eyenon15 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Home Video games actually had a falling for a short period in the 80sAfter Atari and before Nintendo it was all about arcade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Stark Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Oh, and since I was a kid during this time, I'll join the cartoon part: I loved Inspector Gadget and Ninja Turtles. Reading Rainbow in school was pretty popular too, and they even had us watching that into the 90s. Oh, and Thundercats was pretty popular and my cousins watched that, but for some reason I never got into it. And who didn't watch Full House and the Cosby Show? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 http://youtu.be/_-0sUuGufmw http://youtu.be/v_Yx0X-eHn8 http://youtu.be/ThHz9wlBeLU http://youtu.be/LH8xbDGv7oY http://youtu.be/-DeTR8n7eTU http://youtu.be/9lDCYjb8RHk http://youtu.be/AAZQaYKZMTI http://youtu.be/k1ljpLQ1V6Y http://youtu.be/JWsRz3TJDEY http://youtu.be/HKhgZwL8cKk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Home Video games actually had a falling for a short period in the 80sAfter Atari and before Nintendo it was all about arcade. Yep, the crash of 1983. Thanks to a glut of consoles, any third party company being able to make an Atari compatible game (Porn games!), and 2600's port of Pac-Man and their E.T. game. Video games became passé. Nintendo was out in Japan as the Famicom as early as 83 I believe but it took until 1985 to get it in the U.S. and still they had to market as the Nintendo Entertainment System and put a toy robot in with it, because retailers were very wary of the "video game". Video arcades never really recovered from that, though there were still some games that came out were crazy popular, Dragon's Lair, Out Run, Afterburner, Punch Out, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mortal Kombat, arcades were never really the same after the crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 http://youtu.be/_-0sUuGufmwhttp://youtu.be/v_Yx0X-eHn8http://youtu.be/ThHz9wlBeLUhttp://youtu.be/LH8xbDGv7oYhttp://youtu.be/-DeTR8n7eTUhttp://youtu.be/9lDCYjb8RHkhttp://youtu.be/AAZQaYKZMTIhttp://youtu.be/k1ljpLQ1V6Yhttp://youtu.be/HKhgZwL8cKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Killer Snark Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 The 80s, in my view, was also probably the peak period of 2000AD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertrude Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Everyone jumps from Atari to Nintendo no love is given to Intellivision, the gaming console I grew up with. I played many hours of Pitfall! and Burgertime in the day. (yeah, the link is not for the original, but it was the best representation I could find, Hush) And yeah - Dragon's Lair, man. That was the shit. I was always too intimidated to play it though, because all the bigger kids would crowd around it and line up their quarters on the machine for hours. It was hard to even watch someone play because of the crowd and I was little. It was the Platinum Standard. I remember a game that's sole purpose was to speak words that you typed out. You could only put in short words and the voice was obviously highly robotic and bad. We'd spend our money trying to make it say bad words by misspelling them. It was at Showbiz Pizza and the mascot was Billy Bob, so you'd get a lot of 'Billy Bob will not say that word' which still makes me giggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueless Northman Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Watching early 80s cartoons with my friends, yeah, that was great :) Well, with a few times some heated debate to decide what we would watch, when there were 2 people were interested in on different channels. And, well, sure, many aren't that great for adults, but were they good for kids? They sure were efficient and successful. When it comes to non-US ones (which is, Japanese or European kids cartoons), I'd say they were at least as well, and possibly better than 90/00s stuff. There's no fucking contest between Captain Harlock and Naruto (not to mention Danger Mouse, Ulysses 31 and other good stuff). I also used a mimeograph machine to make copies for him once. Raise your hand if you remember that smell. (you know you just thought of that scene in Fast Times)*raises hand* That's right! I'd completely forgotten. People still smoked. Everybody smoked everywhere and smoked a LOT.Exactly. I still suppose my mom stopped smoking when she was pregnant (granted, that was in the 70s), but she sure as hell took it back to smoking as soon as I was born and it took her 20+ more years to really stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I will say this about the 80s, and it was the same thing with the 70s, the kids' TV was really good. Willo the Wisp, Dangermouse, Dogtanian and the Three Musketeers, Button Moon, Fraggle Rock, Take Hart, The Wind in the Willows, The Trap Door etc. A whole load of nostagia-inducing classics. I seriously doubt that anyone born in the 90s and later will be nostalgic about the programmes they watched as kids, because there objectively was a massive drop in quality the moment the moment the 80s were over with.I disagree. Being nostalgic for what I watched as a child is more to do with memories of the simpler time that was my childhood than the quality of the shows I was watching.ETA besides which I always found Barney and Friends, Rugrats, Hey Arnold etc. pretty great as a child. And Courage the Cowardly Dog and various other shows too. TV is like any other media, there are good and bad aspects in every era/decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StannisForKing299AL Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 What was the 80's like?It was like ten years before I was born. It exists only in my genes. Maybe we all have a little of the 80's in us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Maybe we all have a little of the 80's in us... A little penicillin will fix you right up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 And yeah - Dragon's Lair, man. That was the shit. I was always too intimidated to play it though, because all the bigger kids would crowd around it and line up their quarters on the machine for hours. It was hard to even watch someone play because of the crowd and I was little. It was the Platinum Standard. I finished it. I also finished the helicopter gunship one that played similarly - Cobra Command. Hordes of spectators around me in the arcade. :smug: I did not finish the similar one, Super Don Quixote - that was just too difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Dragon's Lair and Space Ace and the less popular sequels were unique because they were really laserdisc movies animated by Don Bluth (The Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, All Dogs Go To Heaven). More of knowing the correct decisions to make at each point then real game play. Less of getting better skill wise and more just memorizing. Once you'd get it down it was the same each time, more interactive movie than game. But it looked great and was fun to show off if you knew the correct moves. An interesting experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillio Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Oh, I remember Dragon's Lair. We had a cafe in a bowling alley then. My oldest son was 2 and a half or so. The teenagers that used to hang out all the time would babysit him and let him watch them play. (They called the hero Dirk the Jerk) This is the same baby I went to collect, found him standing on an upturned crate, pounding on the sides of a pinball machine and yelling "bucket!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Anybody remember that one Saturday the Smurfs went full on epic quest fantasy? Going to the four corners of the earth, searching for the elements of Air, Water, Fire and Earth. I was disappointed the next Saturday and every one after that it was back to the same old episodic stuff, except I think they added a few new Smurfs. My interest in it died soon after that, and I moved on to Robotech or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyenon15 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Sounds like an awesome Smurfs episode. Must hv been right before they added those new Smurfs. Like that grandpa one that looked older than even papa smurf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Killer Snark Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I had a slightly embarrassing crush on Smurfette when I was a kid. Her and Penelope Pitstop. Man, I loved The Smurfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Sounds like an awesome Smurfs episode. Must hv been right before they added those new Smurfs. Like that grandpa one that looked older than even papa smurf Now I remember, yes that was the episode in which Grampa Smurf was introduced. Instead of a bunch of stories, it was one 3-hour movie, essentially. Apparently it was called Smurfquest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I wanted to mention some of the ridiculously primitive video games I played in bars (no computer) but that was actually the 70s while in law school. I didn't smoke, so when we all went to Syd's Bridge House in Windsor after the law library closed, I would take my beer and wait to get a spot on the stupid video game machine. What the hell was that first game called...asteroids? Just a line that you moved back and forth to knock away the asteroids that came crashing down. I think. Am I mixing up games? So long ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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