Gorf is my favorite game of all time. I played this game for hours on end at a convenience store in our Texas town back in the day. I had been looking for a Gorf machine to restore for a while, but didn't have any luck locating one. I took matters into my own hands and scratch-built my own Gorf machine in 2015. Although it's not original, it's as close to the real thing as i am going to get. Very happy with it.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
That's awesome, congratulations. It's amazing how arcade games were everywhere back in the early 80s. Convenience stores, department stores such as Kmart, restaurants, etc. people who didn't live through it wouldn't understand.
@rocconorth
4 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries so true...and every mall had, at least, one dedicated arcade room with a minimum of 30 machines. Some even with hundreds!
@LeoMidori
2 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It's true. As a little kid I remember playing Virtua Fighter for the first time in an A&P grocery store, of all places, back in the day.
@RafaKotarba1980
Жыл бұрын
Please! Take photos or make a video and post a link here. I would love to see your machine.
@stevedodder490
4 жыл бұрын
I actually worked for Bally/Midway from 1977-1982. I was in the factory in Franklin Park, Il, at the end of the production line as a repair tech, and later lead tech repairing ckt boards that came off the line with problems. They did all the fab work there from board etching to drilling to component placement to wave soldering. Boards that passed initial tests went to the Belmont facility for installation in the cabinets. The failures came to my department for troubleshooting. I wrote the field service manual for Galaxian. So, Space invaders through Galaga and Burger Time and Rally-X I worked on. I left the company as the arcade crash was happening. I have many very fond memories of that period! Some, not so fond-The Home Video Arcade game, AKA Astrocade, from Nutting & Assoc was one not so fond memory. :-).
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
That is awesome. Sounds like a great time to be an arcade fan. Thank you so much for sharing your story:-)
@stevedodder490
Жыл бұрын
@Kens UK Adventures As I recall, the game boards at least were made in the USA. There were options for UK currency settings by DIP switches on board and chip sets to match. Since the cabinets were made here too, I can only assume they were assembled and shipped, but I'm not sure since the looked the same on the outside. But I don't know for sure. Wasn't my department. 🙂
@youarepredictable
10 ай бұрын
@stevedodder49 Wow, that's cool! Can I ask what you ended up doing career wise after those days?
@stevedodder490
10 ай бұрын
@@youarepredictable After Midway, I got another job as an electronics technician for a phone company in Arizona. I worked in the return/repair department for a bit, then in engineering where I worked on prototypes before product release. Worked there until I burned out, 20 years, and learned a new trade-Computer Aided Drafting, which I'm doing now.
@youarepredictable
10 ай бұрын
@@stevedodder490 awesome!
@MidnightBanshi
4 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this game many times over the years, and never getting much higher ranked than Space Cadet. Ah Gorf....you brutal brutal beast.
@sandal_thong8631
2 жыл бұрын
I won one level but not two, I think.
@rexfellis
4 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this game at my Grandad's gas station/bait shop in Texas when I was a kid. There is no telling how many quarters I dropped into that thing. Thanks for the video, it brought back some great memories.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, thanks for sharing your story
@johnlewisbrooks
4 жыл бұрын
I remember the arcade version saying things like "I am GORF" and "I'll eat your quarters"! Also, I've only done it a few times but it is totally possible to destroy the space ship with a single shot!
@jasonbell791
3 жыл бұрын
I think both my self and my mom did that once on the vic 20. It's also possible to "erase" the flag ship and not have any idea where the target is any more.
@MattNovaScotia
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! I, too had the Vic20 version, and played it so much that I would challenge myself to regularly destroy every sprite of the flag ship until only the final, flashing sprite was floating back and forth- The actual “target” sprite you had to hit to clear the level. One thing I will never forget- In the manual, I remember it saying something like “If you beat this game, expect a call from the Air Force- The REAL Air Force!” 7-year old me was disappointed... :)
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
LOL, I will recall that in the manual. Of course the manual was the last thing I looked at :-)
@aqacefan
Ай бұрын
I once played an Atari 800 port at a friend's house. When I got to the Flagship, the very first shot went straight into the reactor like Luke Skywalker firing his proton torpedoes into the Death Star's exhaust port. My friend did a slow pivot like "Did you really just do that?"
@doyowan
4 жыл бұрын
I had this game on my Colecovision. It was so much fun! ... and the arcade cabinet, what a beauty!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
You are right, it was beautiful
@thomaswood7495
4 жыл бұрын
Gorf was my favorite game in that that timeframe. Still love it!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
So do I it's a classic
@theanomaly5228
5 жыл бұрын
Another great choice to cover. Lots of historical context with this one, some of which I learnt from the video alone. Once again, excellent work.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I appreciate the nice words. I always enjoyed this game even as a kid
@theanomaly5228
5 жыл бұрын
No worries, I have enjoyed the choices as of late because of the nostalgia they bring
@WhatHoSnorkers
5 жыл бұрын
I miss GORF! I used to play it on the arcade in Barry Island Butlins as a child with it taunting me. I played it on the Colecovision last night at the Cambridge Museum of Computing History! I made it to SPACE COLONEL!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome, good job. I would love to go to that exhibit, it sounds great
@troyjohnson3978
4 жыл бұрын
Thankyou, even the sound brings me back! Thanks 👍
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching
@fan1701
3 жыл бұрын
Most of my home playing of Gorf was on 2600. Also on my must play when I see a arcade cab.
@monos70
2 жыл бұрын
The Flag Ship is the side view of the yellow Galaxian leaders.
@nonewmsgs
3 жыл бұрын
This was definitely my favorite space shooter due to the different levels.
@bunnyplush
4 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact, many episodes of 80s tv series Silver Spoons showed Gorf, which was a game the kid in the show owned and was in his living room.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
I can recall that,I thought he had the coolest living room ever :-)
@Perfection-ME-01
2 жыл бұрын
People won’t understand how important GORF was unless they were around at the time. It was like having Captain Kirk in the Millennium Falcon because of it having already established games as levels, first crossover,first forbidden door. GORF should be in the conversation for genuine arcade legend that’s was so far ahead of it’s time we haven’t got to that time yet!
@vladvalcu2125
4 жыл бұрын
You have a new fan,i am from Romania and i'm absolutely crazy about your videos. Verry good chanel. You are great bro 😎
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Greetings from the USA. You're the first person I've spoken with from Romania so cheers. Thanks for the nice words
@fandlpetroleum
4 жыл бұрын
Gorf on Vic-20 was my first game and my favorite out of all the carts I had at the time.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
I Owned it for the Vic 20 as well and it was really good
@theannoyedmrfloyd3998
5 жыл бұрын
The voices are synthesized, not digitized.
@GaryLASQ
4 жыл бұрын
Gorf is my absolute all-time favorite video arcade game.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It is definitely a classic
@AironExTv
4 жыл бұрын
Great game. People crowded around it in my neck of the woods because it was multiple games in one. And as always there were people that could play it endlessly.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
That's why I always played it as well
@rsmith02
4 жыл бұрын
I found this in my orthodontist's office. I thought the speech was impressive but the game itself simple if difficult.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It was very innovative for its time
@thsarethbreaks
2 жыл бұрын
Me and my cousin use to wear this game out. We would ride on our bikes a few blocks away to the local bowling alley to play this game.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like me :-)
@galenstone9097
2 жыл бұрын
I owned this game at 14 years old. i could even get the big monsters that dance across the top.
@gattifan609
4 жыл бұрын
This game was at the 1/2 Price Store when I was a kid. I can still hear it saying INSERT COIN!!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@fooledman
4 жыл бұрын
Played this a whole lot in the winter of '81. Never could make it to the flagship though.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
I did a few times but not very often
@RavenClaw88
2 жыл бұрын
I love telling people about this game. My favorite thing I remember from Sesame Street was when Kermit the Frog went to get a customized sweat shirt and they brought it out and it said "Kermit the Gorf" and he started losing it. after that, I could never think of Gorf in any other way. I wish I knew how to do video editing and I would combine the two when he started shouting that there is no such thing as Kermit the Gorf!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
2 жыл бұрын
LOL that's hilarious
@Lastjustice
5 жыл бұрын
I don't recall Gorf at all. I was 1 or 2 when it came out, so by time I start going to arcades it likely had been cycled out for more popular games of the time. It's interesting see that this was the beginning of people trying shake up the formula of having a game do strictly one kind of thing repeatedly.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
It was, back then people had to be innovative rather than just adding a bigger graphics card or more memory.
@CastleKnight7
Жыл бұрын
I wasn’t able to play it in the arcades, but thoroughly enjoyed it on my Atari VCS.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
Жыл бұрын
Very good conversion but I missed the voices
@ILoooooveCamels
4 жыл бұрын
It's always cool to hear about game developers who are women, especially in the early days. I can't imagine what kind of headwinds they faced back then, considering how it is even now. I hope she's very proud of Gorf!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
I think she is, She always seems eager to talk about it from what I've seen
@ILoooooveCamels
4 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries that's great! Thanks for sharing.
@kyleolson8977
4 жыл бұрын
Also one of the first games we had on the Vic-20, I'm not sure I would have noticed it in the arcade otherwise, I simply didn't see it around that often. I think this game does pretty well for a multi-screen game; it's not really 5 (or 4) games in one like Tron, it's one control scheme with multiple styles of challenge. This kind of design represented more of the future of games, using the same abilities in different ways.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
This was one of the first games for the Vic 20 I can recall getting. It was definitely innovative for its time.
@trevorino
4 жыл бұрын
I loved this game when I was a schoolboy. Used to leave school for lunch and spend my lunch money on it in the local arcade. Even had the high score for a long while. I was always convinced there were some collision detection bugs though with unexplained player deaths.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It's always possible some early games had very bleak bugs
@seanpeterson2296
9 ай бұрын
Favorite arcade game of my youth!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
9 ай бұрын
It's a classic
@theartisanrogue
4 жыл бұрын
Loved this vid! I only saw the game in arcades once or twice, but both times it had a lot of people watching. :D
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much
@iankempster7007
4 жыл бұрын
Played this a lot on Vic 20
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
So did I
@stavivanackerson6563
4 жыл бұрын
I had that Neo Geo sized cartridge for the COM VIC 20 also... Great times!!! I play it on mame now...
@footofjuniper8212
4 жыл бұрын
Aladdin's Castle? Are you from St. Louis? Did you find a red Pac-Man ball cap and sunglasses there in June 1983? I left them on top of one of the games.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
LOL, I'm about four hours north of St. Louis :-)
@footofjuniper8212
4 жыл бұрын
Oh okay, I guess there was more than one. I went to the one at St. Clair Square in Fairview Heights, IL. They also had the best restaurant, called Olga's Kitchen.
@AszrayelLawgiver
4 жыл бұрын
This is the only arcade machine I ever beat!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It is definitely a classic
@manuelarturog
4 жыл бұрын
I loved watching GORF in Ready Player One on the colecovision
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
So did I, that was a fun movie
@turbozombie3506
5 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Mine as well it's a classic
@Momoka7
2 жыл бұрын
I only got one question, and that is from where does the Lady dressed in Silver come from? It is not from the game is it?
@karlread1595
4 жыл бұрын
Great video dude and i will sub as i love these old arcade games..
@bradleyconrad678
2 жыл бұрын
It’s a common trope that the GORF ship resembles the Enterprise, yet it is essentially the same sprite for the players ship found in Galaxian. I don’t think either of these ships resemble the Enterprise. Space Wars and other games are a closer match. I was a confirmed Star Trek geek when Gorf came out and I never once thought that the ship was an Enterprise stand in.
@davidpickens8800
4 жыл бұрын
Do the Bishop of Battle
@markharris4260
4 жыл бұрын
They said their Gorfian robots were unbeatable ,, but I defeated them all , and was promoted to ,,Space Avenger !!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@markharris4260
4 жыл бұрын
I loved playing this game GORF , it was really fun and the audio effects we're pretty cool , I liked how when you finished a mission the robot voice said you have been promoted to , space general or space warrior , it was a blast !
@shawnmichael7152
4 жыл бұрын
As a teenager, I dropped every extra quarter I earned into that game. I've prolly paid for one, maybe 2, by now. Wish I could find mini-game of one.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
You and me both, I loved the game
@chris72sax
4 жыл бұрын
I think it would make a great Arcade 1UP, maybe with Tron.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
That would be fantastic, don't know if it's feasible though
@M-NX
4 жыл бұрын
i played the vic20 version too🤘🤘🤘 also Gridrunner, fantastic Conversion
@GorfDevotee
Жыл бұрын
i looked up frog backwards once, found this game and got a username out of it lmao
@WegrennerX
3 жыл бұрын
Just like you my first game was gorf on the vic20. Had to put a bulky cartridge in the back and gooooo....
@GORF_EMPIRE
5 жыл бұрын
YAY! You included our(3DSSS) Atari Jaguar version! Woohoo!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, your version was really well done
@GORF_EMPIRE
5 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Some Fun facts about our dev process making Gorf For Jaguar: Having a Gorf Arcade machine of my own, I did a ton of the coding and played and adjusted the game as much as I could on my own. Scott had brought a a working version of the game to some trade show about a year before which I was not able to attend....but.... We were blessed to have Jamie Fenton in the flesh actually play the game and she was very impressed with what we had done so far( Scott has pictures of her playing it somewhere.) What a treat when Scott sent me pics of her playing it. Then..... Scott, Terrance and myself were at a trade show in Philly showing it off in the summer of 2005 a few months before release. They had a Gorf there and we we playing the machine and noticing even some more minor discrepancies from our version to the arcade machine. We had our dev setups with us and corrected everything we could find that day. Even with my my own machine at home, 3 sets of eyes helped find even more needed tweaks and I think we did all we could do to make it dead on. The only thing I wish we had done is make a screen rotate option so one could rotate a monitor in the original 90 degree so it would have looked just like a real Gorf but the space left in RAM was only about 8k! whew! :^D Input wise it would have behaved just like an arcade machine had someone hooked up the real machines controls to the appropriate Jag controller buttons, from the coin up to the ship and player movements. We never did get to complete our 3D version for the Jaguar unfortunately. It would have been a pretty fun game.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
That is awesome, thank you so much for all the extra info. Sounds like you guys went the extra mile to get your version correct so kudos for that. It's very cool that Jamie Fenton got to play your version of the game. Talk about a highlight. Thanks again
@GORF_EMPIRE
5 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Indeed it was :D
@Mika73x2
3 жыл бұрын
I think that maybe there is error with Vic20 speech? C64 version has speech with Magic Voice expansion. I couldn’t get Vic20 speak. How ever I have Vic20 speech cartridge and with some expansion those two could be connected same time to Vic. But couldn’t find anything of Vic20 Gorf speech with Google. Gorf was my second game 80’s at Vic20 after Jupiter Lander.
@ballyastrocade5672
2 жыл бұрын
You're correct -- there never was a Magic Voice module made for the VIC-20 (the VIC was out of production, or nearly so, by the time the Magic Voice was released), and the VIC-20 version of the game does not support any kind of speech device.
@KAZVorpal
19 күн бұрын
Gorf on Dolf.
@Gamevet
5 жыл бұрын
I always thought that the final boss looked like the Starship Enterprise.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Now you know why. :-)
@1adamvega
4 жыл бұрын
Played my fair share of this game! However, I really want to figure out the name of a space tank shooter game I played in the late 80’s. It had two drive/fire controls. You could drive on the ground or raise the tank up into the air . Anyone know what I’m talking about?
@vhm14u2c
4 жыл бұрын
The skybar candy of arcade games
@vergeofchaos
4 жыл бұрын
ALF: Alien Life Form, not Alien Life Force.
@TravelsTTG
Жыл бұрын
We had tilt black beards!
@thelegendinhisownmind7038
4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love your channel, but I have to tell you... ALF stood for Alien Life Form, not force.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
My bad
@thelegendinhisownmind7038
4 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It's okay. No worries! Keep up the good work. I love your videos; especially the home port comparison parts. I shouldn't behave like such an insufferable know-it-all anyways. 😊
@ilcugginocanadese
4 жыл бұрын
When I was 11 my parents sent me on a week-end with some family friends in Plattsburgh. They gave me CDN35$ "for emergency" which back then was a lot of money. I blew it all at the arcade playing Gorf and got into a lot of trouble when I was asked to give the money back...
@pigknickers2975
4 жыл бұрын
Il Cuggino Canadese ha. Should have said there was an emergency actually. The Gorfian empire was trying to invade the earth. What could I do?
@Lonsters_Retro_Arcade
Жыл бұрын
Good Episode!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@thedanksavatron7782
4 жыл бұрын
Had it on colecovision
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It was a good version
@codiepereira636
4 жыл бұрын
The ship you countrol in gorf is based opon the one you use in galaxian
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@brave5089alpha
2 жыл бұрын
LONG LIVE GORF!
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
2 жыл бұрын
I agree
@mariodykstra6555
4 жыл бұрын
Frog is Gorf spelled backwards.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Yes I mentioned this in my video
@matro951
2 жыл бұрын
Had this for Atari 5200
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
2 жыл бұрын
Very good
@BlazingOwnager
4 жыл бұрын
Pretty ballsy to call your Galaxia rip off Galaxians.
@aurorafrost288
4 жыл бұрын
For official releases, the VIC-20 is best. However, they all pale in comparison to the ROM played via MAME.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Yes because Mame is the actual arcade game
@djwho75
4 жыл бұрын
The Blonde is Pamela Anderson?
@pigknickers2975
4 жыл бұрын
UB40 - 1 hit wonder? Maybe in the states lol
@ManahManah77
4 жыл бұрын
We had Aladdin's Castle in our mall, so many happy memories..
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
So do I, I the ours closed up about 25 years ago
@kristopherfair3175
4 жыл бұрын
That's what we had. It started out great, then they turned it from an arcade to a family fun center. Ruined it
@mariobarrera420
4 жыл бұрын
I went to one as well in Corpus Christi at mall, and i recently found one of there coins in the street
@ManahManah77
4 жыл бұрын
@@mariobarrera420 cool. I guess it's one of those things that I've only found out recently were more widespread than I thought. I live about an hour west of the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina. We had ours in the mall here, right next to the food court.
@dreadlegend7365
3 жыл бұрын
The Aladdin's Castle i went to was at Northpark Mall in the Quad Cities, Iowa back in the 80s. I loved it every time i went.
@jamesanthony8438
4 жыл бұрын
"She felt that the plot of the movie ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture") would not make a very good arcade game." Amazingly, the plot of the movie didn't make a very good movie, either. =)
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more! LOL
@ballyastrocade5672
2 жыл бұрын
"Star Trek: The Motion(less) Picture", a.k.a. "Where Nomad Has Gone Before" :-D
@peterisnardi1197
4 жыл бұрын
Gorf...the game that laughed at you dying...
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
LOL, you got that right
@footofjuniper8212
4 жыл бұрын
"Ha ha ha ha...too bad space cadet..."
@scottbreon9448
4 жыл бұрын
True, although Wizard of Wor did that as well. LOL
@footofjuniper8212
4 жыл бұрын
Also, Space Fury ("Sooo, a creature for my amusement! Prepare for battle!") and creepy Sinistar ("Beware! I live! Run, coward!").
@namco003
4 жыл бұрын
@@footofjuniper8212 "I HUNGER!" RON HOWARD!! RUN! RUN! RUN!
@grumpyguy2877
4 жыл бұрын
Just discovered your channel Taking me back to my youth in late 70s early 80s 🕹📻👍👍👍👍
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much glad you enjoyed it
@Jarod_Schultz
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't grow up with them, but I still love golden age arcade games. I love games like Asteroids, Galaga, Gorf, Pole position, Donkey Kong, Pac-man, Popeye, Mario Bros, Berserk, Centipede, Missle Command, Excite bike, and many others. Those games are timeless.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Those are all essential games if you are a retro gaming fan. Not a bad game in the bunch
@nmpltleopardi
2 жыл бұрын
Tapper; Burger Time; Bomb Jack; Robotron 2082; Bubble Bobble; Joust; Defender; Dig Dug; Pooyan; DKong Jr.; Ms. Pacman; Spy Hunter; Mappy; Space Harrier; QBert; Mario Bros.; Millipede; Tron. Absolute insanity. Most kids I knew started doing errands in their neighborhoods just to spend it all in these machines. Some kids pretended to know the guys with the top scores hehe. Better to be a kid now in theory because you can load all these up for free in mame, but the magic is gone.
@thefuzzman
4 жыл бұрын
Played the hell out of this back in the day! I realty like this "History of..." series, learning alot about the games I used to play growing up. Never knew this was supposed to be a tie-in to Star Trek.
@mdoyle1981
4 жыл бұрын
I've done a bit of coding for the SC-01, it's an interesting chip because it uses phonemes to form words. You select sounds from a register to form words, it takes a little work to make things sound "right" sometimes. That same chip was used by Gottlieb for Q*bert by the way.
@thomasheroux3146
5 жыл бұрын
One of my favs and the first cabinet in my collection when I began a few years ago.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome, I always wanted to own an actual arcade game. Congrats
@edrosa3485
5 жыл бұрын
I had it for my ColecoVision, I was floored by how bright and colorful it was.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
So was I, it was a really good conversion
@AIex_Kidd
4 жыл бұрын
Same here bro.... and almost 40 years later I can't forget the amazing sensation after beating the flag ship for the first time! That awesome explosion.... 💥 So Sweet...
@forgetyourlife
4 жыл бұрын
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Who was working at Colico? seems they had the best on looking games for awile. I remember the controller not being so great though.
@greenlantern1123
4 жыл бұрын
Played this when it came out.. spent many hours on it and have great memories from those days. 11 years old and hooked on Video games 😂 but life was good . Arcade1up what are you doing? This has to be a cabinet!
@realmchat6665
5 жыл бұрын
Oh man you picked a good one this time :) They had Gorf at the Land of OZ in Duck Creek Plaza for most or all of that arcade's existence, was one of my regular games :)
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
You know as I was reading this I thought land of Oz? That sounds familiar. Then you mentioned Duck Creek Plaza and I knew exactly where that was at :-) The only game I can recall being there was APB but I love going to that arcade
@presidentsnow7315
4 жыл бұрын
I fell in love with GORF thanks to the VIC-20. What amazing memories! Thank you for such a great review.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
So did I, thank you for watching
@scottbreon9448
4 жыл бұрын
Love your stuff man. Hope you do a video on Berzerk or Wizard of Wor in the future.
@scottbreon9448
4 жыл бұрын
@Marshall W Indeed. Although Stratovox was the very first arcade game to have digitized speech
@AndySmallbone
5 жыл бұрын
UB40 one hit wonder!!?? Do what? Think you need to do a bit more research! 🙈
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
LOL, sorry about that. I've only heard of one song from the group and it was more of a joke than anything else
@Frischbrot
5 жыл бұрын
yes. a "all-songs-are-the-same" wonder
@ThePeterCorne
5 жыл бұрын
Fool, they had so many hits
@Frischbrot
5 жыл бұрын
they only had hits, because people suck
@ThePeterCorne
5 жыл бұрын
You mean had taste
@Colin12475
5 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Gorf on out Vic 20 computer.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
I had for my Vic 20 as well it was really good
@kyfeam
4 жыл бұрын
i owned this arcade had it in my home in the 90's played the crap out of it.. till it died..
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome I would've loved to own an original cabinet
@adrianshappymoments9343
3 жыл бұрын
Ah, remembering my old birthday parties at Aladdin's Castle with my friends, and a free $50 worth of tokens a piece.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
3 жыл бұрын
$50 apiece? Holy crap, I wish we were friends growing up
@shall6455
4 жыл бұрын
My absolute favorite game as a kid. It still holds up today IMO.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It absolutely does
@acdcking1234
4 жыл бұрын
Gorf is a great game
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
It's in my top 10 for sure
@elektrosoundwave
4 жыл бұрын
First game I remember playing was the Vic-20 version of Gorf. Thank you very much for this
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, thanks for watching
@JustWasted3HoursHere
4 жыл бұрын
"Long live go-erf!" It's funny that there were and are SO many games that are very similar to Galaxians but they couldn't included one of those instead of "the" Galaxian to get around the Atari license.
@symonh5284
4 жыл бұрын
I mastered this game in the arcade back in the day. All I needed was 1 quarter to have my fill of Gorf ... though it cost me a fortune in quarters to get to that point🙂🙂🙂
@piratestation69
5 жыл бұрын
ALF stood for Alien Life Form not force....
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the correction
@seadoogti9288
4 жыл бұрын
Look how many Americans weren't fat back then.
@daneast
4 жыл бұрын
So I assume since GORF and Galaxian were both released by Midway, it was okay that Galaxian was embedded into GORF? I wonder if it was a clone / reproduction, or if they used the actual software / graphics for Galaxian?
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
Not sure if it was the actual software but yes they did get the okay to use them
@HonkyTonkBuffalo
4 жыл бұрын
My uncles use to own a night club, WAY BACK IN THE DAY and they had a GORF machine in the club. When I'd spend weekends with my cousins, we'd go with my uncles in the morning while they cleaned up from the previous night and prepared for the upcoming evening. To keep my cousin's and I occupied and out of their hair while they did so, they would open the GORF machine and rack us up a ton of credits and we'd sit there for hour upon hours playing this masterpiece, over and over and over!! Love this game. :D
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
4 жыл бұрын
That is awesome, wish I had an uncle like that :-)
@fboomerang
2 жыл бұрын
Jay Fenton the GORF developer later invented timeline based media editing (for Macromind/Macromedia) and is still doing absolutely brilliant work with Mark Canter today kzitem.info/news/bejne/065juH9po2ajimk
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