As a belated x-mas present, I am extremely proud and happy to be able to offer you classic arcade addicts some great video material from the early 80‘s !!!
Below you will find a documentary that was made by and for Dutch national television and was aired on january 11, 1982.
The broadcasting company AVRO has given permission to publish this on the internet in a streaming form. Please do not publish this on Youtube or likewise sites or we may get in trouble !
I translated everything said as best as I could. There will definitely be some “strange” translations but this is what I could do and as long as you understand what is said I think that should be fine.
Some notes:
1)The very first part (until 0.01.02) is NOT from the “Driester” documentary but from another (much later) TV item
2)The “Driester” (=ThreeStar) documentary starts with host Ruud ter Weijden talking with Star Raiders playing behind him. This is a brilliant game (with a lot of history) on the Atari 8 bit homecomputer.
3)The guy interviewed at [00.12.00] is R. Hommerson. Hommerson arcade(s) still exist to this day at Scheveningen, The Netherlands !!
4)[00.16.27] The man from the Dutch Gaming Machines association (VAN) is speaking about legal issues in the arcade business in front of at least 3 bootleg machines !!
5)I made a list with all the games that I manage to ID with timecodes, I will upload this ASAP.....there sure were some treasures in there !
HUGE thanks go out to “Gyruss” and “Etienne”, without them this wouldn't have been possible at all !!!
Check out the videos here:
Note: For now, the video's are only available in Flash format. This means they won't be playable on all (mobile) devices. I hope to add H.264 versions of these videos soon, which will offer better quality at a lower bit-rate and lower processing load.
