfelt basis and also preserve them for future 827 01:20:26,950 --> 01:20:28,310 generations to enjoy. 828 01:20:28,590 --> 01:20:30,710 So to me, this is a remarkable thing. 829 01:20:31,150 --> 01:20:35,050 that we've turned video games into a community, and we share our love for 830 01:20:35,050 --> 01:20:37,970 as we learn to love each other as fellow human beings. 831 01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:54,000 Thank you. 832 01:23:06,580 --> 01:23:09,380 Thank you. 833 01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:29,660 Scene 42, take 7. 834 01:25:10,220 --> 01:25:11,720 A piece of side art missing? 835 01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:15,400 Not a problem. All we do is put a bird on it. 836 01:25:51,140 --> 01:25:53,720 Let me get a drink of water, please. Sure, I'll keep my foot clean. 837 01:25:57,800 --> 01:25:58,800 Okay. 838 01:25:59,180 --> 01:26:00,180 Rachel! 839 01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:01,920 Oh, hey! 840 01:26:02,220 --> 01:26:03,400 Oh, I can't breathe! 841 01:26:04,140 --> 01:26:07,960 If I want to bring any more games in, I have to remove Caldwell. 842 01:26:10,220 --> 01:26:11,980 My neighbors think I'm freaking crazy. 843 01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:18,600 Teresa, 844 01:26:23,180 --> 01:26:26,080 you might have to play a couple games before you go to bed. 845 01:26:26,300 --> 01:26:27,300 No. 846 01:26:28,380 --> 01:26:32,840 I'm going to sleep. You play all day. Go upstairs and play. 847 01:27:04,390 --> 01:27:11,230 I don't know if people that are into this have some sort of 848 01:27:11,230 --> 01:27:12,950 disorder or what. 849 01:27:13,230 --> 01:27:18,230 Chuck, thank you for giving me so many great memories, so many good years of 850 01:27:18,230 --> 01:27:19,230 being in the arcade. 851 01:27:19,430 --> 01:27:20,810 You meant so much to me, buddy. 852 01:27:21,430 --> 01:27:22,510 I'll never be the same. 853 01:27:29,110 --> 01:27:30,110 It's a wrap. 854 01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:44,740 Have you seen the video, Grace? 855 01:27:45,700 --> 01:27:51,680 Yes. It's quite intense, right? The director is so cool. 856 01:27:52,480 --> 01:27:53,480 Very low key. 857 01:27:53,580 --> 01:27:58,060 Yeah, he's a little bit introverted. But tomorrow, I have a feeling, after a few 858 01:27:58,060 --> 01:27:59,300 beers, I'll get him going. That's it. 859 01:29:35,330 --> 01:29:36,330 I don't know.