The Ultimate "God i miss the 80`s" thread

[Cyberus]

You have to put a downer on everything don't you!

The legacy of Thatcher is still with us today, and it isn't nice. But the thread was about happy memories of the eighties.

[restore2003]

Ok, damage control!









Ahhh! i feel much better now   :-)

[Cyberus]

X-ray wrote:
@ Odin:

Now you're bringing back memories!! How could I forget Yar's Revenge, Planet Patrol and Demon Attack on the Atari?

And V was great. I remember perving over June Chadwick as a young teen.

I used to perv over that bird with the ridiculous lip gloss in Battlestar Galactica :lol:  :love:

[that_punk_guy]

Kenny... :-D

Anyway, I miss my childhood. It was awful, but it was also kind of magical. I spent the eighties drifting wherever my imagination would take me, and no mind-altering substances necessary. :-)

I didn't have a Spectrum until about 1993/4, so I guess that doesn't count for me, but I did crack a large smile when Adam posted that.

On the whole... I don't miss the eighties at all.

[x56h34]

:-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

KennyR wrote:
They might have been the heyday of the C64 and the Amiga, but not much point if I couldn't afford either.

Same here.
My dad designed and built his own computer 'cause he couldn't afford one.
I was quite intrigued by this machine called a "computer".


Btw. everyone was crazy back then.
And more and more I realize how correct I was back then to look at it as crazyness. :-)

The thing I really miss about the 80's are the people who still lived, and the certain things that made me happy, more happy than I ever can imagine nowadays.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Hum, to make this thread a bit less bluesy, I'd like to display the popstar who intrigued me the most back then:



-edit-
oh yes, this was also quite fun to watch:

[KennyR]

Things I remember about the 80s, not necessarily positive:

- Really camp, effiminate male fashion.
- Bad sythesiser sound with terrible vocals passing as 'music'.
- Female hairstyles that were more hairspray than hair.
- Power cuts (although I was a bit young to remember much).
- Cold winters. Not many nowadays. Snowfalls deep enough to dig tunnels in.
- Yuppies and their first mobile phones ("Buy buy buy, sell sell sell!")
- Spitting Image, including its long running "The President's brain is missing!"
- Paranoia about nuclear holocaust in cartoons, series and films that they never show now. Threads, By Dawn's Early Light, When the Wind Blows.
- Miami Vice (see camp and hairspray, above).
- Dallas.
- Star Wars toys.
- Beige computers. (Eeek)
- Star Trek movies in cinemas.
- Not having any money.
- Actually being able to buy quite a lot from the shop for 20p.
- Amiga users being arrogant a*sh*les with more money than sense, and always fighting with Atari owners.
- The appearance of Sky and satellite TV, and how only unemployed people could seem to afford it.
- Rain that left dirt on your windows and no fish in the rivers, thanks to Ravenscraig steelworks.
- Space hoppers and hulahoops.
- Marbles. Lots of 'em.
- Yoyos being rebranded and resold as 'spinners'.
- Being able to buy a computer game ever week for just £1.99 for C64/C16, and cool computer magazines that were colourful and funny and not just the present day boring hardware catalogues.

[Vincent]

restore2003 wrote:


Ahhh! i feel much better now   :-)

:-o omgomgomgomg

I used to love that programme :-D

I even had a SuperTed t-shirt - white with that exact logo on it!  I was really sad the day I couldn't fit into it anymore :-(

Cheers for reminding me about that restore2003 :-D

[that_punk_guy]

Kenny's list has me (and Dale ;-)) nodding... Although my only real memory of Spitting Image is that it scared me so much I had to hide behind the sofa, and I'm pretty sure I saw 'Star Trek: First Contact' at the cinema in the mid-1990s.

[that_punk_guy]

Vincent wrote:
:-o omgomgomgomg

I used to love that programme :-D

I even had a SuperTed t-shirt - white with that exact logo on it!  I was really sad the day I couldn't fit into it anymore :-(

Cheers for reminding me about that restore2003 :-D

I have a SuperTed DVD... :-D

At the same time, I picked up 'Stoppit and Tidyup', anyone remember that?

[PMC]

Crikey...  Brings it all flooding back!

My own highlights of the 80s were:

Christmas 1986 - Unwrapping the Speccy +2 my parents bought me to "help me with my homework".

Autumn 1987 - Seeing Outrun at a local arcade for the first time and dreaming of the day when all computer games would be as detailed and realistic.

September 1987 - Arriving in Cape Town, SA for a nine month stay as Dad had got a new job there.

May 1988 - Returning to the UK thoroughly homesick.  I damn near kissed the Heathrow tarmac on that soggy May morning!

Winter 1988 - Losing hours playing Elite 128 on my speccy.

Summer / Autumn 1989 - Discovering the delights (and consequences) of alcohol, all night parties and looking older than my fifteen years.

Oh, and I didn't mention getting an Amiga... That would have to wait until February 1990!

[whabang]

that_punk_guy wrote:
I have a SuperTed DVD... :-D

:lol:
COOL!

[Vincent]

that_punk_guy wrote:
I have a SuperTed DVD... :-D

Right, that's my next DVD purchase sorted...

Along with Button Moon and Danger Mouse :-D

[that_punk_guy]

I have both of those too! :lol:

When I have kids they're going to grow up watching the good stuff, none of the garbage they have to put up with today. :-D

[Karlos]

Cyberus wrote:
For me, it has to be




:-D

OMG, many a happy hour wasted on one of these :-D I can remember writing a simple z80 assembler in basic (the basic program used about 8K of memory itself).

Kids who were better off bought C64's and later Amigas etc, all of which were beyond out means. Growing up as a kid in the North East (heavily dependent on coal mining and other industries that suffered heavily that decade) I was in a similar position to KennyR, I guess.

As it goes, I've still got a working rubber key 48K speccy :-D In fact, if you look here you can see the original packaging underneath the rackmount (I know, I should probably use something else to support it and not the venerable speccy packaging)...

Alas the speccy itself is across the room and out of shot :-(