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 in 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 Please do not publish this on Youtube or likewise sites or we may get in trouble !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. 1)The very first part (until 0.01.02) is NOT from the “Driester” documentary but from another (much later) TV item
   

2. 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. 3)The guy interviewed at [00.12.00] is R. Hommerson. Hommerson arcade(s) still exist to this day at Scheveningen, The Netherlands !!
   

4. 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. 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 the “Gyruss” and “Etienne” from http://www.dragonslairfans.com/ forum !!!

With English Subtitles

Original version, no subtitles