I don't know if it has been done here already but i would like to think this is a fun thing to do.
Now you can put anything that you remember from the 80's movies, music, shows, games....whatever that u can think fondly of.
Here is my top 10:
10. Christmas time. Always a guarantee I would get a Nintendo game.
9. coming back from school just in time to watch the afternoon cartoons
8. watching E.T. at the movie theatres
7. The Goonies
6. Watching my favorite t.v. shows like Growing Pains and Mr. Belvedere
5. Madonna
4. Solid Gold
3. Playing Ninja
2. Wrestlemania
and my number 1 favorite memory from the 80's
1. waking up every saturday morning for the saturday morning cartoons
Now you can put anything that you remember from the 80's movies, music, shows, games....whatever that u can think fondly of.
Here is my top 10:
10. Christmas time. Always a guarantee I would get a Nintendo game.
9. coming back from school just in time to watch the afternoon cartoons
8. watching E.T. at the movie theatres
7. The Goonies
6. Watching my favorite t.v. shows like Growing Pains and Mr. Belvedere
5. Madonna
4. Solid Gold
3. Playing Ninja
2. Wrestlemania
and my number 1 favorite memory from the 80's
1. waking up every saturday morning for the saturday morning cartoons
10. Christmas time we always sat down and watched a Christmas Story as a family
9. Movies semed more creative
8. After school cartoons
7. Saw my first horror movie (cujo)
6. Tv Game Shows
5. When going to the mall being able to go to the arcades
4. Wrestling
3. Playing conann the barbareian
2. Makeing up games to have fun when a friend would stay the night
1. Raceing/Riding/Doing Tricks/and just anything i could do on my BMX bike
9. Movies semed more creative
8. After school cartoons
7. Saw my first horror movie (cujo)
6. Tv Game Shows
5. When going to the mall being able to go to the arcades
4. Wrestling
3. Playing conann the barbareian
2. Makeing up games to have fun when a friend would stay the night
1. Raceing/Riding/Doing Tricks/and just anything i could do on my BMX bike
This is in no particualr order, just as they come to mind:
10) Saturday morning, weekends in general. Watching CBS, NBC and ABC cartoons and shows along with Nickelodeon standards, eating sugary cereal in front of TV, then getting dressed and going outside to play.
9) Summer, particualrly 1982,83,84. Grandma's house, barefooted on hot concrete, jumping into the 3 ringed blow up Disney swimming pool, while hearing songs like "Flashdance" "Lets Hear it for the Boy" and "Gloria".
8) After school cartoon line up: Thundercats, Silverhawks, Ducktales, The Monkees, Fraggle Rock.
7) Nintendo! One weird memory: Playing Legend of Zelda in the evening as a thunderstorm rolled in.
6)The smell of different hairsprays. Rave, Aquanet, Sassoon.
5) Fun Toys like Construx, Legos, My Little Pony
4)Staying over at my cousin's house (apartment) watching HBO and playing Atari
3) Buying tons of teeny bopper mags and ripping out pictures and slapping them on my wall.
2)Showbizz Pizza
1) Food: Giggles Cookies, Hi-C, Chips Ahoy, Five Alive, Boku, Fruit Bars ("so good, and ugly") Kaboom, Nintendo Cereal, Fun Fruits, New York Seltzer Water.
10) Saturday morning, weekends in general. Watching CBS, NBC and ABC cartoons and shows along with Nickelodeon standards, eating sugary cereal in front of TV, then getting dressed and going outside to play.
9) Summer, particualrly 1982,83,84. Grandma's house, barefooted on hot concrete, jumping into the 3 ringed blow up Disney swimming pool, while hearing songs like "Flashdance" "Lets Hear it for the Boy" and "Gloria".
8) After school cartoon line up: Thundercats, Silverhawks, Ducktales, The Monkees, Fraggle Rock.
7) Nintendo! One weird memory: Playing Legend of Zelda in the evening as a thunderstorm rolled in.
6)The smell of different hairsprays. Rave, Aquanet, Sassoon.
5) Fun Toys like Construx, Legos, My Little Pony
4)Staying over at my cousin's house (apartment) watching HBO and playing Atari
3) Buying tons of teeny bopper mags and ripping out pictures and slapping them on my wall.
2)Showbizz Pizza
1) Food: Giggles Cookies, Hi-C, Chips Ahoy, Five Alive, Boku, Fruit Bars ("so good, and ugly") Kaboom, Nintendo Cereal, Fun Fruits, New York Seltzer Water.
OMG I can't believe I forgot the Kaboom cereal, those were good
Funky_Guy
2638 Posts
16 years, 5 months ago
10. The first time I heard Yes was the summer of '87, man that was a mindblower. First cut I heard was Heart of the Sunrise, I loved it, it was a million miles away from the pop and children's music I had been surrounded with till then.
9. That led right to the first of many used record store trips.
8. The beginning of me being a major Who fan, which was a combiantion of several events, seeing a report on tv about the Who at the Toronto Exhibition in '89 on tv, hearing Pinball Wizard on the radio a bunch of times and finding my dad's Who best of tape.
7. Frequent trips to PEI, my family stayed at a bed and breakfast/ farm owned by close friends of my grandma.
6. Saturday morning tv, I never missed an episode of Garfield and Friends.
5. Winter ski vacations, we'd stay at a time share my dad's sister co-owned in Vermont.
4. All the great toys, Contrux, Hotwheels, Matchbox and Majorette toy cars and Lego were favorites of mine
3. Outings to places near my house like Sobey's grocery store, Towers department store where my mom and sister let me kill time in the toy and entertainment section while they went clothes and housewears shopping and the Woodlawn public library with their great vinyl department. That was my introduction to Beatles and Doors music.
2. Getting to pick a cartoon video for myself nearly every time my family went to a video rental store. I think I worked my way through the entire Warner Bros cartoon video catolouge.
1. When my family played hookie from church on sundays and went on day trips to either friends of ours who lived about an hour and half away, or out to the valley or to Clam harbour beach. I especially enjoyed the clam harbour beach trips. We'd often have the entire picnic area to ourselves Sunday evening.
If we did go to church we'd usually go out for lunch aftewards or cook something we'd seen Jeff Smith make on PBS and watch
the SNL episode we taped from the night before.
9. That led right to the first of many used record store trips.
8. The beginning of me being a major Who fan, which was a combiantion of several events, seeing a report on tv about the Who at the Toronto Exhibition in '89 on tv, hearing Pinball Wizard on the radio a bunch of times and finding my dad's Who best of tape.
7. Frequent trips to PEI, my family stayed at a bed and breakfast/ farm owned by close friends of my grandma.
6. Saturday morning tv, I never missed an episode of Garfield and Friends.
5. Winter ski vacations, we'd stay at a time share my dad's sister co-owned in Vermont.
4. All the great toys, Contrux, Hotwheels, Matchbox and Majorette toy cars and Lego were favorites of mine
3. Outings to places near my house like Sobey's grocery store, Towers department store where my mom and sister let me kill time in the toy and entertainment section while they went clothes and housewears shopping and the Woodlawn public library with their great vinyl department. That was my introduction to Beatles and Doors music.
2. Getting to pick a cartoon video for myself nearly every time my family went to a video rental store. I think I worked my way through the entire Warner Bros cartoon video catolouge.
1. When my family played hookie from church on sundays and went on day trips to either friends of ours who lived about an hour and half away, or out to the valley or to Clam harbour beach. I especially enjoyed the clam harbour beach trips. We'd often have the entire picnic area to ourselves Sunday evening.
If we did go to church we'd usually go out for lunch aftewards or cook something we'd seen Jeff Smith make on PBS and watch
the SNL episode we taped from the night before.
In no order
Legos
Star Wars figures
Saturday Morning Cartoons
wwf wrestling on Tuesday night titans
Kung Fu theater
riding my bike all day long
Christmas
the great 80's music
playing baseball all summer
getting our first vcr (it was actually a beta max though)
Legos
Star Wars figures
Saturday Morning Cartoons
wwf wrestling on Tuesday night titans
Kung Fu theater
riding my bike all day long
Christmas
the great 80's music
playing baseball all summer
getting our first vcr (it was actually a beta max though)
10 - gotta go with christmas
9 - Weekend tv (Motormouth with Kissyfur,M.A.S.K etc)
8 - Staying at my Gran's for the Weekend
7 - the mis-adventures we had
6 - Playing army (until we actually started using batteries as grenades, 1 or 2 trips to the infirmary seemed to follow suit)
5 - Primary school
4 - being terrified to even be in the same vicinty as girls
3 - Staying in bed
2 - Summer Hols
1 - Old friends
9 - Weekend tv (Motormouth with Kissyfur,M.A.S.K etc)
8 - Staying at my Gran's for the Weekend
7 - the mis-adventures we had
6 - Playing army (until we actually started using batteries as grenades, 1 or 2 trips to the infirmary seemed to follow suit)
5 - Primary school
4 - being terrified to even be in the same vicinty as girls
3 - Staying in bed
2 - Summer Hols
1 - Old friends
dudette72
1 Posts
16 years, 5 months ago
drinking kool aid
my mork and mindy lunch box LOL
eating cereal! like: lucky charms, cookie crisp, fruit loops, cocoa krispies, etc..
mcdonalds happy meals
running outside with my friend cause the ice cream man was in my neighborhood!
going trick-or treating on halloween! laying out all the candy on the floor of my room, and comparing with my friend what we each got
playing barbies with my friends
having pac-man fever! lol ( I was so good at that game and still am haha)
playing with my "speak and spell" and making it say bad words! LOL
playing board games like candyland, twister, checkers, bingo, hi ho cherrio, boggle, hungry hippos, monopoly, clue...
roller skating down the hills of my neihborhood (how dangerous! I don't think any kids wore helmets back then!)
getting rid of my metal roller skates and getting plastic ones, lol
crying when I saw E.T. at the movie theatre
saturday cartoons! my fav was always the bugs bunny road runner show lol
watching shows like creature feature, brady bunch, gilligans island, the adams family
christmas time of course..what a great feeling
was so excited when the charlie brown specials would come on for each holiday
my ultimate fav memory: receiving an autographed signed photo written especially for me, from the singer corey hart. I was so thrilled
my mork and mindy lunch box LOL
eating cereal! like: lucky charms, cookie crisp, fruit loops, cocoa krispies, etc..
mcdonalds happy meals
running outside with my friend cause the ice cream man was in my neighborhood!
going trick-or treating on halloween! laying out all the candy on the floor of my room, and comparing with my friend what we each got
playing barbies with my friends
having pac-man fever! lol ( I was so good at that game and still am haha)
playing with my "speak and spell" and making it say bad words! LOL
playing board games like candyland, twister, checkers, bingo, hi ho cherrio, boggle, hungry hippos, monopoly, clue...
roller skating down the hills of my neihborhood (how dangerous! I don't think any kids wore helmets back then!)
getting rid of my metal roller skates and getting plastic ones, lol
crying when I saw E.T. at the movie theatre
saturday cartoons! my fav was always the bugs bunny road runner show lol
watching shows like creature feature, brady bunch, gilligans island, the adams family
christmas time of course..what a great feeling
was so excited when the charlie brown specials would come on for each holiday
my ultimate fav memory: receiving an autographed signed photo written especially for me, from the singer corey hart. I was so thrilled
Well, here's a top ten in no particular order:
1. The first time I played Super Mario Bros. with the new NES at my cousin's house
2. My trip to Australia in 1987 to see family
3. My Little Ponies
4. Riding bikes with my friends
5. Sesame Street
6. McDonald's for lunch and swimming at the Best Western once a week with friends
7. Playing 45 records on my portable record player
8. Listening to 8-tracks in our den
9. Bowling
10. Disney Cartoons
There's so much more, but these came to mind first
1. The first time I played Super Mario Bros. with the new NES at my cousin's house
2. My trip to Australia in 1987 to see family
3. My Little Ponies
4. Riding bikes with my friends
5. Sesame Street
6. McDonald's for lunch and swimming at the Best Western once a week with friends
7. Playing 45 records on my portable record player
8. Listening to 8-tracks in our den
9. Bowling
10. Disney Cartoons
There's so much more, but these came to mind first
Same thing here... no particular order... just crap I can remember.
1) Garbage Pail Kids... collecting those cards. I remember the candy store (I call it that because all I remember is an isle of the best candies around) and how they always had the newest series by the register.
2) Transformers... how could the 80's be complete without that phase? I was an 80's kid... starting from 5 to 14 from 1980 to 1989, so this came at the right time. Greatest toy set in the history of history! Not to mention a sweet cartoon.
3) My local amusement park... it was a treat to go there once-a-year. I was excited in '87 when I went a record 3-times in one year each with someone different. Today, the park has a different feeling, and although there's more rides, it doesn't quite have the magic it had.
4) Short shorts & tube socks... It's a staple of the 80's. Everybody wore them, which by todays AMERICAN standards, would stand out like you're some major fruitcake... but we had the socks (with the colored stripes) pulled up to almost our knees, and shorts so short, that our whitie tighties were longer than the shorts themselves it seemed!
5) Atari 2600 and then NES... Another MAJOR part of my 80's life. The early 80's was filled with the crap-tacular Atari 2600, and games up the yin yang. At least then, I didn't buy the games... but I remember going to K-B Toys and checking out the bargin bin that had games for $0.99. The NES started in 1987, and introduced me to a whole new era of fun... although now, I had to buy most my own games (except Christmas & birthdays).
6) Summer Vacations... The fun of going on week-long vacations every summer. I remember my parents rationing every-other-year, we could goto two places. It was always the same locations, but granted... it was a joy each time. The magic is lost now, especially since I go there yearly myself now.
7) Saturday Morning Cartoons... and Religion... What a dilemma... will I goto hell? I went to religion class on Saturday mornings I think at 8, and got back like 9:15 or something. I missed half of the offerings. I think I quit religion after the 6th grade ONLY because I wanted to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons!!! Strange, eh? I couldn't miss my Muppet Babies or Pee-Wee's Playhouse! :-)
8) Cereal... Donkey Kong Cereal, Pac-Man Cereal, and some of the other weird offerings. I don't eat the stuff much now due to time constraints, but they certainly had some weird $hit out... mostly mimics of existing cereals, just disguised as pop-culture icon to sell.
9) Christmas... MUCH more magical back then. Both my brothers were still living at home. Our 'fireplace' was a cheap cardboard setup with a plug-in lightbulb... and presents were a LOT more fun to open up.
10) Hills & Ames... Stores that no longer exist were two stores that I lived within an arms length. It made for a neat hangout, especiall Hills with its cheap popcorn, slurpee (or whatever they called it), cotton candy, and their videogame or two that they all had in the lobby. I fondly remember Rampage, but I know there were others. I also used Hills as a place to 'rent' games. I bought them for the NES, played them for a couple days, and returned them always with some new excuse.
1) Garbage Pail Kids... collecting those cards. I remember the candy store (I call it that because all I remember is an isle of the best candies around) and how they always had the newest series by the register.
2) Transformers... how could the 80's be complete without that phase? I was an 80's kid... starting from 5 to 14 from 1980 to 1989, so this came at the right time. Greatest toy set in the history of history! Not to mention a sweet cartoon.
3) My local amusement park... it was a treat to go there once-a-year. I was excited in '87 when I went a record 3-times in one year each with someone different. Today, the park has a different feeling, and although there's more rides, it doesn't quite have the magic it had.
4) Short shorts & tube socks... It's a staple of the 80's. Everybody wore them, which by todays AMERICAN standards, would stand out like you're some major fruitcake... but we had the socks (with the colored stripes) pulled up to almost our knees, and shorts so short, that our whitie tighties were longer than the shorts themselves it seemed!
5) Atari 2600 and then NES... Another MAJOR part of my 80's life. The early 80's was filled with the crap-tacular Atari 2600, and games up the yin yang. At least then, I didn't buy the games... but I remember going to K-B Toys and checking out the bargin bin that had games for $0.99. The NES started in 1987, and introduced me to a whole new era of fun... although now, I had to buy most my own games (except Christmas & birthdays).
6) Summer Vacations... The fun of going on week-long vacations every summer. I remember my parents rationing every-other-year, we could goto two places. It was always the same locations, but granted... it was a joy each time. The magic is lost now, especially since I go there yearly myself now.
7) Saturday Morning Cartoons... and Religion... What a dilemma... will I goto hell? I went to religion class on Saturday mornings I think at 8, and got back like 9:15 or something. I missed half of the offerings. I think I quit religion after the 6th grade ONLY because I wanted to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons!!! Strange, eh? I couldn't miss my Muppet Babies or Pee-Wee's Playhouse! :-)
8) Cereal... Donkey Kong Cereal, Pac-Man Cereal, and some of the other weird offerings. I don't eat the stuff much now due to time constraints, but they certainly had some weird $hit out... mostly mimics of existing cereals, just disguised as pop-culture icon to sell.
9) Christmas... MUCH more magical back then. Both my brothers were still living at home. Our 'fireplace' was a cheap cardboard setup with a plug-in lightbulb... and presents were a LOT more fun to open up.
10) Hills & Ames... Stores that no longer exist were two stores that I lived within an arms length. It made for a neat hangout, especiall Hills with its cheap popcorn, slurpee (or whatever they called it), cotton candy, and their videogame or two that they all had in the lobby. I fondly remember Rampage, but I know there were others. I also used Hills as a place to 'rent' games. I bought them for the NES, played them for a couple days, and returned them always with some new excuse.
1) Cartoons in the morning before school while eating cereal
2) The end of the school year when we would have a field trip
3) Chuck E Cheeses
4) Watching all the b horror movies with my dad on the weekends
5) Playing the NES all day during the summer till my fingers hurt
6) Saturday morning cartoons followed by Kung Fu Theater
7) Riding my bikes with my friends
8) Christmas I always got the best stuff back then
9) SIX FLAGS during the summer
10) Walking home from school through the creeks
2) The end of the school year when we would have a field trip
3) Chuck E Cheeses
4) Watching all the b horror movies with my dad on the weekends
5) Playing the NES all day during the summer till my fingers hurt
6) Saturday morning cartoons followed by Kung Fu Theater
7) Riding my bikes with my friends
8) Christmas I always got the best stuff back then
9) SIX FLAGS during the summer
10) Walking home from school through the creeks
Dawg
Same thing here... no particular order... just crap I can remember.
1) Garbage Pail Kids... collecting those cards. I remember the candy store (I call it that because all I remember is an isle of the best candies around) and how they always had the newest series by the register.
2) Transformers... how could the 80's be complete without that phase? I was an 80's kid... starting from 5 to 14 from 1980 to 1989, so this came at the right time. Greatest toy set in the history of history! Not to mention a sweet cartoon.
3) My local amusement park... it was a treat to go there once-a-year. I was excited in '87 when I went a record 3-times in one year each with someone different. Today, the park has a different feeling, and although there's more rides, it doesn't quite have the magic it had.
4) Short shorts & tube socks... It's a staple of the 80's. Everybody wore them, which by todays AMERICAN standards, would stand out like you're some major fruitcake... but we had the socks (with the colored stripes) pulled up to almost our knees, and shorts so short, that our whitie tighties were longer than the shorts themselves it seemed!
5) Atari 2600 and then NES... Another MAJOR part of my 80's life. The early 80's was filled with the crap-tacular Atari 2600, and games up the yin yang. At least then, I didn't buy the games... but I remember going to K-B Toys and checking out the bargin bin that had games for $0.99. The NES started in 1987, and introduced me to a whole new era of fun... although now, I had to buy most my own games (except Christmas & birthdays).
6) Summer Vacations... The fun of going on week-long vacations every summer. I remember my parents rationing every-other-year, we could goto two places. It was always the same locations, but granted... it was a joy each time. The magic is lost now, especially since I go there yearly myself now.
7) Saturday Morning Cartoons... and Religion... What a dilemma... will I goto hell? I went to religion class on Saturday mornings I think at 8, and got back like 9:15 or something. I missed half of the offerings. I think I quit religion after the 6th grade ONLY because I wanted to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons!!! Strange, eh? I couldn't miss my Muppet Babies or Pee-Wee's Playhouse! :-)
8) Cereal... Donkey Kong Cereal, Pac-Man Cereal, and some of the other weird offerings. I don't eat the stuff much now due to time constraints, but they certainly had some weird $hit out... mostly mimics of existing cereals, just disguised as pop-culture icon to sell.
9) Christmas... MUCH more magical back then. Both my brothers were still living at home. Our 'fireplace' was a cheap cardboard setup with a plug-in lightbulb... and presents were a LOT more fun to open up.
10) Hills & Ames... Stores that no longer exist were two stores that I lived within an arms length. It made for a neat hangout, especiall Hills with its cheap popcorn, slurpee (or whatever they called it), cotton candy, and their videogame or two that they all had in the lobby. I fondly remember Rampage, but I know there were others. I also used Hills as a place to 'rent' games. I bought them for the NES, played them for a couple days, and returned them always with some new excuse.
What you said about the knee-high socks and short shorts really takes me back. My dad used to wear those type of socks all the time when I was a kid. And the basketball players back they had the real short shorts; something not even heard of today. I wore short shorts too.
I used to eat Pac-Man and E.T cereal when I was a tyke. Ahhhh, those were the days.
atmypryme
15 Posts
16 years, 5 months ago
10. Damn near watching the Govenor of CA. movies how many times a weak. (Running Man, Commando, Conan, Predator, etc)
09. Playing with my He-man/Thundercat toys
08. Turning on my Sega Master One System after school and playing Wonderboy in Monster Land
07. Watching the Karate Kid (the T.V. Show) with my grandma
06. Slapping my wrist over and over with that silly 80's wrist band with the vivid colors (you guys should know what I'm talking 'bout.)
05. Nickelodeon's Pinwheel Pinwheel Pinwheel!
04. Sporting the Gotcha's, Ocean Pacific, Stussy etc. wear.
03. Pumping up my Weeboks
02. Eating a Mcdonald's Burger's from a styrofoam box
01. Turning the Dial on the telephone over and over again ( you know, the old school ones with the lime green, mustard colors)
*Theres a whole lot more I can keep coming with it. If you guys want...
09. Playing with my He-man/Thundercat toys
08. Turning on my Sega Master One System after school and playing Wonderboy in Monster Land
07. Watching the Karate Kid (the T.V. Show) with my grandma
06. Slapping my wrist over and over with that silly 80's wrist band with the vivid colors (you guys should know what I'm talking 'bout.)
05. Nickelodeon's Pinwheel Pinwheel Pinwheel!
04. Sporting the Gotcha's, Ocean Pacific, Stussy etc. wear.
03. Pumping up my Weeboks
02. Eating a Mcdonald's Burger's from a styrofoam box
01. Turning the Dial on the telephone over and over again ( you know, the old school ones with the lime green, mustard colors)
*Theres a whole lot more I can keep coming with it. If you guys want...
Cdokes1
1032 Posts
16 years, 4 months ago
1. Halloween candy
2. Christmas morning
3.Scary B rated movies
4. The Brat Pack
5. Fraggle Rock
6.10 cent candy ( Now & Laters, Cherry Chan's
7.Nintendo
8.Micheal Jordan with hair
9. Space ship explosion
10.Nickelodeon
2. Christmas morning
3.Scary B rated movies
4. The Brat Pack
5. Fraggle Rock
6.10 cent candy ( Now & Laters, Cherry Chan's
7.Nintendo
8.Micheal Jordan with hair
9. Space ship explosion
10.Nickelodeon
1) Watching movies like The Goonies, The Karate Kid, and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (well, two of the three anyway) in the theaters.
2) Beating Mike Tyson's Punch Out for the first time.
3) 2 months of no Korean school from December to February. For about 35-40 weeks a year for 6 years I had to go to Korean school for three hours every Saturday morning. Yeah, wasn't a fan. But that made the weeks I didn't go all that much sweeter.
4) Getting Omega Supreme for Christmas in second grade
5) My one and only trip to Disney World.
6) The ridiculously huge Lego town my friend and I built and played with every day. Seriously, it took up at least half the floor in my room.
7) Collecting baseball cards, starting with the 1987 Topps set.
8) Watching music videos on MTV by Michael Jackson, The Cars, Boy George, etc.
9) Going into a store and getting my first GI Joes: Grunt and Snake Eyes
10) Ditto for my first Transformers: First Skywarp, then Prowl, then Jazz.
2) Beating Mike Tyson's Punch Out for the first time.
3) 2 months of no Korean school from December to February. For about 35-40 weeks a year for 6 years I had to go to Korean school for three hours every Saturday morning. Yeah, wasn't a fan. But that made the weeks I didn't go all that much sweeter.
4) Getting Omega Supreme for Christmas in second grade
5) My one and only trip to Disney World.
6) The ridiculously huge Lego town my friend and I built and played with every day. Seriously, it took up at least half the floor in my room.
7) Collecting baseball cards, starting with the 1987 Topps set.
8) Watching music videos on MTV by Michael Jackson, The Cars, Boy George, etc.
9) Going into a store and getting my first GI Joes: Grunt and Snake Eyes
10) Ditto for my first Transformers: First Skywarp, then Prowl, then Jazz.
Funky_Guy
2638 Posts
16 years, 4 months ago
10. Inspector Gadjet and WKRP reruns (with original music still intact) every weekday afternoon
9. Much Music and YTV were actually good channels
8. Weekday afternoons playing Lego, Contrux, Nintendo, Hide and Go Seek, Capture the Flag
and war games at my baby sitter's
7. When school homework could be finished in less than 45 minutes
6. Watching taped episodes of Saturday Night Live Sunday afternoon, '87 - '89, for my money one of the best periods for that show
5. Hostess chips when they were actually good, not the over flavored and salted version that's been around since the mid 90's
4. So many fun places within short walking/ biking/ driving distance of my house
3. Sears Wishbook and the Radio Shack year end catolouge, those things were excellent back then
2. Getting Majorette toy cars, Transformers or cds/ tapes/ records (new and used) for being good or bringing home good grades
1. The great Saturday morning cartoon lineups.
9. Much Music and YTV were actually good channels
8. Weekday afternoons playing Lego, Contrux, Nintendo, Hide and Go Seek, Capture the Flag
and war games at my baby sitter's
7. When school homework could be finished in less than 45 minutes
6. Watching taped episodes of Saturday Night Live Sunday afternoon, '87 - '89, for my money one of the best periods for that show
5. Hostess chips when they were actually good, not the over flavored and salted version that's been around since the mid 90's
4. So many fun places within short walking/ biking/ driving distance of my house
3. Sears Wishbook and the Radio Shack year end catolouge, those things were excellent back then
2. Getting Majorette toy cars, Transformers or cds/ tapes/ records (new and used) for being good or bringing home good grades
1. The great Saturday morning cartoon lineups.
Far Out Funky Guy : "10. Inspector Gadjet and WKRP reruns (with original music still intact) every weekday afternoon"
YES! Same here. I can still hear it from my tv in the afternoons as the day wound down with all that 80's primetime fun still to come. Rockin good memories!
YES! Same here. I can still hear it from my tv in the afternoons as the day wound down with all that 80's primetime fun still to come. Rockin good memories!
10) birthdays, since mine was always right at the tail end of summer, and would always get cool NES games that me and my bro would share.
9) Water fort wars. Was always one of those cool things where the trees always needed to be cut down, and me and my bro and friends would pile up the branches and make several forts and then we'd just go to war with each other with our newest and coolest super soakers.
8) Spending the summers with my grandparents in Louisiana. Always got to go fishing, but I'd use the crab net as I was(still) too impatient to use a fishing rod.
7) Always beating my brothers scores on the NES at Duckhunt. Of course I would always "cheat" and put the gun right up against the screen, although that never really helped much. Although I always preferred Hogan's Alley over Duckhunt. Had such cooler backgrounds and trickier.
6) Mister Roger's, Sesame Street, Muppets, Fraggle Rock, David the Gnome...Basically the only things I watched in the morning, didn't care if they were re-runs or not.
5) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and collecting every single toy they put out. And Transformers, cried my eyes out when Optimus died(of course I was also 1 years old when I saw the movie)
4) All those other cool cartoons. Silver Hawks, Thundercats, M.A.S.K, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Voltron(which for some reason I always called Boltron), Speed Racer, Astro boy,
3) amazing movies like Monster Squad, Indiana Jones, Conan, Red Sonja, Dark Crystal, Predator, Krull (always wanted that boomerang)
2) Being able to do whatever the hell I wanted.
1) STAR WARS! I mean, what little kid didn't see that and want to be a Jedi? I mean, I would just grab a branch and swing it around making the noises and get into fights with my brother.
9) Water fort wars. Was always one of those cool things where the trees always needed to be cut down, and me and my bro and friends would pile up the branches and make several forts and then we'd just go to war with each other with our newest and coolest super soakers.
8) Spending the summers with my grandparents in Louisiana. Always got to go fishing, but I'd use the crab net as I was(still) too impatient to use a fishing rod.
7) Always beating my brothers scores on the NES at Duckhunt. Of course I would always "cheat" and put the gun right up against the screen, although that never really helped much. Although I always preferred Hogan's Alley over Duckhunt. Had such cooler backgrounds and trickier.
6) Mister Roger's, Sesame Street, Muppets, Fraggle Rock, David the Gnome...Basically the only things I watched in the morning, didn't care if they were re-runs or not.
5) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and collecting every single toy they put out. And Transformers, cried my eyes out when Optimus died(of course I was also 1 years old when I saw the movie)
4) All those other cool cartoons. Silver Hawks, Thundercats, M.A.S.K, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Voltron(which for some reason I always called Boltron), Speed Racer, Astro boy,
3) amazing movies like Monster Squad, Indiana Jones, Conan, Red Sonja, Dark Crystal, Predator, Krull (always wanted that boomerang)
2) Being able to do whatever the hell I wanted.
1) STAR WARS! I mean, what little kid didn't see that and want to be a Jedi? I mean, I would just grab a branch and swing it around making the noises and get into fights with my brother.
