tunaplanet 0 #1 February 9, 2004 Ran across this site. Brought back memories since I grew up in the 80s. You might be a Product of the 80s IF... ...you remember when McDonald's packaged their products in styrofoam. ...you know the words to the "C.I.T. Song" from Meatballs. ...you remember the song "Pilot of the Airwaves." ...you ever watched the game show "Starcade." ...you know who Elron McKenzie is. ...you hear the words "I don't know" and your first instinct is to dodge the falling green slime! ...you ever owned a "How To Win Video Games" book. ...you know the lyrics to one or more of the following: Three's Company, Facts of Life, Cheers, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Dukes of Hazard, or The Muppet Show. ...you wanted to be one of the kids on Mr. Wizard's World. ...you know who Large Marge is. ...you ever owned, or still own, any 12" remix records. ...you based your choice of convenience store on their selection of video games. Lingo of the 80s "Like" anything Totally Awesome! Gag me with a spoon! Don't have a cow! Radical Tubular Omigod! Gnarley Dude Psyche! Killer Chill FerSure Butthead Therefore, a conversation of the 1980s might sound somewhat like this: "Omigod! Last night I met this, like, totally awesome dude with, like, a radical car but, like, his clothes - UH! - like, gag me with a spoon!" Anything in this format must be spoken as quickly as possible in order to be truly 80s! Fads and Fashions of the 80s Neon The "Don Johnson" look Guys wearing pastel colors Puff painted clothes Women in men's attire Turned up collars Sweaters around the neck cuffed together in front Oversize shirts/sweaters Izod Ocean Pacific Sweater vests Jackets with numerous zippers Leg warmers Lee jeans Calvin Kleins Jordache jeans Guess? jeans Jams Vision Street Wear Short jeans with tight cuffs and zippers at the bottom of the legs Jeans worn with dressy shoes Kaepas Jellies High tops Slouch socks Keds Tennis shoes without laces Feathered hair Crimped hair Spiked hair Mousse Banana clips Colored mascara Big earrings Swatches Skinny ties Twist-a-Beads Parachute Pants Rattails Video Games Beserk Centipede Combat Defender Donkey Kong Frogger Galaga Gyruss Journey Joust Jungle Hunt Marble Madness Moon Patrol Ms. Pac-Man - Remember the cartoons in between the different levels showing the stages of romance of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man? Pac-Man - Remember the ghosts' names? Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde. Pitfall Pole Position Q*Bert! Sinistar Space Invaders - I remember in the Atari version of this game, if you turned the game on while holding the reset button down, it gave you double fire power. Spy Hunter Tempest Track & Field Xevious Popular 80s Toys and Entertainment Rubik's Cube Miniature video games Cabbage Patch Kids Simon Merlin Roller skating Hungry Hungry Hippos Quick Jump! It's A Skunk! Strawberry Shortcake Transformers UNO! My Little Pony Walkman Trivial Pursuit IQ 2000 Legos Atari 2600 Coleco Vision Commodore Vic 20 Commodore 64 Voltron Action Figures Thundercats Action Figures Glow Worms Edible Eighties Capri Sun Fruit Roll-Ups Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans New Coke FrankenBerry cereal BooBerry cereal Count Chocula cereal McDLT - One of the commercials for the McDonald's McDLT featured Jason Alexander of "Seinfeld" fame. E.T. cereal Reese's Pieces Bonkers Fun Fruits Television of the 80s Commercials Wendy's "Where's the beef?" California Raisins Domino's Pizza's "Avoid the Noid" campaign M-M-M-Max Headroom speaking for Coke Budweiser's party animal, Spuds Mackenzie Lucky Charms - Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons, Orange Stars, Green Clovers, and Blue Diamonds Chester Cheetah for "Cheetos, the cheese that goes CRUNCH!" Musical Television Flip Side Friday Night Videos Kids, Inc. MTV, obviously Much Music Nick Rocks Night Tracks Puttin' On The Hits Solid Gold Star Search Toronto Rocks Cartoons/Kids Shows ALF Captain Caveman Care Bears Danger Mouse Flintstones Fraggle Rock Garfield Gummie Bears He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Inspector Gadget Jetsons Mask Mr. Wizard's World Muppets Punky Brewster Richie Rich Schoolhouse Rock Scooby Doo She-Ra: Princess of Power Smurfs Thundercats Voltron You Can't Do That On Television - Also check out the Alasdair Gillis Fan Page General TV A-Team Alice Bosom Buddies Cheers The Cosby Show Dallas Diff'rent Strokes Doogie Howser, M.D. Dukes of Hazard Facts of Life Family Ties Golden Girls Growing Pains Knight Rider The Love Boat Mama's Family Miami Vice Mork and Mindy My Two Dads Night Court People's Court Silver Spoons Three's Company Too Close For Comfort Webster Who's the Boss? The Wonder Years "Sit, UBU, sit! Good dog." (bark!) Movies of the 80s Adventures in Babysitting American Werewolf in London April Fools Day Bachelor Party Back to the Future Better Off Dead Beverly Hills Cop (parts one and two) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure The Breakfast Club - hands down my favorite movie of the 80's Bright Lights, Big City Can't Buy Me Love Cat's Eye A Christmas Story Cocktail Critters Crossroads Date With An Angel Dirty Dancing Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Dream a Little Dream Eddie and the Cruisers E.T. Fast Times At Ridgemont High Ferris Bueller's Day Off Footloose For Keeps Friday the 13th movies Fright Night Funny Farm Ghostbusters Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Good Morning, Vietnam The Goonies (parts one and two) Gremlins Haunted Honeymoon Highlander Howard the Duck The Incredible Shrinking Woman The Karate Kid LaBamba Labyrinth The Legend of Billie Jean Light of Day Like Father, Like Son Little Shop Of Horrors The Lost Boys Lucas Mad Max Mannequin Mask Meatballs Micki and Maude Mischief The Money Pit Mr. Mom My Bodyguard The Naked Gun National Lampoon's Vacation Night of the Comet Nightmare on Elm Street movies 9 To 5 On Golden Pond Once Bitten One Crazy Summer The Outsiders Overboard Parenthood Pee Wee's Big Adventure Peggy Sue Got Married Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Police Academy Poltergeist Porky's Pretty In Pink Private Benjamin Purple Rain Rainman Raising Arizona Real Genius Revenge of the Nerds Risky Business Romancing the Stone Say Anything The Secret of My Success Seems Like Old Times Short Circuit Sixteen Candles Some Kind of Wonderful Space Camp Spaceballs Splash St. Elmo's Fire Steel Magnolias Stripes Stand By Me Teen Wolf Terminator Three Amigos Tootsie Top Gun Twins Uncle Buck Vamp War Games Weekend At Bernie's Weird Science Wildcats The World According to Garp Musical Artists of the 80s Bryan Adams A-HA Air Supply Adam Ant Bananarama The Bangles The Beastie Boys Pat Benatar Billy Ocean Blondie Bon Jovi The Cars Chicago - Peter Cetera Cinderella Culture Club Def Leppard DIO Duran Duran The Eurythmics Foreigner Genesis - Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel Debbie Gibson The Go-Go's - Belinda Carlisle Guns 'N' Roses Hall and Oates Heart Whitney Houston INXS Iron Maiden J. Geils Band Janet Jackson Michael Jackson The Jets Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Billy Joel Elton John Journey - Steve Perry KISS L.A. Guns Cyndi Lauper Huey Lewis and the News Loverboy Madonna Megadeth John Cougar Mellencamp Men at Work Metallica Miami Sound Machine Mike + The Mechanics Motley Crue Mr. Mister Olivia Newton-John Robert Palmer Poison The Police - Sting Prince Quiet Riot Ratt R.E.O. Speedwagon Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Skid Row Slaughter Rick Springfield Bruce Springsteen Starship Styx Survivor Tears for Fears Tesla Thompson Twins Tiffany Tina Turner Tone Loc Toto Bonnie Tyler U2 Van Halen - David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar Wang Chung Warrant WHAM! - George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley Weird Al Yankovic ZZ Top Forty-two Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #2 February 9, 2004 OMG....noooo!!! Make it go away! Naw, actually I 'growed up' in the 80's too, and holy shnikeys...I like, resembled a lot of this! ~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunaplanet 0 #3 February 9, 2004 I remember all of that listed. I used to love Starcade. That was a great tv show. My favorite arcade games were, Dragon's Lair, Space Ace and Cliffhanger. Those were all those cartoon animated graphics. Those were the elite games of those days. Cost 50 cents which was like a small fortune. Forty-two Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #4 February 9, 2004 Bored? Or is your reunion coming up? Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunaplanet 0 #5 February 9, 2004 I love reliving the past. 80s were great. Loved them. Forty-two Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #6 February 9, 2004 I graduated HS in the 80s...indeed, an interesting time. Some of my favorite (still) songs come from that era. And Dragon's Lair was tons of fun.... I'm just giving you a hard time....my reunion passed and I didn't bother to go.... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #7 February 9, 2004 I had 'Pong' and a Commodore F-something and a Vic-20 for computers...then when Prodigy came along, we were just the shizz...strange days when the computer came outta the black screen with 1/2 inch high blinking green cursor... Getting to play Pac-Man at Pizza Hut was the happiest thing when I was a lil' kid...But DAMN YOU, Tuna!! I feel old now... Edited to add: Quote M-M-M-Max Headroom speaking for Coke OMG!!! I was soooo in love with this fictitious character!! ~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #8 February 9, 2004 Dude...that's like.....EXCELLENT!!!__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydyvr 0 #9 February 9, 2004 Quote"Like" anything Sadly, this one has returned in full force for the new millennium. . . =(_8^(1) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallRate 0 #10 February 9, 2004 Currently, the thought of paying 25 cents (or 50) for a video game seems absurd. But it seemed like a sound investment when I was eight years old. FallRate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newsstand 0 #11 February 9, 2004 Like, in my real life this is a repost so it should be shot down dude. My first kid was born in '81 and she has given be a beautiful grandson so goodnight children. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #12 February 9, 2004 Guess I'm just old....I remember when PacMan was the new craze! ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #13 February 9, 2004 IIRC, Pac-Man made it's USA debut at ChicagoFest in the early 80s. It was so boss!_________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #14 February 9, 2004 Quote The Goonies (parts one and two) Anybody who was really a kid in the 80s remembers that Goonies 2 was only a video game; not a movie. There was no sequel to Goonies (the quintessential film of the children of the 80s, generally only appreciated by anyone who first saw it prior to puberty) made during the 80s. There are currently plans to make a sequel to Goonies featuring the now grownup child actors who starred in the original. --DouvaI don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pleifer 0 #15 February 9, 2004 I was born 1980 and the sad thing is I own half those ablums good tunes though. like totaly cowabunga _________________________________________ The Angel of Duh has spoke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #16 February 9, 2004 Here you go...a "declaration of eighty-ness", so to speak. I love it. http://funnies.paco.to/ChildOfThe80s.html I, too, am a child of the eighties. I weep when I hear the "classic rock" station playing U2 and the Police. was it really that long ago? Am I really that old that my music is now considered "classic"?Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #17 February 9, 2004 Check avatar. Ain't got pictures, ain't got proof. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caress 0 #18 February 9, 2004 Sorry mr. Planet, but I may have missed it. Movie from the 80's "Valley Girl" the first movie I ever saw Nick Cage in. I graduated in 85. That brought back some memories! Those were the years of 2 band 6 kegger back yard parties that cost $5 to get in. Doing coke and drinkin Saint Paulie Girls on special nights. Dressing in leather, and heavy metal attire. Hell I'm amazed I ever survived those years, I think my parents are too. I also got to say that it was in those years that I met people that I still call my friends today, including my husband. Guess I wasn't completely stupid!-Caress I've learned.... That being kind is more important than being right. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #19 February 9, 2004 BWAHAHAH! Deuce, you sexy beast! I bet the ladies were, like, all over that! I'm totally diggin' the blue tux. Very stylish. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #20 February 9, 2004 Ah, C'mon! Don't tell me you never had a Gunnysack dress. (I think it was Gunnysack) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #21 February 9, 2004 Hmmm...maaayybee.... I did have sweater dresses, legwarmers, and jelly shoes. Though I'm not saying I wore all of those at the same time. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #22 February 9, 2004 QuoteHmmm...maaayybee.... I did have sweater dresses, legwarmers, and jelly shoes. Though I'm not saying I wore all of those at the same time. I can just see the caption below your pictures: Hot bikerBabe all dressed up and she's looking HOT, HOT, HOT.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
