ULTIMATE 1980s Thread

[MontanaBrady]

This thread is for all the guys that grew up in the 80's...

Post some fond memories you have from the decade... your favorite Movie, Band, Event, Cartoon, Car, Fashion... whatever... let's reminisce.

Ok... let's start it off with a poster that seemed to be on every young man's wall back in the 80's... yep... Heather Thomas!

Remember when Waterbeds were cool back in the 80's...

Who remembers guys wearing skinny ties... and girls wearing off-the-shoulder sweaters in the 80's?

Do you guys remember when VCR's looked like this back in the 80's?

There's still a few arcades around now... but back in the 80's arcades were packed with kids!

What were some of your favorite arcade games back in the 80's?









Does anyone remember watching the movie "Private School" starring Betsy Russel on cable in the 80's?

Remember going to Best or Service Merchandise in the mid 80's and playing with these?

Casio Sk1-Sampler

Does anybody remember those stretched out longneck Cola Bottles you could win at a fair or carnival back in 80's?

Who remembers the game show... "The Jokers Wild"?

Everybody remembers Mattel football... but what about Bambino Football?

Who remembers those plastic black flutes from music class?

 

[king of kings]

I was born in 1980.

 

[MontanaBrady]

Do you guys remember Samantha Fox?

Remember the "Rising Sun" print that was popular in the 80's... you would see it on shirts and hats.

Remember watching "Friday Night Videos" in the 80's?

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How many of you guys remember those tiny plastic NFL helmets you could get from the candy dispensers at the supermarket back in the 80's?

Ok... who had a Pac-Man watch?

Does anyone else remember going to the movie theater to see the film Aliens back in 1986?

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[bideau]

Married in '82. Kids born in '83 and '84. Overall, a good decade for me.

 

[Claremonster]

I remember nothing from the 80s until I "cleaned up my act" and left for boot camp in the middle of the decade. After that, I remember everything but was rarely in the U.S.

 

[Patriots4ever]

I remember Super Bowl 20

 

[Dwight Schrute]

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[Dwight Schrute]

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I had this one.

Guess I had an early appreciation of under boob.

 

[Big/Sky/Fly]

Heather Thomas was probably one of my favorite chicks that I've wanted to bang...

I still have that yellow Pac Man game somewhere...

 

[bmooney54]

Downloading a game to your Commodore Vic20 took half the day and you had to set the phone on the modem and hope nobody called.

 

[MontanaBrady]

Do you guys remember this 80's chick?

Who remembers those tabletop arcade games from the 80's?

Remember when McDonald's sandwiches came in Styrofoam boxes?

I don't know why know... but back in the 80's I always thought the Merkur was a cool looking car. 1987

Ok... did anybody else almost overdose on "Tang" back in the 80's? lol

Does anybody else remember watching "The Return of the living Dead" for the first time in the 80's and having no idea it was going to be so funny?

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[bideau]

Who remembers those tabletop arcade games from the 80's?

I had the Pacman game.

 

[bideau]

I had one of these beasts....

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[Undertaker #59*]

Great thread.

My first computer, the Commodore Vic20.

Late 80's, my first PC, a 286/12mhz 1mb memory 40meg HD.

Saw all the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Rocky, Rambo movies in the theater.

Wearing nothing but Levi jeans with a jean jacket and a black t-shirt.

I had a similar Casio keyboard, but a miniaturized version.

A Panasonic boom box

 

[bideau]

Released in November, 1982

 

[Claremonster]

I had a boom box, also called a Ghetto Blaster, that played 8-tracks ROFL

 

[foley11]

Eddie Murphy was in his prime.

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[John Locke]

Slayer's Reign In Blood defined my 80's

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[MontanaBrady]

Who remembers Linda Blair... she was a kid in the Exocist back in the 70's... but by the 80's she was "Ready".

Who remembers those Big Screen Projection TV's from the early 80's?

Does anybody remember girls wearing Sassoon jeans?

Remember Laserdisc players?

Does anybody remember watching the movie "Streets of fire" on cable back in the 80's?...

...if you remember the movie... you should remember this song from the movie...

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... If you grew up in the 80's you should also realized that the girl in the video is the same girl in this movie from 1985...

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[shirtsleeve]

The 80's were probably the best years of my life. Got married, had my first child, my career and income took off. Bought my first house. It was a decade of true economic opportunity for anyone with half a brain and a boatload of self-determination and drive. We won the cold war, and I could look at my child and think that she would never have to live under the nuclear sword of Damocles. And who could forget:

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And lets not forget the hair bands with the smoking hot women squirming all over their cars...