This find is literally oozing with retro 80′s goodness! Just sit back and take in this delightful Space Port Arcade’s Staff Training Video!
Part 1
Part 2
Space Ports were a franchised chain of shopping mall video arcades that were especially popular in the late-seventies and early-eighties. Mallrats and pretty much any teen who grew up in those days, will remember these loud and funky shopping mall gaming wonderlands. The video above (in two parts) is an interesting (and oftentimes unintentionally funny!) relic of the ’70s and ’80s shopping mall landscape–albeit from slightly more on the “inside”.
Hehe, this is awesome. Man I love seeing the old arcades from the 80′s.
Interestingly enough – these were a division of Atari. Which isn’t too surprising since Bally also had a chain of arcades. I discovered this while googling “Atari Adventure” which I previously thought was the only arcade properties they had.
This recording is awesome I remeber those days well : ) I would Love to purchase an original 80′s spaceport T shirt for my collection and arcade room..
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sizzler Joe
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Huh, I had no idea, that’s really cool to know however – I also thought that the Atari Adventure was the only thing they had.
Space Port began when two men who were brothers-in-law placed a trivia game in Neshaminy Mall which was located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. They placed one game, trivia in the main mall to see what would happen. This made so much money that they decided to open a “family amusement center” in the same mall. I’m not sure if it was originally called a Space Port, but did become one. From there I believe they opened their second location in King of Prussia mall and continued to expand from there. The men, Jim Ginsberg and Marc Rodstein never franchised these centers but continued to own all locations until they sold them to Bally/Atari. The locations were then sold to Edison Brothers who basically ran them down until selling them again. They were eventually sold to the Time Out Company and the locations were either converted to Time Outs or closed. They were able to continue to exist into the early ’90s when home games finally did them in. I could go on and on about Space Ports, but I figure that I bored you folks enough with this information.