Do you miss the '80s?

[Robzy]

I'm sure it's just nostalgia... but I totally agree - the 80s were the best decade (of my life anyway)!! They were full of so much creativity and classic movies/TV shows/songs/comics. I even still have many crushes on female actresses and singers from the 80s who are just simply gorgeous, but probably wouldn't be "accepted" these days cause they don't have that fake "Hollywood" look about them.

Still, I'm sure many people think the 60s (Beatles, JFK, Moon Landing, Woodstock, Pscho) and the 70s (Space Invaders, Godfather, Star Wars, Disco, and me being born ) were pretty cool too!

I was a kid in the 80s and I often wonder what it would be like to be back in that decade as a twenty-something.

80s FTW!

[Lord_Zed]

I was a kid in the 80s and I often wonder what it would be like to be back in that decade as a twenty-something.
80s FTW!

kinda scary I imagine with all that big hair.

[Robzy]

kinda scary I imagine with all that big hair.

Gotta have a mullet!

[heroic_decepticon]

And so far no one has mentioned 80's cop shows. Pretty much every show involved car chases, shoot outs more car chases and guys with indestructible hair. Hardly any of that investigation stuff that modern shows all seem to be about.

no one does indestructible like this guy

[Tober]

I thought the 90s were more 60s and 70s orientated. Revivals of ABBA, Aerosmith, movies of The Bradey Bunch etc. The biggest bands were Nirvanna and Oasis which have their influences in Neil Young and The Who and The Beatles, The Jam and The Sex Pistols.

The 80s improved into the 90s with Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Bjork, Radiohead... The Simpsons and South Park are the only genre defying shows I can think of. Akira paved the way for the more intelligent anime such as Ghost in the Shell... Pixar had completed their first fully 3D animated shorts paving the way for Toy Story.

Take a look at the last decade and now... Transformers 2007, Rise of Cobra, The A-Team, the 8-bit music scene, Neverwinter Nights* and World of Warcraft, Macross: Frontier, Doctor Who**, Rambo 2008, Rocky Balboa, Aliens Vs Predator...

It's hard not to miss the 80s when we can't escape being reminded of it.


*Yeah D&D started in the mid 70's, but I played it throughout the 80s. **I'm claiming Dr. Who too, Tom Baker was the REAL Doctor.

And after the 70s just about any decade is going to look good... Remember the Bay City Rollers? Neither do I.

[Bartrim]

And so far no one has mentioned 80's cop shows. Pretty much every show involved car chases, shoot outs more car chases and guys with indestructible hair. Hardly any of that investigation stuff that modern shows all seem to be about.

You forgot to mention that the guns didn't need to be reloaded in the 80's either

[liegeprime]

Maybe its because like Randall said in Clerks II, 'it was a simpler time, it was a time when I know that I still had the world ahead of me'; or maybe it's because things were so much better.

I feel I share a bond with people who grew up in the 80s, a bond like no other, because of the things, songs, TV, cartoons that only we experienced back then - He-Man, MASK, Centurions, Ghostbusters, Spiral Zone, Transformers, Silver Hawks, Visionaries, Ninja Turtles, Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Galaxy Rangers, GI Joe and more (this just off the top of my head).

Yup, everything was so simpler, there isnt much stress, no rush like today.

There's also Smurfs, Blackstarr, Thundercats, Fraggle rock, Voltron, She-ra, Superfriends and all them Saturday morning toons!

But when I think of it I have veeeeeeery little to none when it comes to TF toys and playing with my Paper TFs instead coz of it.... ah well, at least I was still patient enough and creative enough back then. NOw Im just lazy hehehe

[5FDP]

**I'm claiming Dr. Who too, Tom Baker was the REAL Doctor.

I'm with you on this one

[Sky Shadow]

I dreamt last night that I could relive the eighties, knowing everything I know now.

I'd gladly do that.

[5FDP]

I dreamt last night that I could relive the eighties, knowing everything I know now.

I'd gladly do that.

Especially if you had a copy of the Sports Almanac