Considering the huge leaps made by competitive gaming in the last year with EVO and MLG, it’s incredible to watch this footage – a news report on the 1982 Australian Colecovision Championship, complete with a strange middle-aged man claiming he is Australia’s first video game super hero. This is classic stuff.
Thanks to Matt Keller over at Retro Gaming Australia for digging it up. Incredible find!
The 1982 Australian Colecovision Championship [Retro Gaming Australia]
TheJagji
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:10 PM‘Its all fair in love and Stawars’
Best quote from the vidoe. lol
martin
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:16 PMmy mother used to warn me about old guys dressed in wierd costumes – who hung out at arcades
brad
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 4:05 PMi reckon!!
pedo much?
@StewPenguin: probably jail. bahahahahaha
StewPenguin
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:18 PMJim Welsh – Video Master
Where is he now :O
Ry Spears
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:25 PMThe “Captain Spock” of the silicone chip.
Mark Serrels
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:30 PMAhahahahaha!
jamesmacusedmyhandle
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:32 PMZOMG is that Harli’s dad????
Pleather FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dean
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:43 PMThe funniest bit is the Australian media has hardly changed its attitude to gamers over the past 30 years.
Jubs
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 12:20 PMIt’s so true! That brief wince a journalist gives before saying the word “video game” is timeless apparently.
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:47 PMHaha! “Good luck Space Hero!”
I almost fell off my chair!
dstread
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:52 PMLAWWWWWLLL IM A CHAMPION xD
doubleDizz
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 3:29 PMI snorted my drink out my nose when they zoomed out to show the crowd contained 20 5 year olds LOLLLLLL
Reoh
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 4:08 PMI wonder how many of these people are now TOGs?
http://www.theoldergamers.com
Cav
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:41 PMWas that MC guy Tony Mokbel?
Great to see the joysticks being ‘palmed’ too
Powalen
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:43 PMHaha! Huge audience turnout from the after-school crowd there.
This video reinforces the fact that nobody looks good when filmed concentrating on a video game. Glad Jim Welsh’s mustache was there to add some class.
Sebastian
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 10:11 AMStill have my Colecovision stashed away somewhere. I vaguely remember entering a few contests like this as a kid. You turned up at a shopping centre and tried to get a good score on a game.
Looked like they filmed it at Hoyts George street. Used to be one of my favourite arcades in the early 80s.
Victor
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 3:33 PMWow, Talk about perception skills, youre spot on, it was the Hoyts on George St.
McGarnical
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 10:30 AMThis video made me want to go outside and throw a frisbee or something.