Were the 80s the best decade to be a child?

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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1B2GRz09hg
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1B2GRz09hg
    That sir is really really funny, Never saw those before.
    :D:D:D
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Dollpartz wrote:
    i guess its all relative, i grew up in the 60s and 70s and those were such good times, and so different from how my kids grew up in the 90's and in this decade. everything now is video games and television, when i was a kid we were always outside playing and only came home when it was time to eat dinner, to actually sit down at the table and have a meal with the family, what a concept!!! kids and parents are too scared to enjoy being outside anymore, its really sad to see that, but totally understandable. stupid human race.....

    and also, we had kickass cartoons when we were kids, i just don't get the cartoons anymore, DAMN i am old!!!
    Yep, good and bad things about every decade. I was always outside too and I feel bad that a lot of kids don't have that now. There still are great cartoons though, Spongebob is one that I love. :)
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:

    (p.s. I've attempted the she-ra halloween costume. it's harder than it looks)

    the toys in the 80s were definitely the coolest. do you remember those things...I can't remember...pogo balls? it was like a ball with a platform and you hopped on it and jumped around? I loved that thing.
    the halloween costumes in the 80's were fun too!!!
    this site proves that the 80's were RAD! (yeah I said it)
    http://www.liketotally80s.com/80s-toys.html
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    in elementary school...it was always my favorite to get scratch & sniff stickers on my papers.

    and hellllloooo....trapper keepers :D
    yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    iamsampj wrote:
    in elementary school...it was always my favorite to get scratch & sniff stickers on my papers.

    and hellllloooo....trapper keepers :D
    ahhh the memories :)
    http://www.liketotally80s.com/scratch-sniff-stickers.html
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    iamsampj wrote:
    in elementary school...it was always my favorite to get scratch & sniff stickers on my papers.

    and hellllloooo....trapper keepers :D

    In high school, after the trapper keeper phase. Did anyone have the old cardboard CD boxes cut out and slid into your plastic cover? I had Ten, and Blood Sugar Sex Magik in mine :)

    Scratch and Sniff's were weird. They either smelled like bananas or medicine :eek:
    NERDS!
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Yup it was the BEST! I lost my virginity in that decade. :)

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  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    South of Seattle wrote:
    In high school, after the trapper keeper phase. Did anyone have the old cardboard CD boxes cut out and slid into your plastic cover? I had Ten, and Blood Sugar Sex Magik in mine :)

    Scratch and Sniff's were weird. They either smelled like bananas or medicine :eek:
    i loved the smell of the stickers, but i was a strange child too ;)

    lisa frank everything was my favorite in middle school too :D
    yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
  • myhook
    myhook Posts: 284
    Rygar wrote:
    I don't remember the number, but I do know you forgot a 'select' in your first code ;)
    Damn, I forgot the select. The numbers are the code to get right to Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    (toys)
    Robotech
    M.A.S.K.
    Transformers
    Silver Hawks
    G.I. Joe
    Go Bots

    (movies)
    Return Of The Jedi
    Empire Strikes Back
    Lucas
    Gremlins
    Goonies
    Can't Buy Me Love
    The Flamingo Club
    The Outsiders
    Karate Kid
    Big
    Good Morning Vietnam
    Beverly Hills Cop
    Terminator
    Running Man
    Predator
    Alien(s)
    11/6/95, 11/18/97, 7/13/98, 7/14/98, 10/24/00, 10/25/00, 10/28/00, 6/2/03, 6/3/03, 6/5/03, 7/6/06, 7/7/06, 7/9/06, 7/10/06, 7/13/06, 7/15/06, 7/16/06, 7/18/06, 10/21/06, 4/10/08, 4/13/08, 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, 10/9/09
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    acoustic guy wrote:
    That sir is really really funny, Never saw those before.
    :D:D:D


    you mean lady, and yes, they were. :D

    did you watch the forest gump one? hilarious!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    myhook wrote:
    How many people remember this by heart:
    up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a, start
    or this one
    007 373 5963


    Oooooh I remember those! I remember calling up a toy store to get the Tyson code. Some lady answered and had no idea what I was talking about, but she called her son at home to get it, as I was on hold. That is good customer service. :)

    The other one was Contra, right? What a fantastic game that was.
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    nowadays hits you when you're young
  • myhook
    myhook Posts: 284
    Some of my favorite games from growing up were

    That Mattel Football game:

    http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p275/myhook/Mattel_Football.jpg

    Electric football. I remember getting the Electric Football catalog and ordering your favorite teams. I ordered the 86' NY Giants and they came hand painted with all the names and numbers on them. Man they must be worth a pretty penny now had I saved them.

    http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p275/myhook/Superbowl-Electric-Football.jpg

    I remember collecting baseball cards and going to card shows. I had the Billy Ripken "fuck face" card. HA
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • myhook
    myhook Posts: 284
    AllNiteThing wrote:
    Oooooh I remember those! I remember calling up a toy store to get the Tyson code. Some lady answered and had no idea what I was talking about, but she called her son at home to get it, as I was on hold. That is good customer service. :)

    The other one was Contra, right? What a fantastic game that was.
    Ha, yeah. Contra was tight. I remember when the Nintendo games would not load correctly we would blow in the bottom of it and then take a Q-Tip and dip it in rubbing alcohol to "clean" the game. Did anyone else do this?
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    myhook wrote:
    Ha, yeah. Contra was tight. I remember when the Nintendo games would not load correctly we would blow in the bottom of it and then take a Q-Tip and dip it in rubbing alcohol to "clean" the game. Did anyone else do this?

    Yea me too.
    I can't believe that is what those numbers are LOL
    Too Funny, Tyson code......Classic!
    I liked the Kung Fu game I that is what it was called
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • myhook
    myhook Posts: 284
    acoustic guy wrote:
    Yea me too.
    I can't believe that is what those numbers are LOL
    Too Funny, Tyson code......Classic!
    I liked the Kung Fu game I that is what it was called
    The original Ice Hockey and Baseball Stars were fantastic as well.
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • tvismyfriend
    tvismyfriend Posts: 2,118
    myhook wrote:
    Ha, yeah. Contra was tight. I remember when the Nintendo games would not load correctly we would blow in the bottom of it and then take a Q-Tip and dip it in rubbing alcohol to "clean" the game. Did anyone else do this?
    I used to have Super C that game was sick. Now I have to play it on my Wii though seeing I don't have a NES or the game anymore.
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I was a child in the sixties, I graduated from high school in 1978. We had the monkees on TV :D We could watch the Beatles on TV in realtime...in 1970, we had David Cassidy (The Partridge Family). And I saw Fleetwood Mac when they were young in 1977!

    We also talked to each other in person, we hung out instead of communicating behind a computer screen or text message. We weren't obese either like kids are nowadays. We went roller skating. We would ride our bikes all day. We could walk to school (kids now have to wait for the bus while mommy sits there in her SUV so they don't get kidnapped). I walked to school by myself in the first grade.
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  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    I was born in the 1st year so I really had it lucky.

    I remember those days when HBO and Showtime used to play the same first run movie at the same time. Not everything was "exclusive" back then. I saw Princess Bride so many times on both channels a year after it came out.

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