Wake up Saturday morning have a bowl of cereal while watching cartoons. Put on some jeans and a shirt and follow the railroad tracks to edgewater mall and play video games till we run out of money. Run the roads for the rest of the day until the street lights come on, and we go home. Good times.
@MasaCheez
2 жыл бұрын
Such simpler times. If only we could go back.
@kenngee04
2 жыл бұрын
Man this is a blast from the past. Thank you for posting. I would go back to this time in my life in a split second.
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
those awesome days are gone forever buddy :o(
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this lady came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and drinks, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it!!!!
@hughring
2 жыл бұрын
This will be my form of heaven. I will join my long lost 80's buddy there once again. 😁
@bcope6494
3 жыл бұрын
Man id love to travel back in time to this place on a fri or sat night when this place was really popping. Before covid, before smart phones or the Internet this was simpler times.
@bobgomez9481
2 жыл бұрын
Covid is a lie.
@jamesterrell9500
4 жыл бұрын
From the calendar in the office, it looks like this video was made in September 1984.
@ZacharyCusanelli
3 жыл бұрын
I can almost smell the pizza and the metallic-scent old arcades reeked of...like a faint smell of metal, maybe the quarters mixed with the sweat from 100's of little sweaty hands? I dunno but I miss it.
@Gillian_Seed
2 жыл бұрын
I went to one like that in my mall that got shut down 5 years ago it was amazing it had the old moldy popcorn and pizza smell
@chrisjsmithtx
6 жыл бұрын
The sounds!! Greeted by Congo Bongo, Track and Field, Spy Hunter
@Phishkisses
3 жыл бұрын
Whoever took this video, thanks a ton.
@motorcopjoe
3 жыл бұрын
God I miss my childhood.....So many awesome memories! Thanks!
@mistreme8341
5 жыл бұрын
My childhood as a grainy handy-cam video with videotape stretch distortions. God, it makes me feel ANCIENT! Like I've found a Twilight Zone mirror darkly into my past. This getting older stuff gets weirder each year . . .
@profsaiontz
2 жыл бұрын
OMG! This is nostalgic heaven!
@pinburrito3481
2 жыл бұрын
When he first entered the office, I thought "Jesus Christ, there's a dude hanging upside down in there!". Loved Aladdin's Castle as a kid on the west coast. When I moved to TX, seems like Tilt was the mall arcades everywhere
@Maggron
2 жыл бұрын
The good old days. The local arcade chain in my hometown mall was called Dream Machine, but I visited Aladdin's Castle many times in other malls. I miss this era.
@leebrandon3842
3 жыл бұрын
man, i wish i had some plutonium to put in the flux capacitor so i can go back to my childhood in the 80's and relive these amazing moments. classic.
@williamcundiff5447
2 жыл бұрын
Makes me miss Fun snd Games back in the day. It still exists but not like it was. The sounds in this are glorious!
@felixthebat
2 жыл бұрын
Holy macaroni! I used to game at that exact location right until they ripped it out. Del Amo Mall in Torrance, CA. Thanks for the nostalgia trip :D
@stevent9441
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, the spy Hunter music took me back to the 80's.
@Krellan
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, nice! Looks like an insurance walkthrough video. Many businesses took these videos, to document what they had, in case of catastrophic loss. The calendar in the back room had the year covered, but it looks like 1984. Newest games were some laserdisc games.
@jonnorris4204
2 жыл бұрын
Love how all of the attract modes make the place seem busy before they open for the day.
@Progearspec
2 жыл бұрын
That's sure is a big arcade for the 80's.I've heard of aladdins castle but i never seen one in person i all ways assume,it was only on the west coast.I grew up on the east coast.Those sight and sounds sure take me back when arcade cabinets were everywhere in the 80's.Convenience stores,gas stations,hotels,movie theaters and miniature golf courses.
@aaronroberts6787
3 жыл бұрын
Oh man...these were the days. Can't beat it.
@JamesBrock72
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, blast from the past! thanks for sharing.
@CHRISTYSKULLS
2 жыл бұрын
Kick ass!!! This is a great time capsule.
@kanati
2 жыл бұрын
I ran a couple of stores back in the day. Normal Illinois which was an arcade Bally bought out from a local couple called Electronics 101 (store #252), and Store #17 in Pekin, IL. At the time I left the one in Pekin was the oldest remaining Bally's Aladdin's Castle. It wasn't huge, but it was a pretty nice store. Unfortunately the mall was well on it's way to it's eventual slow death and it closed not too awful long after I left.
@mgabrysSF
2 жыл бұрын
I remember a Gold Mine at that mall - was that the one that switched or was it added to.
@kanati
Жыл бұрын
@@mgabrysSF I honestly don't remember myself either. :)
@whattheheck1000
Жыл бұрын
I wish I could have lived during this era. This appears to have been filmed in September 1984, as another commenter stated, 8 years and 3 months before I was born. By that time, arcades were in their final era of relevance with stuff like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat driving a fighting game craze before it all started dying off in the mid-1990s, and even then it wasn't the golden age like we saw in the first half of the 1980s. Comment posted June 1, 2023 4:16 pm
@Diskoboy1974
Жыл бұрын
I've only seen a TX-1 once in my entire life. And it disappeared a few months after it showed up. Supposedly, operators hated it because of how much it weighed and how much space it took up. Ironic that they had no idea what Sega would be bringing to the table a few years later with the cockpit versions of Outrun, Space Harrier, Power Drift, and After Burner. I remember After Burner taking up almost the entire front end of our Aladdin's Castle.
@PharoahsKingdom
2 жыл бұрын
I miss Time Out & Tilt. Also Putt Putt Golf & Games
@Krellan
2 жыл бұрын
I like seeing the layout of the arcade as it was, the arrangement of games in all the aisles and nooks and crannies. The back room was cool to see, the control box for all the special lighting. This location was huge! The Aladdin's Castle nearest me when I was a little kid was maybe 1/8 this size? This must have been one of their flagship locations.
@notnowmike_
3 жыл бұрын
Hundreds of hours spent here. Thajk you so much for sharing this.
@ThisGuyFrritz
Жыл бұрын
Holy moly, I remember going to the arcade and playing games like these!
@larrysmith5989
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting! Thats what the arcades loked liked back then.
@WAHSOUL3000
2 жыл бұрын
Beware. You maybe get massive motion sickness from watching this. Love old 80’s videos but man people just loved to fast pan and used the zoom too much and too fast. I have tons of old videos from this era that I’ll never transfer as I threw up after transferring 1 hour. If anyone time travels please take them a tripod.
@BenJabituya
2 жыл бұрын
I MISS BEING A KID!!!! I went to Time-Out (before it became “SEGA’S Time-Out”), Space Port, and Aladdin’s Castle. No smartphones, no online gaming, not even Minecraft or Fortnite. Arcades were the place to be, to get away from it all. Now thanks to emulation, I can enjoy the games on my Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, courtesy of Digital Eclipse and M2.
@Brokenrocktail
2 жыл бұрын
@@gnarlax2005 no need to be an asshole
@Brokenrocktail
2 жыл бұрын
@@gnarlax2005 also he is likely a millennial, boomers are at minimum 58 years old at this point. So maybe be quiet?
@nedrickjones5114
2 жыл бұрын
Come back, please come back, I really miss you, come back.
@supersmallchibiwolf872
2 жыл бұрын
I love retro games and classic arcade games. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful Aracade from the 1980's. Cool video. ^_^
@Steve.Cutler
2 жыл бұрын
Our store was right inside the entrance to our mall. I remember coming in that door and hearing this sound. It made the money in my pocket suddenly get white hot!
@davidfontaine8619
6 жыл бұрын
This is beyond awesome! Thank you!
@TravisO1114
2 жыл бұрын
I still have a pocket worth of tokens from this arcade. Many hours spent there.
@dylanrupp8214
3 жыл бұрын
Just how i remembered it.
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
that arcade is huge, the one we had in Houston at Willowbrook Mall was less than half the size
@timmybtokool
5 ай бұрын
First time hitting some true Columbian gold in 1977,wake up Saturday morning,wake n bake ,hit Aladdin's Castle in Pinellas square Mall, and then seeing Star wars the first day it came out.what a day
@Paulywint
2 жыл бұрын
I see the pinball game Black Pyramid. One of my favorite games as well as Firepower II
@soul71000
3 жыл бұрын
The Arcade (aka The Strip Club for Gamers).
@coasterlvr
5 жыл бұрын
is this Del Amo Mall? or Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California? the wall map sure does look like it. Also, where the entrance to the arcade is where it was at the end of a small hall.
@metrotek5
4 жыл бұрын
It is Del Amo. West is to the top of that aerial shot. it's very different, today... much remodeling
@anthonystephenson4180
2 жыл бұрын
😎 good memories of good times
@jay-yg2nh
2 жыл бұрын
this feels like travelling back in time but your glasses can't come with you.
@DarkElfDiva
2 жыл бұрын
4:09 I hear Spy Hunter.
@vollste
5 ай бұрын
I pray this is what’s available when I go to Heaven…endless 80’s arcade games!
@alftanner866
4 жыл бұрын
The Aladdin's I went to had games that no other carried like NARC, ninja gaiden & warriors, guardians of the hood(hilarious game) & 2 advanced Sega hologram games(yes that's right) named time traveler & hologram fighters I believe.
@pinburrito3481
2 жыл бұрын
Time Traveler was a quarter eating machine
@Ziki-P
2 жыл бұрын
Where was this? We had an Aladdin’s castle at my local mall, don’t think this was the one but the lay out looks similar,, damn I miss that place
@bigtank2185
2 жыл бұрын
This has those scary "found footage" vibes where nobody's around but everything's on and working... Half expecting some creepy entity to peek around from behind one of the machines...
@bertwhetstone3173
5 ай бұрын
That's a pretty big Aladdin's Castle, the one I went to at Sarasota Sq. Mall was probably half that size. Also that aerial photo at the end seemed kind of weird until I realized that had to have been taken from a helicopter or an airplane and was probably pretty special, not like today when anyone can just pull up a satellite view on their phone.
@cinnamonc4t
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I was born during that era :(
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
It was awesome, how old are you?
@cinnamonc4t
2 жыл бұрын
@@gummybear41283 15, but I feel sort of nostalgic, even though I wasn't born during those times. My dad is from 1979 and my mom is from 1980
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
@@cinnamonc4t I was born in December 1969, I was a kid during the 80's, going to the mall and Arcades were the best part of our lives. The sounds and atmosphere when you walked into the arcade was beautiful and sooo exciting. There's nothing like it.
@cinnamonc4t
2 жыл бұрын
@@gummybear41283 That sounds like so much fun! Man.. that makes me wish I was around in those times
@Gumba213
5 жыл бұрын
Walk down memory lane
@johnmogavero8156
6 жыл бұрын
I got a pocket full of quarters !
@brentfisher902
2 жыл бұрын
Call me old...but at 14:29 I actually remember a time when restaurant wall posters were actually chemical photographic darkroom paper...there was no halftone pattern..just film grain. And that restaurant had a 2 player tabletop arcade machine and a jukebox that plays 45 RPM single records, you could look into a hole in the side of the cabinet and see the record playing. It's Papa Ginos in Fall River Massachusets. I am 'Pass me that pencil so I can wind my tape' years old.
@GlennHoeppner
5 жыл бұрын
This Aladdin's Castle was enormous compared to the one I frequented. How many Ms. Pac-Man's did they have there? I don't recall ours ever having more than one of anything.
@everlastingphelps
2 жыл бұрын
Was coming to say the same thing. My local was about 1/6 the size.
@pinburrito3481
2 жыл бұрын
The Crystal's Pizza (ft worth, tx) I went to as a kid seemed to have 8-10 pacmans, ms pacman, galaga, etc. If I remember correctly, they even had 5 or 6 tron, Star wars, and even mappy cabs. I never understood, it's not like kids were lining up to play mappy
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this lady came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and drinks, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it!!!!
@whompmaster
Жыл бұрын
It's too bad we didn't have cell phones back in those days with 4k video.
@rhyne9388
Жыл бұрын
This was either in 1983 or later because of the M.A.C.H. 3 laserdisc game.
@aaronrogers7818
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I wish he was recording in SP mode instead of the apparent EP mode 😢. EP was so grainy even though you got the extra film time on a VHS; big difference from SP quality
@WDCallahan
2 жыл бұрын
Wow.. they even had Polybius! I haven't played that one in forever. I stopped because it was giving me headaches.
@brentfisher902
2 жыл бұрын
It has been said the everybody will eventually get an epileptic seizure from flashing lights and video games...it's just that with the healthy people it takes a VERY LONG time for it to crop up. It also matters how bright the screen is and how large it is and how close you are to it. The human body was not made for seeing things that aren't naturally common in 10,000 B.C. Africa. I'm surprised I'm not hearing more stories of people having trouble with smart IoT multicolored LED light bulbs, a purple fire is not anywhere near your cave...you could search the who jungle and not come across purple fire. And even in the Middle Ages they did not have candle flames that went from 0% to 100% brightness 29.97 times every second.
@hardlucknate6769
5 жыл бұрын
Arcade haven
@LilmsMcD
6 жыл бұрын
Ahhh I remember the payphone lol
@spandexgoblin
2 жыл бұрын
The world you grew up in no longer exists
@MS-gn4gl
2 жыл бұрын
I can smell this video.
@Baloodini
6 жыл бұрын
I would like to learn where this mall was
@metrotek5
4 жыл бұрын
Del Amo Fashion Center. Torrance, CA I played in that arcade. It was next to McDonald's Very different today after years and years of remodeling and modernizing. My games then were Assault, Sinistar, and Tac-Scan. I know you're going to look on Google maps (lol)... note that the aerial shot at the end has West at the top. But, you'll see the similarities.
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
@@metrotek5 I remember being a kid back in 1981 or 1982 and playing Gorf at Aladdins Castle at Willowbrook Mall in Houston, Texas. I was doing great in the game and got a really high score and I had a bunch of people cheering for me, after I was done I went outside of the arcade and this lady came up to me and told me how great I was and she bought me some candy and drinks, it was one of the best moments of my life, I'll never forget it!!!!
@metrotek5
2 жыл бұрын
@@gummybear41283 This shared memory needs more than just a thumbs up.... Very nice. And, thank you for sharing that moment :)
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
@@metrotek5 I had to share that experience, it was very special. There will never be anything like the 80's arcades, it was a beautiful time🙂
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
@@metrotek5 I should tell you how the lady looked, she was an older blonde woman with a white fur coat and she looked rich
@bobgomez9481
2 жыл бұрын
And naturally, Star Rider is broken...
@666jamie666
2 жыл бұрын
Let's get some vaporwave in the background please 👍
@KevinSparksatx
2 жыл бұрын
And remove all the classic music and sounds?
@victor.elkins
16 күн бұрын
Wish I could see the names of the games, anyone want to take a shot at IDing the games based on the things we CAN see, like panel art and such?
@venturabryan78
6 жыл бұрын
Rad!
@metrotek5
4 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there :D
@SpaghettiNoob
2 жыл бұрын
Why is video scratchy and going in an out?
@Mr_x_19922
2 жыл бұрын
1:24 Looks like Polybius 0_0
@jerrodboyd4754
2 жыл бұрын
POLYBUS!
@toplel1860
2 жыл бұрын
Garfield before he became garfeel
@orderofmagnitude-TPATP
2 жыл бұрын
Not much of a fan of Garfield then? Would definitely love gazorpa-zorp-field from rik n morty
@Hamstersssssssssssss
3 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing 1987 or late 1986
@brentfisher902
2 жыл бұрын
This is what it looks like when you have a belief in life before death. Choose fun. This message brought to you by Science: The One True Church.
@Gillian_Seed
2 жыл бұрын
No way its from the 80s that airplane game looked too good for the 80s graphics
@Nigaromia
2 жыл бұрын
That was a laser disk game called 'Mach 3'. It came out it 1983.
@forgottengrooves6073
2 жыл бұрын
Mach 3 was the shit.
@ItalianMetalHED
2 жыл бұрын
Mach 3 came out the year I was born was ahead of it’s time (1983) this video looks to be from 1984 based on calendar in back room. Arcade games usually ran hardware never available to public more advanced. This guy def was doing well to have a video cam because they were pricey!
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
that is the 80's
@toddmartin6572
2 жыл бұрын
What city this In?
@utubepunk
2 жыл бұрын
Torrance, California
@gummybear41283
2 жыл бұрын
thanks but your camera is horrible
@jdsolberg7613
Жыл бұрын
Can I get my money back for the time I wasted watching this?
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