Anyone else ever feel like totally nostalgic for the '80s? For some reason, today I started thinking about my memories of my childhood in the '80s: the music, the toys, the clothes, the hair styles, the games, the snacks, the TV shows, etc.

Some of my '80s memories:
my cabbage patch dolls
Frogger on my atari and Super Mario Bros. on my Nintendo
my horse-themed trapper keeper
shirts with geometric patterns and tails on the back (oh, the horror!)
MTV
Michael Jackson's Thriller album
trying to do the moon walk
roller skating to Madonna music
New Kids on the Block
the Hair bands

I could go on... anyone else want to share their memories?

wow, I just realized that I'm really dating myself with that list. (good god, maybe I'm the oldest person here?)

No way are you the oldest one here--in the 80's the only thing I remember is changing diapers on my 3 boys...they had me so busy the entire decade just flew by

Oh boy now you touched my heart.

What do i remember from the 80s....

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Spending all my allowance on the arcade games

My introduction to computers and computer games with my cousin's Amstrad 464

Black Box singing "Ride on Time" and "Fantasy"

Lisa Stansfield singing "All Around the World"

Phil Collins singing "Another day in Paradise"

Scorpions

Gary Moore

Karate Movies (used to be a big thing back then)

Chuck Norris, Silvester Stalone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Galactica

Star Trek

Fraggle Rock (Duh!)

McGuyver

Little House on the Prairie (I was totaly in Love with Mary Ingals)

All my experiences from Elementary and Junior High

Making my own Fire Crackers (God knows how i didn't lose a hand)

Christmas time

My BMX

Summer camp.

Falling in love

Feeling careless.

My first childhood friends (we've lost contact now)
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80s still remains the favorite decade of my life... Maybe because i was like an eager sponge absorbing everything new and great my life had to offer. Maybe because i was innocent and i thought the world was basically good all around me. Maybe all of the above.

(Outofmymind: I really like the quote in your signature. It was especiallly poignant for me because I've been spending a lot of time contemplating my career path--but that's a topic for a different thread...)

favorite '80s TV shows:

Different Strokes
Facts of Life
Little House on the Prairie
Knight Rider
Hunter
Cosby Show
Who's the Boss

Family Ties (still love the theme song... **starts singing to self..."what would we do baby, without us...'cuz there ain't no nuthin' we can't love each other through, oooo-woooo, what would we do babeee, without uuuussssss, sha-la-la"** ah-hem...

Welcome Back, Kotter (sp?) -- can I name all the sweathogs... Freddy Boom Boom Washington, Ahhnold, Epstein (my fave), Vinny Babarino (sp?), am I missing one?

(I watched a lot of TV back then)

Now i have to steal some of yours. I hope you don't mind. (i completely forgot TVshows)

Wow! Moved to Oregon at the end of 1980 when I was turning 12! ET was the first movie I saw out here on the west coast!

Lots of memories going to the local skate rink and skating the "All Niters".
How about off the shoulder sweatshirts, stirrup pants, flourescent colored clothing!

Or, DEF LEPPARD! Pyromania was my favorite album!

All, how can they possible call 80's music "classic rock"? It wasn't THAT long ago, was it? I mean, just because this year is my 20th high school reunion, doesn't mean I'm old, does it?

My memories of the 80's

- new wave
- madonna
- sixteen candles (movie)
- parties
- dating
- drag racing
- duran duran
- george michael
- shoulder pads
- head bands

I am an 80s FANATIC, which is crazy since I was born in 85. I vaguely remember Growing Pains, Pound Puppies, and Jem and the Holograms. I also remember dancing with my older sister to "Turn Back Time" by Cher when I was four.

Duran Duran! Waiting for the release of RETURN OF THE JEDI, major crush on Harrison Ford. Slight Star Wars "geekazoid" status, even today! :rotfl:

i was BORN in 1980.. but i **LOVE** the 80s. big fan of the hair bands.... and those cheesy movies... cheesy tv shows... :) i know a fantastic decade when i see one :)

oh and the mullet... :)

Hmm the 80's.. the 80's.. lets see what I can remember..


Watching cartoons... 80's cartoons were THE BEST EVER!!!

All of my toys, cabbage patch dolls, barbies, My little pony, she-ra, Jem, etc etc

Racing to the radio and hitting record when a song I liked was on heh.

Being a skinny kid *sniffles* I miss being skinny lol

My dad having a ton of odd jobs, his best was when he worked in this small arcade. He'd give me and my brother free tokens to play :D


aaaand etc etc...

i still have my cabbage patch kids :) my daughter had adopted one.. but denies it now ;) i loved transformers... garbage pail kids.. karate kid.. and my walk man :) and tape recorder ;) i met david hasselhoff when he was on knight rider :) i was all of 4 or 5 at the time ;) with my lovely feathered hair ;) hey were those slap bracelets from the 80's? those were banned from my school... loved them :) what about jelly bracelets? i had a ton of them :)

Here are my major 80s memories, mostly great, but 1 horrible one:

1980 - my dad died of a heart attack
1981 - I got married
1985 - my beautiful daughter was born after I'd suffered 2 miscarriages
1989 - I finally finished my Bachelor's degree in nursing

And all through the 80s I listened to great music - Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, Prince, The Time, P-Funk Allstars, The GAP Band, The Isley Brothers, Grover Washington, Jr., etc. I could go on and on. Can you tell I like R&B/Jazz (with a little bit of funk thrown in for good measure)? :yes:

Oh, and I forgot Wham! I loved me some George Michael!

Oh wow, you guys are making me feel old :P I was in my teens during the eighties (latter part).

Fond memories of:
Duran Duran
Culture Club and the whole gender-bender thing
movies like 16 Candles and The Breakfast Club
New wave songs - Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, PreFab Sprout, etc.
Atari
leg warmers
anything neon
humungous shoulder pads
The Smurfs
TV shows like Alf, Small Wonder, The Golden Girls, Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, etc.
Pac Man Fever
the Power-look
blue eyeshadow
Robert Palmer and his cool videos
MTV was still just a music video channel
etc etc...I'll add some more later

ok. here are are some of my memories of the 80s.

TV SHOWS

Charlies' Angels
James at 15
Little House on the Prairie
Wonder Woman
Bionic Woman
Starsky and Hutch
Three's company
Electric Company

MOVIES

Sixteen Candles
Splash
Big

ARTISTS/SONGS

Madonna
Prince
Paula Abdul
Earth Wind and Fire
Eurythmics
Paul Young
Depeche Mode
Everybody wants to rule the world
Tainted Love
Melt with you
Rock Lobster (lol)
Tenderness by General Public

oh my gosh SPLASH!! i love that movie!!

were popples in 80s? i loved my popple :) actually i had 3.. a big white one a small green one and a small yellow one. and i havent seen it in ages but i loved my ewok stuffed animal...

care bears were back then too right? the real ones ;) oh and the littles! rainbow brite.. punky brewster....

gummi bears..boucing here and there and everywhere..

my buddy.. my buddy... my buddy and meeeeeeeeeee.....

Yeah..........about the 80's! lol I'm a 90's child! lol
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I love the 80's!

These were some of my favorite 80's artists/songs:

-Madonna (Borderline)
-Depeche Mode (Just Can't Get Enough)
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (If You Leave)
-Duran Duran (Save a Prayer, A View to a Kill, The Reflex)
-Tears for Fears (Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Mad World, Head -Over Heels, Mothers Talk and Shout)
-Petshop Boys (West End Girls)
-Culture Club (Miss Me Blind, Move Away, It's a Miracle, I'll Tumble for Ya,
The War Song)
-Mike Francis and Amii Stewart (Friends and Let Me In)
-Swing Out Sister (You On My Mind, Forever Blue, Where in the World,
Precious Words, Breakout, Waiting Game and Between Strangers)
-Paula Abdul (Forever Your Girl)
-Spandau Ballet (Gold, True)

Some of my favorite movies were:

-Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink (Molly Ringwald & Andrew McCarthy)
-Class (Rob Lowe & Andrew McCarthy)
-The Outsiders (C. Thomas Howell, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio)
-Big (Tom Hanks)

And who could forget these TV shows:

-The Love Boat
-Alf
-The Golden Girls
-Mork & Mindy
-Perfect Strangers
-Three's Company
-Full House
-Little House on the Prairie
-The Cosby Show
-Remington Steele

oooh the outsiders.... i think i read the book 100 times :) saw the movie hundreds of times ;) dont forget patrick swayze (darry), emilio estevez (two bit), tom cruise (steve), matt dillon (dallas). that movie has everyone! :) my favorite character is sodapop curis! :)

how did i forget perfect strangers!! "now we are so happy we do the dance of joy!"

What do I remember??? Well.......
Mount St. Helen's starting the decade off with a bang (literally), who shot J.R.?, the assassination of John Lennon, Sandra Day O'Connor first Supreme Court Justice, wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, along with Luke and Laura from General Hospital, the birth of MTV and their first video aired "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles, Pac-man craze, AIDS, Ozzy the bat biter, John Belushi's death, first artificial heart transplant, Cabbage Patch kids, the end of M*A*S*H, the beginning of compact discs, Michael Jackson and Thriller, A Flock of Seagulls, The Cosby Show, Mary Lou Retton and the US Olympics, Band-Aid, The release of Macintosh Computers, USA for Africa, parachute pants, Miami Vice, synthesizers, Nintendo introduced, the US Challenger and the day that will live in our minds forever, Fox Network starts, return of Haley's Comet, Oprah Winfrey, Hands Across America, Arnold marries Maria Shriver, Baby Jessica, Bobby McFerrin's Dont Worry Be Happy, introduction of Prozac, Pete Rose banned from baseball, hair bands, the Smurfs, Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the death of legend Lucille Ball, things that make you go hmmmmm, and to end the decade on Nov 9th 1989 the Berlin wall came down.
....seems I remember quite a bit, the glitz, the glamour and a decade that will never come again. Going to my 20 year reunion this summer. Thanks for reminding me what I loved about that time.

No one else going to reply? Did I stump anyone?

Twenty year reunion for me too!! Wow!

BIG HAIR!! That was the 80's. Did any of the other 80's ladies have the "bitch flip" hair do? LOL!

Oh the hair.... What is the "bitch flip"? I remember the "mall radar" hair. You know, where the bangs stood up at least five inches in the front! Aquanet!

LOL! Same hair- different name!

Big hair and big chunky earrings, flourescent pink and green, cut-up sweathirts, shoulder pads... somethings should be forgotten :blink:

I had a pair of parachute pants. And I had jelly shoes (those were terrible).

My mom got me a Cabbage Patch Kid the year everyone was fighting over them (isn't she cool?). We were into Garbage Pail Kids, too. My brother had Transformers and He-Man stuff.

One thing I remember that no one else seems to remember (maybe it was just local) was these little plastic charms. I still have them, actually.

I remember listening to "Thriller" on the radio while rollerskating on the driveway. I remember wearing neon colors. And I remember Madonna when she was a virgin. :)

I dont think Madonna was EVER a virgin. LOL

Ha ha, well, she must have been at some point, even if it was just the day she was born. And Michael Jackson used to be black, too. What happened with that?

I remember the Challenger thing. My class was seated in front of a TV so we could watch it, and it was sort of awkward when it blew up...I'm in Houston, and in the Clear Lake schools, some of the kids' parents were on there, and they were watching in class. That's ugly.

Oh, I had a scooter--like a skateboard but with a handlebar. And there were some great sitcoms on then.

Lisa Frank stickers, sticker books, anything Hello kitty . . . jelly shoes, Izods with the collars up, Aquanet hair spray

Reading all these posts are making me even more nostolgic. I hit my 20 year high school reunion at the end of July. I am sure afterwards I will remember even more things from the 80's. LOL. Time flies by so fast.

I was born in 1985 so I don't remember that much mainly cartoons.

I remember:

Cabbage patch dolls
Fraggle Rock
The Elephant Show
Avonlea
David the Gnome
Dumbos Circus
Muppet Babies
Care Bears
Good Morning Mickey

Flashdance! I wore the torn sweatshirt. I also had the two-layer leotard top, and a row of rubber bracelets.

Going to see Springsteen at the Philadlephia Spectrum.


Stop Making Sense. I was obsessed with that movie.

Favorite tv show: St. Elsewhere.

How about Leg Warmers??? :roflmao: I almost forgot about those babies!

I owned several pairs of leg warmers, and the torn sweatshirts....me the Jennifer Beals wannabe. LOL

Well, I was born in '84, so I'm more of a 90's kid, but I do still have memories from the 80's. One main thing (and I know this is weird!) are those t-shirt tie things that we put on our t-shirts at the corner. Why we did this, I have no idea. Anyone remember the name of those things? :dunno:

Gee, I feel old. Growing up in the 80's didn't seem that long ago, until you look at everything from games to tv from back then! OMG! Too funny!!!

I had forgotten about those too!!! How funny!!!

I saw some not too long ago and started laughing...what was the name of those things? Ah well...hehe...