You know you grew up in the 80's when.....

[AaronP]

I was young then, but I'll tell you what when I am 80 and look back on life, the 80's will still be the coolest decade I'd ever lived in. The 80's were WAY more fun than the 90's. Much cooler decade, especially for pop culture.

 

[AaronP]

10 most memorable things from the 80's, and I was born in the mid 70's so I kinda remember just about all of the 80's.

10. Tron
9. Video Arcades
8. MTV
7. Thriller
6. Nintendo and Atari
5. Michael J. Fox
4. Iran Contra
3. Hair Bands (Poison, Whitesnake, etc...)
2. Challenger
1. SKELETOR!

There's a LOT more that I left out, Max Headroom, Reagon's shooting, The Ayatola, Pat Benetar, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Transformers, GI Joe Cartoons, He-Man Figures, New Coke, Cheers, Night Court, Knot's Landing, Miami Vice, Alf, Family Ties, Lakers vs Celtics, 49ers, Bill Buckner, 80 US Hockey Team, GOD I MISS THAT DECADE.

 

[SUOrangeman]

MEMBERS' ONLY jackets
Kangol hats
Airwolf vs. Blue Thunder

-SUO, owned TWO Commodore 64s and the Coleco Gemini

 

[Bryan]

We built this city.... we built this city on rooooock and rooooll....

 

[nightowl]

Transformers ruled. I was really pissed the day they took them off-air.

 

[UnixFreak]

You made all your computer's say "greetings professor falken, shall we play a game?" on bootup. (Ok, so I still do that from time to time...)

 

[Aceman]

"Video Killed the Radio Star"

You upgraded your Commodore 64 from a cassette tape drive to a 5.25 floppy drive.

You were able to copy games on a C-64

You paid $6/hr plus long distance charges to dial into Compuserve on a 2400 baud modem

 

[tigerwannabe]

oh my gosh! the 80s was a heck of a decade...tight-rolled jeans, parachute pants, atari 2600, challenger explosion, etc. quite a stroll down memory lane

 

[Barrak]

Good list

"I want my two dolars" ROFL Loved that move, the french chick was hot

 

[tm37]

I had two disk drives for my C64 and 1200Baud modem.
I also had a dot matrix printer (No crappy daiseywheel for me!)


Airborne ranger was the best game ever!!
Micrileague games rocked too!
and ACE who could forget ACE!

 

[cray0n]

don't forget HYPERCOLOR SHIRTS!!! those were COOL!

 

[Aceman]

tm37, So you had a dotmatrix printer. Could it print near letter quality and print q p y properly? Mine could!

 

[OrByte]

Corey Fieldman was the man!









Now he is just a strange man......





GOOONIES!!
I used to love playing that tape over and over.

Wasn't the pirates name one-eyed willie? Or am I confused.....

 

[optimistic]

The 80s ROCK!!! Especially the music!!!

ES-specially? <~~ Is that a word? I think it's a Filipino thing. Damn my parents.

Still living in the 80s...

 

[Pacfanweb]

Two dollars, I want my two dollars

 

[AfterBurn]

<< I was born in '82, I was 7 years old when the 80's ended.

Now you should feel old.

Viper GTS >>


That was about the same time that i became a real pest in my parents life. The terrible teens...

Now i really feel old. Thanks Viper!

 

[Idiot56209]

You know you grew up in the 80's when you remember Penny Racers.