The Transformers thing that I found really made me think back to the 80's and remember how much fun I had as a kid back then watching TV, playing video games(Atari/Coleco/Commodore 64, and Nintendo) and collecting baseball cards etc... as well as memorizing the lyrics to songs which I had absolutely no idea that what they meant or were referring to(most of Guns and Roses and AC/DC for example). Then of course, there was always those classic games like Hungry Hungry Hippo, Speak and Spell, Battleship, Operation(This game was soo fun for scaring my little sister), Slip'N'Slide. Remember the Mcdonalds song plastic records they used to give out in the Sunday newspaper and Mcdonalds Monopoly pieces(they tried bringing this back a few times in the 90's)? What about Ray Parker Jr. and Ghostbusters theme song from that great movie as well as Top Gun. I NEED MY MTV(which I never had unfortunately) and Max Hedstrom the talking head.
I had a good time tonight tracking down some old school 80's stuff and sounds online... so figured I'd post a few here for you're enjoyment:
Nintendo Emulators(many to choose from in order to play the roms listed in the above link): http://www.zophar.net/nes.html
Last year I was soo fired up about playing Nintendo games on my PC that I actually wired up an adaptor so that I could plug my old Nintendo and Super Nintendo controllers into my PC's Parallel port. That was fun as hell until my NES controller wore out and I just bought a PC gamepad. Fun stuff!
Please add more nostalgic links to this page so the rest of us can look back on our fun 80's childhoods.
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Childhood....hahahaha....anyway, here are a few things that come immediately to mind (stream-of-consciousnous style):
Miami Vice
My first ever concert (Forienger, Loverboy, Iron Maiden, Scorpions)
Animal House
Ronald Reagan
The A-Team
Black Flag
The Pretenders
Moon walking
the Challenger
Breakfast Club
Sex Pistols
Her Name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Dukes of Hazard
SNL
Girls with jelly sandals, PEZ dispensers, Matchbox cars, Candyland, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, Stonewashed Jeans, Reebok Pumps, Chucks, Rubics Cubes, Cabbage Patch Dolls for Girls, Garbage Pail Kids cards, MAD Balls, MAD Libs, those Army men figurines with working parachutes on them. People with Toyota Trucks that had plates that read "My TOY" and with mudflaps that said "Back off Varmit".
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Talking cars (Seatbelt, seatbelt, seatbelt), automatic seatbelts, big hair, power ballads, and shoulder pads in all women's clothing. God bless the '80s and channel 8 on XM Radio.
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My first ever concert (Forienger, Loverboy, Iron Maiden, Scorpions)
That's a great first concert! Mine was either The Hooters or The Monkees with The Turtles and some other old band. I didn't see Foreigner until the early 1990s, but they were awesome!
That's a great first concert! Mine was either The Hooters or The Monkees with The Turtles and some other old band. I didn't see Foreigner until the early 1990s, but they were awesome!
Foreigner was HUGE when I saw them (probably 1982/1983). Funny thing is, they just played at the local House of Blues last month. I wanted to go see them but couldn't make it....
What about that show 3-2-1-Contact... people tight-rolling their jeans in the late 80's, those wicked heavy and wide skateboards with the handle rails underneath so you could grab onto them from the side... big fat wheels and a piece of plastic in the back to prevent the board from getting all chewed up when you did Ollies.
Beta and then later on recording TV shows and TV-aired movies to VHS. I remember my sister was all into My-Little-Pony and Debbie Gibson as well as New Kids on the Block, and she also used to love those Breyer plastic horses.
I also remember the big AIDS scare and how everyone thought that AIDS/HIV was going to wipe out the human population, so they used to show specials in schools encouraging people to partake in safe-sex, etc.
Do you guys ever watch old movies(Ferris Buellers day off, for example) and find tremendous hilarity in the fact that all the old cars that we now consider shitboxes are brand spanking new and shiney? I know Ferris Buellers day off has a brand new shinney K-Kar in it, which was the first car I ever had. I forget what movie it is... but some movie that my friend and I were watching involved some kid driving a Chevy Celebrity and he was like.. "Man this car is soo RAD, I'm going to get all the girls with this car".... We died laughing when we saw that, because my buddy had an old beat up POS Celebrity at the time and he loved the thing.
Then there were people having birthday parties and random Friday night hangouts at the Roller Skating rinks, Goonies, women wearing Spandex and shoulder pads plug huge hair(Perms) and crimped hair.
I also remember people in school used to always think it was cool to jump up and hang off the support beams in doorways of the school building. What about the "Time to make the donuts!" Dunkin Donuts slogan that started in the early to mid 80's and the onset of those foolish "The more you know" public service announcements in the lat 80's... as well as "I hanker for a hunk'A'Cheese.... Like a Wagon Wheel!" commercials, and those Warner Brothers public service announcements warning kids of the dangers of boiling water in pots and electrical outlets(remember the electric cord that was animated to turn into an snake in the commercial to scare kids?).
Then for drinks and Soda, there was Fanta, Crush, Tab and Tang.
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Then of course, there was always those classic games like Hungry Hungry Hippo, Speak and Spell, Battleship, Operation(This game was soo fun for scaring my little sister), Slip'N'Slide. Remember the Mcdonalds song plastic records they used to give out in the Sunday newspaper and Mcdonalds Monopoly pieces(they tried bringing this back a few times in the 90's)? What about Ray Parker Jr. and Ghostbusters theme song from that great movie as well as Top Gun. I NEED MY MTV(which I never had unfortunately) and Max Hedstrom the talking head.
