I'm a little young for this stuff, but still find nostalgia for a time I didn't live in (I was the youngest so I was still exposed to this era through older siblings and their love of the music and old game consoles). I also feel like something has gone very wrong with many aspects of modernity. I just read about a Mother getting arrested in TX of all places for letting their kid walk home from school (something I literally did every day until I was 16). There is a sea change in culture. The rebels we all loved used to be fun, above all else, but the mood of modernity is of catastrophe, one after another. I have always loved technology but something went wrong with it. There was value in living in a smaller world, when even the next town over seemed foreign. It allowed kids to feel more safe and secure with their place in the world. No wonder he wants to go back. The only question is how do we scale this and especially for those of us with children?
@@SirHilaryManfat Thankful for having been born in a country where kids still walk to school and back on their own (well, when they are starting, parents do introduce classmates together if the kid doesn't have a friend to walk with, so they can couple or group kids together so they don't have to go totally alone, but it has less to do with their safety and more with their happiness) - even in our capital city. Interestingly when people who have immigrated from USA to work here are interviewed, I've noticed the most common thing they say is how amazed they were at first learned that we let our children walk to school by themselves. I remember how bewildering it was for me to learn how this isn't the case in USA, which so modestly calls itself the greatest nation. Anymore that is, I know it hasn't always been so. Of course since that I've seen things go ever more horribly wrong over there - with the school shootings, teachers packing, etc... and apparently there's nothing that can be done about it. Except... yeah, nothing ;(
Being born in 1973 this video really just hit right at home. This year has more than others made me hit the brakes and slow the f*** down. The 80s was a time when things were just a lot more simple. You hit every nerve, picked a playlist that was a perfect representation of the 80s. This was just another boost to slow down and enjoy what matters. Thanks a million. Quality content for a quality person. Cheers.
Same here, i was born in 71 so grew up in the UK in the prime of the 80's home computer boom. Following one of Peri's videos last year i went digging on ebay and brought a BBC Model B. It brought back so many memories. Especially when you turn it on "BahhhhBeep". Instantly took me back to 1986.
Another 73 child here but from other side of the globe (Australia)...Still remember the Christmas that my brother and I got our first C64 and 1541...Many happy memories
Let me just fill the gap as a child of 1972, that Commodore 64 setup is scarily close to what I had myself in a tiny corner of our two up two down terraced house in the North of England. The feels are real, and what a great soundtrack too - loved every minute of this, thanks for the crazy effort and detail you went to.
Quite possibly your most heart-warming video so far. Although I didn't grow up in the UK, I did grow up with MTV Europe and, of course, a-ha, the Pet Shop Boys, with Kylie, with different Walkman models, with Max Headroom, with static on TV, ... I'm really thankful you chose to use original music, not just because it sets this video apart from most others on UA-cam, but because in combination with all that vintage stuff shown in the video it brings back memories of times long forgotten like nothing else. _Don't You_ actually reminded me of a dance in Folkestone which I attended as a teenager on a two-week language course - and where IIRC the second girl in my life kissed me (or third - if you count my mom). It really hit home for me, but you're right - I can keep watching your videos on repeat for days or even weeks on end, but only a time machine would actually bring me back to those days, those easier days, when life was so much simpler. Yes, I also shed a tear hearing all these songs from my childhood and teenage years, and I am grateful for you bringing back the memories associated with them, but at the same time I'm almost feeling blue now because I'm aware I won't ever be able to travel back to those days - that is, unless you do come up with an actual, working time machine at some point (include using it as part of the channel membership perks maybe?). There's just one other video that has touched me in a similar way, and it was the one about that Star Wars game. No, I'm not talking about the TIE Fighter game - I mean the one where you're fighting against the AT-AT walkers. I had completely forgotten and only remembered when you actually loaded up the game in that video that this was likely the very first "real" video game (not counting Pong) I ever played, so I got hit with a heavy flashback of _my own_ past from what started out and what I started watching as a video about _your_ past. Oh well, here I am now, at the age of almost 50, wishing I could be 15 again.
I have watched this several times. IMO, this is one of your best uploads to date. The 80s were the best years of my life. You captured the vibe we all feel for that time period very well. As someone who spends my free time in my 80s room, this really hits home (no pun intended) for me also. Thank you for that. Don't forget to find your old boom box. I never went anywhere without mine in the 80s and I still have it to this day. The music of that era was the best. Great tunes on this masterpiece and a great job editing this one 👏 Thumbs up all the way!!!
There must have been some dust in my apartment as I was watching this. All the feels hit me too watching you recreate your two childhood computer desks and opening the 80s items.
As someone currently living through some of the more difficult times in life... Not to say things are bad or anything, but most certainly a whole lot more stressing than back when I was just a kid with nothing important to worry about. It is important to be able to travel to some place, where time stands still and there is not a worry in the world. The videos you make, often help find my way there. So, thank you for that.
So your video has inspired me to do this, I am 23 so I never grew up in the 80s and 90s but your videos and videos from LGR have taught me a lot. I find retro things very cozy for some reason even though I wasnt alive then. I am a disabled veteran and when I move next year to a home I am gonna build a room with wood paneling, shag carpet, psychedelic posters, an Amiga on a corner desk and an entertainment center with a crt, cassette deck, and a retro console that will switch out every week. I think this setup will provide a cozy environment when I have anxiety attacks or PTSD problems. I will send pics when the room is done. Thanks for making videos, and inspiring me to follow some of my dreams when it comes to music and film stuffs. Much love. -Vincent
Yes! 🙌 PLEASE do email me those photos when done. I love the idea. I want my channel to feel like a safe space too, but the shag pile room sounds even better.
I love these nostalgia trips. As a 47 year old man I can safely say the 80s and 90s were just awesome. And thats not rose tinted glasses, they just were. Thanks Peri, especially for breaking out the Walkman. Btw, your dogs crack me up. 😂 p.s I had the original now thats what I call music on cassette. I would sit there with my headphones plugged into the same cassette player I would use to load 48k spectrum games, until I got a Walkman.
80’s and 90’s were the best when everything was new and exciting. We were first home computer generation and that ride from Vic20 to C64 and C64 to Amiga was so exciting. Before that first tv-games Atari 2600, Colecovision, Vectrex etc.. Todays kids don’t even know what they are missing. Today what people call retro, it’s my life and childhood. Those days we got first home computer not everyone had even color tv and video players were just coming. After that we soon run on BBS and got online with modem.. It was our own secret world that mainstream know nothing about.. And when we got school we know computers better than our teachers… Many of us hobby even become to job.. And our heart still beats 8bit after all these years…
@@RetroRecipes I had friends and relatives that thought of the 50s as we do the 80s. Though this was IN the 80s. One of these people does think the 80s was also one of the best times of her life (my mother). Oh BTW she thought this video was great as well.
@@RetroRecipes I think they do, but it certainly varies. Watching videos by LGR, there's definitely nostalgia among a younger crowd for the early days of DOS PC gaming, whereas my memories align more with your video, which is awesome btw. My brother had a ZX81, I had an Electron, but a friend had a C64 which very much impressed me, especially its version of Elite; he recently discovered his old box of games and tapes, so at some point I intend going through them, since I have multiple Commodore machines now, see if I can find the games I wrote so long ago, one of which was a vast adventure game I never finished, get them safely moved over to floppies, etc. The supreme irony of 80s nostalgia, indeed any such sentiments we have at whatever age, is that we generally don't appreciate what we later think of as being so wonderful *at the time*. The appreciation for what was so great doesn't come until later, and some aspects of these comparative memories can be hard to put into words. For example, in the 80s, where I lived (Isle of Arran, west coast of Scotland), it was possible to casually visit a landfill site and rescue all sorts of unwanted electronic goods, which I took home (on the back of my bike) and used to learn basic electronics by taking them apart. It was great, there were tape decks, VCRs, hifi separates, even a photocopier from which I extracted a 4500V transformer which I still have today, but my favourite find (several of them) was the Philips laserdisc player, from which I retained the entire HeNe laser assembly, power supply, mirrors, etc.; I used them to build a laser light show rig which I took to friends' birthday parties when at uni many years later, worked great with a smoke machine I bought. Back then I also visited a landfill site in Glasgow with friends, the site staff didn't mind. Anyway, point being, today one cannot visit landfill sites in this way anymore (health & safety, blah blah), while electronic products are far more black box in nature, difficult to work with, riddled with tiny SMCs, etc. In the 80s it was so much easier to explore such devices, take them apart, reuse their componens, repair thing, learn things, especially the numerous types of VCR. One time I found a large combo record player, tape deck and radio, turned out the only thing wrong with it was a loose wire to the audio output. But of course the 1980s-me had no idea tech was going to change in the way it has and thus at the time I didn't know how unique a time that was, able to do what I was doing in the way I did. in very much the same way, the nature of 1980s home micros was such that users could get much closer to the metal of the machines so to speak, write their own programs, games, etc. It's hard to explain what it felt like writing machine code on an 80s micro. There is a sense of understanding the micro one had in a manner that doesn't exist anymore, because modern tech is so complicated (consider any typical PC) yet at the same time so generically the same, while products like bluray players & suchlike are just a single tiny PCB with hardly any components - taking them apart is largely pointless in terms of a useful learning experience. People today rage about AMD vs. NVIDIA GPUs, or AMD vs. Intel CPUs, but the tech they're using hasn't changed architecturally in decades, while (Linux aside) users run the legacy of the same Windows OS. By contrast, the 80s was an explosion of everyone trying everything, so many different machines and choices. Yes many of them were based on the same CPUs (6502, Z80, etc.), but there was still huge variety in how the tech was employed, and without question it was not the case that the best technology always won out (oh the sorry tale of the Elan Enterprise...) I had a revealing conversation once with a guy I got to know who worked at the local Tesco, he was interested in 1980s home micros as he'd never really seen or used them and was born after they'd been superceded. He visited one time and we spent a few hours going through some of the machines in my collection (Acorn, Commodore, Amstraid, Sinclair, the usual); at one point though he became very quiet, I asked what was wrong, he said he had a sudden strong sense of having missed out on an era of history that as far as he could tell was unique, certainly in terms of the nature of technology. He'd grown up with far more powerful consoles and PCs, but they just weren't the same thing. I understood what he meant; I love my N64 and PS2, but I can't write my own games for them. So in summary yes, people older/younger doubtless do regard their own youthful time with nostalgia in whatever regard, but I think one can make a strong argument that the 80s was special for specific reasons, because the nature of technology available to home users was for a time unique in a manner that was not the case before and will likely never be the like again. Btw, it peeves me that it's taken this long for YT to even once recommend your channel, only found it yesterday after watching an old Nostalgia Nerd video.
This is quite possibly the best video you ever made! Full of sweet nostalgia. The level of research and detail alone merits highest respect! Very well done indeed!!
The take away from this is to stop every once in a while and appreciate your surroundings because they are gone in an instant. We dont know how precious something is until its gone and just a memory.
I smiled sooo much all along this video, especially at 8:28 , 22:32 , and 30:17 . And at 30:34 too, 80's Ladyfractic is glorious. 32:58 I'm just speechless looking at you and your 2 roomlets, oh what a glorious sight too. Yes, the 80's were a special and incredible time. Thanks so much for taking us along on your journey.
Love the lip-sync to I want a dog! And Left to my own Devices is my all time favourite song - it's impossible not to conductor-mime that final orchestral flourish! Great choices on the devices too, I loved the yellow waterproof walkmen... walkmans? walkthings? Great video!
The acoustic version of Take on Me killed me. Especially the following lines... So needless to say, I'm odds and ends But I'll be stumbling away slowly learning that life is okay. Say after me, It's no better to be safe than sorry. Maybe thats a good summary of this journey. We can't go back. We are different people 40 years later. We take our share of risks and safe bets. It changes us. But maybe just maybe when the light is just right, and a combination of weather and smells all combine just so, we can be back there, even if just for a moment. its sad you will be taking a hit from using all the songs. Maybe add super thanks to the next video.
I'm not worried about the monetization for such a special video - I just wanted to get it out there in the form I envisaged it (although Super Thanks will be active when it goes public I think). But yes, nostalgia hits are the most powerful drug. I guess I was trying to recreate that combination you speak of, more intentionally here. It certainly hit me in the "onion fairies" as another patron put it!
Andrew, your comment made me think of a line from the Field of Dreams movie. “The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them from their faces.” This is wonderful, with a fantastic selection of 80s music. This got me too.
This was really beautiful and awesome to watch you put this together as well as a nostalgia overload! As someone that has been on a journey of reacquiring my childhood possessions for more than a decade, driven hundreds of miles and spent countless amounts of money, I understand how powerful the emotions are and what it means to reacquire childhood possessions and that what you have created here is priceless. Thanks for sharing this with us.
OK so that video was a bit special, if the aim was to overwhelm your viewers with nostalgic emotion it hit a bullseye with me. From the yellow Walkman in Pretty Woman to the Boots cassette tapes I was transported back to my school days in Hampton and Kingston. I even made the steel Klick computer furniture for a a company in Molesey that I worked for. Brilliant - absolutely nailed it. Deskgustingly good work team fractic.
This is an incredible video. So many memories. Born in ‘72, we share so many similarities of childhood - I was a Vic-20 and C64 child. Thank you for this. A very special video. Loved it!
I noticed after re-acquire some things I cherished is that you may forget the old memory because these memories will be replaced with new memories with the item. It's like things are less vivid and less nostalgic once you re-acquire these things. Point being letting things stay just fond memories maybe the best option. Also i realized it's not the things that made you charish them but your satisfaction with life at that time did. The life around those things. Those cherished items could easily be anything else.
Nostalgia is a quite complex phenomenon. I'm not sure there exists such thing as "best option", I think it depends on the particular person. Nevertheless - you've made an interesting point indeed.
I had a ZX81 (1982), a Speccy (the original 48 Kb rubber keys, 1983), an Amstrad PCW 512 (1986)... The music was EXACTLY the same (adding a generous portion of J.M. Jarre and Mike Oldfield)... What a time to be teenager, the early eighties, waiting for the exact azimuth in the cassette to load properly 40 Kb of data and typing hundreds of lines of code from the magazines...
Great video, although I was a Speccy and Amiga kid this brought back a lot of fond early gaming and computer memories from my parents house in Birmingham UK in the 80's and 90's. Cheers 👍 👍
I was born in 1973. This was such a trip down memory lane! I loved the "take on me" style montage. The music is awesome! This hit me hard in all the right nostalgia spots. I could feel your authentic feelings. I'm more than a little jealous! For me, this is one of the best videos I've seen. You've inspired me! in the coming year I'll be buying my aunt's house. It's full of memories from the 80s when I used to visit there on school breaks, weekends, & holidays. I've already been feeling SO nostalgic. Now I've got even more ideas! Thank you so much!
Sometimes UA-cam recommend the perfect video…and this it it! For someone who wasn’t around for the 80s but loves everything about it, this video is fantastic. I will probably rewatch this video time and time again, it is that amazing! 👍
Congrats Peri- and Ladyfractic on a truly impressive video. Just when we thought you couldn't get more epic, you manage to knock it up another gear!! The black and white sketchy sequence was really amazing! And what a soundtrack, you maxed out the royalties budget on this one I bet! Also, I think I had that colour yellow on my bedroom wall in the 80s!!
I agree... I'm so burned out from the 2020's and we're not even half way through them! This episode has so many Nostalgia Flakes that you're buried up to your neck in them... I mean... that's a good thing. And that music just took me back to the 80's as I remember my young adulthood times with my VIC20 and C64, and all that was going on in my life at the time. But in all seriousness, what really made me think about was the people in my life that have passed on and how I didn't really feel like I was engaged with life, or the world, as fully as I should, perhaps I didn't appreciate it as deeply, or maybe took things for granted that they would always be there. I certainly have learned a valuable lesson and this Thanksgiving I felt compelled to visit what little is left of my family. Computers, music, posters, and such help us transport our minds back, but like you said it didn't actually bring back those times. Just like you can't bring back present day after it has passed... And even though it's kind of sucky, it's what makes this time, this time. Congrats on your Nostalgia recreation, I can feel your bitter-sweet enthusiasm... Cheers!
I never write UA-cam comments but I just felt I had to with this. The music, the memories, just perfect. It brought a tear to my eye when you had a little moment setting up the Apple 😭 Fantastic video, this deserves all the views 👍
May I say your choice in 80's Pop music is second to none. This 80's fan approves!! (Edited to add: This is quite possibly the best UA-cam video you've ever made. I was thoroughly engrossed. Bravo!)
I lived in Paignton for 15 years and when you flashed up the Google Streetview image I knew exactly where that was. I often drove over to Dartmouth via Kingswear Higher or Lower Ferry, which by the way, those two roads ultimately lead to. Kingswear and Dartmouth are both beautiful places to visit. :)
The recreation of your treasured childhood memories was definitely inspiring. I can remember my setup as a kid in the 80s and early 90s but to replicate that would really take a lot of time and effort. It must of been very emotional having the physical recreation in front of you with all them memories of your parents around at the time too. The music fitted the period perfectly. Just brilliant.
Oh and thanks for introducing me to the When in Rome song I Promise, I swear I have never heard that before even though I was a teenager in the 80s. How do you come to know it?
As I said in the previous version of video, just leave the comment here again. This is by far, one of the best, or the best video in your channel, loved it and had a lot of fun. Many common memories! It reminded me, that I had a very similar table, like the one you have for the Apple II! Funny about the Hey Google issue, I got an Alexa instead, but changed the name to "Computer" so every time I watch Star Trek and they say "Computer ..." it tries to do something :D By the way the Take on Me part was amazing, really well done!
Wow, what's even more interesting than being able to use your exact old equipment because you kept it for all these decades, is when you find one of the exact TV unit out in the wild and buy it back! How did you discover that it was the exact one? Hang on, I haven't watched the whole video yet, haha, let me get back to this.
Big respect to your dedication and hard work, it's touchiing to see waves of emotion hitting to you when seeing childhood memories coming true. I really feel it too being 80's kid and having computers a great influence in my life back then!
Absolutely loved this! Amazing job re-creating your childhood memories ❤ I wish I had the space to do something like it, mine was a bit different (but similar) with a $50 computer I begged my Mom to buy while it was on clearance at K-Mart. It was the TI-99/4a. It holds a similar and very special memory to me. Learned how to program that machine and changed the future of what I would aspire to do in my later years. Thank you again Perry Fractic for a very moving and inspirational video. I greatly appreciated watching this and loved the scene with Lady Fractic in her 80's attire, excellent touch my friend! Cheers to you both and Happy Holidays!
'74 kid here. Amstrad CPC 464, for my birthday in '85 (manufactured December 1984, tall key model, with CTM640 colour monitor / PSU, Cheetah 125+ joystick and Amsoft software pack from Dixons, brought by Mum). Thanks for the nostalgia vibes! 🙂
Awesome Perifractic! A man after my own heart! Great as always, you've outdone yourself...again! But might I add that while I try to live like that, I'm also trying to create my own little 80s disciples by exposing our five kids to that lifestyle and making my five year old watch and use a VHS player and watching 80s movies with the others, etc. Oh and no phones at the table! PS If I could only get them to do homework on the C64!
This is absolutely incredible! Like you, I have nostalgic memories of my bedrooms and posters etc, and you've made me start to think that I should do something similar now. I was into Marvel comics back in the 70s when they were reprinted here in the UK and I still love reading them - I have a lot of the American ones now, but started to pick up the UK reprints again as that was what started me off. But! Later I was into Bruce Lee and had posters in my room and some other stuff I need to try and remember - how it was laid out and what furniture I had will be a bit tricky but something to look into - must dig out the old photos!. Later when I had my 64 and then Amiga that was a different room - but I still have my Amiga 500 with upgraded 68030 chip and AGP hard drive - I must dig them out sometime. Almost forgot to mention - I also still have the same lamp that is much the same as yours, and it's still on my bedside table. I can see the nostalgia flooding through you and I was feeling it too - such a wonderful episode that kinda mimics my own memories and feelings so I know how important it is and what those feelings are like. There's nothing like it is there. Wonderful days worth recreating. Thank you so much.
This hits so hard in many ways, can't help but revisit my own memories and reminisce about those "good old times", so much of what we are now we owe to those simpler times.
If you want to listen to cassettes in your car. That Walkman is really the only way to do it these days. I like your 80s bedroom ideas. I've pursued a similar idea in my stereo room / basement. I've gathered a bunch of old equipment from the 70s and 80s with maybe the odd modern piece like speakers. But I definitely appreciate your point of view. I also play my c64, Vic 20 and Coleco Gemini down there. The escapism is awesome
You really went above and beyond with this one. And you've got me reminiscing about days back in the 1980s, sitting on the living room floor with our Commodore 64 hooked up to the TV, playing various games. Bliss!
Omg this was a great video, i was Born in the 80s , it was so brilliant to see you recreate your rooms and its a great idea. I couldn’t believe it, my Dad had the same Hinari TV with the clock, he too used to write programmes on the commodore 64 in the dining room using that very same TV , He used to also move that TV to the bedroom. When my Mum used to go to work i used to get into her warm bed and watch the cartoons on that TV or the little black and white radio tv by her bedside.! Unfortunately my Mum died in 2009. My Dad is still in the house and is stuck in the ages. That Hiniari TV is still in place on the dresser in his bedroom untouched and stood as it was all those years ago (unsure if still works) but it did when it was last used. Also the windows 95 pc os still set up in the box room untouched for many years with floppy disks and roms laying about. Truly amazing the 80s and the 90s. But had to comment as cant believe you also have that H identical Hinari TV :-)
This video was hugely powerful for me. I think I share the same affection for my Commodore 64 setup (my first computer). Now, my oldest son is turning 13 and I am getting ready to buy him his first computer…I hope it holds the same significance as when my father bought me my first computer. I’m not crying, you are crying 😂
Hi, I am writing to you from Italy. I really like your videos and especially this one. Your look when you think back to your childhood moved me a lot. Congratulations also for the great professionalism with which you mix images and memories. Excellent.
8:28 Love the A-Ha! homage. This might say "80's" more to me than anything. I am not good at math, but I am guessing-- based on LadyFractic's "late 80's"" comment, that she's under 35? The Amiga is older than her?
i had a ZX spectrum 128K and an Atari 2600 the one with wooden finish loved playing super cobra me and my dad played a lot of computer games looking back that's one of things i miss when i think about him
You putting the C64 PSU under the desk reminded me and suddenly took me back in time. Mine was also on the floor in the middle of the desk and i would put my feet on it in the winter to keep my feet warm while playing games. As the PSU got quite hot. As a 10 / 12yr old i was clearly not concerned about the psu getting hot. Just that it kept my feet warm.
I bought some of those New Coke re-releases when they first came out and displayed one on the shelf. It exploded on it's own accord and damaged some books. The fact these exploded in shipping was a blessing in disguise. I learned that day that soda cans should be emptied prior to displaying them. I think the acids eat away at the can over time.
Funnily enough I had the opposite experience. I tried this last year, but I soon realized that I miss the modern comforts of more ergonomically designed desks, larger monitors with newer graphics, a larger 50" television, ergonomic chairs, ergonomic game controllers, apple music lossless streaming... I thought nostalgia would be great, but for some reason it didn't make me as happy as I thought it would. Because I realized it's not the things of my childhood that made me happy, it was the world around me. Even if I completed my room setup, the world is no longer the same. The mall I used to hang out in has changed, everybody is now on social media that it's crazy now, and popular entertainment is very bad now, the emotion of the movies and music and tv shows we had back then is already long gone in the culture of today. I guess I missed the culture, the stuff were just a symbol of that culture, but without the culture the stuff is lacking... I ended up just selling all of the mid 90's things I thought I would enjoy, and replaced them with a completely modern setup. I was glad to hang out in it for a while, but what it made me realize is I actually don't want the objects, what I really want is a literal time machine.
I'm overindulging on Nostalgia Flakes from this video: the hardware, the setup, the artwork, the music, the 80s romance... Love every bit of it. Endless thanks for the memories!
Back then, we were dreaming of the future and one way we though to get a glimp of futuristic technology was if we could witness UFO and somehow communicate with aliens. We were wondering how the year 2000s will look like... We become what we were dreaming about but here we feel unexpectedly sad about being at this point in our life as we realize how fast the journey was and that there are so much we cannot bring back!
When you said you got teary eyed setting that desk up, I knew exactly how you felt. I would do anything to be able to sit at my old amiga desk set up again in my old house in Gravesend, Kent. Such good memories! Great video! Subscribed!
I went through this phase in my early 40's and got all the walkman/records and 8bit computer stuff too! For me it was a Karate Kid poster and a BBC Micro that brought back the warm memories.
This is super well-made. Very impressive. As a teenager in the 80's i confirm that tapes and walkmans was a big thing and a big part of our lifes, and of course MTV. Your music selection was great and suited this video perfectly.
Feeling everything, everyone has said below who have any idea of what the power of thinking about this, let alone doing it, means. I have only a few photos of my 80s bedroom, and sadly none that have the computer sets up, those do just live on in my mind (those i have a few artifacts that survive to this day). There's such a strong desire to reach into those photos and just look beyond its boarders, imagine the things you'd see that have been forgotten! Time and space, and that time spent in that space seem to mean less as we get older - probably something to do with more importance of the people we spend time with, and that's probably how it should be. But for those teenage years, for many of us those spaces and the things in them were an extremely important relationship, and who wouldn't want to revisit from time to time. I'll stop now, I hear the 80s calling but so is today, and today will one day be a memory so best I go make it a good one.
This is definitely your masterpiece Peri, awesome job. If there is only one video to look at RR this is definitely the one. So good to see people with passion at the top of their art. 👍🏆
Amazing stuff! Thanks so much for bringing back the 80s. I was born in 1973 and could have similiar experiences, though I was growing up on a wrong side of the Iron Curtain. We did have a gaming culture, though, and I have been wondering if any retro-afficionados from the West would be interested in hearing a story of gaming beyond the Iron Curtain? :)
Great video Peri. I've recently had this epiphone about retro technology / childhood stuff as well and have slowly started to reacquire the things I remember most clearly. I was born in the mid 80s so it is primarily 90s nostalgia for me (with traces of the 80s) but I think the feeling of rediscovering the past is something we can all relate to.
Well what a ride, full of emotion and made my 49 year old self reflect on my old setups as a kid and the things my dad did for me, and how my mum put up with it, lol. Thank you so much for sharing, much love and respect 😊
I'm so impressed that you have been able to replicate not one but two previous setups like this right down to the painting, which you solved the mystery behind. The nostalgia you unknowingly created has been like a big puzzle, and piece by piece you have been slowly and successfuly placing it back together. It's so much deeper than just 'chasing memories' - theres furniture. computer hardware, colours, games, a soundtrack (of some of the coolest music which I am jealous I was born a bit later from) and most importantly, a vibe - an atmosphere which, to be honest, without you bringing it all together and sharing it with us, couldn't pull all these pieces together to create a 'whole greater than the sum of its parts'. I am slightly proud that the c64 case upgrade you got is from my home town - its like this place is a part of your amazing story and hits that little bit harder for me perosnally. That does make me go on to think that sometimes people don't realise how monumental they can end up being in someone elses life from the things they did, that might have seemed unimportant and maybe even tedious at the time. I have had my own experiences like this, and I live for these moments where things come full circle. Perhaps this video in itself is nostalgia for our future. Excellent work!
I so loved this video made me miss my setups from back in the day, thinking about man they was cool. Oh ofc you so needed one of them desk lamps it was a must. 84 to 95 are to golden years for me for games and music. Amazing work as always and so looking forward to the next one, so until then take care and have a great weekend 🙂 oh and Ladyfratic rocking 80s hair was so cool.
Once again... no words can express the nostalgic feelings. I recall the iterations of my old room and my Commodore 64 setup. Such a fun and emotional video. Well done.
@@RetroRecipes 😂 She does say funny stuff like, "I used to do that when I was a baby, 10 years ago last month." Children and concepts of time are funny.
I have saved all of my tapes from the 80s and 90s. They have sat dormant in boxes for years, many times my wife attempted to get me to throw them away- but every time I'd go to do that I would remember paying 15 dollars or more a piece for these things, and I'd see tapes bought for me for Christmas or birthdays by my Grandfather, or my mom etc. I just couldn't bring myself to throw them out. It was like throwing away my memories. Recently, my son bought a 1989 Ford Ranger Pick-Up truck, and it has a factory cassette deck. He has been driving around listening to my tapes! Not to mention, tapes are having sort of a nostalgic resurgence right now, and have even become popular with millennials who weren't even there! They still sound great, as long as they don't break!
These videos always leave me speechless. Just randomly unboxin a walkman while Simple Minds is playing in the background. I forget even being on youtube, and turning 40 next thursday, the nostalgic overload is something to marvel at as well.
Thanks! Maybe 15 hours editing…? And a day of shooting plus some little scenes later. And 3 years planning and shopping lol. And a day of painting. And… well you get the idea.
Life was easy and sweet in the 80’s I was seven in 1980. My family bought a Vic 20 for Christmas over the C64 I wanted because of a salesman pushing the Vic as just the same but cheaper as the 64 in Dixons. Of course it wasn’t. If I point at a C64 saying that’s what I’d love then get it 🤷🏼♂️ Only thing I got that didn’t use was a Walkman or portable CD player it was useless. Still got all my tapes, making mix tapes for the Car I loved, now every song I like or had is on a memory stick and in the Car mostly 80’s. Guilty pleasure HA-Ha “ take me on” or Starship “nothing going to stop us now”. I’d actually fly to California from Glasgow just to play the SW arcade game. 😂
This was amazing, thank you for sharing. It got me thinking about my childhood. I was just looking through photos from my childhood yesterday and saw pictures of my doberman Brandy and the Christmas that my brother and I got a NES (Christmas 1987). I remember we got Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt, Legend of Zelda and Mike Tyson's Punch out that year. This replaced our Atari 2600 and Tandy Computer as our gaming machine (I still have the Tandy burried somewhere in the house. It's amazing how these photos bring memories back to life.
Yes, Chris, I agree, these are two very great nostalgic setups! I'm so glad that you were able to satisfy yourself by building them! You're making me want to do the same thing; what a cool video of this has been!
You are a real Doctor Who! Tom Baker would be proud. Only you didn't have a Tardis, yet you still managed to bring 1980 to us. My soundtrack would have been Styx, My first tape was a Mr. Roboto tape circa 5th grade. My first PC, a Radio Shack TRS-80 color computer. A few years later, I got a Commodore 128. I learned the hard way not to save programs to tape on a recorder just using battery power. In order to get it to load, I had to drain my batteries down to a level the tape player would play at the slower speed it was recorded at. From then on, it was AC plug all the way. Why was I using batteries? In the early days, I would put my PC on the floor in front of a tv, sitting Indian style while typing in Basic programs from magazines. When I was done, I would put the PC away so we could watch TV. Hats off to you sir, thank you for a free trip Back to the Future sans DeLorean. I will say this, I prefer to emulate C64, to skip the slow load speed of the tape/drives.
I guess many people doing something similar. But your approach is really monumental! Believe or not I found my very own ZX Spectum on garage sale. It was assembled by my father. So I could not resist!
Born in 1972 and got you beat by a year I think but same kettle...what a time to be alive in the 80s. The Golden age of the arcade and home computers. So special!
A fantastic work of art, Peri. The superb quality of your video always impresses me, I'm glad you achieved all you did and restored those room-lets of happiness into your life. Ladyfractic, obviously time travelled to the 80''s as she definitely doesn't look old enough to have come from there the long way round. Sadly, the 80's, for me, was not a good decade. There were some good bits, but it's not a decade I would willingly go back to unless I really had to. So, I got very mixed feelings from this video. Feelings of both warmth and dread. Obviously, that is not your problem and your quality of production is always amazing. Keep it up the great work, my friend. Michael.
Those setups look amazing, and I liked seeing you look at it for a moment and think about life back then. I’ve been in those moments before. To quote The Über-Morlock from the Time Machine (2002) “We all have our time machines.”
My parents were unemployed throughout the 80s. I had hand-me-down clothes from my cousins and free school meals. Somehow my parents managed to "aquire" an Amstrad and I loved it. But it was the playing outside on rubbish skateboards, kicking around a burst football, making up our own Olympic events using house bricks as shot putts, branches as javelins etc. The music, the kids cartoons. All special.
Peri, this is a masterpiece, absolutely a crowning achievement of this channel! Thanks for reviving these awesome memories!
Thank you 🙏
I agree, it is one of my favourite episodes, the Aha desk construction sequence was particularly brilliant :)
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OMG this video is in another class, hand on heart best video I've ever seen on UA-cam.
Thank you 🙏
I'm a little young for this stuff, but still find nostalgia for a time I didn't live in (I was the youngest so I was still exposed to this era through older siblings and their love of the music and old game consoles). I also feel like something has gone very wrong with many aspects of modernity. I just read about a Mother getting arrested in TX of all places for letting their kid walk home from school (something I literally did every day until I was 16). There is a sea change in culture. The rebels we all loved used to be fun, above all else, but the mood of modernity is of catastrophe, one after another. I have always loved technology but something went wrong with it. There was value in living in a smaller world, when even the next town over seemed foreign. It allowed kids to feel more safe and secure with their place in the world. No wonder he wants to go back. The only question is how do we scale this and especially for those of us with children?
@@cendrizzi This is a really wonderful comment.
@@cendrizzi I second Jubsy's sentiment. That's a really fantastic comment, and I wholeheartedly agree.
@@SirHilaryManfat Thankful for having been born in a country where kids still walk to school and back on their own (well, when they are starting, parents do introduce classmates together if the kid doesn't have a friend to walk with, so they can couple or group kids together so they don't have to go totally alone, but it has less to do with their safety and more with their happiness) - even in our capital city. Interestingly when people who have immigrated from USA to work here are interviewed, I've noticed the most common thing they say is how amazed they were at first learned that we let our children walk to school by themselves.
I remember how bewildering it was for me to learn how this isn't the case in USA, which so modestly calls itself the greatest nation. Anymore that is, I know it hasn't always been so.
Of course since that I've seen things go ever more horribly wrong over there - with the school shootings, teachers packing, etc... and apparently there's nothing that can be done about it. Except... yeah, nothing ;(
Being born in 1973 this video really just hit right at home. This year has more than others made me hit the brakes and slow the f*** down. The 80s was a time when things were just a lot more simple. You hit every nerve, picked a playlist that was a perfect representation of the 80s. This was just another boost to slow down and enjoy what matters. Thanks a million. Quality content for a quality person. Cheers.
Same here, i was born in 71 so grew up in the UK in the prime of the 80's home computer boom. Following one of Peri's videos last year i went digging on ebay and brought a BBC Model B. It brought back so many memories. Especially when you turn it on "BahhhhBeep". Instantly took me back to 1986.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot. And you're quite right about the 80s.
Spot on how I feel as another kid from '73!
Another 73 child here but from other side of the globe (Australia)...Still remember the Christmas that my brother and I got our first C64 and 1541...Many happy memories
Let me just fill the gap as a child of 1972, that Commodore 64 setup is scarily close to what I had myself in a tiny corner of our two up two down terraced house in the North of England. The feels are real, and what a great soundtrack too - loved every minute of this, thanks for the crazy effort and detail you went to.
Nothing better than watching a famous UA-camr to go through midlife crisis and playing all the awesome 80s music. Keep it up!
Gotta say it's the best and most benign way to have a midlife crisis. Bringing joy to others in the process? Priceless!
Haha you're probably not wrong... though I've been feeling this way for about 20 years so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pure endorphin rushes though, the memories must of flooded !
Quite possibly your most heart-warming video so far. Although I didn't grow up in the UK, I did grow up with MTV Europe and, of course, a-ha, the Pet Shop Boys, with Kylie, with different Walkman models, with Max Headroom, with static on TV, ... I'm really thankful you chose to use original music, not just because it sets this video apart from most others on UA-cam, but because in combination with all that vintage stuff shown in the video it brings back memories of times long forgotten like nothing else.
_Don't You_ actually reminded me of a dance in Folkestone which I attended as a teenager on a two-week language course - and where IIRC the second girl in my life kissed me (or third - if you count my mom). It really hit home for me, but you're right - I can keep watching your videos on repeat for days or even weeks on end, but only a time machine would actually bring me back to those days, those easier days, when life was so much simpler. Yes, I also shed a tear hearing all these songs from my childhood and teenage years, and I am grateful for you bringing back the memories associated with them, but at the same time I'm almost feeling blue now because I'm aware I won't ever be able to travel back to those days - that is, unless you do come up with an actual, working time machine at some point (include using it as part of the channel membership perks maybe?).
There's just one other video that has touched me in a similar way, and it was the one about that Star Wars game. No, I'm not talking about the TIE Fighter game - I mean the one where you're fighting against the AT-AT walkers. I had completely forgotten and only remembered when you actually loaded up the game in that video that this was likely the very first "real" video game (not counting Pong) I ever played, so I got hit with a heavy flashback of _my own_ past from what started out and what I started watching as a video about _your_ past.
Oh well, here I am now, at the age of almost 50, wishing I could be 15 again.
Thank you for such heartwarming feedback
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I have watched this several times. IMO, this is one of your best uploads to date. The 80s were the best years of my life. You captured the vibe we all feel for that time period very well. As someone who spends my free time in my 80s room, this really hits home (no pun intended) for me also. Thank you for that. Don't forget to find your old boom box. I never went anywhere without mine in the 80s and I still have it to this day. The music of that era was the best. Great tunes on this masterpiece and a great job editing this one 👏 Thumbs up all the way!!!
There must have been some dust in my apartment as I was watching this. All the feels hit me too watching you recreate your two childhood computer desks and opening the 80s items.
Onion fairies!
As someone currently living through some of the more difficult times in life... Not to say things are bad or anything, but most certainly a whole lot more stressing than back when I was just a kid with nothing important to worry about.
It is important to be able to travel to some place, where time stands still and there is not a worry in the world.
The videos you make, often help find my way there. So, thank you for that.
That warms our hearts 🙏
Love the "Take On Me" graphics and desk build with LadyFractic. Very cool. Nice job Peri.
That was inspired.
Thanks so much!
So your video has inspired me to do this, I am 23 so I never grew up in the 80s and 90s but your videos and videos from LGR have taught me a lot. I find retro things very cozy for some reason even though I wasnt alive then. I am a disabled veteran and when I move next year to a home I am gonna build a room with wood paneling, shag carpet, psychedelic posters, an Amiga on a corner desk and an entertainment center with a crt, cassette deck, and a retro console that will switch out every week. I think this setup will provide a cozy environment when I have anxiety attacks or PTSD problems. I will send pics when the room is done. Thanks for making videos, and inspiring me to follow some of my dreams when it comes to music and film stuffs. Much love. -Vincent
Yes! 🙌 PLEASE do email me those photos when done. I love the idea. I want my channel to feel like a safe space too, but the shag pile room sounds even better.
@vincentdemarco1998 Were you ever able to get your retro room going? Hope you’re doing well!
The war is bad for all of us. Wish you well and enjoy life!
I love these nostalgia trips. As a 47 year old man I can safely say the 80s and 90s were just awesome. And thats not rose tinted glasses, they just were. Thanks Peri, especially for breaking out the Walkman. Btw, your dogs crack me up. 😂 p.s I had the original now thats what I call music on cassette. I would sit there with my headphones plugged into the same cassette player I would use to load 48k spectrum games, until I got a Walkman.
Couldn't agree more!
80’s and 90’s were the best when everything was new and exciting. We were first home computer generation and that ride from Vic20 to C64 and C64 to Amiga was so exciting. Before that first tv-games Atari 2600, Colecovision, Vectrex etc.. Todays kids don’t even know what they are missing. Today what people call retro, it’s my life and childhood. Those days we got first home computer not everyone had even color tv and video players were just coming. After that we soon run on BBS and got online with modem.. It was our own secret world that mainstream know nothing about.. And when we got school we know computers better than our teachers… Many of us hobby even become to job.. And our heart still beats 8bit after all these years…
We can never go back, but we’re enormously fortunate to have grown up in the 80’s.
Truly. Do people see the 50s or 90s in the same way? 🤔
@@RetroRecipes I had friends and relatives that thought of the 50s as we do the 80s. Though this was IN the 80s. One of these people does think the 80s was also one of the best times of her life (my mother).
Oh BTW she thought this video was great as well.
@@wolvenar That’s very interesting! And touching that she enjoyed the video also 😊
@@RetroRecipes I think they do, but it certainly varies. Watching videos by LGR, there's definitely nostalgia among a younger crowd for the early days of DOS PC gaming, whereas my memories align more with your video, which is awesome btw. My brother had a ZX81, I had an Electron, but a friend had a C64 which very much impressed me, especially its version of Elite; he recently discovered his old box of games and tapes, so at some point I intend going through them, since I have multiple Commodore machines now, see if I can find the games I wrote so long ago, one of which was a vast adventure game I never finished, get them safely moved over to floppies, etc.
The supreme irony of 80s nostalgia, indeed any such sentiments we have at whatever age, is that we generally don't appreciate what we later think of as being so wonderful *at the time*. The appreciation for what was so great doesn't come until later, and some aspects of these comparative memories can be hard to put into words.
For example, in the 80s, where I lived (Isle of Arran, west coast of Scotland), it was possible to casually visit a landfill site and rescue all sorts of unwanted electronic goods, which I took home (on the back of my bike) and used to learn basic electronics by taking them apart. It was great, there were tape decks, VCRs, hifi separates, even a photocopier from which I extracted a 4500V transformer which I still have today, but my favourite find (several of them) was the Philips laserdisc player, from which I retained the entire HeNe laser assembly, power supply, mirrors, etc.; I used them to build a laser light show rig which I took to friends' birthday parties when at uni many years later, worked great with a smoke machine I bought. Back then I also visited a landfill site in Glasgow with friends, the site staff didn't mind.
Anyway, point being, today one cannot visit landfill sites in this way anymore (health & safety, blah blah), while electronic products are far more black box in nature, difficult to work with, riddled with tiny SMCs, etc. In the 80s it was so much easier to explore such devices, take them apart, reuse their componens, repair thing, learn things, especially the numerous types of VCR. One time I found a large combo record player, tape deck and radio, turned out the only thing wrong with it was a loose wire to the audio output. But of course the 1980s-me had no idea tech was going to change in the way it has and thus at the time I didn't know how unique a time that was, able to do what I was doing in the way I did.
in very much the same way, the nature of 1980s home micros was such that users could get much closer to the metal of the machines so to speak, write their own programs, games, etc. It's hard to explain what it felt like writing machine code on an 80s micro. There is a sense of understanding the micro one had in a manner that doesn't exist anymore, because modern tech is so complicated (consider any typical PC) yet at the same time so generically the same, while products like bluray players & suchlike are just a single tiny PCB with hardly any components - taking them apart is largely pointless in terms of a useful learning experience. People today rage about AMD vs. NVIDIA GPUs, or AMD vs. Intel CPUs, but the tech they're using hasn't changed architecturally in decades, while (Linux aside) users run the legacy of the same Windows OS. By contrast, the 80s was an explosion of everyone trying everything, so many different machines and choices. Yes many of them were based on the same CPUs (6502, Z80, etc.), but there was still huge variety in how the tech was employed, and without question it was not the case that the best technology always won out (oh the sorry tale of the Elan Enterprise...)
I had a revealing conversation once with a guy I got to know who worked at the local Tesco, he was interested in 1980s home micros as he'd never really seen or used them and was born after they'd been superceded. He visited one time and we spent a few hours going through some of the machines in my collection (Acorn, Commodore, Amstraid, Sinclair, the usual); at one point though he became very quiet, I asked what was wrong, he said he had a sudden strong sense of having missed out on an era of history that as far as he could tell was unique, certainly in terms of the nature of technology. He'd grown up with far more powerful consoles and PCs, but they just weren't the same thing. I understood what he meant; I love my N64 and PS2, but I can't write my own games for them.
So in summary yes, people older/younger doubtless do regard their own youthful time with nostalgia in whatever regard, but I think one can make a strong argument that the 80s was special for specific reasons, because the nature of technology available to home users was for a time unique in a manner that was not the case before and will likely never be the like again.
Btw, it peeves me that it's taken this long for YT to even once recommend your channel, only found it yesterday after watching an old Nostalgia Nerd video.
@@mapesdhs597 very good points indeed. Do you mind if I touch upon them in future video(s)?
Really hit me in the feels as an 80s kid, with probably one of the best soundtracks of any UA-cam video ever.
This is quite possibly the best video you ever made! Full of sweet nostalgia. The level of research and detail alone merits highest respect! Very well done indeed!!
Wow, thank you!
I absolutely LOVE everything about this video. Thank you for the nostalgia
I'm so glad!
The take away from this is to stop every once in a while and appreciate your surroundings because they are gone in an instant. We dont know how precious something is until its gone and just a memory.
I smiled sooo much all along this video, especially at 8:28 , 22:32 , and 30:17 .
And at 30:34 too, 80's Ladyfractic is glorious.
32:58 I'm just speechless looking at you and your 2 roomlets, oh what a glorious sight too.
Yes, the 80's were a special and incredible time.
Thanks so much for taking us along on your journey.
I was smiling most of the time .
Love the lip-sync to I want a dog! And Left to my own Devices is my all time favourite song - it's impossible not to conductor-mime that final orchestral flourish! Great choices on the devices too, I loved the yellow waterproof walkmen... walkmans? walkthings? Great video!
The acoustic version of Take on Me killed me. Especially the following lines... So needless to say, I'm odds and ends But I'll be stumbling away slowly learning that life is okay. Say after me, It's no better to be safe than sorry. Maybe thats a good summary of this journey. We can't go back. We are different people 40 years later. We take our share of risks and safe bets. It changes us. But maybe just maybe when the light is just right, and a combination of weather and smells all combine just so, we can be back there, even if just for a moment. its sad you will be taking a hit from using all the songs. Maybe add super thanks to the next video.
I'm not worried about the monetization for such a special video - I just wanted to get it out there in the form I envisaged it (although Super Thanks will be active when it goes public I think). But yes, nostalgia hits are the most powerful drug. I guess I was trying to recreate that combination you speak of, more intentionally here. It certainly hit me in the "onion fairies" as another patron put it!
That 80's girls scene was brilliant, the whole mood was set already for the room. But that last scene made it more then a static picture.
Watched this twice already, and doubtless will for a third time later today. Wow the nostalgia is so powerful in this.
I must admit I’ve been watching it over again too. You’d think I’d be sick of it by now! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe _this_ is the Time Machine…
Andrew, your comment made me think of a line from the Field of Dreams movie. “The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them from their faces.” This is wonderful, with a fantastic selection of 80s music. This got me too.
@@SuperFurry68A I'm still watching it!!
absolutely fantastic. Had such a similar set up in my bedroom.Really well done vid, loved the production. Pete.
Nostalgia overload 🧡 This video should be prescribed as anti-depressant. Love every second of it.
What weird but wonderful praise!
This was really beautiful and awesome to watch you put this together as well as a nostalgia overload! As someone that has been on a journey of reacquiring my childhood possessions for more than a decade, driven hundreds of miles and spent countless amounts of money, I understand how powerful the emotions are and what it means to reacquire childhood possessions and that what you have created here is priceless. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you. I’m glad it’s not just me!
OK so that video was a bit special, if the aim was to overwhelm your viewers with nostalgic emotion it hit a bullseye with me. From the yellow Walkman in Pretty Woman to the Boots cassette tapes I was transported back to my school days in Hampton and Kingston. I even made the steel Klick computer furniture for a a company in Molesey that I worked for. Brilliant - absolutely nailed it. Deskgustingly good work team fractic.
Thank you for your kind words neighbour
This is an incredible video. So many memories. Born in ‘72, we share so many similarities of childhood - I was a Vic-20 and C64 child. Thank you for this. A very special video. Loved it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I noticed after re-acquire some things I cherished is that you may forget the old memory because these memories will be replaced with new memories with the item. It's like things are less vivid and less nostalgic once you re-acquire these things. Point being letting things stay just fond memories maybe the best option.
Also i realized it's not the things that made you charish them but your satisfaction with life at that time did. The life around those things. Those cherished items could easily be anything else.
Nostalgia is a quite complex phenomenon. I'm not sure there exists such thing as "best option", I think it depends on the particular person. Nevertheless - you've made an interesting point indeed.
I had a ZX81 (1982), a Speccy (the original 48 Kb rubber keys, 1983), an Amstrad PCW 512 (1986)... The music was EXACTLY the same (adding a generous portion of J.M. Jarre and Mike Oldfield)... What a time to be teenager, the early eighties, waiting for the exact azimuth in the cassette to load properly 40 Kb of data and typing hundreds of lines of code from the magazines...
Great video, although I was a Speccy and Amiga kid this brought back a lot of fond early gaming and computer memories from my parents house in Birmingham UK in the 80's and 90's. Cheers 👍 👍
I was born in 1973. This was such a trip down memory lane! I loved the "take on me" style montage. The music is awesome! This hit me hard in all the right nostalgia spots. I could feel your authentic feelings. I'm more than a little jealous! For me, this is one of the best videos I've seen.
You've inspired me! in the coming year I'll be buying my aunt's house. It's full of memories from the 80s when I used to visit there on school breaks, weekends, & holidays. I've already been feeling SO nostalgic. Now I've got even more ideas!
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome. I see a room recreation in your future.
Born in 1992 but i wished i was born in the 80's,the music,the culture was way cooler back then.
Sometimes UA-cam recommend the perfect video…and this it it! For someone who wasn’t around for the 80s but loves everything about it, this video is fantastic. I will probably rewatch this video time and time again, it is that amazing! 👍
Thank you!!
Congrats Peri- and Ladyfractic on a truly impressive video. Just when we thought you couldn't get more epic, you manage to knock it up another gear!! The black and white sketchy sequence was really amazing! And what a soundtrack, you maxed out the royalties budget on this one I bet! Also, I think I had that colour yellow on my bedroom wall in the 80s!!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️ Yellow is my favourite colour! 🙌
I agree... I'm so burned out from the 2020's and we're not even half way through them! This episode has so many Nostalgia Flakes that you're buried up to your neck in them... I mean... that's a good thing. And that music just took me back to the 80's as I remember my young adulthood times with my VIC20 and C64, and all that was going on in my life at the time. But in all seriousness, what really made me think about was the people in my life that have passed on and how I didn't really feel like I was engaged with life, or the world, as fully as I should, perhaps I didn't appreciate it as deeply, or maybe took things for granted that they would always be there. I certainly have learned a valuable lesson and this Thanksgiving I felt compelled to visit what little is left of my family. Computers, music, posters, and such help us transport our minds back, but like you said it didn't actually bring back those times. Just like you can't bring back present day after it has passed... And even though it's kind of sucky, it's what makes this time, this time. Congrats on your Nostalgia recreation, I can feel your bitter-sweet enthusiasm... Cheers!
I never write UA-cam comments but I just felt I had to with this.
The music, the memories, just perfect. It brought a tear to my eye when you had a little moment setting up the Apple 😭
Fantastic video, this deserves all the views 👍
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
May I say your choice in 80's Pop music is second to none. This 80's fan approves!!
(Edited to add: This is quite possibly the best UA-cam video you've ever made. I was thoroughly engrossed. Bravo!)
Many thanks 🙏
I lived in Paignton for 15 years and when you flashed up the Google Streetview image I knew exactly where that was. I often drove over to Dartmouth via Kingswear Higher or Lower Ferry, which by the way, those two roads ultimately lead to. Kingswear and Dartmouth are both beautiful places to visit. :)
That’s amazing. I might take a copy of the painting the the person who lives there now.
The recreation of your treasured childhood memories was definitely inspiring. I can remember my setup as a kid in the 80s and early 90s but to replicate that would really take a lot of time and effort. It must of been very emotional having the physical recreation in front of you with all them memories of your parents around at the time too. The music fitted the period perfectly. Just brilliant.
What a Mega video! Love the 80s soundtrack, many of my favs :)
Oh and thanks for introducing me to the When in Rome song I Promise, I swear I have never heard that before even though I was a teenager in the 80s. How do you come to know it?
You’re welcome. That song has been going viral on 80s Instagram Reels and I hadn’t heard of it either, but it captures the 80s somehow perfectly.
@@RetroRecipes It’s now stuck in my head after listening to it and the 12” remixes 😀
This video is so great and I bet it took 2 years just to clear the digital rights to all the superb music that was used.
As I said in the previous version of video, just leave the comment here again. This is by far, one of the best, or the best video in your channel, loved it and had a lot of fun. Many common memories! It reminded me, that I had a very similar table, like the one you have for the Apple II! Funny about the Hey Google issue, I got an Alexa instead, but changed the name to "Computer" so every time I watch Star Trek and they say "Computer ..." it tries to do something :D
By the way the Take on Me part was amazing, really well done!
Thank you so much! I wonder if I can change the action word on Google too…
At 3:19, I had a tear in my eye, so many happy memories from the 80's. Thank you for taking me back to the good old days.
WOW !! what a nostalgia trip down memory lane !! Love it Perifractic. ❤️❤️
Wow, what's even more interesting than being able to use your exact old equipment because you kept it for all these decades, is when you find one of the exact TV unit out in the wild and buy it back! How did you discover that it was the exact one? Hang on, I haven't watched the whole video yet, haha, let me get back to this.
Big respect to your dedication and hard work, it's touchiing to see waves of emotion hitting to you when seeing childhood memories coming true. I really feel it too being 80's kid and having computers a great influence in my life back then!
Absolutely loved this! Amazing job re-creating your childhood memories ❤ I wish I had the space to do something like it, mine was a bit different (but similar) with a $50 computer I begged my Mom to buy while it was on clearance at K-Mart. It was the TI-99/4a. It holds a similar and very special memory to me. Learned how to program that machine and changed the future of what I would aspire to do in my later years. Thank you again Perry Fractic for a very moving and inspirational video. I greatly appreciated watching this and loved the scene with Lady Fractic in her 80's attire, excellent touch my friend! Cheers to you both and Happy Holidays!
I may've been a 90's kid, but damn if this isn't a nostalgia trip
'74 kid here. Amstrad CPC 464, for my birthday in '85 (manufactured December 1984, tall key model, with CTM640 colour monitor / PSU, Cheetah 125+ joystick and Amsoft software pack from Dixons, brought by Mum). Thanks for the nostalgia vibes! 🙂
What a fantastic video! Thank you for letting us share your memories of the best decade there will ever be.
Awesome Perifractic! A man after my own heart! Great as always, you've outdone yourself...again! But might I add that while I try to live like that, I'm also trying to create my own little 80s disciples by exposing our five kids to that lifestyle and making my five year old watch and use a VHS player and watching 80s movies with the others, etc. Oh and no phones at the table! PS If I could only get them to do homework on the C64!
This is absolutely incredible! Like you, I have nostalgic memories of my bedrooms and posters etc, and you've made me start to think that I should do something similar now.
I was into Marvel comics back in the 70s when they were reprinted here in the UK and I still love reading them - I have a lot of the American ones now, but started to pick up the UK reprints again as that was what started me off.
But! Later I was into Bruce Lee and had posters in my room and some other stuff I need to try and remember - how it was laid out and what furniture I had will be a bit tricky but something to look into - must dig out the old photos!. Later when I had my 64 and then Amiga that was a different room - but I still have my Amiga 500 with upgraded 68030 chip and AGP hard drive - I must dig them out sometime. Almost forgot to mention - I also still have the same lamp that is much the same as yours, and it's still on my bedside table.
I can see the nostalgia flooding through you and I was feeling it too - such a wonderful episode that kinda mimics my own memories and feelings so I know how important it is and what those feelings are like. There's nothing like it is there. Wonderful days worth recreating.
Thank you so much.
This hits so hard in many ways, can't help but revisit my own memories and reminisce about those "good old times", so much of what we are now we owe to those simpler times.
If you want to listen to cassettes in your car. That Walkman is really the only way to do it these days. I like your 80s bedroom ideas. I've pursued a similar idea in my stereo room / basement. I've gathered a bunch of old equipment from the 70s and 80s with maybe the odd modern piece like speakers. But I definitely appreciate your point of view. I also play my c64, Vic 20 and Coleco Gemini down there. The escapism is awesome
I'm going to watch this video whenever I had a bad day and need cheering up
You really went above and beyond with this one. And you've got me reminiscing about days back in the 1980s, sitting on the living room floor with our Commodore 64 hooked up to the TV, playing various games. Bliss!
Omg this was a great video, i was Born in the 80s , it was so brilliant to see you recreate your rooms and its a great idea.
I couldn’t believe it, my Dad had the same Hinari TV with the clock, he too used to write programmes on the commodore 64 in the dining room using that very same TV , He used to also move that TV to the bedroom.
When my Mum used to go to work i used to get into her warm bed and watch the cartoons on that TV or the little black and white radio tv by her bedside.!
Unfortunately my Mum died in 2009. My Dad is still in the house and is stuck in the ages. That Hiniari TV is still in place on the dresser in his bedroom untouched and stood as it was all those years ago (unsure if still works) but it did when it was last used.
Also the windows 95 pc os still set up in the box room untouched for many years with floppy disks and roms laying about.
Truly amazing the 80s and the 90s. But had to comment as cant believe you also have that H identical Hinari TV :-)
Thank you for your comment. It painted a wonderful picture of nostalgia still set in place. You are luckier than you may know 🙏
This video was hugely powerful for me. I think I share the same affection for my Commodore 64 setup (my first computer). Now, my oldest son is turning 13 and I am getting ready to buy him his first computer…I hope it holds the same significance as when my father bought me my first computer. I’m not crying, you are crying 😂
Hi, I am writing to you from Italy. I really like your videos and especially this one. Your look when you think back to your childhood moved me a lot. Congratulations also for the great professionalism with which you mix images and memories. Excellent.
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8:28 Love the A-Ha! homage. This might say "80's" more to me than anything. I am not good at math, but I am guessing-- based on LadyFractic's "late 80's"" comment, that she's under 35? The Amiga is older than her?
i had a ZX spectrum 128K and an Atari 2600 the one with wooden finish loved playing super cobra me and my dad played a lot of computer games looking back that's one of things i miss when i think about him
I feel ya 🙏
Great video. Doing something similar. From the UK and now live in South Australia. If you like 80s music check out the band Sonar 4.
You putting the C64 PSU under the desk reminded me and suddenly took me back in time. Mine was also on the floor in the middle of the desk and i would put my feet on it in the winter to keep my feet warm while playing games. As the PSU got quite hot. As a 10 / 12yr old i was clearly not concerned about the psu getting hot. Just that it kept my feet warm.
Born in the 1970 this takes me back and yes Kylie Minogue …I still miss my Atari ST..great content and best wishes from Derbyshire UK…
I bought some of those New Coke re-releases when they first came out and displayed one on the shelf. It exploded on it's own accord and damaged some books. The fact these exploded in shipping was a blessing in disguise. I learned that day that soda cans should be emptied prior to displaying them. I think the acids eat away at the can over time.
Oh good tip thanks!
Funnily enough I had the opposite experience.
I tried this last year, but I soon realized that I miss the modern comforts of more ergonomically designed desks, larger monitors with newer graphics, a larger 50" television, ergonomic chairs, ergonomic game controllers, apple music lossless streaming... I thought nostalgia would be great, but for some reason it didn't make me as happy as I thought it would.
Because I realized it's not the things of my childhood that made me happy, it was the world around me. Even if I completed my room setup, the world is no longer the same. The mall I used to hang out in has changed, everybody is now on social media that it's crazy now, and popular entertainment is very bad now, the emotion of the movies and music and tv shows we had back then is already long gone in the culture of today.
I guess I missed the culture, the stuff were just a symbol of that culture, but without the culture the stuff is lacking...
I ended up just selling all of the mid 90's things I thought I would enjoy, and replaced them with a completely modern setup. I was glad to hang out in it for a while, but what it made me realize is I actually don't want the objects, what I really want is a literal time machine.
I'm overindulging on Nostalgia Flakes from this video: the hardware, the setup, the artwork, the music, the 80s romance...
Love every bit of it. Endless thanks for the memories!
Back then, we were dreaming of the future and one way we though to get a glimp of futuristic technology was if we could witness UFO and somehow communicate with aliens. We were wondering how the year 2000s will look like... We become what we were dreaming about but here we feel unexpectedly sad about being at this point in our life as we realize how fast the journey was and that there are so much we cannot bring back!
Beautiful!
One can see the sparkles in your eyes throughout! You really enjoyed this and so did we, vicariously.
Thank you so much!
When you said you got teary eyed setting that desk up, I knew exactly how you felt. I would do anything to be able to sit at my old amiga desk set up again in my old house in Gravesend, Kent. Such good memories! Great video! Subscribed!
I went through this phase in my early 40's and got all the walkman/records and 8bit computer stuff too! For me it was a Karate Kid poster and a BBC Micro that brought back the warm memories.
Brilliant! Though my walkman mostly suffered from pttb, business and stuff...
This is super well-made. Very impressive. As a teenager in the 80's i confirm that tapes and walkmans was a big thing and a big part of our lifes, and of course MTV. Your music selection was great and suited this video perfectly.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Feeling everything, everyone has said below who have any idea of what the power of thinking about this, let alone doing it, means. I have only a few photos of my 80s bedroom, and sadly none that have the computer sets up, those do just live on in my mind (those i have a few artifacts that survive to this day). There's such a strong desire to reach into those photos and just look beyond its boarders, imagine the things you'd see that have been forgotten! Time and space, and that time spent in that space seem to mean less as we get older - probably something to do with more importance of the people we spend time with, and that's probably how it should be. But for those teenage years, for many of us those spaces and the things in them were an extremely important relationship, and who wouldn't want to revisit from time to time. I'll stop now, I hear the 80s calling but so is today, and today will one day be a memory so best I go make it a good one.
Less than 1/3 in and I gotta come and comment on how amazing this video is. Literally gives me chills.
It is an awesome Room IDEA and Your right I live in the '60s '70s and 80's ALL the time.😊
This is definitely your masterpiece Peri, awesome job. If there is only one video to look at RR this is definitely the one. So good to see people with passion at the top of their art. 👍🏆
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Amazing stuff! Thanks so much for bringing back the 80s. I was born in 1973 and could have similiar experiences, though I was growing up on a wrong side of the Iron Curtain. We did have a gaming culture, though, and I have been wondering if any retro-afficionados from the West would be interested in hearing a story of gaming beyond the Iron Curtain? :)
Great video Peri. I've recently had this epiphone about retro technology / childhood stuff as well and have slowly started to reacquire the things I remember most clearly. I was born in the mid 80s so it is primarily 90s nostalgia for me (with traces of the 80s) but I think the feeling of rediscovering the past is something we can all relate to.
Well what a ride, full of emotion and made my 49 year old self reflect on my old setups as a kid and the things my dad did for me, and how my mum put up with it, lol. Thank you so much for sharing, much love and respect 😊
I'm so impressed that you have been able to replicate not one but two previous setups like this right down to the painting, which you solved the mystery behind. The nostalgia you unknowingly created has been like a big puzzle, and piece by piece you have been slowly and successfuly placing it back together. It's so much deeper than just 'chasing memories' - theres furniture. computer hardware, colours, games, a soundtrack (of some of the coolest music which I am jealous I was born a bit later from) and most importantly, a vibe - an atmosphere which, to be honest, without you bringing it all together and sharing it with us, couldn't pull all these pieces together to create a 'whole greater than the sum of its parts'. I am slightly proud that the c64 case upgrade you got is from my home town - its like this place is a part of your amazing story and hits that little bit harder for me perosnally. That does make me go on to think that sometimes people don't realise how monumental they can end up being in someone elses life from the things they did, that might have seemed unimportant and maybe even tedious at the time. I have had my own experiences like this, and I live for these moments where things come full circle. Perhaps this video in itself is nostalgia for our future. Excellent work!
Wonderful words there 🙏
Very well said!
Moment that you look at your computer was priceless ,i had the same when i get my amiga 600 day ago
Nostalgia overload 👍 loved the Walkman test section brought back some memories.
I so loved this video made me miss my setups from back in the day, thinking about man they was cool. Oh ofc you so needed one of them desk lamps it was a must. 84 to 95 are to golden years for me for games and music. Amazing work as always and so looking forward to the next one, so until then take care and have a great weekend 🙂 oh and Ladyfratic rocking 80s hair was so cool.
Thank you my friend. Glad to enjoyed this!
Once again... no words can express the nostalgic feelings. I recall the iterations of my old room and my Commodore 64 setup. Such a fun and emotional video. Well done.
Thank you sir. I wonder if Harleyfractic gets nostalgic for when she was 1…
@@RetroRecipes 😂 She does say funny stuff like, "I used to do that when I was a baby, 10 years ago last month." Children and concepts of time are funny.
@@GAMECLOSET That’s amazing! Wait how old is she even??
@@RetroRecipes She’s 4. I know, I know. I accuse her of being my reincarnated mother all the time. 😁
@@GAMECLOSET Aw she’s so grown up for 4 though. Wow!
I have saved all of my tapes from the 80s and 90s. They have sat dormant in boxes for years, many times my wife attempted to get me to throw them away- but every time I'd go to do that I would remember paying 15 dollars or more a piece for these things, and I'd see tapes bought for me for Christmas or birthdays by my Grandfather, or my mom etc. I just couldn't bring myself to throw them out. It was like throwing away my memories. Recently, my son bought a 1989 Ford Ranger Pick-Up truck, and it has a factory cassette deck. He has been driving around listening to my tapes! Not to mention, tapes are having sort of a nostalgic resurgence right now, and have even become popular with millennials who weren't even there! They still sound great, as long as they don't break!
Time to throw out the wife
These videos always leave me speechless. Just randomly unboxin a walkman while Simple Minds is playing in the background. I forget even being on youtube, and turning 40 next thursday, the nostalgic overload is something to marvel at as well.
how long did this take you to edit? that was a fantastic video for us 70's babies.. lol my first computer was the Tandy TRS-80 COCO2 (aka Dragon32)
Thanks! Maybe 15 hours editing…? And a day of shooting plus some little scenes later. And 3 years planning and shopping lol. And a day of painting. And… well you get the idea.
Life was easy and sweet in the 80’s I was seven in 1980. My family bought a Vic 20 for Christmas over the C64 I wanted because of a salesman pushing the Vic as just the same but cheaper as the 64 in Dixons. Of course it wasn’t. If I point at a C64 saying that’s what I’d love then get it 🤷🏼♂️ Only thing I got that didn’t use was a Walkman or portable CD player it was useless.
Still got all my tapes, making mix tapes for the Car I loved, now every song I like or had is on a memory stick and in the Car mostly 80’s. Guilty pleasure HA-Ha “ take me on” or Starship “nothing going to stop us now”. I’d actually fly to California from Glasgow just to play the SW arcade game. 😂
I was also 7 in 1980 and can confirm a VIC-20 is not the same as a C64! Dixons were great to have there but shame on the salesman!
I love the 80's so much
This was amazing, thank you for sharing. It got me thinking about my childhood. I was just looking through photos from my childhood yesterday and saw pictures of my doberman Brandy and the Christmas that my brother and I got a NES (Christmas 1987). I remember we got Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt, Legend of Zelda and Mike Tyson's Punch out that year. This replaced our Atari 2600 and Tandy Computer as our gaming machine (I still have the Tandy burried somewhere in the house. It's amazing how these photos bring memories back to life.
Aw RIP Brandy 🙏
Yes, Chris, I agree, these are two very great nostalgic setups! I'm so glad that you were able to satisfy yourself by building them! You're making me want to do the same thing; what a cool video of this has been!
You are a real Doctor Who! Tom Baker would be proud.
Only you didn't have a Tardis, yet you still managed to bring 1980 to us.
My soundtrack would have been Styx, My first tape was a Mr. Roboto tape circa 5th grade.
My first PC, a Radio Shack TRS-80 color computer. A few years later, I got a Commodore 128.
I learned the hard way not to save programs to tape on a recorder just using battery power.
In order to get it to load, I had to drain my batteries down to a level the tape player would play at the slower speed it was recorded at.
From then on, it was AC plug all the way.
Why was I using batteries? In the early days, I would put my PC on the floor in front of a tv, sitting Indian style while typing in Basic programs from magazines.
When I was done, I would put the PC away so we could watch TV.
Hats off to you sir, thank you for a free trip Back to the Future sans DeLorean.
I will say this, I prefer to emulate C64, to skip the slow load speed of the tape/drives.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
I guess many people doing something similar. But your approach is really monumental! Believe or not I found my very own ZX Spectum on garage sale. It was assembled by my father. So I could not resist!
The same actual unit?
@@RetroRecipes Yep. The one and only with footprints of my soldering iron.
@@fixitalex that’s incredible!!
Nothing like a good squiggly 80s montage.
Born in 1972 and got you beat by a year I think but same kettle...what a time to be alive in the 80s. The Golden age of the arcade and home computers. So special!
From Argos no doubt
Love the part from 30:20 to 31:20 brings back so many memories❤And the Mac setup is Brilliant😲
A fantastic work of art, Peri. The superb quality of your video always impresses me, I'm glad you achieved all you did and restored those room-lets of happiness into your life.
Ladyfractic, obviously time travelled to the 80''s as she definitely doesn't look old enough to have come from there the long way round.
Sadly, the 80's, for me, was not a good decade. There were some good bits, but it's not a decade I would willingly go back to unless I really had to. So, I got very mixed feelings from this video. Feelings of both warmth and dread. Obviously, that is not your problem and your quality of production is always amazing.
Keep it up the great work, my friend.
Michael.
EXCELLENT! Thank you for taking us back to the eighties with you.
My pleasure!
Those setups look amazing, and I liked seeing you look at it for a moment and think about life back then. I’ve been in those moments before.
To quote The Über-Morlock from the Time Machine (2002) “We all have our time machines.”
Love that film. Glad you enjoyed this.
It's hard to get nostalgic for the 80s if you were a kid without any money. The 90s were where it was at for me.
Honestly there were parts of the 80s without money that made it the 80s.
My parents were unemployed throughout the 80s. I had hand-me-down clothes from my cousins and free school meals. Somehow my parents managed to "aquire" an Amstrad and I loved it. But it was the playing outside on rubbish skateboards, kicking around a burst football, making up our own Olympic events using house bricks as shot putts, branches as javelins etc. The music, the kids cartoons. All special.