Thread: Welcome to the 80s!

Interesting what you've written up man.
This generation do seem to have it all, yet many still complains about their riches.
Although i grew up with almost none of those, no cell till i was 16 and bought my own, no internet till i was 16 and called up the phone company myself, first computer was a broken hand me down, first real computer was a 1000 euro laptop when i was 15, which i paid for myself, had to work everyday in my parents restaurant since i was 14. So yeah i don't think i'm all that different to the previous generation

I wouldn't want to necessarily "live" in the 80s, but I would to take a vacation.

Ya, the riches of today are nice to have, but back then, kids weren't bored outta their minds. They found other things to do with what they had. I think kids today are more bored now than compared to the 80s.

In the meantime, I remembered one eighties-style fantasy TV series that I actually liked, at least many of the episodes: the British-German-Dutch joint production "Doctor Snuggles".

Bah. I'll stick to life in the 00s.

[Coincidentally, the Gundam series I like the best... "00" ]

Even still though, I prefer the wider range of communications in the present day. If I had lived in the 80s as opposed to being a product of late 80s, there wouldn't be an escape from the abysmal home life I have now. Plus, I'd have FAAAAR less friends altogether. [What, I have only a few good friends IRL? Sounds about right]

And me being the engineer in training that I am, I happen to love stuff that deals in the sciences, like Gundam

I grew up in the 90's really, but still let me share a story from my work, which involves kids at age 6-9.
I'm talking to some of them about cellphones and I say that I didn't get one until I was "14", and they're all like "ha ha!" Until I told them that it was both uncommon to have one before that, and it wasn't really that interesting either. Then they gave me this "Wasn't invented?" face.
I think it gives a good balance to have lived, in my case only a few years as a child, without internet and cellphones. It makes you treasure things more.

Ah the 90's, a fine decade with a scotch on the rocks with a hint of 80's and a cup of 00's

Darn good wording, Keita-kun!

But to tell the truth, I did not feel even a hint after the very beginning. The huge political changes sweeping over Europe 1989--91 left me feeling that I had lived through the most revolutionary transition since World War II. And just to emphasize it, Eurodance (then commonly known as "Techno" by laymen) broke through in Finland in early 1992. Seriously, life has sounded different ever since.

80s nostalgia has passed by already? o_O well, if you count things like fads and waves of products as indicators, maybe, but inside all of us who lived through the best part of the decade beats the heart of a truly 80's child.

1997 brought the re-release of the Star Wars original trilogy, a momentous occasion which meant you know could own the whole thing without having to tape it off the telly when it played at Christmas. 20th anniversary meant people clamoured for it. OK, the first was released in 1977 but that counts I missed the original release of the greatest film of all-time (Empire), but I had bundles of figures, playsets, costumes and even the Ewoks cartoons

You could say that 80's nostalgia has been with us since 1990, what with the prices of toys based on shows popular at the time.

Being a kid during that decade meant surviving some of what the youth of today would call "deprivation". No cellphones, portable games machines, or even basic connectivity to the internet. Which meant that in terms of entertainment, films and cartoons didn't have to be good to hold your attention, they just had to be on. But the majority of producers didn't give us that, they gave us brilliant

DangerMouse, ThunderCats, Fraggle Rock, Bananaman, Super Ted, Count Duckula, Chip n' Dale, the aforementioned Ewoks (I enjoyed it!), the epic Star Wars trilogy, BraveStarr, Alf, GhostBusters, Jetsons, Gummi Bears, Inspector Gadget, Indiana Jones, the Raccoons, Beetlejuice, Blade Runner...

I could go on for days. But I won't. I think in that little list alone I've illustrated why the 80's is the best decade to have grown up in that could possibly have prepared us for the disappointment of the boring '90s. That's without even mentioning Transformers

I saw a great message in one of those lists the other day. "You might be an 80's child if... you have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock".

The Eighties. They are your father.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Originally Posted by hinarei

The Eighties. They are your father.

Hell no
Okay it's not what you meant, but FYI my dad was born in '44

Originally Posted by Katajainen

• The easiest way we could get porn as minors was to bribe someone slightly older to buy a mag from a newsstand. (Especially true of the early 80s, when videocassette recorders were not commonplace yet. The guy who wrote the text has apparently been born some years before me.)

I remember this, though for me it was the 90s, we didn't have a computer in my house until like 2001. I feel bad for today's kids in a way... your first porno should be special, just typing something dirty in google takes all the fun out of the hunt!

I was born too late to experience England as a nation where media is heavily censored. Yes, we'd always have the choreographed outrage from the tabloids, but in general I seem to remember growing up in quite a liberal environment.

I first came to porn (ugh...) in the early 90's so I can't comment. My ecchi tendencies were late developing, and I can't have noticed if porn was that freely available anyway. Seemed fine to me, though.

I was more concerned with where the next figures were coming from, myself. Turtle Power!

bring back the 80s with all this technology around. heck, if we did that by 2010 we'd have computors in our brains.

but really, the 80s were a diabachery decade in terms of teenage life of the time. If i could get away with 10% of what my older brother did i prolly woulda never met you guys. prolly would be sitting in a bar right now makin the moves on some chick. but no. The 80s were a necissary decade in that they allowed for the 90s and the new melennium to start on a good and lively note, unlike the last one, where we kinda rolled out of bed hit our heads on the coffee table, and woke up to a hangover.

80s good. 90s sucked (for me) 00s, RULE!

The 80's was nice and bad for all Brazilians. It was called the "lost decade", when the Brazilian government into debt beyond the limit and the country fell into a severe economic crisis with recession and high inflation (on average, prices rose 20% every month). It's was too a time when many nikkeys (Japanese descendants living in Brazil) moved to Japan to work in local industries, bringing forth a lot of Nipponese culture.

But we had good things too: the Brazilian rock experienced its peak with the Rock in Rio, tokusatsu series (Jaspion, Jiban...) came to our TV and we also had a happy childhood where there was so much false moralism and things that make children stupid.

80's Nostalgia?! Lemme tell you something, you young whippersnappers. I was born in the early 70's.... the 80's are my generation!


I remember when Nintendo was the height of digital console gaming. You didn't need fancy-schmancy 32- or 64 bit... you had 8-bit, and it was damn good playing too! The music was godawful, but it was the best we could get.

And as for porn magazines or the Playboy channel, lemme tell you something....

First off, cable was in it's infancy still back in those days. And they scrambled the damn channels showing a little booty-knocking. So your only luck is if someone you knew who had a VCR could and did record their own cassettes for you to share.... if you were lucky.


All in all, I look forward to what the future will bring, while deriding the callow, snot-nosed, wet-behind-the-ears idiots out there whining again about their hardships. Cry me a ****ing river, whydon'tcha. I lived through the 80's once...... and once was enough for me.

Back in the 80's where you could see Motely Crue, Van Halen, Metallica, and even Black Sabbath in the same night? For 10 bucks?

Back in the day when all the bands lived on perpetually the same street?

hellz yeah.