8:30am Tue Dec 12, 2006

1) Slap Bracelets…a way to entertain yourself for hours (p.s. check out why they were banned)

2) Batman/Barbie cereal…not gonna lie, breakfast became a little more exciting

3) Michael Jackson: pre-pedophile days

4) High top sneakers in any color imaginable…literally

5) Side pony tails and tying shirts into a knot…CLEARLY needs to come back in style

80′s pop culture: fun, yet so easy to make fun of ;)

  • Ahad

    Seeing as how I believe I am older than everyone else that posts on hear, you would think that I remember/miss more things about the 80′s. That would be an incorrect assumption. After much consideration I can only really provide 3 solid things rather than the usual 5. Feel free to criticize, but I am going for quality not quantity.

    3. 80′s rock music – It doesn’t get much better than Def Leppard.

    2. Knight Rider – Forget Baywatch, this is where Hasselhoff became a star. He made showing off the chest hair cool.

    1. The A-Team – Greatest show ever.

  • Dave

    5. The Berlin Wall – It’s so hard to tell east Germans from west Germans these days. We used to have a system, and it worked.

    4. Kindergarten – If only my work day could still be a half day where I just color any play all day.

    3. The De Lorean – They don’t make enough stainless steel bodied, gullwing cars these days.

    2. The Apple IIe – You gotta love the 5 1/4 floppy drive and the green monitor…Plus, this baby gave us “The Oregon Trail.”

    1. Ronald Reagan – mmmmmmmmmmmmmm…tax cuts for the rich….

  • Evan

    5. Cheers – A life goal is to still find a bar where everyone cheers my name like Norm
    4. Burma – You may know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.
    3. Bill Buckner – You know, when he was known for things other than that.
    2. Street Fighter 2 – First game I was ever addicted to. Damn you E. Honda!!
    1. Movie Montages – They just don’t make them like they used to (see: Top Gun, Rocky, Breakfast Club, Cocktail, Short Circuit)

  • Mike

    Its tough to pick out what I miss about the 80s. When 1990 came around I was only 7.

    5) Nick Game Shows – Double Dare, Finders Keepers. Along with the early 90s ones I can spend all day watching Nick GAS.
    4) Baseball Mustaches – I only got to relive this in baseball cards. The 80s mustaches were the coolest.
    3) Terrible TV Shows I Watched All the Time – Alf, Small Wonder, and Silver Spoons all come to mind. I wanted to be the Silver Spoons kid, he had all those great toys and a train INSIDE THE HOUSE!
    2) USSR – Not so much since there was all that Cold War stuff. I just enjoy the sports rivalry. The Olympics must have been so much better when we were trying to defeat an evil empire.
    1) Awesome Movie Soundtracks – While Top Gun may not be one of my favorite movies the music throughout is top notch.

  • Matt

    Another tough one to draw the line between what is considered the 80′s and possibly went a little into the 90′s. Also tough, cause I don’t remember so much of the 80′s.
    5) Great movie sequels. It may be just me, but I feel like there aren’t as many great movie sequels as there were in the 80′s.
    4) 80′s rock music – Like Ahad, I miss this as well. You had Def Leppard, Metallica, Foreigner, White Snake, Journey, Eagles, Bon Jovi, etc…I mean seriously, I grew up on this stuff.
    3) Like Dave, my vote here is for the De Lorean. I wanted one from the day I saw Back to the Future.
    2) Michael Jackson – It may be a surprise, but I was obsessed with him and the whole Jackson family. I nearly had every one of his songs memorized and the dancing he did in the 80′s was just classic stuff
    1) MacGyver – I very much wanted to be him and it was a big day when I got my first swiss army knife