Magnus the Magnificent
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Apr 9, 2022 16:14:27 GMT -5
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 9, 2022 16:54:31 GMT -5
Phones were on walls. You had to dial a sort of wheel to call someone.
Computers were used to play games. You waited half an hour for the game to load, which was OK, because while they were loading you could go have your dinner.
We had two Star Wars movies in the 80's, and they were well written, coherent and made narrative sense.
Facebook was simply a book, featuring many faces. Twitter was what birds did. Social media was several people sitting in front of a TV, and occasionally someone would get up, walk to the TV and change the channel.
Being woke was what happened when your Superman alarm clock went off and you got out of bed.
The internet was in developmental stage. It began to learn at a geometric rate and became self aware in 1997.
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Post by koreycaskets on Apr 9, 2022 17:34:13 GMT -5
Arcades were AMAZING then! I was born in 76 so I pretty much remember all the 80s. Local Video Stores were way more fun than Blockbuster (in Canada we didn't get them till later on) Blockbuster that is.
White sweaters with Neon lettering, Pepsi power hour on much music, Samantha Fox, SCTV, Watching WrestleMania closed circuit. Ah I could go on and on.
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 9, 2022 17:45:36 GMT -5
Phones were on walls. You had to dial a sort of wheel to call someone. Computers were used to play games. You waited half an hour for the game to load, which was OK, because while they were loading you could go have your dinner. We had two Star Wars movies in the 80's, and they were well written, coherent and made narrative sense. Facebook was simply a book, featuring many faces. Twitter was what birds did. Social media was several people sitting in front of a TV, and occasionally someone would get up, walk to the TV and change the channel. Being woke was what happened when your Superman alarm clock went off and you got out of bed. The internet was in developmental stage. It began to learn at a geometric rate and became self aware in 1997. You sound like you’re writing the lyrics to a sequel to Tim McGraw’s Back When youtu.be/WPGvKwggtl0
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 9, 2022 17:48:20 GMT -5
Arcades were AMAZING then! I was born in 76 so I pretty much remember all the 80s. Local Video Stores were way more fun than Blockbuster (in Canada we didn't get them till later on) Blockbuster that is. Brandon, Manitoba got a Blockbuster in September 1993 and it blew my f***ing mind. October 1993 Muskrat moved to a small town and it was back the the mom n pop video stores which only had the popular shit
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 9, 2022 17:49:11 GMT -5
Phones were on walls. You had to dial a sort of wheel to call someone. Computers were used to play games. You waited half an hour for the game to load, which was OK, because while they were loading you could go have your dinner. We had two Star Wars movies in the 80's, and they were well written, coherent and made narrative sense. Facebook was simply a book, featuring many faces. Twitter was what birds did. Social media was several people sitting in front of a TV, and occasionally someone would get up, walk to the TV and change the channel. Being woke was what happened when your Superman alarm clock went off and you got out of bed. The internet was in developmental stage. It began to learn at a geometric rate and became self aware in 1997. You had your own phone number?? Party line, baby.
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Post by koreycaskets on Apr 9, 2022 17:53:57 GMT -5
Arcades were AMAZING then! I was born in 76 so I pretty much remember all the 80s. Local Video Stores were way more fun than Blockbuster (in Canada we didn't get them till later on) Blockbuster that is. Brandon, Manitoba got a Blockbuster in September 1993 and it blew my f***ing mind. October 1993 Muskrat moved to a small town and it was back the the mom n pop video stores which only had the popular shit We had Jumbo Video here which I preferred over Blockbuster. Free popcorn while browsing the horror section, shit I was to young to rent but my parents did for me.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 9, 2022 17:57:53 GMT -5
Arcades were AMAZING then! I was born in 76 so I pretty much remember all the 80s. Local Video Stores were way more fun than Blockbuster (in Canada we didn't get them till later on) Blockbuster that is. Brandon, Manitoba got a Blockbuster in September 1993 and it blew my f***ing mind. October 1993 Muskrat moved to a small town and it was back the the mom n pop video stores which only had the popular shit I don’t recall when we got a Blockbuster, maybe 1998 or so? They had shit. New releases and shit you never heard of. Video Update and the mom and pop ones were where you wanted to go to find something to actually see.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2022 18:33:45 GMT -5
Ethnic food was Italian (seen as posh and expensive) and Chinese which you ordered a few times a year. Indian restaurants were for the post pub crowd certainly not a family thing and as I was 11 when the decade finished I never went inside one. Thai, Korean and Japanese restaurants, German beer halls all the high street stuff we take for granted didn't exist not even in London or Birmingham.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 9, 2022 19:16:55 GMT -5
Smurfs were everywhere. I'd compare them to how the Minions are everywhere now.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Apr 9, 2022 19:17:36 GMT -5
Three of the best things ever happened in the 1980’s.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Apr 10, 2022 1:58:47 GMT -5
As a kid it was a magical time. I would be outside all day, using my imagination, only coming inside when my mother finally insisted, my pants literally able to stand on their own in winter time, while I cuddled in my underwear under a warm blanket. A sandwich with lots of butter and cheese has not tasted that good since.
In summer all you really needed was a nice set of marbles to keep you entertained for hours and hours.
And a new VHS coming into the house was pretty much an event.
And of course, as mentioned, we appreciated things more because everything was not so easily available.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12, Jesus, did you?”
No, mr King, we did not.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Apr 10, 2022 7:05:22 GMT -5
Everything was brown and orange. Until about 1984. That's when the '70s ended and everything became neon.
When you see footage from the '80s it seemed like a wild time, and I guess in a way it was, but at the same time everything was more subdued, calm. Listening to a TV announcer was almost comforting. Especially when they announced close-down and you had to wait for the next program until early next morning. That before things became "rad", when the '80s ended in about 1992.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Apr 10, 2022 7:37:22 GMT -5
It was a great time to be a kid. Before the newztainment really got going and scared parents into thinking predators and other dangers were everywhere. Sure they taught us to be careful around strangers but nothing like todays locked down kids.
Entertainment was amazing. Even prime time TV shows like A Team and Knight Rider were basically cartoons.
Unfortunately the 80s were the beginning of the problems we are dealing with now. The kind of deregulation that led to Transformers and He Man led to the newztainment mentioned above. "Winning" against the Soviet Union led to even more massive military spending and debt. And lots more but I have probably crossed the line already.
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Post by chrom on Apr 10, 2022 7:50:03 GMT -5
Comics were changing as well being better written and long lasting storylines with shedding the campy Adam West and Superfriends style
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 10, 2022 10:09:12 GMT -5
The 80's were great for pop culture and awful for just about everything else. This is perhaps the most accurate statement I have ever seen.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 10, 2022 10:13:42 GMT -5
Arcades were AMAZING then! I was born in 76 so I pretty much remember all the 80s. Local Video Stores were way more fun than Blockbuster (in Canada we didn't get them till later on) Blockbuster that is. White sweaters with Neon lettering, Pepsi power hour on much music, Samantha Fox, SCTV, Watching WrestleMania closed circuit. Ah I could go on and on. There was a chain of arcades that I went to when I visited my mother in Portland, OR during the school breaks called Nickelodeon. You pay a couple of dollars to enter and the arcade machines took nickels instead of quarters. It was a great way to fritter an entire day away.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Apr 10, 2022 14:03:52 GMT -5
There were a lot of dry roasted peanuts.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 10, 2022 14:10:25 GMT -5
Well, I was born in 1977 and my experience is UK-centric.
Home computers became this sudden big thing, and you played games via cassette tapes. Asked my parents for a machine in 1986 and I've basically never stopped playing video games since. There was a local arcade where I used to pump in the 10p coins to play things like Double Dragon, New Zealand Story, Final Fight and so on.
For films and tv, I know I was into sci-fi the most. Star Wars was huge, the monolithic Trilogy which ITV would show all the time, and I adored it. Also Doctor Who, since the original run was still on tv then, which was low budget and ramshackle in comparison but the Doctor was fascinating and the stories strange and interesting. I remember watching several episodes of the old 60s Star Trek series and knew that cast were doing feature films too, then seeing a front cover with the cast for this new expensive US import called Star Trek The Next Generation, and wondering what that was all about.
For the 80s, that was my own bubble. I couldn't say it was a better time, more, it was a more ignorant time for me. I was just a kid, barely a teenager by the time the decade ended. So a lot of godawful stuff that happened both here and around the world, I simply wasn't aware of. In that way, it was a simpler time. I remember seeing the Berlin Wall fall, but didn't have the full knowledge and experience to really appreciate it.
I'm kinda happy I came along around the time I did. It was just on the cusp of that real acceleration of home technology, film & tv special effects and home media. I've gone from cassette to cartridge to CD, from VHS to DVD and Blu-ray. Even simple things like the pre-Google days.
That side at least, where I have clearer memories, it's been a wild and rapid progression.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 10, 2022 18:37:29 GMT -5
Born in summer of 74 so I clearly remember all the 80s.
Back then there was so many what I thought at the time were great cartoons after school. Going back now I see that crap like He-man,Transformers,GI Joe and Voltron sucked. Nothing but 24 minute long ads for the toys.
Until about 86 video game home consoles were around but not that popular. Sure most of us at a atari 2600. But usually we would go play outside. Have BB gun wars out in the woods. Or go out to the dirt pit and ride go carts,dirt bikes and 4 wheelers.
We got our first home computer in 81 IIRC was a Vic-20. Was used to play games. Then in 86 got an Apple IIgs,used it to print stuff and play games.
Also at least back in the 80s you didn't have the mini dishes like Dish Network or DirecTV. So if you lived in a rural area,like I did,you had what ever channels your antenna got. By about 86 most of my friends had a vcr,we got our first VCR(a betamax in 78) then got a VHS model in 82. By 1989 there was 15 different video rental stores in the area.
Another huge difference,and part of this might just be cause I was in a rural area,but once you hit 6 or 7 instead of your parents taking ya trick or treating you would go with your friends. Usually we had 2 or 3 older kids with us,normally 13 to 17. But we would leave as soon as the sun set and didn't come home until 9 or 10pm.
Plus at least to me it seemed like everything was cheap. I got on average 5 bucks a week allowance. Using that I could buy 4 or so comics and go see a movie on the weekend.
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