Does Anyone Here Remember The 80s

[AceTrilby]

Well, I was born on '93 so I have no first hand experience, but I think I can safely say that the 80s were better than the 90s.
Back to the Future, amazing music, awesomely hilarious clothing (gigantic shoulders and pastels, nice), great cartoons, and just generally a more upbeat tone, I think.

Also, The Cult's Love album was released then. Need I say more?

 

[SSoSFAGTiaCaGwaP]

EDIT: Dumb thirteen year old me wrote dumb thirteen year old stuff on the internet. So it goes.

 

[PeacanPie]

I remember being an egg cell vaguely.
The only parts of the 80s I got to appreciate were the terrible sit-coms, the not quite as terrible movies and the decent music.

 

[Felgy76]

I remember getting a G1 Optimus Prime for my 8th birthday in 1984, I have never gotten so excited about a birthday present since.
I even still have it, minus a few small parts.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I wish I could, but alas, I was not born until the mid 90s.
I wish I could've lived during that time, with all the crazy clothes, music, and hairstyles.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Does Anyone Here Remember The 80s

Yep, but there's nothing to tell. Our 80's were completely different from civilised world's.
Here's the icon of our eighties :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoda0ga672c

 

[Nouw]

A-HA

That's all that needs to be said about the 80's.

"Takeeeeeeee onnnnn meeeeeee!" God I love that song.

 

[Zipa]

I was born in 88 so I don't remember the only 2 years of the 80s I lived thorough. Wish I was born earlier than I was at times though since I would of been able to see some awesome bands live like Queen.

 

[Superior Mind]

Born in 1987 here but New Zealand was experiencing a cultural lag so the 80s stuck around for most of the early 90s. That being the case I "remember" a lot of things from the 80s but the truth is I just experienced them in the 90s.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I was also born in 87so I don't remember much in the 80. The only thing I do remember is playing with my toys (Star Wars, Dino Riders and TMNT etc) and there was such thing as a Saturday morning cartoon shows.

 

[Jedamethis]

Shit, I can barely remember from 2007...I have an atrocious memory...

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

My only regret for not being born yet in the 80's is that i missed out on stuff like this when it was new Seriously... that's a masterpiece of incredible proportions. Just look at that role-call

Dio, Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain, Kevin DuBrow, Carlos Cavazo, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Ojeda, Don Dokken, George Lynch, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Rob Halford

How can you NOT love this?

Fashions on the other hand... i could very well do without.

 

[octafish]

snippity
how was america not in any threat in the last decade? the people who died in the WTC were just everyday Americans who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No one knew if this was going to happen again, or where it was going to happen. Who is that not intimate?

If it had happened again a few thousand may have died, if it was a massively successful attack beyond the dreams of its planners, maybe even tens of thousands may have died. If World War Three had started in the eighties there maybe would have been tens of thousands of survivors. I think the treat of imminent nuclear destruction beats the off chance that someone would breach U.S. security again post 9/11. I'm sure your fear was very real, but it was a fear of death and the death of your family, with the Cold War it was a fear of fiery apocalypse for all of humanity.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I was born in the VERY late '70's and so I count myself more as a kid from the 80's then anything else. What to say? Hearing things on the news about the 'star wars program', thinking how awesome it would be to battle in space with light sabres. Hearing about the 'iron curtain' and wondering why they don't shove that one open to see each other... oh.. good'old misconceptions I had as a child. AAAAAnd of course the music!! LOVE IT!!! The time when home electronics were booming and the walkman was introduced (didn't skip as the diskman ;P). My C64 and all the games that came with it. People being afraid of the cold war all the time while I was reenacting tour of duty with my friends... good old times!!!

 

[Sepphyre]

Born in '74, the 80's in Australia were the best time to grow up in. The music and movies were far more memorable than most since then. The fashion... hmm yeah awkward, looking back But for anyone who didn't experience it at the time, seeing all that 80's content now will likely not do much for them, since nostalgia plays a large part of the appreciation for the era.

A massive memory of the 80's for me is essentially the advent of electronic gaming. Even though Atari and a few others brought out consoles in the late 70's, the first consoles from Sega and Nintendo came out in '85 and helped establish a level of entertainment that households hadn't seen before, as well as the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit computers helping to define the time. For sure, it's difficult to play those systems nowadays when we have access to modern technology, but if you think about the first time you got access to the internet, or the first time you drove a car, well playing these 8-bit games back then had that kind of impact to a young person.

And the arcades back then actually meant something... they were EPIC, since home hardware was always significantly behind that which was in the arcades, and gave the kids something awesome to look forward to after school.

The 80's in the main were something you didn't take too seriously, but just enjoyed for all the quirkiness that it offered. The song below typifies the 80's.

Enjoy

 

[Antari]

I'm 21, and was born 11.12.89. So i was a new born around the time the 80s was ending. As a kid, i always though 80s stuff was corny and lame, growing up with CGI stuff like Jarassic Park, and 3D video games like Playstation. However, as i got older, i started becoming more fascinated with 80s. Seems like a pretty cool laid back, and cheesy, yet fun time. I wish i could just walk down the street with a boombox on my shoulder now-a-days. I'd trade my teen years in the 00s for being a teen in the 80s

Ya I remember the 80's .. They were interesting, but I wouldn't say they were better or worse than the 90's or 2k. People were just as crazy. The only real bad part about going back that far is that modems operated about as fast as the average secretary.

 

[ace_of_something]

I was about 10 when the 80's ended. I lived on a tiny ranch that whole time so, i'm not exactly a font of pop culture of the era. I do remember when the challenger exploded.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Retrospectively; it's an oddball era of change.

-The effective economic collapse of the-then second greatest world superpower
-It marked the last generation who was born "without computers" or mass-media communications (IMs, cell phones, Internet) readily available. Well, unless your family was ludicrously wealthy and you could somehow tolerate 1200 baud modems...

-A super-genre that I can only call "Cornball-Media" followed in the wake of some truly awesome movies from the early 80s (this would later lead us into the Dark Age that was the "Extreme" era in the 90s). But I would still rather take that and get a few good (unintentional) laughs than the Mobius Strip that is today's remake/reboot/sequel-only market.

-The Great Atari Crash, and the Rise of Nintendo.
Seriously. If you were a child in the mid to late 80s, you knew about Nintendo. Their market presence was HUGE just following the crash. (I know someone is going to link the "Power Glove" quote from The Wizard in 3...2...1...)

-Music: Uh, yeah. Synth Cheese and Hair Metal dominates. Hair spray and some of the worst fashion choices in the history of Publicly Approved result. I'm not sure who to blame, but I'm going to ignorantly scapegoat MTV and VH1 because I was too young to really care at the time...
For my own tastes; 80s music is widely polarizing. It's either really really good, or really, brain-rapingly bad. I think Rap began its meteoric takeover of pop music here but the less I think about that the happier I'll be..

-"Jellybean Autos"
With the rise of Japanese imports as a result of significantly hiked fuel prices, we also saw a decline in the shape and types of general purpose autos entering the market. I'm guessing theres a reason nobody gives a toss about "vintage" 1980s autos unless they happen to be Ecto-1 or the Delorian..
Don't mistake me for blaming Japanese autos for this; the American manufacturers all did this for reasons I can only assume are related to fuel economy and optimization (due to the new Fuel Economy and emissions regulations).

And finally:
-"Reaganomics". I was too little to understand what was really going on here, but for you political students out there, I'll just leave you with the one word I remember: "Superfund"

I lived through much of it, but since I was born in the 80s, I can only correlate what I remember with what happened. Except Nintendo. I was a total sheep for Nintendo.

 

[Gulleko]

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.

You're forgetting Terminator, The Shining, An American werewolf in London, Hellraiser, Bad Taste, and many other wonderful movies. =)

The 80's also produced the Nintendo Entertainment System, Heavy Metal, and bringing the CD to the masses.
I'd say the 80's was awesome, except for the clothes...

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Nah, i was born in 93. I wish though, i would have lived through the 90s more consciously. Everyone says that they were a really good time and as a kid i was not really able to appreciate it. Maybe, if i was a teen back then and actually understood why everyone says they're such a great time.