i'm sure this has been done before, but what hasn't? anyway, i was talking with a coworker a few minutes ago about something and somehow or another the 80s popped up. some of the highlights we talked about were... breakin 2: electric boogaloo skateboarding (vision street wear) hammer pants (skidz) iron on shirts (i remember ironing on a gizmo sticker thingee to a tshirt) thundercats/transformers/m.a.s.k. mr rogers koosh balls degrassi junior high toni basil- mickey m.u.s.c.l.e. men the birth of the nes we went on and on and on. sigh... depressing stuff. i'm getting old (24 now). soooo... what are some of your favorite things from the eighties... movies, toys, games, music, clothing, etc. make me even more depressed. by the way... check out this site. i'm sure that you've seen it before. it has tons of stuff about the 80s: x-entertainment here's a link from within the site also about skeletor's minions! minions man... i totally forgot about trapjaw!
How I spent the 80's: TMNT MTV Ghostbusters Friday the 13th A Nightmare on Elm Street DuckTales Gremlins Old School Nickelodeon Masters of the Universe Nintendo Staying up to watch Tales From the Darkside and some Sid & Marty Croft puppet show after the classic late 80's SNL
egon's hair was whacked out. ...ducktales.... oooooOOOO! that song was cool. double dare and scott summers was the bomb. the opening theme music to tales from the darkside really freaked me out (seriously)... so i never watched it. those were good times...
I was more afraid of the photo negative visuals in the opening. The show wasn't all that scary. One episode had this woman with special "diet glasses" that made her see her food talking to her. Funnier then it sounds. Scariest one had to be where this lab genetically engineers superintelligent rats... or that could've been on the similar show, "Monsters." Another 80's toy: Army Ants!!!
yessssssss!!! the grand... prize... GAAAAAAME! EDIT: were any of you guys/gals like me? when i was a kid, i used to get really pissed at the kids who couldn't make it past the 3rd bucket? they sucked! i'm sure i could have done better.
"Blade Runner" in 1982 was a high point. My wife and I moved to Austin in 1980. There must be some other things from the '80's that I'm forgetting, or trying to (like the ******/**** administrations ), but I can't think of anything else right now. Maybe later. God, some of you make me feel old. It's not your fault... it's just the years. I wish I had a lot of them back. There is one thing I can say without reservation, however. I had one hell of a lot more fun in the '50's, '60's and '70's. In the '50's I was a kid growing up in a era where everyone knew their neighbors, left their doors unlocked and I played like a maniac (and had more fun than a kid should be allowed to have). In the '60's and '70's I partied like a maniac and had more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. And how I miss it...
bipolar. sorry. i guess it's just the decade that you spent the majority of your childhood brings back good memories.
Nickelodeon was great! I loved "You Can't do that on Television" "Double Dare" and a host of others! I remember this weird show about these manequins that came to life. I have no idea what it was though. OS-I TOTALLY got pissed at those kids! I thought that game was super easy. I think it was more early 90's, but New Kids on the Block were so cool (if you were a girl in like 2nd grade). Shows how cool I REALLY am! The 80's were cool in their own way. It was transitional, I guess. Into what? I don't know. We knew all of our neighbors back in my neighborhood. The kind of people you could walk across the street to and ask to borrow an egg or a cup of sugar. Stuff like that. I remember Transformers, MASK, G.I. Joe (I have a brother who is 2 years younger than me), Jem, Raibow Brite. Oh, and He-Man and She-Ra...they rocked. And I remember Nintendo, but also Atari. My dad had an original that I watched him play. I remember playing Pac-Man and such at the Pizza Hut down the road. I remember records too-I had a record player. Gosh, I could go on and on...but I'll spare you all....if you're still reading that is.
Atari sucks! (Just kidding, my first computer was an Atari 400 w/ 16k of ram and a casette drive. I used to play this game called "Red Barron" and it took like, 15 minutes to load it off the tape!)
80's memories... early 80's 8 tracks -- I owned one until 83 hangng out at the mall hitting on girls -- malls were just starting to be built out in suburbia Atari -- had a extensive collection of Atari 2600 games mid 80's cruising Westemier cruising Center St in DP cruising texas in Baytown staying sh*tfaced and trying to get laid Parachute pants leather armbands/gauntlets bandannas Hackeysack texas Tapes and Records late 80's playing shows around town staying sh*tfaced and trying to get laid attending every concert that came thru town practices and gigs...playng shows around town staying sh*tfaced damn,no wonder i cant remember alot of the late mid to late 80's
