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You realize that "Knowing is half the battle" You know if Optimus Prime is a Autobot or Decepticon You can recreate all the sound effects of Activision's Pitfall vocally. Shookiemonster One, Two, Freddy's coming for you. "Way of the exploding fist" had the most awesome graphics and gameplay you had ever seen. It was waaaay cool to have that light from Kitt on Knight Rider on the front of your car. You've ever described a co-worker as "He's so Alex P. Keaton." Remember both adventures that Bill and Ted went on, and know how to beat Death. Use the phrase "Boss Boss da plane, da plane" when they try to pick up short chicks. Remember remotes with 50 foot cords on them and you thought that was so "high tech" Have the Pacman theme and sound effects in their heads as they read this sentence. Remember that Twisted Sister was not just an insult for your female sibling. Remember metal bands that used Z instead of S and words like 'N. You remember when John Lennon was shot, when Princess Diana got married, when the Berlin Wall came down, when Freddie Mercury died, when M*A*S*H went off the air.... You remember computers BEFORE Windows!!!!!!!! don't forget my favorite, skinny black leather ties (prefrebly Chaps brand) and parachute pants. You used to love dreaming about being Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - especilly when the dreams involved Erin Grey. ...and Bangles were not just a band, but a gender-neutral fashion statement. I loved my Pitfall game on Intellivision, and of course Brain Surgeon was also the best game. Angel Flight jeans were all the rage with the guys. And Rick Springfield....wahoo, he was on General Hospital and a rock star.... 1- You remember when Rick Schroder was "Ricky Schroder" 2- You can name every Kelly LeBrock film ever made! 3- You know who Devo, A Flock Of Seagulls, and The Go-Go's are. 4- You've ever owned a "Transformer". Tyco was a toy company. You saw this. http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/1984.html You know who Horschack is. (extra points if you knew the proper spelling.) You're mad because the turtles went mainstream. You sometimes inject "The Plane, the Plane." into otherwise sane conversation. You wonder about the airspeed of an unladen swallow, and if it really is different. Some call you, Tim. You have old pictures of your girl with big hair. But your not sure if feathered was better. You remember when GI Joe was big and the space capsule was cool. The VW Scirroco was a copout, but the Thing was cool. Nixon was tricky Dick. You snuck downstairs to watch the Not Ready for Primetime Players. You know why Second City had Bob and Doug McKenzie. You were happily surprised to hear Geddy Lee on The 12 Beers of Christmas. You and your buddies debated whether Bo Derek or Jackeline Smith was hotter. You know why Jon Derek is a lucky man. You blew lots of quarters on Pac Man and were confused by the pink version the first time. You remember Star Wars 1 really came out in 1978. You were afraid to go in the water. You were shocked when John was killed. You ever streaked. The Brooklyn Dodgers. The Baltimore Colts. You had a Carl Yaztremski baseball glove and wanted to be a catcher. "Broad Street Bullies" has meaning You know why it's called a Polish victory lap. You read 1984 before the expiration date. You had wayfarer's before "Risky Business". Remember when MTV actually played music video's! Video killed the the radio star was the first video, I was on the air at the college radio station when it played. You KNOW when Arnie first hit the silver screen and how many lines the director limited him to. You say "Talk to me!" when you answer the phone. You must resist the urge to make the Transforming noise when you get up and down from a chair. My god! "Vader is Luke's father???" Your cellphone weighed more than you do And the battery lasts about as long as a KISS revival does in the 21st century You know you lived through the eighties when.... ..You know what a "Trash 80" is....and remember booting the thing from a casette player. Your first exposure to Word Processing was on a Trash 80 at your friend's house. You think that monochrome asteroids and Pong are STILL way cool games(wadaminnit...I think that was the 70's....) A VAX was the hottest thing in large-scale computing. Regards to all my fellow 80's Geeks ! Light Brite (Great toy until you lost all of the little pegs that go in it - about 2 days after receiving it)Care Bear stare (Deployed by annoying pastel teddies that fought off... er, what the heck did they even do again?)"Yo Joe!" (you get bonus points if you can remember if this show was on before or after Transformers)My little pony (plastic horsies for acid-trippers)Strawberry Shortcake (little dolls that tried to smell like pie.)Scratch 'n Sniff stickers, sticker collections, puffy stickers, shiny stickers, etc. (the originals)Easy Bake Oven (Do-it-yourself-third-degree-burn-kit-for-the-kids. But you got a neat chocolatey - flavoured 'cake' when you got home from the hospital)Shrinky-dinks (plastic pictures that you coloured that shrunk and hardened when you put them in the oven.)Friendship pins (pins with seed beads on them. Put them on your shoelaces. Some times if you had a 'really' good friend they would spell your name with letter beads or decorate them with dice beads)(beginning to wonder if there were actually any safety regulations on children's items in the 80's)Jelly shoes (please oh please, powers that be, never, never let these come back in style)Acid wash (see note for jelly shoes)Kangols (hats)Kangaroos (shoes with zippers on the sides so that you could hide your valuables)(all of those valuables you had when you were 11)Bargain Harold’s (a chain of stores that sold things like jelly shoes and acid wash jeans and Kangaroos)L'eggs (panty hose that came in a plastic egg. unsure as to who came up with this little gem of a marketing plan)Dot matrix printers (gigantic paper and constant paper jams due to improper hole/track alignment) ...and so, so many more! On the flip side, has anyone else notices 80's styles slowly creeping back into fashion? Say it ain't so! you know you're a child of the 80's when you've had or know someone who had a "baby on board" sign hanging in their car. (personally that just showed me which cars I should aim for)The one I had in my car said "funny yellow sign on board" **You remember seeing "A Flock Of Seagulls" for the first time and thought the lead singer was wearing a helmet! **You recall a time when there actually was something worthwhile, redeeming, and wholesome to watch on Sundays...two words..."Solid Gold"!!!! **You remember loving the song: "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" the first time you heard it. Then you saw the video and wanted to run screaming from your own home. Of course you soon got over it, and defended Boy George against the narrow-minded. Even now you'd wager large sums of money that if pitted against eachother, Boy George could easily kick both Debbie Gibson's and Tiffany's ass together! MMmm. 80's highlights. "Girls on Film" video, something every teenage boy should have seen in the mid-80's, even if they didn't like Duran Duran. ARCADE!!! More common than computers in the 80's. Classics like: Defender, Galaga, Gorf, Spy Hunter, Black Kight and Black Knight 2000 pinball, "Meteor" pinball game(yah, you remember the sounds it made), 8-Ball Deluxe pinball, either of the Tron Games, Wizard of Wor, Qix, Robotron, Space Duel, and of course A.J.'s favorite Atari's Tempest. Movies-before everyone, and their dog, had a VCR you used to go to movies more than once if you liked them. You never knew if/when you'd get another chance to see it. Movies- (only good ones mentioned) The second and third Star Wars movies, Ghandi, Amadeus, Platoon, Wall Street, Rain Man (yah, rain man, yah), Batman, any of a few dozen Halloween/Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm st. horror flicks, Aliens (the best one of the series and only one from the 80's), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Ran, The Shining, Princess Bride, Full Metal Jacket, Das Boot, Henry V, Brazil, Die Hard, This Is Spinal Tap, Terminator, Back To the Future, ET (sux), Predator, Rambo 1/2/3, and...just check out everything they are re-releasing on DVD; lot's of it is 80's stuff. Speaking of 80's stuff coming back, just check out the amount of 80's music that is now being used in commercials to sell to us Gen X types. Guess we're becoming the target demographic. Cable - good cable used to be 13 channels (instead of 200 channels of digital crap), and premium service (if you had the coin) was maybe 1 movie channel (First Choice or Super Channel in Canada).Satellite service was maybe 3 stations (HBO, Showtime, porn?) not the hundreds(thousands) of stations we have now. Question is, which was better? The 80's equivelent of "Boy bands"- those sad big haired metal bands. Poison, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, The Cult (a sad slide from being good), Warrent, Def Leopard, you know the type. I think they were actually worse than the actual boy bands like Menudo (Ricky Martin's band) and New Kids on the Block. Well, close.Having graduated in the mid-80's, I have WAY to many memories of this era. And since everything old is coming back (with new technology) we will live through the 80's fashion again. sadly... You recall a time when there actually was something worthwhile, redeeming, and wholesome to watch on Sundays...two words..."Solid Gold"!!!! what about "Wide World of Sports!" you forgot go-bots! the poor kids transformer! Do you have a pair that matches your "Members Only" jacket! I still remember my first one, it was black and I thought it SO KEWL because it had a pocket on the inside! How about "Where's the beef?" You know you're an '80's Child when..... When you see a John travolta film, you instantly think of horshacks annoying laugh from Welcome Back Cotter. You saw the original Lord of the Rings, along with The Hobbit at a 24Hour Sci-Fi Movie marathon. (Along with Barbarella, Tremors, The creature from the Black Lagoon) You thought how cool it must be to be a foot nothing, Dudley Moore , after watching him fleeting around a movie set with Bo Derek in "10". Mr. t. Had a cartoon series. You refer to your "Muppet Show Movie" book when sitting at your computer pining for the good old days of yesteryear. You Know You're a Child of the 80's When... You remember how excited you were to get your new cassette drive for your Commodore 64! You could load Monopoly in 21 minutes, instead of typing in lines of code for 4 days because you would mess up 1 line out of 467. Unfortunately, the “game of the week” trend soon disappeared because your mother would no longer let you keep the computer on 24/7, since you could save and load programs so easily now! Compuserve was a BBS MTV only existed in hotel rooms with magic fingers beds Playing Dungeons and Dragons did not require any software Basic was the programming language of garage geeks Snickers bars were still called Marathon. Bill Oddie was your favourite Goodie. Spangles. Wearing your jacket sleeves rolled up was COOL. Maggie Thatcher was queen. Club Tropicana drinks WERE free. Charles & Di were happily married. You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine song on Sesame Street. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off." Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away. You wanted to be on Star Search. You actually wanted to know who shot J.R.You once thought that break dancer could be a viable career option.To you Mel Gibson will forever be Mad Max.You laugh when you hear someone say "I pity the fool".Transformers really were more than meets the eye.You can remember when Rap music was considered a passing fad.You've ever done the moonwalk to impress your friends.David Lee Roth was cool.You can name more than one of the orginal MTV vjays.The nightly news was "reality TV"You remember Jamie Farr from The Gong Show.You once thought how cool it was Richard Dawson got to kiss all those chicks right on the mouth!A C.B. radio was the ultimate in mobile communications.You know what "Right Turn Clyde" means.You just could not accept William Shatner as T.J. Hooker or Lee Majors as a stunt man. Finally (This one happend to me a couple of weeks ago) Your 4 year old has ever picked an album and said "Daddy here's your big CD" Growing Pains was a TV show not something you feel when you're a growing child. Tootsie was a movie not just a candy. Where's the Beef? - Need I say more. You got a roll of quarters in your Christmas stocking just to spend some quality time in the arcade. (Tron and Qix ruled!) Leg warmers, headbands, and feather earrings could be worn in public (ewwwwwwww!) After learning some Basic, it was a big kick to go to the local K-mart and program a infinate loop into their display computers that outputs - "Fox Chapel High School Rules"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now the converse all-stars were the shiznits .. Dynasty - will Alexis and Crystal get into another cat fight?!.. Mr. T - MmmmMMmMMmmm..... You watched Fantasy Island immediately following the Love Boat! Love the lists! Wow, nostalgia is a powerful thing! Pulll out the red suede PUMA's! *When your decor centered around your posters of Debbie Harry and Farrah Fawcett.*Rat Patrol is still one of the coolest TV shows ever.*You can't understand why Logan's Run isn't showing in syndication.*Marsha is still you're idea of a dream date.*Things aren't the same without Walter Cronkite on the evening news.*You're still not too sure about them putting "life-like" hair on GI Joe.*You still picture Karen Valentine as a hot, young teacher.*You remember Bill Cosby as a spy... and can still hear him telling the story of Noah.*You can't decide whether you'd rather have Bill Bixby as your dad... or as your friend with anger management issues.*You listened to Doors and Hendrix when they were still Jim and Jimi were still touring.*When people ask you a technical question you have no good answer for... you look at them seriously, respond with "42," and walk away from them as their eyes glaze over.*On the other hand... maybe the real sign of my existence in the 80's is that my memories of the 60's/70's/80's blends together... possibly due to giving in when friends said "Wait'll you try this sh*t!" Nah... that couldn't have anything to do with it. I have to pull out my adidas HEY! I still wear my adidas all-stars! You know that Watergate is not a flow control device for a DAM... You knew how to use edlin and was proud of it! You used a cassette recorder to store your favorite computer programs on... You were absolutely certain that Disco had nothing to do with a Frisbee... You remember that the kid who owned a Trash-80 was the envy of the block... AIDS was not the number one killer in the United States... A big wheel was the baddest machine on the road! New Coke was something nobody wanted... Two words - Ms. Pacman. You wished your hair could look as good as those cool "A Flock of Seagulls" guys'. Thanks to IBM punch cards, you knew what they were talking about when "hanging chads" was the hot news topic in Florida. - thundercats roar! - go-bots were cooler than transformers - code red was my favorite show - i wore my three's company shirt to school every day Mikey from life cerealyou know you grew up in the 80s if you think Mikey from Life cereal died from eating pop rocks and drinking soda together 1. That Ross Perot secretly gave up politics and became "Pinky" of "Pinky and the Brain" fame.2. "Kiss" tunes became soft rock and was heard in elevators and grocery stores.3. PeeWee Herman had no problem getting a grip on real-it-y. The term 'Daisy Duke shorts' didn't mean anything to you until 5 years later.... Rolling the score over on Atari's Asteroids (from 9999 to 0000) was your first major accomplishment in life You are still ashamed that your generation will forever be associated with the Smurfs... wigwams, *handheld skateboards* (ever make a halfpipe for one of those things?), here's a bizarre reference: Kisco frozen drinks...you got them at the little league games...it was green and had an alligator on it...it had a straw on the side and you sucked your brains out as the big green chunk gave painfully little fruit as you died of thirst You remember the chalenger explosion .....you know you're old when...........Your first three NEW televisions were black&white......you know what McHale's Navy is. You've just downloaded the dvd versions of 'Ferris Beulers day off' and 'Breakfast club' from Kazaa/Grokster and actually watched it. You constantly download songs from the Petshop Boys, Tears for Fears, and Peter Gabriel. You signed the 'Bring back Max Headroom' petition just the other day. Lest we forget, Hithchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a radio series by the BBC, broadcast by NPR in the U.S.of A. That is where I first became aware of this master work. I have another word for you: Members Only jackets! Does anyone remember these? - Duran, Duran. The band so nice, they named 'em twice.- 75lb boom boxes- Solar powered cigerette lights (even if you didn't smoke, setting things on fire without matches was fun!)Oh, and Betamax ROCKS, even if doesn't rule. Another victim of corporate propaganda which deprived consumers of a better product in pursuit of the all mighty dollar. It's ironic that now that VHS has gotten to the point of providing the features and performance of beta, it's being replaced by DVD. Not that I'm bitter or anything; sitting at home on the weekends watching 15 year old movies because nothing new has been issued on beta since then. ;b ) you knew what Hulk-A-Mania was and when it started. And thought it was cool that he was back in the ring in 2002. you know who Roody Roddy Piper or Hacksaw Jim Dougan and his 2X4 are. you actually wore legwarmers as a fasion statement. Big Hair...I mean, if you sit in the front row in school, no one behind you could see the board. you know all of the words to "Eye of the Tiger" No matter what...Tom Cruise will always be "Risky Business" And Molly Ringwald will always be 16, and whining about it. Rollerskating in the street...and having a parent yell at you "your gonna break a bone on those things." "LOST BOYS" You thought that 5K memory addon pack for your Vic-20 created the most powerful computer in the world! The external 5.25 floppy drive for your Coleco Adam was soooooooooo cool, especially after you figured out how to put the disks in it! You remember the first phone bill after joining GEnie......OUCH! and the SPEED!!! 2400 baud! Techno-Memories- You remember punching holes in the other side of the 5-1/4" drives so that you could use both sides of the floppy disk (even though the box insisted that only one side had been tested). - You remember dialing up to BBS's - when you would have to re-dial to attach to another server. - You remember tearing the edges off computer paper after printing a document. You can still recite every word of the Superbowl Shuffle. You hit yourself in the head with a pair of Vans and exclaim "That's my skull! Dude, I am SO wasted!" You truly wanted to know if Screech could beat Horshack in Celebrity boxing. While everyone else is downloading pictures of Cindy Margolis and Danni Ashe, you're searching the web for pictures of Martha Quinn. You can still name that OTHER guy from Wham! You know how to do the Moonwalk. Everytime you pick up a microphone, you have an uncontrollable urge to say "Hey Good Lookin'. We'll be back to pick YOU up LATER!" You wish YOUR car had a Flux Capacitor. You still utter "Hello!! McFly!!" You remember when MTV played music. You've gotten in to an argument over "Tastes Great...Less Filling" You think they should give Milli Vanilli their Grammy back, becuase, by golly, most of TODAY'S pop stars don't sing a note either. You still argue "but Beta has a better picture and sound quality." You still drive a Yugo to work. When you walk into the arcade with your kids, you head straight for Galaga. Last DVD you bought... Tron. .. You saw ET when it first came out... You owned "Net-ed" Hats... Bill Cosby was a new show. 1. "Aha" is not an expression of enlightenment, but a band with big hair and a cool video. 2. Your absolutely, positively had to own a Knight Rider "Kitt" Trans Am. No wait, a Dukes of Hazard "General Lee" Dodge Charger. No scratch that, a Burt Reynolds "Bandit" Trans Am. No hold on, 1958 Plymouth Fury called "Christine". I know, a Magnum P.I. Ferrari. (Well, when your 14 and dreaming of your first car, it can be anything) 3. When "Star Trek: The Next Generation" arrived, you saw for the first time the world changing because you feel with your heart and soul that the original "Star Trek" is/was/always shall be "The Greatest Show of all time" and to have the legend of that show trodden by some cheap imitation was just a tragedy of biblical proportions. DA Plane, Da plaaane!!!! Sue Ellen Shot JR Johnny Carson WAS the tonight show Tom Petty and Elvis Costello were New Wave! Huey Lewis and the News tore it up. The DMC in RunDMC meant "double MC, y'all" The artist formerly known as "Prince" was still known as "the fruit" John Stamos, Leif Garriet and Shawn Cassidy posters got replaced with David Lee Roth, Quite Riot, Rhatt, Motley Crew (guess I spelled them right, I am getting old)LP covers made great wallpaper.Dr. Who was a Kewl British import...another reason to watch PBS.Your brother stole your hairspray, eyeliner and mascara...Guys had bigger hair than the girls...and wore even tighter pants...hummmmmmmmmmmmmm!KISS lost the makeup.Girls worn their underwear on the outside...thanks Madona!D&D games were fun.Disco Skating was every Firday night.Smoking was cool.And like "Oh my god" "you know" "like" "fersure" "like" gag me with a spoon" "bitchin" "narley"...that valley girl lingo, Moon Unit and daddy Zappa, and TV show "Square Pegs". You had to wait until 6:00 or 10:00 for the news. You had to wait until the second half of the news program to hear the weather report. You had to tune radio stations in manually. The beginnings of music piracy - taping songs off the radio. You could still find gas stations that sold leaded gasoline. Sonny Bono was just a comedian. Sergio Valente and KEDs!!!!! You could count all the TV networks on one hand (ABC, CBS, NBC, & PBS) You remember Buck Rodgers before Hawk. Gateway to Hapshey (Cant remmember de spelling) C-64 Adventure game. Mouse trap on the coleco vision... And we All got a kick on Nicole Kidman... when she was a teenager and staring in the BMX gang Movie.... My science projet movie, ghostbuster... And of course... all the actor... in Sweet sixteen, Feries Buler Days off.. Breakfast club, Reveng of the nerds, etc.... where all in the peek of stardom The words fa-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la means something to you. (Smurfs Theme) Youre sister was such a "dork" because she watched carebears and had cabage patch kid dolls. You once thought 66Mhz was a smokin' machine. You still have your Atari 800 and all the equipment to boot, in a box in your attic. The ground breaking graphics of Wolfenstien 3D made you wet your pants the first time you saw the game. You can still remember when Hulk Hogan was the man! Bill Gates was a nobody... Boss, de plane, de plane Boss!!!Yes, Tattoo. - You still know the timing and patterns to get to the 8th key of Pac-Man. - You listen to a classical piece, but wish they'd have added the synth so you could still be "Hooked on..." - You remember reading faster than a 300 baud lineprinter terminal. - You still wonder what ever happened to "Holly" from 'Land of the Lost'... or... watching the loading of the cassette "**'s" in the hopes that you didn't get a 'C'... That 16k was a LOT of memory to work with... I remember the 'alien maze' game - and Hammurabi If it wasn't for the video chip finally exploding in 1995, I think that unit would still be working. *chuckle* (bought in 79) 1. You fondly remember playing Load Runner on an Apple IIE computer 2. The Big Hair. Oh god the BIG HAIR 3. You know what a Zork is! Cyndi Lauper said it all in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" Mrs. Pac-Man you actually wore a sweatband. "Flashdance" "Who's the U-boat commander?" Gremlins (the furry things not the car) low budget slashers (nightmare on elm street, holloween, friday the thirteenth, attack of the killer tomatoes, killer clowns from outerspace, and allllllllllllllllllll their sequals). In the '80's I still thought Crockett wore a coon-skin cap! I was still playing stereo 45's at a rural radio station in Idaho (before Intel converted it) I was excited to be able to afford a used Frieden JustOWriter - paper tape system: two (2) typewriters - each weighing 125#! I had a 32' full slide-out trailor in the field next to the cabin (which was next to the house and just in front of the stable) in which I kept and used a 7" real to real tape duplicator which held one master and three (3!) copy tapes! You learned some German playing the original Castle Wolfenstein ("Achtung!") which supplemented what you learned from Hoagan's Heroes reruns. (it amazes me how many people think that Wolfenstein 3D was the "original" Wolfenstein")You thoug You ever make the sound that Pitfall Harry made when swinging on a vine across a pit... You remember Aztec and Oregon Trail on the old Apple... You remember video games that required imagination, like Adventure for the Atari, where you were a square, a sword looked like an arrow, and dragons looked like ducks... You almost cried at the end of Empire Strikes Back cuz you knew it would be years before you found out if Han would ever get out of the carbon freeze... You thought Maximillian from the "Black Hole" was the coolest robot ever... You think that the closest thing to Star Wars on TV was Battlestar Galactica.... You thought that the aliens from V were the coolest... You know you are a child of the 80's if you not only know who Led Zepplin were, but you could write their name with the right amount of flair on the "Z". Nope Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la...one bannana, two bannana...The Bannanna Split Gang.Then there was the BayCity Rollars.... -All of the 10-10-220 commercials that have Mr. T and Alf actually make sense to you. -Your parents still thought that you were a "remote control" for the television. -The only crocodile hunter you can think of is Paul Hogan -You didn't need to take out a loan just to fill up your gas tank. -You remember when games at the arcade only cost a quarter. Remember... GoldorakRemember... AlbatorRemember... Our "heavy metal" groups of the time? They all tended to be four, and one of them was blond? Remember... Take your graduate book and look at the girls... They all had their hair set up about a feet up in the air! héhéhé And the worst thing is that we used to like it! Remember... Bo derek hmmmm...Remember... First bloodRemember... the flintstonesRemember... lost in space. They used to have a robot made out of a duster with drying machines tubes as arms.Remember... they also had a series like that in a submarine and all kind of monsters that always found a way to invade the sub (like if they only have to turn the knob to get in!). Don't remember the name thought. Remember... car tuning. We used to jack the tail up so high that the car behind us could see his teeth in the chrome differential. And we used white letter tires on full chrome wheels. The damned suffocating green pine swinging under the mirror, when it was not a pair of fluffy dice. Ah well... I'm beginnig to get nostalgic here. - you rememeber finding princess Leia "sexy" (and even made some "teenager things" while looking at one of her posters) :) - you know what the game Karateka means. - you remember playing a flight simulator with only 64k RAM that fitted on one 360 K Floppy. (commodore 64, F-15 eagle) - Dynasty tv show- Dungeons and dragons (the saturday morning cartoons)- 1999 (a tv show set on a moon)- Hulk, the fantastic four, captain america and all those long lost super heroes- The little house in the ???? (with the ingalls and the little Neslie Olson)- Genie- My beloved witch- Archie, jughead, veronica and betty.- Miami beach (the show with those 2 cops, not the place)- Grease- Breakdancing- Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk for the first time in public at the Music award.- Amityville (horror movie in a house which windows made it looked like having evil eyes)- The mini arcade machines replica that you could fit in your school bag on which we played donkey kong, galaxian and pac man. - In the year 2000 we will be driving flying cars, cancer will be a long forgotten bad dream etc... - Going to the moon mean that you are conceled in a little metal cone, and getting back was a nightmare (if at all), because you were to land somewhere in the ocean. Simply put, do you know what space rockets are? - shhttt! Silence damn you! I was just copying the tape and now I have to start it all over again bast....!!! - Gi Joe's - Six million dollar man, bionic woman and all their bionic pets. 6 000 000 isn't much these days. - Ozzy Osbourne- Quiet riot- Accept- Def leppard- Rush- Motley crue- alice cooper- another brick in the wall- about metallica "hum hey bro, by the sound of it, i think your cassette is jamming into the tape recorder" I hope I mad eyou dream a bit about our childhood with those.
One word: Izod.... .. You remember when Arcade games only cost a quarter to play. .. You entered CTTY PRN into the autoexec.bat of the stores display computers. .. You've taken back your empty soda bottle for the 10 cent deposit. .. You expect every black Firebird to talk and drive on their own. .. You 'pity da foo' who crosses your path. .. You've used a 2400 baud modem, or a 5.25" floppy. .. You still have a 2400 baud modem and boxes of 5.25" floppies. .. You remember that trackballs are for Missle command, and centapede. .. You remember when joysticks were realy sticks. You still have a Vic 20 complete with cassette drive. You remember when David Hasselhoff was cool...wait, did I just say that out loud? You could clean a pac-man table in 4 minutes flat! You inherantly know that the first video ever on MTV was "Video killed the radio star", but still recollect that Ted Nugent's "Heads will Roll" was the best! You had a "thing" for that cute Martha VJ! Your favorite movie was "The Warriors" You once deleted the "." from your DIR listing; Plastic Bracelets form the bubblegum machines became a fashion statement. Punk hit mainstream. Shoes called clogs echoed the malls. Pants made out parachute material. Break dancing...really break bones dancing. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Rock n' Roll High School...fav movies. TV's....Real People and That's Incredible. Lady DI becomes Princess DI. Luke and Laura... MTV! before Rap and Commericals. It was Music Video! The 80's were COOL not KEWL Pat Benatar, Oliva Newton-John, Madonna, Debi Harry, Heart... FAME...I'm going to live forever...who rembers the TV show and song? Night Time Soaps, Mini Series, Danniel Steel books, Power Rangers? Purple Rain...the movie. Laser Tag, D&D, AD&D BIG HAIR on the guys as well You could still smoke in school and it was COOL. Twisted Sister, Rhatt, Poison, Motley Crew, AC/DC, "who's got big balls?" Add-a-beads, Twist-a-beads Pink, Purple and Green together? finally faded out.(YEA) Could buy beer and wine at 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those were the days! ..in the 80's the only Acronyms I had to remember were K.I.S.S. and A.L.F. ..One word: HAIRSPRAY (Aquanet, baby!) ..watching Dean Astin play "Buddy" on Night Court ..BBS Lines ..trying to figure out who was funnier...Monty Python or Benny Hill ..My first program written on Apple II (I think this is it...): 10 PRINT "I Am Cool" 20 GOTO 10 ..My first EGA monitor (no more four color CGA!!!) You know you are a child of the 80's if you remember when "hair style" became an oxymoron when people started trying to find a suitable replacement for the 70's Farah-feathered look. |