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Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:22 pm
Yeah I’m old.
But we had such a remarkable time to grow up that it’s worth looking at as possibly the best time to be a kid ever.
Going to the mall and cruising around looking for a girls, hanging out in the arcade playing all the video games, and then hitting the record store looking for tapes and then CDs. Then go into the movie with all your buddies for $5 a head.
We had the alternative music scene blowing up, the start of rap and hip-hop and metal bands. We have a trailing end of the 70s bands plus REM, Prince, Madonna, Metallica, van Halen, Guns N’ Roses etc.
Screen time didn’t exist but we had the first home PCs and the first console games. Atari Nintendo etc. all started in the 80s.
About the worst drugs you can get into were weed, ecstasy and if you really had connections maybe some Coke but that was more something you heard about then you actually could get your hands on.
I’m obviously biased but damn that was a great time to be alive and be a teenager.
What say you?
But we had such a remarkable time to grow up that it’s worth looking at as possibly the best time to be a kid ever.
Going to the mall and cruising around looking for a girls, hanging out in the arcade playing all the video games, and then hitting the record store looking for tapes and then CDs. Then go into the movie with all your buddies for $5 a head.
We had the alternative music scene blowing up, the start of rap and hip-hop and metal bands. We have a trailing end of the 70s bands plus REM, Prince, Madonna, Metallica, van Halen, Guns N’ Roses etc.
Screen time didn’t exist but we had the first home PCs and the first console games. Atari Nintendo etc. all started in the 80s.
About the worst drugs you can get into were weed, ecstasy and if you really had connections maybe some Coke but that was more something you heard about then you actually could get your hands on.
I’m obviously biased but damn that was a great time to be alive and be a teenager.
What say you?
This post was edited on 6/26/21 at 11:24 pm
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Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:25 pm to SquatchDawg
It was fun, no draft, no war, no aids, no kids with guns everywhere, etc
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:27 pm to SquatchDawg
Through about 95, then boom straight to shite
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:28 pm to SquatchDawg
I have some really vivid memories from the '80s. Thinking about the World's Fair in particular just makes my heart hurt. It was just one summer and then it was gone. I'd give just about anything to spend a day there as a kid again.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:28 pm to SquatchDawg
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Yeah I’m old.
Not old enough to be this nostalgic.
Guess it depends where you lived. Lot of Texans associate the 80’s with the oil crash and crime spikes. Seeing “nice” apartment complexes turn into crack dens and ganglands.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:28 pm to SquatchDawg
I spent pretty much all of my childhood in the 80s so I'm biased but it was a pretty great decade.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:30 pm to SquatchDawg
One of the best things about the 80s..was that we still had the 90s to come to age into.
This post was edited on 6/26/21 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:32 pm to SquatchDawg
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hanging out in the arcade playing all the video games, and then hitting the record store
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:35 pm to SquatchDawg
I was a child of the 80s and it was great, but I wonder if it would have been better to be a child of the 70s and then been a young adult in the 80s.
I was a young adult in the 90s and I feel like that decade was this country's entry into soy / hipster culture which really sucks. When David Schwimmer is a cultural icon you've got a problem.
I was a young adult in the 90s and I feel like that decade was this country's entry into soy / hipster culture which really sucks. When David Schwimmer is a cultural icon you've got a problem.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:37 pm to Tall Tiger
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I was a young adult in the 90s and I feel like that decade was this country's entry into soy / hipster culture which really sucks
I agree that it sucks but I think that was well after the 90s.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:37 pm to SquatchDawg
Wouldn’t trade it if I could. Born in 73 so my teenage years were the 80s. It’s was an amazing time.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:42 pm to fallguy_1978
Think of the TV shows we used to watch. After the soap operas ended at 3 o’clock you have cartoons like Voltron, battle of the planets, ThunderCats, etc. then the reruns would start of MASH, the Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, what’s happening, etc.
Other than that, Saturday morning cartoons was a big deal. Looney Tunes, justice league, Spiderman etc. If you missed cartoons on Saturday morning you were shite out of luck until next Saturday because all we had were three networks and a couple of random stations on UHS.
Other than that, Saturday morning cartoons was a big deal. Looney Tunes, justice league, Spiderman etc. If you missed cartoons on Saturday morning you were shite out of luck until next Saturday because all we had were three networks and a couple of random stations on UHS.
This post was edited on 6/26/21 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:43 pm to SquatchDawg
I was born in 75 and being a kid in the 80s was great.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:45 pm to SquatchDawg
I'm sure it was awesome growing up in the 80s, but I had a great time growing up in the 90s and then coming into age alongside the wild west internet of the late 90s/early 00s.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:46 pm to Tall Tiger
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I was a child of the 80s and it was great, but I wonder if it would have been better to be a child of the 70s and then been a young adult in the 80s.
I was thinking about that after after I posted my last comment. I’d probably have a different view of the 80’s if I’d been old enough to screw chicks on ecstasy before the AIDS scare went nuts, rather than remembering Return of the Jedi as the high point of the decade.
This post was edited on 6/26/21 at 11:48 pm
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:46 pm to SquatchDawg
10-4. Graduated HS in 89. Awesome childhood. Awesome teenage years. Awesome college years.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:49 pm to SquatchDawg
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Other than that, Saturday morning cartoons was a big deal. Looney Tunes, justice league, Spiderman etc. If you missed cartoons on Saturday morning you were shite out of luck until next Saturday because all we had were three networks and a couple of random stations on UHS.
I got up early enough to watch Kids Incorporated.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:50 pm to SquatchDawg
That's when I was a kid so I know there's a shitload of bias in my reasoning, but I think it was.
It was the perfect mixture of having a lot of different things to do and not having helicopter parents.
The helicopter parent thing did start in the 80s, but it wasn't all over the place like it became just a decade or so later.
It was the perfect mixture of having a lot of different things to do and not having helicopter parents.
The helicopter parent thing did start in the 80s, but it wasn't all over the place like it became just a decade or so later.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:52 pm to efrad
The 90s were great, don’t get me wrong. But as a kid born in 1971 I had a front row seat to the invention of video games. Riding your bike to the local arcade the pump quarters into an astroid machine. Donkey Kong and PAC Man. Having a friend who just got the new Nintendo.
We went from using a cassette recorder to record your favorite that song just so happened to come on the radio to going to to buying CDs. We saw the advent of home computers.
A lot of shite went down during that decade.
We went from using a cassette recorder to record your favorite that song just so happened to come on the radio to going to to buying CDs. We saw the advent of home computers.
A lot of shite went down during that decade.
This post was edited on 6/26/21 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:54 pm to SquatchDawg
I'm younger than you but we both probably had a Howard Jones tape.
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