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So privileged to be part of the Retro Man Cave experience. And meeting Neil and visiting the Cave itself was an enlightening experience too. To check us out here head on over to kzfaq.info - thanks for watching!

I recently searched for KZfaq videos of LCD games. Hadn't given them much thought since I actually played them in elementary school 35 years ago during lunch breaks. The video would start, it would show the folded "Donkey Kong" game, the presenter would unfold it, the start button was pressed and at the first beep of the speaker? I swear I instantly smelled the smell of 20 kids' lunch boxes being opened. It was so vivid and I was totally unprepared for it. Completely forgot that smell (luckily) and was blown away at how the mind/memory seems to work. Thanx for the vid and the memories!

Astro Wars! Even after all these years, the start of round fanfare is still burnt into my brain.

I had astro wars, it was my big gift Christmas 81, happy memories hearing those sounds and tunes again. And yes it was soooo loud 😁

The game I remember from my childhood was a Grandstand 'Invader from Space'. Just seeing and hearing one on another video brought back memories, wish I had looked after things like that better when I was younger!

@MichaelOglesby has pointed out on Twitter that TRON IS emulated and you can play it right now online here: archive.org/details/hh_tmtron - so I know what I'm doing this afternoon. Thanks Michael

Give me a OLED screen with Pac-Man and you can take my money. For me personally that would be a better emulation of a CRT rather than the back lit LCD.

I had the traditional game & watch as a kid, but my mates had the colour flip ones which let light through the back, and you viewed the game through a mirror. As a kid I used to have the reflexes to beat the scores, and I remember that if you got to 300 without loosing a life, then you would get double points. That's how I remember it anyway. 😁 Astro Wars and Caveman. I used to pay them for hours, the sounds drove my parents nuts.

Even though there's not a whole lot of actual "game" to a lot of these, I absolutely LOVE the aesthetic of it! I would love a mini-arcade of certain games.

SO many memories in this one video!!!!!!

Ah, so this is where the awesome collection of handhelds in the new cave came from? I've been following GamesYouLoved forever, so good to put a face (and voice!) to the name. 🙂

very nice video thanks . . . as for me I had the tomy steering wheel thing and those lcd handhelds were quite common things in the early 80s also on the austrian countryside where we referred to them generally as tricotronics which may have been the local distribution brand name of the original nintendo game and watch ones . . . great fun and then got a cpc 464 :) and my favorite lcd handheld was called western saloon

Hilarious,ive played most of these as a 70s child,its great these have been saved.

I still have my boxed Galaxy Invader 1000. So many happy memories, I’ll never part with it. I also had a boxed Frogger which I sold for £5 back in 1990. Man, I wished I had of kept that!

Fond memories of my Donkey Kong Jr Game and Watch! Which my dad bought me from Microland in Waterlooville! Also owned the Pacman clone, Puck Monster (very addictive), and the much harder Frogger handheld. Happy days!

Ah, the Game & Watch smell! My strongest memory of getting the Zelda one as a birthday present was the strong plasticky/electronicky smell. I still have it and, although it's weakened over the course of twenty plus years, the smell's still there!

Great video RMC! I had several of these as a child and coulddnt remember them until this video! THANK YOU!

Had a Galaxy Invader 1000 when i was a kid, happy memories.

Thanks for making an old man happy.😊 I remember a lot of these games 🎮 from the last day of term when we were aloud to take in one toy each. We would all have ago on each others games and no matter how good your game was or what your game was you always thought your mates was better. Maybe just because you had over played your own.

I had so many of these games and used others at friends houses in primary school at the time. Wow the nostalgia fix right there. The sights and sounds are so good. I still have one Game and watch handheld and a non working Galaxy 1000 which was played to death at the time. Great stuff, thanks.

Who doesn't love astro wars? I had one called Dracula way back. Only watched snippets so far Neil, going to enjoy the whole vid on the train home....if I miss my stop I'm blaming you!!

that tomy dashboard..wow! i begged for one of those when i was a kid. haha

Love all the hand held and tabletop games 😁 great to see some of them up and running it brings back memories. Great show and tell episode Neil...😁😁😁 Kim 😁😁😁

How lovely ,what memories you just dug out for me!! I actually still have 1 handheld left from 1983 when i was 13 😱 and that's Grandstands Pocket Scramble .

Astro Wars! Haven't seen that since I owned it as a kid. Sat on my nan's kitchen table Christmas Day, totally engrossed. Brilliant.

I had CGL's Puckmonster while my brother had Astro Wars. I played them both to death. Brilliant little games.

Another great collection. I remember as a boy on a holiday in Hastings my grandparents purchasing me Demon Driver from Woolworths as a gift. Never easy getting new batteries though! Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant! I haven't seen Astro Wars since the '80s! Hearing it took me right back.

Im a table top and Game&Watch collector and i have most of these. I love them! You certainly showed the most common models. Alien Attack is great! And so is Gakken Frogger and Gakken Amidar. Theres a total of 4 Nintendo table tops (plus one by coleco with the same case body design)

So many great memories thank you a great collection 👍😎🙏

I own a PacMan clone called Munchman, Caveman and Firefox F7 by Grandstand, passed down from my dad.

I had the Invader 2000 when I was young (I think I still have it somewhere in storage). I don't think mine had the badge (so I honestly didn't know what it was called until now). I really liked how you could plug headphones into the top port to get headphone sound. I picked it up second hand at a yard sale when I was very young (maybe 10-12yrs old). @11:22 it seems like you cut the section talking about Invader 2000 and the yellow one (which I have never seen and was very interested in knowing more about. I recently bought my dad a Galaga/Galaxian 1UP Arcade Cabinet here in the United States. He's going to freak at Christmas as he's a serious Galaga player (I've seen him his 3million before and reach levels around 70+ on a single credit easily). I plan to record a video of him seeing it for the first time. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get him a better gift for the rest of his life, Galaga is the final gift for him really.

My childhood on one table! Astro Wars was one of my fave presents from Santa along with Scramble! I always yearned for the Tomy car every time a new Argos catalogue came out. I hope to collect them one day in the not too distant future.

I remember so many of these from my childhood. Either games I've owned or friends at the time. I still have (in the loft) the Astro Blaster game which I think is exactly the same as Alien Attack you have their but with a red case. That new 1/4 Pac Man cabinet is something else.

still got my ASTRO wars , thanks for sharing , bought back some good memories

The Donkey Kong Jr isn't a VFD it's a coloured LCD that reflects on the mirror at the front .. the white plastic at the top is the "skylight" .. it's a very clever way to get colour image without using VFD

That was wonderful thank u for sharing. I also noticed u have the battle ships I had a kid. Love it

Great vid, that was, I've still got the Grandstand Munchman table top game, ( main Christmas present 1982 ) which was like a clone of Pac-Man, also Grandstand invader from space, both still with boxes & instruction leaflets. They used to eat through batteries, quickly purchased a mains adaptor! Also still got Nintendo game and watch Vermin game, where you knock moles back into the ground. They all still work too, amazing when they're pushing 35 years old, most of these games. Stuff was better made back in those days better quality Japanese components.

Thank you so much for sharing Demon Driver! @10:10 I had that game as a kid and haven't thought about it in years

I've never known anyone else with a Galaxian machine. My brother had the Donkey Kong. Bought in the US around 1982. I also had the Demon Driver game! Awesome!

Great collection! Awsome!!

"Astro wars",those things lasted for years,tough casing.

COOL........THANK YOU For The Flash Back Cheers From Newfoundland Canada..

1:22 i had that one, space turbo!! on that exact colour! oh man, feeling nostalgic now... pretty basic game but eh, when youre 10 years old, it looked amazing! thanks, mom and dad (it was very expensive back in 85)

I used to have a hand held Battlestar Galactica back in the early 80's which i loved. Also spent many hours on astro wars scoring 9999 nearly every time i played.

The Galaxy Invader (yellow one) handheld was the only one I had back in the day. I played most of those displayed whilst I was in primary school, during free time just before half terms etc. An awesome array of handheld delights! Thank you gentlemen :)

My brother still has his grandstand astro wars that you have there. Still works. We used have huge fun with it. He got it for christmas in the early 80’s.

Wow. I had Astro Wars as a kid, I think we rescued it from a boot sale with a Scramble game too. Oh and the Tomy Dashboard! There was a kid at my primary school that always had a Game and watch, I vaguely remember one that had proper joypads.

I loved Astro Wars. I remember even putting a bit of tape over the speaker grill (just above the power switch) wasn't enough to stop it waking up the entire house early in the morning.

Many of my favorites.

Ha! I recognize Astrowar, loved it

Yeah, I like all of the games. Very nice games. Thank you for showing of these great games. Greetings from RetroGameCity :-)

Bandai FL Zaxxon back in Christmas 1984 & Grandstand Star Force back in Christmas 1985 were the VFD table top games of my childhood! Astro Wars was an annual favourite in the classroom during the 1980s around Christmas during the 1980s as well (along with proper purple blackberry jelly, when it had all the E numbers and tasted awesome)! :-D

All I really can say Neil, is that I'm really jealous. I'm coming over by 3rd class rate travel by boat to be over, I'll be there in about 3 to 4 months. 8^) Nice work as always bro. Anthony..

Caveman was sold at Radio Shack stores in the USA. I remember playing it there. Pretty neat little game, although very simplistic.

wow that was freaky... i suddenly had a memory of playing on a turbo tomy from when i was very young.. like literally never recalled that before now, spooky when you suddenly remember something from decades ago!..

I have Astro wars, love the magnifier and form factor.

Ace vid. But I believe that Greenhouse was the first Game and Watch with a directional pad (used to have it myself, regret selling it)

Awesome Astro Wars on the right.....I had one of them😁

That Authentic Nintendo Smell...ahhhh. Right up there with New Car Smell and New Figure Smell (that fragrance that emanated from a freshly opened Kenner Star Wars Action Figure)

Very nice collection gentlemen. I'm very jealous 😀

I had Astro Wars. It’s a beautiful machine. Also, what was the yellow handheld at 11:42? I had one of those too but can’t remember what it was.

When I was young I think everyone i knew had an Astro Wars !

I had the Donkey Kong game and watch. I remember a Japanese kid in my class bringing one back from a trip to Japan and everyone in the class including me fell in love with it (Donkey Kong arcade game was still king). First time I saw it in a store here in the US, I **had** to have it, and I did what all kids are wont to do- begged my parents who gifted it to me soon after :D My family also had that Demon Driver game, only it was called Digital Derby here. We also had another Tomy game called Blip. My favorite game the family had (not counting the Donkey Kong G&W!) was one from Entex called Galaxian 2. Sadly, all are long gone.

The tabletop Donkey Kong Jr doesn't use a vacuum fluorescent display, it uses a specially coloured LCD display, which is actually situated in the roof of the unit underneath a translucent bit of plastic and the surrounding room light provides the backlighting (you can see the translucent window on the top at 7:12), so the image gets lovely and bright if you put it near a window or shine a desk lamp onto it. There is then a 45 degree mirror that reflects the LCD screen forward out of the unit so you can see it. I've been collecting the old Game & Watch units over the past year and have all but the few unfeasibly expensive ones now, they are wonderful. There were 4 tabletop units released: Mario's Cement Factory, Popeye, Snoopy, and Donkey Kong Jr. They then used the same tech in the more portable "Panorama" series.

Christmas 82,I received my Pac Man Coleco tabletop game along with other cool presents. I was four years old

Still got my entex pacman from 83 had for Christmas. And also dracula bought for my birthday in 84.both still working.

You teased us with Frogger but no demo 😭 Excellent show nevertheless👍

I used to own that "Space Turbo" 30 years ago! Might still be somewhere at my mother's house …

I had the Tron game and really enjoyed it

I had Demon Driver, but it was called Digital Derby in the States. Demons were exorcised upon import, presumably.

Very interesting video :) I only had one handheld multigame thing with tetris and tennis and stuff. Gameboy was to expensive for my parents. In their opinion.

Didn't realise that Space Invaders and/or Galaga and Pacman actually work quite well in whatever that kind of screen is called. Pacman looks much better than the console ports of the time.

I'm addicted to collecting and repairing these beauties....they have a very "70"s smell to them.....

I remember a lot of these games from when i was a kid. I thought they were so cool.

I had 'Scramble' by Grandstand, passed down from my older brother...never figured out what happened to it, but i presume its either still in a barn somewhere, or was thrown out years ago when we moved out of London :(

super cool. thank you! never saw the caveman game. had the turd double dragon game.

remember having that Demon Driver game - think it was the first electronic game my parents brought for me. also had a Bandai Missile Invader (space invader clone) that was LED based with a 2-digit seven-segment LED display for scoring at the top.. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to either of them.

I loved Astro Wars! Always wanted it but never managed to get my parents to buy me it back in the 80s/90s!

I had the Turbo Dashboard. Loved it

1:30 Tomy Turnin' Turbo... I SO badly wanted one like 35 years ago... never got one.. still wan't one actually...!

Second week of December for that huh i need one of those

I remember those Tiger hand helds being a staple of wet breaks in junior school! We would have brought in our grey brick Gameboys but the headmaster decided they were too valuable and banned them :(

I know and remember Astro Wars and Space Turbo. I've been trying to find any TV adverts of Space Turbo online and nothing.

I still have my original donkey Kong 3 handheld with the retractable controllers in the original box and instruction manual in great condition.

Astro Wars in the U.S. was called Galaxy II as I had that 😂

Smelling your electronics...you Brits are alright in my book. I do the same thing with every new game, retro console, tabletop game, handheld device, and even top end cellphones. I have always done this and I started out doing it as a kid. I know I'm about to age myself but I was doing this way back in 1986 with Nes and Master System games. The first time I did this in front of my fiancee the look on her face was priceless. She was probably thinking "Oh great, I went home with a psycho." She was a good sport about it and now she partakes in the smelling of new games as well. Oh...she's a diehard gamer like me that plays everything. She's a good egg...

I wish to have and play some of those lcd games. I had only the cheap ones, in the childhood. I can play modern games and older games, emulated on computer or phone, but it will never replace the feeling of holding and playing on original device. I had mainly brick games 99999 in 1 (mainly, because they were cheap, so my parents would buy me them a lot) which obviously was not true, but those gamea were very fun. Those lcd Sonic games, that were given in McDonalds, they were also okay. And I also had some bootleg lcd Mario and Pac-Man games, which both were not so good. Mario was somewhat playable, but Pac-Man was very zoomed in and because of that, you were loosing a lot, as you could not see ghost earlier, than them being very close to you.

You didnt do the Tomytronic 3D Hand held game that i have?lol It WAS Wicked!!

Hello guys First of all great upload. But can you please give me the name of the 2nd device you touched when mentioning it doesn't work. I am almost sure i had one of them in blue when I was younger. My older brother had all sorts growing up and I know the name of them all but please tell me the name of the white one you touch very early into the clip. Kind regards

That Turbo Dashboard I have wanted that all my life! Living outside the US actually scoring one is like impossible :/

9:26 Used to have that game plus numerous other game and watch but I left it in a vehicle for months and the heat just destroyed it. Vehicles can reach 50 c inside if parked in the sun.

I had the red Tomy car game!

Still have my Astro Wars!

Those lcd games where awesome back then, everybody at school had one. But playing them now, ..., the games where eh not the best :D New "bartop" arcade looks cool hopefully better build than those crappy arcade 1 up, but they are a bit pricy

loved the episode, but you may want to do something about your table being a "bass" drum! i.e. from 13:02 until 13:17

OMG Demon Driver haha. Loved that. Did you come across a Digital Daredevil?

Boom boom boom let me here you say way-ooh (way-ooh)!

That pacman machine is lit fam