Does Anyone Here Remember The 80s

[The Rogue Wolf]

I was born in 1975, so not only do I remember all the awesome, experimental and off-the-wall shows and movies that came down the pipe in the 80's (like Tron, Knight Rider, Max Headroom and pretty much every cartoon from Japan), but... I did, actually, at one point... own a pair of parachute pants.

DON'T JUDGE ME! *runs away*

 

[Draitheryn]

I was born in 82, and I don't recall all that much, and what I do recall is kinda blurred in with the early 90s. I remember atari, nes, sega master system. I remember going to the arcade and spending all my allowance because the games had superior graphics ( but by todays standards look like flash games) I remember marbles was everyones favourite pasttime in the schoolyard, and kids would yell "scramble" and everyone would immediately run out into the field in hopes of getting close to the hurled chunk of glass.

Like every decade, it had its good and bad, ridiculous fashions, and fashions that carry over til today. 80s was probably one of the most influential decades on videogames and music.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Well, if I think reeeeally hard about it. I do somewhat remember now being not alive during that time.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

I was born in ?95, and I can only currently experience the 80?s through THE POWER OF MUSIC!!!
C?mon, would you rather listen to these, or most of the crap that?s currently on the charts? Think about it?..Carefully.

 

[Yal]

I'm not old enough to remember the gas crisis and the recession (in South Florida we weathered that one fairly well thanks to the cocaine boom, in any event), but I do remember the Challenger exploding and putting the writing on the wall for manned space exploration. And I remember the AIDS panic putting the final nail in the coffin of the free love movement, it took years for casual sex to recover.

Way to crush all my dreams, 1980s.

 

[Fewell]

Born in '77
Music was sweet and sex was gonna kill you but it didn't matter anyways because nuclear armageddon was inevitable.
We did have the best comedies though.

 

[robinkom]

I miss the 80s... the 90s sucked. Worst decade of my life.

 

[Wyld Fyre]

I was born in 70, as far as the 80s go I remember fighting, everyone and everything... I remember being homeless. I remember being beaten by the L.A. PD with my own leather studded jacket outside a Bad Religion concert to prove to me it was a weapon, I was only 15, though in hindsight I was being very rude to them... very rude. I remember meeting my future wife at a T.S.O.L. concert. I remember an arcade that served beer even if you did not have ID. I remember less then I have forget.

 

[MLChanges]

as someone who was a teenager during the 80's .. (yes im that old) id like to invite you all back for a tribute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3dTkv60h-A

but seriously for all the colour blind fashion desingers and rubicks cubes we all remember from then it did have a darkside, it was the last decade of the cold war. no one growing up now can really understand what it was like knowing at any moment someone somewhere would press a red button and world war 3 started.

so yes i still remember the 80's, the last decade of the cold war, and the decade the berlin wall came down. still to this day 21 years later there has not been a single moment of global hope as that

for anyone looking at 80's teen culture.. look to the movies
Heathers as mentioned earlier, and the breakfast club still to this day one of the best movies ive seen)

Well there was that moment of global solidarity immediately after September 11, 2001 but that didn't last.

To be on topic, I was born in 81' and the only Transformers movie I'll ever acknowledge is from 1986

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I don't remember the 80s considering my age. The only good things that came out of the 1980s were The Breakfast Club and Ferri Bueller's Day Off.

I beg to differ:

John Carpenter's "The Thing"
The "Back to the Future" series
Indiana Jones
Empire Strikes Back
Metallica
Mercyful Fate
Megadeth
Jim Henson films (The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth)

 

[Robert Ewing]

I wasn't even a sperm in my fathers testicle in the 80's.

But from the historical archives of big hair and power chordes. It looks like the 70's... Just, gayer.

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

I was a 00s teen as well but I feel like I should have been a teen in the 60s just like my dad. I mean, I get on like an old lady enough as it is. Not to mention I tend to be more interested in a hard rock music from that decade as well as the 70s like Ritchie Blacmore's Rainbow and Jethro Tull.
Games in the 80s and 90s were brilliant. Though that being said, I loved the cartoons during my childhood, regardless of how buggered up they were, haha! Can't deny they were brilliant, however, I've seen a lot of cartoons and films from the 80s and they're fantastic. Anyone here heard of the animated film "Wizards"?
I agree with a few people here about the Godawful fashion sense though. Gee whiz.


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[Deacon Cole]

No. I drank all that NyQuill and it did the trick.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Yeah the 80's weren't bad. it was kinda like spending a decade in japan. colorful, pshycotic and just a little annoying...though the 80's didn't have much in the way of tenticals.

 

[zehydra]

"80s stuff was corny and lame, growing up with CGI stuff like Jarassic Park, and 3D video games like Playstation"

Jurassic Park was corny? It's a damn good movie, with some of the best animal CGI in movies that I've seen.

 

[zehydra]

I miss the 80s... the 90s sucked. Worst decade of my life.

early 90s were awesome. Early 2000's sucked for me.

The music also got a lot better in the 90's, then sucked again in the 2000s.

 

[Kargathia]

I was born in 1990, so, No. I don't want to live there either, they had terrible fashion sense and design.

Not to mention the recession of the early 80's.

Also, don't you remember 90's. Sweatpants were fashionable in the 90's. Sweatpants. And remember the late 90's. Leather and cargo pants.

Why is it that I can totally imagine people saying that jeans were freaky a couple of years from now?

Jeans worn so low that they're offering a full-on view on an atrociously coloured boxer, while defying gravity in the process?

Yea, I can sort of imagine people wondering about that in a few decades.

From batch '91 myself, so you'll have to believe me if I say I don't remember a thing.

 

[Kra_Xi_Wan]

I wasn't even a year old by 1990, and I'm sad to say that I never was and never have been interested in the eighties (which isn't to say that they were bad, but them I wouldn't be able to tell you one way out the other). I would think it would have been pretty cool to be a teen in the late sixties, growing up with all the awesome rock classics.

 

[Alexias_Sandar]

Born in 81...so we were all watching when the Challenger went boom, what with the first school teacher into space and the like. So you've got all the kindergardeners and the like watching and suddenly they get to learn all about how sometimes, dreams don't come true and heroes die. Ghostbusters? Greatest costume for Halloween. Some good music. Berlin wall comes down, Reaganomics does stupid things...and hanging over everything, until the fall of the Soviet Union? Even the kids know that any time, someone can cause a nuclear war that kills you all.

On the other hand, you can run outside and play and disappear for hours...and its totally normal. Kids carving makeshift spears from sticks and using them as javelins just for fun? Normal. Sword fighting with sticks and playing around and the like? Normal. None of this 'if you don't have your eyes on your child 24/7 you're a horrible parent' bit. Atari and Nintendo were your friends. River Raid, Missle Command, Pac Man, and Frogger. Mario was something nifty and new and not someone recycled over and over and over. You learned LOGO on your APPLE 2E at school...and Oregon Trail was wonderful for killing schoolmates you couldn't stand by starving them to death and killing them via dysentery, cholera and scarlet fever because you neglected to buy anything other than bullets.

 

[Grottnikk]

There were some good things about the 1980's: You could get a Wayne Gretzky rookie card for the price of a pack of cards; Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked a metric tonne of ass (Conan, Terminator, Commando, Predator); censorship wasn't as widespread; video game arcades were quarter eating monstrosities; the girls wore really tight pants and t-shirts to school... I could think of more but it's late .