Any children of the 80s here?

made_in_london · 23/07/14 - 22:50

I thought I'd nick the 90s idea and start one for us 80s children

I Remember

1/2 Yes half a penny
1/2 Penny Sweets
Pound Notes
BBC Micro
Amstrad CPC 464 <<< My first PC
Walkman with those orange headphones
Jamie and the magic torch
He-Man
Danger Mouse
Fraggle Rock
Super Ted
1987 Storm - a day off school

Raleigh Vektar - Computer Bike , Google it

Milk at school

soran · 23/07/14 - 22:52

White dog poo

made_in_london · 23/07/14 - 22:53

soran wrote: »

White dog poo

LOL you have lost me on that one....

Thomas007 · 23/07/14 - 22:57

Thundercats and Transformers were 80s weren't they? Ghostbusters, Inspector Gadget, The A-team, TMNT, Thomas the tank engine were. A lot of good programmes from that era.

I used to watch Dogtanian and the three muskehounds, one of my first programmes I remember watching as a child.

Sorcha_27 · 23/07/14 - 23:00

I loved he man and she ra.

Biffo the Bear · 23/07/14 - 23:04

Ulysses, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Telebugs, Garbage Pail Kids, Bazooka Joe and Debbie Gibson.

Wolfman13 · 23/07/14 - 23:06

Airwolf,
Street Hawk,
Dukes of Hazards
Dungeons and Dragons.

gdjman68wasdigi · 23/07/14 - 23:10

Going out clubbing in a blue blazer and creme chinos

Flash525 · 23/07/14 - 23:11

1987 here, can't remember much of last week, let alone 20+ years ago.

[Deleted User] · 23/07/14 - 23:11

I wrote my first proper dungeon crawl style story in 1987 but if I could go back and redo it, it'd be a bit like the reboot of the Doom series as the violence'd be more brutal and blood (and brain) soaked team and mosters'd be a lot more hardcore than they were back in '87 (I did it on a manual typewriter) and the team's armour and gear'd be a lot better.
Then again, I could STILL do it again but this time with proper hieroglyphs (it's writing a small of heavily armed, well armoured, state of the art equipped warriors on a dungeon crawl/in a DOOM/Elder Scrolls style quest style that got me into DOOM in the first place)...

Phoenix Lazarus · 23/07/14 - 23:18

I was ten when 1980 began, so I count for at least part of the decade.

Random memories include New Romantic music, Rubik's Cube, Hammer House of Horror TV series, Live Aid, BBC closedown at 1.30-2.00 am, with National Anthem played during it, BBC ident with orange station number (One or Two) at centre of double orange line running horizontally of centre of picture against dark background, family comedies and comedians, the first time I came while masturbating.

RobinOfLoxley · 23/07/14 - 23:23

made_in_london wrote: »

LOL you have lost me on that one....

White dog poo used to be common on pavements. As well as normal stuff.

God knows what the owners were feeding their dogs.

Pull2Open · 23/07/14 - 23:24

Phoenix Lazarus wrote: »

I was ten when 1980 began, so I count for at least part of the decade.

Random memories include New Romantic music, Rubik's Cube, Hammer House of Horror TV series, Live Aid, BBC closedown at 1.30-2.00 am, with National Anthem played during it, BBC ident with orange station number (One or Two) at centre of double orange line running horizontally of centre of picture against dark background, family comedies and comedians, the first time I came while masturbating.

i was 11 so all of the above, including the last sentence

plus...

Dollar
Bucks Fizz
Spandau Ballet
Adam and the Ants
Steve Strange
Gremlins
ET
Band Aid
Nick Kershaw
Howard Jones - Humans Lib (oh yeah)
Cyndi Lauper - She's so Unusual album
Yazoo
Human League
The Clash
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

zx50 · 23/07/14 - 23:26

I was a teenager. What I remember:

NES
A-Team
Culture Club — Karma Kameleon
Sega Master System
Pod shoes
ZX Spectrum+2
Wham
Smash Hits
A-Ha
Tales of the Unexpected
Prisoner Cell Block H
Flat top (haircut)
Dynasty
The Colbys
Neighbours
Home and Away
EastEnders
Kylie — Kylie (album)
Knight Rider
Street Hawk
Guns 'n Roses — Appetite for Destruction

That's about it.

Gage · 23/07/14 - 23:30

made_in_london wrote: »

BBC Micro

Weirdly our Maths teacher used this to teach us maths in '97

[Deleted User] · 23/07/14 - 23:43

Filthy, Rich and Catflap
The Young Ones (Why haven't this and the above been mentioned yet?)
Spitting image
LOADSAMONEY!!!
Fighting Fantasy books
Gangs of skinheads
Made in Britain (starring Eric Richards and Tim Roth)
Mary Whitehouse thinking it was up to her what we should and shouldn't be allowed to watch (I would have told the old bag to go **** herself)
Flash Gordon
Indiana Jones
Thatcher (ever since she was stabbed in the back by her own cabinet the country's lost it's balls and spine and most of ability to think for itself)
Philip Schofield presenting CBBC
When it was safe to be a BBC personality (even IF they were totally innocent)
Liverpool's HATRED of The Sun Newspaper after Hillsborough
Blue Thunder (Airwolf seems to get more mention because it was more sexier, bad ass and had a better theme {both were futuristic for the time])
Frankie Says t-shirts
Rambo
Conan The Barbarian

fhs man 2 · 23/07/14 - 23:52

I want to make one for the 00's but I don't want to be cheeky

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[Deleted User] · 23/07/14 - 23:52

Zoids
OCP Art Studio (google it) on the Amstrad, Commodore and Sinclair Spectrum
http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/
WWW.WOS.COM
WWW.TVCREAM.COM
WWW.JEDISPARADISE.COM
WWW.CHILDOFTHE80S.COM

[Deleted User] · 24/07/14 - 00:11

The one hit wonders (they existed) that appeared on compilation records but faded into complete obscurity..

NX-74205 · 24/07/14 - 00:19

I'm a kid of the 70s, but I reckon hedge-porn bridges both decades.

80sfan · 24/07/14 - 00:20

motsy wrote: »

The one hit wonders (they existed) that appeared on compilation records but faded into complete obscurity..

Nu Shooz
Owen Paul
Stan Ridgeway
Haywoode

A few one hit wonders that come to mind from the summer of 1986 ;-)

Rachael. · 24/07/14 - 00:27

RobinOfLoxley wrote: »

White dog poo used to be common on pavements. As well as normal stuff.

God knows what the owners were feeding their dogs.

I actually just googled it to see what caused it

I remember being told as a child that people would pour white stuff over the poo to make it go away quicker

I have no idea why I was told this?? And I actually thought that was the reason until I looked it up

yorkiegal · 24/07/14 - 00:27

I remember

collecting green plastic frogs, pink plastic pigs, pet rocks.
jelly bean shoes
white stilletos
very tight stonewashed jeans with zips at the ankles
flying jumpsuits. mine was pink with lots of metal tags.
ra ra skirts
pedal pushers
neon socks. must be worn as odd pairs.
fingerless lacy gloves
private jackets
big padded reversible jumpers off the market with a picture of a dog on one side and lots of tiny dogs on the inside.
grey and yellow duvet covers with a stripe or V across.
vinyl singles from Woolies for 45p.
shoplifting at Woolies pick and mix on a Saturday. A right of passage.
the national anthem being played on BBC late at night then the channel shutting down til the morning. And only two other channels to choose from.
TV 'remote' controls attached to the tv with a wire.
leather shoelaces on your wrist if you were an AHA fan
Grolsch bottle tops on your shoes if you liked Bros.
George Michael was straight.
No swearing on tv. The most shocking event being a caller asking ''why are you so sh*t?'' to FiveStar on Going Live one Saturday morning.
Emmerdale being called Emmerdale Farm, and actually being about people who lived on a farm and led boring lives.
Much larger curly wurlies.

80sfan · 24/07/14 - 00:32

Well what a cool thread

Stock Aitken & Waterman in the charts - yesssss!
Taping the charts on a Sunday afternoon
Afternoon Australian soaps on ITV (Young Doctors & Richmond Hill)
Prisoner Cell Block H (staying up extra late on weeknights!)
Chinos (got to be beige) with turn-ups
Ripped 501s
Highlights
Earrings
Shoulder pads
£1 days to France and Belgium
The pastel colours/greys/bold stripes patterns
1985's Madonna
Habitat
Avanti at C&A
Concept Man / Next for Men
Grange Hill (1986 - Zammo)
The nearest McDonalds was over 20 miles away

I'd love the 1980s back ;-)

80sfan · 24/07/14 - 00:41

yorkiegal wrote: »

No swearing on tv. The most shocking event being a caller asking ''why are you so sh*t?'' to FiveStar on Going Live one Saturday morning.

I'm tempted to shout the same thing at Phillip Schofield to this day when his smug face pops up

And of course 'Saint' Sarah Greene had never, ever used the 'f' word in her life, right?!?

Danny_Silver · 24/07/14 - 00:46

Thundercats.
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian.
The Smurfs.
Donkey Kong.
The Cosby Show.
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
The Golden Girls.
Tiffany - I Think We’re Alone Now.
Five Star (Britain's answer to The Jackson Five)
Super Mario Bros.
BMX bikes.
Breakdancing.
The Royal Wedding/Princess Diana.
Grange Hill.

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