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Favorite '80s stuff?

Lord Garth

Lord Garth

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I was waiting for my '90s thread to die a Page Two Death, before starting up this one.

Mine:

Rubix Cubes
Etch-A-Sketch
Arcade Games
Duck Hunt
Neon

I used to have a pair of stone-washed white jeans. Much, much later -- in 2009 -- I found stone-washed white jeans on sale at Hot Topic. I bought a pair on the spot and still have them.

And a few of my favorite bands (and a song to go with them), digging deep (I'm not going for the stuff everyone knows like Duran Duran or Flock of Seagulls):

Missing Persons - "Destination Unknown"
The Mary Jane Girls - "In My House"
The Human League - "Keep Feeling Fascination"
Paul Hardcastle - "19"
Simple Minds - "Alive and Kicking"
New Order - "Blue Monday"

I'll leave it there.
 
Original early years MTV when the "M" stood for music videos and only music 24 hours a day.
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Lord Garth said:
Rubix Cubes
Etch-A-Sketch
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The only issue, Etch-A-Sketch's came around in the 1960's. I had one or two in the 70's, so it was fun to have.

I could never actually solve a Rubik's Cube without disassembling it.

The best arcade games really did come out in the 80's.

- Sinistar
- Bosconian
- Star Trek (very basic)
- Star Wars (also very basic)
- Asteroids
- Defender
- Galaga
- Galaxian
- Moon Lander (similar looking to Asteroids, but you had to land an LEM on the Moon)
- Pac Man
- Tron
- Nintendo vs. Baseball (where else could you bunt a home run?)

I'm a die hard classic rock and metal guy, but early 80's music was better than what we'd get in the 90's for damn sure, plus the aforementioned MTV. I'd spend entire days watching MTV in the summer.
 
The 80's was also the decade were these things took off

The Home PC
Video Recorders
The Walkman


But time to take a trip down memory lane

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One of the greatest songs ever written:

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My totally epic perm. I had more chemicals in my hair than a nuclear reactor.

I loved the oversized baggy clothes. They were so comfortable.
 
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Ar-Pharazon said:
The best arcade games really did come out in the 80's.
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Oh HELLS yeah, I miss video arcades. That's some of my greatest memories of my youth, right there. And proof positive that you really can't go home again. :sigh:

Anyhoo...some of my other fond memories of the 80's:

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And there's nothing like an 80's cop show:

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Favorite things from the 80s huh? A list that combines some pop culture and just stuff we used to do.

In no particular order
MTV
Rush (the band)
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Married With Children
The A-Team
Star Trek Next Gen
Dungeons & Dragons
Baseball and Football cards
Comic Books
Classic rock radio stations
Jeans on women that seemed like they were painted on.
Atari 2600
Nintendo (NES)
Scrounging for quarters and then begging my dad to drive me and friends to the local arcade
Playing outside, most memorably flashlight tag
Swimming/Playing in the pool
Building forts in the nearby woods
Legos
Cape Cod on vacation
Christmas (Christmas in the 80s was fantastic)
 
on the music front: post-punk and the rise of American Hardcore (e.g. Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, etc.), plus I enjoy most ska from that era (Specials, The Beat, Selector, etc.)

on the film front: this may be the single best decade for the horror genre, mainly due to the decreased cost in Indie filmmaking with the proliferation of the VHS tape. Even mainstream horror was good (Carpenter, et al), with the possible exception of all the numerous and blasted franchise sequels (Nightmare on Elm St, Halloween, etc)

on the food front: junk food ruled form this decade, partly because this was the beginning of the "fat era" - everything became higher fat, and I even recall fatty versions of healthy foods taking off like never before (i.e. yogurt)- and humanity had not yet come to the full conclusion that what you eat has a direct impact on one's health (or maybe we just didn't care yet)

...anyway I spent the early and later part of my teenage years growing up in this decade, but I truly prefer the 70s.
 
Everyone reading this thread has to see Kung Fury. It's only a half-hour and you'll get a big kick out of it.

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We also said hello to Red Dwarf in the 80's

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MacLeod said:
We also said hello to Red Dwarf in the 80's

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Some of us did, some of us didn't. Chicago PBS never picked it up as far as I know. I got an episode or two to come in on the Milwaukee PBS station, barely.
 
Ar-Pharazon said:
I could never actually solve a Rubik's Cube without disassembling it.
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Nor could I. I took a screwdriver to every Rubik's toy I owned.

(I had the 2, 3, and 4-cube-to-a-side versions. If there were any Rubikses that were bigger than that, I bet they took years to solve...)
 
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