Flickr is filled with all sorts of great photos from our retro history. My favorite find of this week is this wonderful group of photos (117 in total), called Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989, and predictably it features peoples playing games in the arcades of the late 1970s and 1980s. It is filled with gems and is guaranteed to bring you back to the golden age of arcades. Enjoy the memories and if you have some photos, please share them.
Classic for the games AND clothes.
I remember when playing Track and Field I used a comb or pencil and positioned between my fingers of my left hand and over both buttons so that it would act like a teeter-totter so that you could just press one side of the comb and would press each button to run faster in the game. That’s until they put the button guards in place to stop this activity. Good times!!
I love how you can instantly look at a picture from that time period and without question say; thats the 80′s
Some decades blend and you could be unsure, but there is never any denying the 80′s Love it.
Makes me wish I had a camera all those days I spent at the arcade, but I do not have a single pic.
I miss arcades like this. Now most arcades just have crane machines and things to win tickets for stupid overpriced junk.
Check out the kid on the far right. Looks like he’s got on a Cub Scout uniform under his jacket.
Isn’t that Chunk from the Goonies on the left?
So many games I forgot about! =P
Anyone in the Chicago are been here yet?;
http://www.gallopingghostarcade.com/
Ive got to make some time to check it out!
Well, I think we all need to give the Growing Up In Arcades a big round of applause for letting me hitch a ride in their DeLorean with these pics. Wow. :)
@Zoltar Friend, when you get to visit this place…take plenty of pictures, please?
funny what fraze says considering this shot is not from the 80s. it’s from the 70s.
Cool picture. I’m trying to figure out which arcade games are featured. I got three of the four (right to left)
74 midway TV basketball, Unknown, 75 Atari Anti-Aircraft and 76 Kee Games Sprint2
Oh my god I had that same Brown coat on the right …