it's mark summers dude. still, that show was awesome. ducktales was a quality cartoon. thundercats was awesome. teenage mutant ninja turtles was a huge fad. NES baby. the greatest gaming system ever. still have 16 working games for it and love to go back and play them every once in a while, including the single greatest game ever, Tecmo Super Bowl (though that actually came from the 90's). WWF wrestling. hulk hogan and andre the giant. i wanna say i watched "you can't do that on television" b/c i definitely remember that picture, but i don't remember anything from the show. the music was great. Bozo was THE MAN. or more accurately, he was the man who came on at like 7 or 7:30 in the morning so my sister and I would watch him every morning before school. those 3-5 year olds who couldn't hang at the 3rd bucket pissed me off too. i was born in late 81 so i didn't really experience anything until the late 80's, but considering how much i like the music and looking back on it, it would've been cool to grow up more then (of course then i would've had to be born in the 70's which would've sucked). now VH1 is trying to do I Love the 70's? wtf is up with that. the 70's aren't lovable like the 80's. all the low-tech games that seemed cool but aren't now, the corny but good music, the fads. the 70's just doesn't work like that. i guess they can make fun of disco and bell-bottoms, but still it's not the same.
Ahh, the 80s The cartoons I watched were.. Ghostbusters (btw, anyone remember that Peter's voice was different on the weekend episodes than the weekday episodes?) TMNT Inspector Gadget Ducktales I remember hearing the song "She drives me crazy" every day in my mom's old Oldsmobile as we headed to baseball practice. Anybody remember the snap bracelet?
"Today's Special, shout it loud and clear. Today's Special" I had completely forgotten about that show until you mentioned it, but I remember now, Muffy the mouse, and Sam the night watchman. I always wondered, why the hell do they have a puppet playing a human???
I remember getting them taken up in school. Anybody here ever play Pogs? Remember the classic OJ slammer?
Damn, minus Masters of the Universe and add Thundercats and Transformers and we were the same kid! I knew the entire SNL cast before I was like 2. I had some good parents huh, letting a 2yr old stay up that late... The puppet show thing was like DC Folies or something... Oh and what about GARBAGE PALE KIDS!!!
How many people owned a pair of these? Atari (Pitfall specifically) Commodor 64 Beta VCR Tapes Knight Rider (best show EVER)
Speaking of Monsters/Tales from the Darkside - there was an episode of Monsters with Ahmad Rashad in it. It was called "The Hole". He was a vietnam soldier that went down in the tunnels and could never get out, even when he found the right exit it just took him deeper into the tunnels. It was very freaky, these dead Vietcong soldiers came back to life. Freaked me out... Also there was an episode called "The Waiting Game" - a nuclear holocaust takes place and there are mutants still alive outside. There is a guy in a military base and the mutants want in, the only thing seperating them is a keypad. The mutants just sit there and try to crack it, pretty freaky. http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeGuideSummary/showid-379/season-3#ep54
I remember us not going to the '80 Olympics... then getting the favor returned in '84 - winning about everything Gold and Silver... long vacations to Florida or California when our whole fam could go for under a grand. wearing two-tone blue canvass VANS that I got in '83 at Pier 91 in Huntington Beach Calif. wearing CAMO jogging shoes made by "Aspri" based out of Pearland (with velcro, no less) wearing the original "Coca-Cola" brand rugby shirts, Jordache jeans, and Keapas (two sets of laces) tennis shoes... fat checkered black and red laces in my rockets converse listening to Gene call games on my "jam box" playing "double dribble" on nes or "one on one" on an Apple IIc at my friend's house pong console (black and white game, controls built in) SEARS version of Atari 2600 "Video Computer System" Atari 2600 intellivision coleco (with original "donkey kong" f/ mario) Atari 5800 Nes Sega Sega Genesis (90's?) Information Society, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran... on 93Q "zoo" in the morning Doug E. Fresh the Fat Boys.... Egyptian Lover, breakin' Majic 102 mixes New Edition... Mr. Telephone Man constant fear of the USSR and nuclear war... even in our movies RED DAWN The Day After... even "V" the mini-series.. all symbolic other movies: Star Wars Trilogy BTTF Trilogy Gremlins Goonies ...man I could go 4 stinkin' ever. I generally don't like country music as far as I can throw it, but there's some song called "1980 Somethin'" by some dude... it brings a lot of these memories back. The '80's were the definition of to some of us. And I'm glad the '80's are over... now, my children are experiencing their own similar memories... man, what will their "Atari" be? What will the defining movie of their childhood be? Is terrorism their communism? Or will communism revive? sorry to make an otherwise fun thread serious. finally... Super Tecmo Bowl.... the only game where moon could throw a 120 yd. TD from endzone to endzone... ...the only time in the decade when my team won the Superbowl.
lol... i can not believe that i wore those. those are sooooo lame. snap bracelets were cool. i had a camoflauge one in the 4th or 5th grade. someone mentioned garbage pail kids... i have the whole 2nd series in my little bro's closet there in houston. the movie that came out about them gets the award for the "sickest, cheesiest, and so horrible that it was funny" movie ever made. iroc it, yes i remember the fatboys, but do you remember the movie that they were in?... the disorderlies? it was actually a pretty good movie. new edition... telephone man? yep... "mr telephone man, there's something wrong with my line. when i dialed my baby's number... i get a 'click' in retuuuuurn." ... or something like that. classic stuff.
I did..:embarrassed: those were the best shoes to hackey in cause of the flat surfaces.. I still have a Beta player..it doesnt work anymore..but i still have it. We had a pong unit...simple simple...one white line inthe middle of the screen...and two shorter white lines on either edge...we thought it was the coolest thing when we first got it..till the Commodre and the atari 2600 came out.. how could I forget MTV, Night Flight and Friday Night videos on my early 80's list? We used to watch those constantly..
For sentimental reasons, I bought a pair in the mid-90's at a Vans store in Redondo Beach. I've worn them sparingly and still have them. They are pretty comfortable.
I wore those shoes everyday in 4th grade, no matter if I was dressed up for special events or riding my skateboard with the guys down the street. I can't believe I forgot about those shoes. I begged and BEGGED my parents to buy them for me. Glad to know I'm not the only nostalgic fool. My friends ride me endlessly for living in the past and constantly saying how nothing today matches up... except broadband Internet connections (that 800 baud modem and one BBS I frequented just doesn't compare anymore) I also wore the infamous Michael Jackson zippered up jacket... bright red. I wasn't quite deluded enough to wear one glove though, thank god. Of course I went to school in Hammer pants as well. Slap Bracelets. I remember my parents hauling my little sister and I all around Houston to find them. Every store in town was sold out of this fad item. People would come to school with 3 or 4 of them on their wrist and do tricks (laying it flat on their wrist, throwing it up in the air, and catching it to wrap around their ankles, other wrist, etc.). After an entire Saturday (probably 7-9 hours), we finally hit the jackpot. My mom bought out the entire store (about 100) and gave them away in goodie bags at my little sister's upcoming birthday party. Do kids still get goodie bags, by the way? Seriously, those were the highlight of every party. Seeing my friends and playing "Pin the tail on the Donkey" was nice and all, but opening that bag when I got home was the ultimate! And my parents proudly display a picture of a young drapg in his Halloween costume circa 1985 dressed as Mr. T... with about 90 pounds of fake gold jewelery around my neck, fingers, and wrist. And of course I was working the mohawk to no end. Am I the only one who appreciates 80s and early 90s rap/hip-hop/r&b more than today's crapola? If you look at the "movie soundtrack" thread, you'll notice most of my picks are r&b songs from the early 90s. Shai, Boyz II Men, Jodeci, Keith Sweat, New Edition, Soul For Real, Tevin Campbell, early Babyface... I'm sorry but today's crooners just don't compare. And don't even get me started on today's rap... err crizzap. I yearn for the Fat Boys, Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff, early Tupac (when his songs has meaning and weren't about sex and violence... think "Dear Mama", "So Many Tears", "Brenda's Got a Baby", etc.), etc. It sickens me to the point that I've become and old fuddy duddy who no longer tunes into the FM dial, listening exclusively to 610, 700, and 740... like my parents did when I was growing up (which was one trait I thought I would NEVER inherit, but here I am annoying my friends and family by refusing to crank the alleged hits of today in my car. I drive down Richmond with my convertible top down and have Andy Polley and Mel Kiper Jr. blasting from my speakers with homeboys to my left and right blasting the latest rap "hits" "You can't do that on television": I had to secretly watch this show behind my dad's back, because he forbid my sister and I from watching it. Why? Because he thought it was too vulgar. I had my little sister play lookout because my dad usually came home in the middle of the show (6:15CST) everyday and we would change the channel to a wholesome game show instead. The green slime and the water falling on cast members was one of the funniest things ever at the time. Now I look back on it and think, man I was lame... but it was still classic, no doubt.
Used to live about 10 blocks from Gilley's. Mickey's kid used to play with his band at the same oplaces we did in the early 90's..
