:post your favorite things about the 80's:

late 80's, early 80's, whatever.
i was born in 83.
be VERY specific; watch.

- brand new NES Games
- toys R Us and their SLIP system for purchasing
games
- doritos were super tasty; and i mean super tasty
- commercials for board games.
*shark attack! simon! crossfire! fireball
island! operation! connect four! topple!
- nickelodeon before it went gay.
- thundercats.
- zoobilee zoo and other high quality PBS shows.

I'm born in 1983 too. For me it would be Dragon Ball, City Hunter, Grendizer, St Seya and Captain Tsubasa animes aired every day during after-class hours in the late 80's/early 90's

The 80's were my heyday!

-Parachute Pants
-You Can't Do That on Television
-Michael Jackson (before he became a freak)
-80's Metal
-Sega Master System
-80's Arcades
-80's Potato Skins

Too much to list.

Another 83 baby here.

nickelodeon before it went gay.

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DAMN STRAIGHT! Ren and Stimpy, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Rocko's Modern Life...All fun shows. What's on now? Crap. Ren and Stimpy was revolutionary, and it's sad to see the station that carried it crash and burn.

Nintendo games were great. Waiting for the next Mega Man was always a nice memory.

Saturday Morning Cartoons back then kicked the living shiznit out of what's on now. We had Batman: The Animated Series, Thundercats, Transformers, NEW episodes of [/i]X-Men[/i]...Now I wouldn't drag myself out of bed at 6 AM on a Saturday to catch the cartoons if you paid me.

The best part of all: NO RESPONSIBILITY. I miss riding my bike down the street to Toys R Us to buy a new Gameboy game. Now I pay taxes! What a gyp!

EDIT: 1000th post. Now I'm playing with POWER!

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1. High School (man, I loved high school)
2. Alternative music, before it was considered 'alternative' (The Cure, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Fall, etc.)
3. TV Shows - Simon & Simon, Miami Vice, Magnum P.I.
4. trips to South Florida, which was definately different in the '80's
5. the Bones Brigade

The music.

Being able to buy G1 transformers for next to nothing.

Cheers to that. I owned practically every G1 Transformer and most of the GI Joes up until the late 80's. The USS Flagg was the shizz, it was so large I had no place to walk in my room at the time.

I remember the Christmas I got my Optimus Prime, I thought I was the luckiest kid on earth. buttrock

Break fucking Dancing buttrock

I wish I could still do that stuff...I can only do a little now crying

Fun movies. Seems like the advent of CG has gutted a lot of the creativity that existed in popular filmmaking. In the 80's, you had a truckload of pop/sci-fi/adventure movies that were fun to watch and visually innovative, such as:

Ghostbusters
Back To The Future
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom
Big Trouble In Little China
Time Bandits
Aliens
Blade Runner
Robocop

These movies all pushed visual effects ahead while having engaging stories and great dialogue.
Now that they can portray virtually anything on screen cheaply, it seems like they really just don't give a shit about the creative process. I'll take any of the aformentioned flicks over Spiderman, which made shitloads of money last year.

ARCADES!!!!!! Goddamn if I don't mourn being able to just mosey down to the arcade to play such gems as Final Fight, Time Pilot, Spy Hunter, and Discs Of Tron. Arcades have become fucking graveyards, usually filled with a few fighting games, driving games, redemption games, and a SHITLOAD of light-gun games. I find this particularly ironic, since I can remember a time when the only light gun game at my fave arcade was the big goofy orange wannabe-skeet shooting game with the rifles. Now those account for more than 50% of the games at the last decent arcade in my town.

Granted, you take the good with the bad...I certainly don't miss being stuck with only an Atari 2600 as the only console in my home, or worrying about nuclear annihilation from the Soviets (hmmm, maybe I DO prefer that to the war on terrorism).

Some of the best movies came from this era (Total Recall, Terminator, Running Man - Arnie at his best), as well as the underground metal scene was kicking ass (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, etc)!

The television shows kicked ass too(Thundercats, Dragonball, DBZ, Alf, etc). There was tons of stuff to do, like collect Garbage Pale Kids cards, Transformers, play Nintendo, or even go to the arcade where there were an abundance of GOOD games. Michael Jackson was black and in top swing too

Aahhh.. the 80s.. great games of kickball and man-hunt too.. Too bad they're gone frown

-Saturday morning cartoons

-Living out my carefree childhood

-As far as friends go, it was the best period of my life: we used to get together and even have sleep overs, and just play games all night

-My best friend Nelson, I met him the late 80s

-NES was still hot and rolling. Contra and Megaman 2. Man..

-Battle Beast and M.U.S.C.L.E toy lineup

-GI Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, Ninja Turtles, Visionaries; these were all cool

-Hulkamania

-I used to think WWF was real; it was funner that way

-My uncle was in his prime during the late 80s, and played NES games with me and my brother and took us lotsa places... *sigh*

-Eastridge Mall kicked ass in the 80s

-Mom and Pop Video stores! Nothing like getting to know the sole worker every Saturday afternoon and renting an NES game for a buck flat

-Innocent value of it all, from my age standpoint

Garbage Pail Kids, which I collected from series 1~4. Woner where all of them went.

Transformers, MASK, Visionaries, GI Joe, the Smurfs, Gummy Bears, Ducktails, Threes Company, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, and The Ninja.

Saturday Morning Cartoons on 3 networks, then 4 with Fox, from 6am~12pm - now a thing of the past.

Going over to my friend, Gian Carlo's, to play his NES because my parents couldn't get me one. Playing Ikari Warriors, Contra, T&C Surf, Castlevania, etc.

Ability to pretend to be a ninja and stalk people and sneak around places without the fear of being arrested for pretending to be a ninja and stalk people and sneak around places.

Guns and Roses, Ozzy (seriously haven't listened to him since the late 80s), Poison, Skidrow.

Irresponsibilty.

The 'A' Team, I pitty the fool..

McGiver(sp), my childhood hero, I always wanted to be like him..

I was also born '83:

-Michael Jackson
-Those plastic "replicas" of TMNT weapons, they were sweet
-BMX bikes and riding around the construction yard behind my neighborhood
-The Goonies
-The Ghostbusters
-Star Wars (I used to watch Empire Strikes Back at least once a week)
-"City of Lost Gold" an old episodic cartoon that used to air every afternoon on Nickelodeon
-New issues of Nintendo Power, I seriously thought I had such an "inside scoop" on the gaming world
-The entire "beach culture craze" that seemingly had a giant hold on the mid-80s, everything was about surfing and being "rad", I was really into that
-The music, such great times
-Utter lack of responsibility, other than cleaning my room, which usually ended up in me playing with my toys and just making a new mess
-EDIT: MACGYVER!! Even at 7 years old I knew that show was great.
-EDIT: PERFECT STRANGERS!!

Things I hated about the 80s:
-Well, being a small child, I had no complaints, other than "Jem and the Holograms" used to air BETWEEN He-Man and G.I. Joe, so I had to sit through that girly trash to watch my cartoons

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Buro Destruct:

-"City of Lost Gold" an old episodic cartoon that used to air every afternoon on Nickelodeon

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BULLSHIT. NOBODY REMEMBERS THAT CARTOON.
NOBODY

Malls were also cool...WHAT ABOUT ARCADES GUYS?!??!?!?!??!!?!!??!?! Arcade arcades arcades.

Zeekade Zarathos:
Another 83 baby here.

nickelodeon before it went gay.

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DAMN STRAIGHT! Ren and Stimpy, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Rocko's Modern Life...All fun shows. What's on now? Crap. Ren and Stimpy was revolutionary, and it's sad to see the station that carried it crash and burn.

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Seriously man, Ren and Stimpy was timeless. Classic. You have to wonder just how much of it went over kids heads.

Even rugrats was a good show before it turned gay recently. Doug wasn't even that bad. And dude, I totally forgot about Rocko's Modern Life.

Also, Salute Your Shorts was a great show. Clarissa Explains it All was fun. Christ, even the lamest show at the time on Nickelodeon was halfway decent>

TV:

Thundarr the Barbarian
Dungeons and Dragons TV series
Scooby Doo in weekday afternoon syndication
1st series run of Harmony Gold's Robotech seris!
Voltron
GI Joe original 'Mass Device' mini-series before I went to school that entire week.
Night Rider and The A-Team

Music

Motley Crue's 1st 2 albums: Too Fast for Love and Shout at the Devil
Iron Maiden's 1st 6 albums
Danzig's 1st album
The Cult's Sonic Temple
The Dead Kennedy's!

Games

Yie Ar Kung Fu
Double Dragon
Quartet
Tiger Road
Super Mario Bros. NES version
Bionic Commando
Aeroboto

Life/culture

Shopping Malls and their arcades
Girls in acid wash jeans
promiscuous girls in acid wash jeans
Star Wars 'The Empire Strikes Back'
Clash of the Titans

Steve:
-Saturday morning cartoons

-Living out my carefree childhood

-As far as friends go, it was the best period of my life: we used to get together and even have sleep overs, and just play games all night

-My best friend Nelson, I met him the late 80s

-NES was still hot and rolling. Contra and Megaman 2. Man..

-Battle Beast and M.U.S.C.L.E toy lineup

-GI Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, Ninja Turtles, Visionaries; these were all cool

-Hulkamania

-I used to think WWF was real; it was funner that way

-My uncle was in his prime during the late 80s, and played NES games with me and my brother and took us lotsa places... *sigh*

-Eastridge Mall kicked ass in the 80s

-Mom and Pop Video stores! Nothing like getting to know the sole worker every Saturday afternoon and renting an NES game for a buck flat

-Innocent value of it all, from my age standpoint

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I'm with steve here, he knows what he's talking aboot, cept for Nelson spock

Kid Aphex:

Buro Destruct:

-"City of Lost Gold" an old episodic cartoon that used to air every afternoon on Nickelodeon

Click to expand...

BULLSHIT. NOBODY REMEMBERS THAT CARTOON.
NOBODY

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I believe I have an episode or two recorded on Beta. Should encode them to divx (once I find them, have about 30 tapes with random shows, ranging from Alf, The Hobbit movie, Ghost Busters, to the old Dune movie)

Anyway, Battle Beasts, Ghost Busters, all the cool cartoons.

The entertainment

Kid Aphex:

Buro Destruct:

-"City of Lost Gold" an old episodic cartoon that used to air every afternoon on Nickelodeon

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BULLSHIT. NOBODY REMEMBERS THAT CARTOON.
NOBODY

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Lost Cities of Gold and Belle and Sebastain were my favorite cartoons. Double Dare was another good show. Nickelodeon was great back then...

Carlson

16-bit:

Kid Aphex:

Buro Destruct:

-"City of Lost Gold" an old episodic cartoon that used to air every afternoon on Nickelodeon

Click to expand...

BULLSHIT. NOBODY REMEMBERS THAT CARTOON.
NOBODY

Click to expand...

Lost Cities of Gold and Belle and Sebastain were my favorite cartoons. Double Dare was another good show. Nickelodeon was great back then...

Carlson

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belle and sebastian!! I loved that cartoon.

The movies: Empire, Jedi, Raiders, Aliens, Terminator, Blade Runner, Brazil, Ran, Supermans, Cannonball Run, Back to the Future, Gremlins, Star Treks, Batman, and of course all the horror flicks

TV: too many cartoons to list, Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, A-Team, Dallas and Falcon Crest (I blame my parents), Newart, Cosby Show, Jeffersons, Who's the Boss? (Alyssa Milano drool_2 ), Family Ties, Alf, Bring 'Em Back Alive!, Tales of the Golden Monkey

I don't feel like listing more, but of course all the great punk music like Bad Religion, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, and then one of my favorite bands ever Front 242.

Malls were also cool...WHAT ABOUT ARCADES GUYS?!??!?!?!??!!?!!??!?! Arcade arcades arcades.

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I mentioned arcades up there dude.

Oh yeah, I forgot a few things...

M-M-M-Max H-H-Headroom. Fuck yeah. I miss Max Headroom something fierce. The original British made-for-TV Max Headroom movie (that served as the basis for the US ABC series) fucking rocked.
Wicked little piece of cyberpunk that really foresaw the future of corporate media domination.

I miss real classic Coke. Even though all Coke is 'classic' now, there is a definite difference between the true 'old' Coke and the 'classic' shit being passed off now. Some folks still believe that 'New Coke' was just a ruse to allow Coca-Cola to switch from real sugar to corn syrup.

Another thing I miss about the 80's...real NBA basketball. Not this watered-down expansion bullshit with 19-year old bling-bling chumps who can't shoot to save their lives. Give me the Lakers VS. the Celtics in the NBA Finals...Magic versus Bird...true basketball skill and showmanship. Either one of those vintage 80's squads would hand today's Lakers their ass in a brown paper bag.

Edit-James can't type.

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