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WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "Chicagofest '81" (1981)

Here's a segment from the 10pm NewsCenter5 telecast on WMAQ Channel 5 with a look at Chicagofest '81. Featuring Chuck Henry, Warner Saunders, Barry Bernson, and Linda Yu at the end.

Chaka Khan is shown performing, and then Barry Bernson takes us on a tour of the video game area with over 200 machines, and a look at Williams Electronics, the company that created Defender - at 3401 North California, and then Midway Manufacturing in Franklin Park - responsible for producing Pac-Man. We also hear from some of the marketing executives from each company, like Ron Crouse and Stan Jarocki.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, July 29th 1981.

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It should be noted that within the Navy Pier section, RCA Victor Records (then corporate kin to NBC and, therefore, WMAQ) had recording and mastering studios at 445 North Lake Shore Drive from 1935 to 1969 - at which point they moved to newer facilities in the "Loop" section, at 1 North Wacker Drive (called the "Mid-America Recording Center"); there they remained until 1973. At the older location, one major hit recorded there (so I've read) was Vaughn Monroe's "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)," the first big hit on 45 RPM in 1949; in the 1960's, the big Motown hits were mastered at RCA's Chicago studios.

Also . . . I see Warner Saunders mentioned Teddy Pendergrass was to perform there. I take it this was some six months or so before the auto accident that changed his life forever.
Comment posted by W.B. on Friday, July 2nd 2010 at 11:33pm.

Hey FM, speaking of Defender, I rule that game.
Comment posted by ChitownTVFan on Saturday, July 3rd 2010 at 5:12am.

LOL I love it. I hope you load the second report on video gaming. I would love to see the psychologist's report on the dangerous of video gaming. Just look at the way video games have grown as they reached homes. I wish I could have gone to Chicagofest. We never went anytime back then. I know there was stuff for kids at my age at the time. I would have been 11 turning 12 that September.
Comment posted by NuBnPrnc2k on Sunday, July 4th 2010 at 7:50am.

Did that guy playing Defender really use a smart bomb with only two alien ships on the screen?!
Comment posted by JJO_Chicago on Sunday, July 4th 2010 at 8:57am.

I remember at least one very serious news report around that time about the psychological damage Pac-Man and its ilk could be doing to America's youth. I remember arguing with my parents that video games helped develop hand-eye coordination, which must be why traffic accidents are a thing of the past for our generation...oh, wait.
Comment posted by APM on Sunday, July 4th 2010 at 9:11am.

This was back in the day when Navy Pier was a dilapadated, useless plank of rotting wood. Now it's the biggest tourist attraction in Illinois. Only 20 arrests!? Be on the lookout for pickpockets!? Note one of the soundstages was sponosored by Olympia Beer. In the video game part, a very good look at Defender which for it's time was a hell of a game! Pac-Man of course has never gotten old and it's only gotten bigger as more technology has allowed it's use; cell phones, Ipads etc. I can see why at the time an Alderman would've wanted the games banned for kids. In New York Pinball for decades was actually considered a game of chance and in some parts was illegal.
Comment posted by GalagaFleetCommander on Sunday, July 4th 2010 at 9:38am.

Whats the game at 2:52? Only one I didn't recognize.
Comment posted by afdave on Monday, July 5th 2010 at 2:17pm.

Looks a little like Wizard of Wor, but it's been awhile since I saw the arcade version of that.
Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Monday, July 5th 2010 at 2:24pm.

No, definately not Wizard of Wor, although the shooter guy looks similar.
Comment posted by afdave on Monday, July 5th 2010 at 4:20pm.

That seems ridiculous. Why didn't they just ban junk food too?
Comment posted by CelesteK on Friday, July 22nd 2011 at 10:38pm.

Chaka Khan is from Chicago? Awsome!

Pac-Man and Denfender made in Chicago? Also Awsome.

It's a shame that Chicagofest discontinued during the Harold Washington years. It sure looks fun.
Comment posted by Loyal32Fan on Saturday, July 23rd 2011 at 9:14pm.

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